Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A-F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1-7. Одна из частей в списке 1-7 лишняя. Занесите цифру, обозначающую соответствующую часть
предложения, в таблицу.
Folk wisdom has it that everyone has a double; somewhere out A
with your
mother's eyes, your father's nose and that annoying mole you've always meant to have removed. The
idea has gripped the popular imagination for centuries - it was the subject of one of the oldest known
works of literature.
But is there any truth in it? We live on a planet of over seven billion people, so surely someone else is
bound to have been born with your face? It's a silly question with serious implications and
B
In fact, until recently C
Then last year Teghan Lucas set out to test the risk
of mistaking an innocent double for a killer.
Armed with a public collection of photographs of U.S. military personnel and the help of colleagues from
the University of Adelaide, Teghan painstakingly analysed the faces of nearly four thousand individuals,
D
Next she calculated the probability that two peoples' faces would
match
What she found was E
but likely to disappoint anyone pining for their long-lost
double: the chances of sharing just eight dimensions with someone else are less than one in a trillion.
Even with 7.4 billion people on the planet, that's only a one in 135 chance that there's a single pair of
doubles. "Before you could always be questioned in a court of law, saying 'well what if someone else just
looks like him?' Now we can say F
." says Teghan.
1. the answer is more complicated than you might think
2. no one had ever even tried to find it out
3. it's extremely unlikely
4. there there's a perfect duplicate of you
5. good news for the criminal justice system
6. of what can be seen as an unpopular view
7. measuring the distances between key features such as the eyes and cars

Ответы

amozgaleva96 12.01.2024 21:06

Folk wisdom has it that everyone has a double; somewhere out 1. A
with your
mother's eyes, your father's nose and that annoying mole you've always meant to have removed. The
idea has gripped the popular imagination for centuries - it was the subject of one of the oldest known
works of literature.
But is there any truth in it? We live on a planet of over seven billion people, so surely someone else is
bound to have been born with your face? It's a silly question with serious implications and
2. B
In fact, until recently 2. B
Then last year Teghan Lucas set out to test the risk
of mistaking an innocent double for a killer.
Armed with a public collection of photographs of U.S. military personnel and the help of colleagues from
the University of Adelaide, Teghan painstakingly analysed the faces of nearly four thousand individuals,
7. measuring the distances between key features such as the eyes and cars
Next she calculated the probability that two peoples' faces would
match
What she found was 3. it's extremely unlikely
but likely to disappoint anyone pining for their long-lost
double: the chances of sharing just eight dimensions with someone else are less than one in a trillion.
Even with 7.4 billion people on the planet, that's only a one in 135 chance that there's a single pair of
doubles. "Before you could always be questioned in a court of law, saying 'well what if someone else just
looks like him?' Now we can say 5. good news for the criminal justice system
." says Teghan.
1. the answer is more complicated than you might think
4. there there's a perfect duplicate of you
6. of what can be seen as an unpopular view
2. no one had ever even tried to find it out
3. it's extremely unlikely

ПОКАЗАТЬ ОТВЕТЫ

Другие вопросы по теме Английский язык