新编四级听力练习 第417期

Section C
Compound Dictation
It's like this: You pass a person on the sidewalk (36) ______ a pair of stylish shoes made of light brown leather, with a rounded toe. You'd like a pair like that. But an Internet search for "shoes, light brown, rounded toe" probably won't go very far.
Don't worry. With the new image-searching technology, you have a better (37) ______ of finding those dream shoes. The new US shopping website is like.com. Shoppers can (38) ______ a picture, instead of keywords, and let it search online for a similar (39) ______ .
The new image-mapping search technology may be a (40) ______ change in the way people use the Internet.
With like.com, people can (41) ______ clothes from celebrity photos. They can also use (42) ______ text filters to sort by brand, style and price.
Besides online shopping, the new technology could soon be used to recognize human faces. A new image search engine being (43) ______ by the Swedish company Polar Rose is trying to make computers recognize faces. (44) _____________________________________________________________ . That's just fine. But does it have other more evil implications?
Well, yes. (45) _____________________________________________________________ . Then that person posts it on a public site. A search engine like Polar Rose could (46) _______________________________________________________ .