[单项选择]Google has an ambitious vision for spectacles. On June 27th Sergey Brin, one of the company’s co-founders, revealed the next stage of Project Glass, its effort to create wireless-connected glasses that allow their wearers to do a host of things, including receiving and responding to messages, and taking and sharing photos and videos. The goal is to get prototypes in the hands of software developers early next year and then to sell a more polished set of specs to consumers in late 2013 or early the following year.
A product of Google’s secretive X Lab, whose mission is to push the boundaries of computing, the glasses were on show at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco along with several other gadgets, including a cheap tablet computer and a new wireless media player for the home. These gadgets attracted plenty of attention, but the longest queues at the event were at booths where folk were trying on Google’s spectacles.
That is hardly surprising because the gla
A. Late 2012.
B. Early 2013.
C. Late 2013.
D. Early 2014.

[单项选择]Google has an ambitious vision for spectacles. On June 27th Sergey Brin, one of the company’s co-founders, revealed the next stage of Project Glass, its effort to create wireless-connected glasses that allow their wearers to do a host of things, including receiving and responding to messages, and taking and sharing photos and videos. The goal is to get prototypes in the hands of software developers early next year and then to sell a more polished set of specs to consumers in late 2013 or early the following year.
A product of Google’s secretive X Lab, whose mission is to push the boundaries of computing, the glasses were on show at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco along with several other gadgets, including a cheap tablet computer and a new wireless media player for the home. These gadgets attracted plenty of attention, but the longest queues at the event were at booths where folk were trying on Google’s spectacles.
That is hardly surprising because the gla
A. tablet computer
B. wireless media player C. the spectacles
C. smart phone

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Google already has a window into our souls through our Internet searches and it now has insight into our ailing bodies too. The Internet giant is using its vast database of individual search terms to (1) the emergence of flu up to two weeks (2) government epidemiologists. Google Flu Trends uses the (3) of people to seek online help for their health problems. By tracking (4) for terms such as "cough", "fever" and "aches and pains", it claims to be able to (5) estimate where flu is (6) .
Google tested the idea in nine regions of the US and found it could accurately predict flu (7) between 7 and 14 days earlier than the federal centres for disease control and prevention. Google hopes the idea could also be used to help (8) other diseases. Flu Trends is limited (9) the US. Jeremy Ginsberg and Matt Mohebb. Two software engineers (10) in the project, said that
A. reluctantly
B. accurately
C. deceptively
D. suitably