深圳市2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题（4）.doc

深圳市 2014 高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题( 4 )及答案【深圳市 2014 高考英语综合能力测试题( 6)】D Virtual tourism has already appeared in the Swiss town of Basilea. It's an interesting and original form of tourism which will no doubt revolutionize real travel, and even make actual life somewhat different. On the banks of the River Rin, in the city of St. Alban, you can now take a half virtual, half real tour on horseback with the help ofa piece of electronic equipment, earphones, and a science-fiction style visor ( 面罩) which contains a small camera. This modern equipment is called Life Clipper. It is the original idea of both Swiss inventor Jan Torpus, who studied in Barcelona, and German technology expert Nikolas Neecke. According to the instructions for the Life Clipper, once a tourist is equipped, he'll need a guide to assist him to get used to seeing the world8through the visor. Once on the Rin riverbank, the tourist starts his journey with the sounds of the water, which are created by sensors( 传感器).From here the tourist travels on foot to the St. Alban neighborhood, feeling and sensing the view with his hands, nos e and mouth. What he sees are images between the year 1000 and the year 1500: carriages, princes, etc. This project sounds like something from science fiction and it looks funny when people ina visor try to touch a horse which isn't there. So far, this tourism has been a ess only in Basilea, and will