Innovation 科技急先鋒
Get ready to view your favorite channel. National Geographic Channel (NGC) brings you dramatic stories about cutting-edge technology on Innovation. This month's programs will show you current advances, new discoveries and tell the history of technology. What's more, NGC takes you to the brains and personalities behind each technological breakthrough.
"Hi-Tech War," the first show of the series, will examine military technology to show you just how sophisticated combat has become. The episode lets you see the wows and woes on the battlefield. "Building to Extremes" will ask how buildings such as the World Trade Center towers could be brought down. Hear what architects and engineers around the world have to say about projecting the designing of future skyscrapers.
"Spy Catchers" will show you how digital technology can make you into an amateur spy. But watch your back. Someone else may have the same idea. Tony Mendez, the CIA's ex-official Master of Disguise, will tell us just how much privacy we really have. The series also takes you to the "Human Body Shop," where engineering and medicine meet to develop everything from sophisticated prosthetic limbs to artificial vision systems. Watch "Miracle Cell" to see how 16-year-old Dimitri Bonnville grew new cells in his heart. Hear what stem-cell patients have to say after receiving these treatments.
Fly with the crew to view "Crash Site Secrets." Find out how plane crashes happen and learn about "tombstone technology." Are engineers making your flights safer? And, finally, see how scientists can reveal your deepest secrets. "Brain Fingerprinting" will tell more about you than you want to know. Don't miss it or we'll know.
──by Nana Chen
1.What does Innovation talk about?
(A) The latest world disasters.
(B) Environmental concerns.
(C) Agricultural innovations.
(D) The latest technology.
2.What does this passage say about stem-cell research?
(A) It is forbidden in most countries.
(B) It helps new cells grow.
(C) It is something of the past.
(D) It cannot be done on humans.
3.What will this program show?
(A) Spies solving plane crashes.
(B) Engineers explaining stem-cell research.
(C) Doctors talking about prosthetic limbs.
(D) Architects talking about spying.
準備收看你最喜愛的電視頻道吧。國家地理頻道將在全新的《科技急先鋒》系列節目中，帶給你最新科技的精采故事。本月節目將呈現給你目前最先進的科技、新發明及科技史。此外，國家地理頻道也會帶你一窺這些科技大突破背後的推手。
本系列的第一集『Hi-Tech War』將帶你仔細研究軍事科技，藉著科技在戰場上製造出來的神奇與災難，看看現代戰爭型態變得如何精密複雜。『Building to Extremes』將探究像紐約世貿雙子星大樓般的建築，因何會毀於一旦。再聽聽全球各地的建築師和工程師談談未來摩天大樓的設計藍圖。
『Spy Catchers』將告訴你如何利用數位科技成為一名業餘間諜，但是請小心，其他人或許也英雄所見略同喔。前美國中央情報局官員，也是偽裝大師湯尼•曼德茲將告訴我們到底還剩下多少隱私。同時，這一系列節目將呈現給你『Human Body Shop』，在此，工程與醫藥充分結合，發展出從精密義肢到人工視覺系統等，無奇不有。收看『Miracle Cell』，了解十六歲的波恩維爾的心臟如何長出新細胞，再聽聽幹細胞移植患者手術後的現身說法。
和製作團隊一起飛到『Crash Site Secrets』，找出飛機失事的原因，了解何謂『tombstone technology』。工程師們真得讓飛行更安全嗎？最後，看看科學家們如何揭發你最深處的秘密，『Brain Fingerprinting』將告訴你超乎想像的事實。你要是錯過了，我們可是會知道的哦。
標準答案: 1. (D) 2. (B) 3. (C)
