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It’s hard to say for sure what the next big thing will be，but these items made the list of 10emerging technology trends that wil

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问题 It’s hard to say for sure what the next big thing will be，but these items made the list of 10emerging technology trends that will change the world，according to the January issue of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology Magazine Technology Review．
“We were looking for things that were just emerging now and over the next five years wouldbegin to have a major impact”，David Rotman，the magazine’s deputy editor，said Thursday．Some of the items have been on the verge of widespread use for quite some time，such asbiometrics and speech recognition．Others chosen by the MIT magazine editors are topics that mostpeople have never heard of,such as microphotonics and microfluidics．
The magazine focused on developments in three areas：information technology，nanotechnologyAnd  biotechnology．
One significant area in biotechnology，the magazine highlights，is work on brain-machineinterfaces that could someday allow people to control artificial devices that replace lost functions．Today，research is more limited，with scientists able to take signals from individual neurons in ananimal’S brain and send them to a robot that can turn the signals into motion．But the potential israge，according to Duke University neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis．
“Imagine if someone could do for the brain what the pacemaker did for the heart．”Nicolelistold the MIT journal．
In the purely digital realm，the magazine suggests that the field of robotics could be poised tohove beyond the restricted market of Performing simple，highly repetitive tasks．
“Robot builders make a convincing case that in 2001，robots are where personal computerswere in 1980”，writes Technology Review senior editor David Talbot，“poised to break into themarketplace as common corporate tools and routine consumer products performing life’s tediouschores．”
Until now the problem has been that robots have been costly and difficult to design．Oneapproach that the magazine highlights is the work of Brandeis University researcher Jordan Pollack，who builds robots that can build other robots．
The proper title of this passage can be______．
选项 A、Things that May Change the World
B、The Ten Emerging Technological Trends that May Change the Future World
C、What Great Changes Will Happen in the Near Future World
D、A Brief Prediction for the Technological Research Trends
答案B
解析 本题是一道要求通过选定标题来概括短文中心思想的题目。选项B就是从该文第一段。即主旨段的内容概括出来的。意思是：正在出现的有可能对世界产生变革性影响的十大技术潮流。其他选项太过笼统。最具迷惑性的D项predict错误，第三段第一句表明，有些技术已经快要广泛使用了，暗示有些trends已经出现，因此不是predict。
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