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A few years ago, after finishing my Ph.D in London, I moved to Boston. I lived in Boston and worked in Cambridge. I bicycled every day to work. To find my way, I used my phone. It sent me over Mass. Ave. Massachusetts Avenue, the shortest route from Boston to Cambridge. But after a month that I was cycling every day on the car-packed Mass. Ave., I took a different route one day. I'm not entirely sure why I took a different route that day, a detour. I just remember a feeling of surprise: surprise at finding a street with no cars, as opposed to the nearby Mass. Ave full of cars; surprise at finding a street draped by leaves and surrounded by trees. But after the feeling of surprise, I felt shame. How could I have been so blind? For an entire month, I was so trapped in my mobile app that a journey to work became one thing only: the shortest path. In this single journey, there was no thought of enjoying the road, no pleasure in connecting with nature no possibility of looking people in the eyes.
Don't get me wrong—mapping apps are the greatest game-changer for encouraging people to explore the city. You take your phone out and you know immediately where to go. However, the app also assumes there are only a handful of directions to the destination. It has
the power to make those handful of directions the definitive direction to that destination.
Einstein once said,"Logic will get you from A to B.Imagination will take you everywhere."So with a bit of imagination, we needed to understand which parts of the city people find beautiful. At the University of Cambridge, with colleagues, we thought about this simple experiment. We built a crowd sourcing platform, a web game. Players are shown pairs of urban scenes, and they're asked to choose which one is more beautiful, quiet and happy. Based on thousands of user votes, then we are able to see where consensus emerges. We are
able to see which are the urban scenes that make people happy.
After that work, I joined Yahoo Labs, and I teamed up with Luca and Rossano, and together, we collected those winning locations in London to build a new map of the city, a cartography weighted for human emotions. On this cartography, you're not only able to see and connect from point A to point B the shortest segments, but you're also able to see the happy segment, the beautiful path, the quiet path. In tests, participants found the happy, the beautiful, the quiet path far more enjoyable than the shortest one, and that just by adding a few minutes to travel time. Participants also love to attach memories to places. Shared memories— that's where the old BBC Building was; and personal memories—that's where I gave my first kiss. They also recalled how some paths smelled and sounded. So what if we had a mapping tool that would return the most enjoyable routes bases not only on aesthetics but also based on smell, sound, and memories?
That 's where our research is going right now. More generally, my research, what it tries to do is avoid the danger of the single path, to avoid robbing people of fully experiencing the city in which they live. Walk the path through the park, not through the car park, and you have an entirely different path. Walk the path full of people you love and not full of cars, and you have an entirely different path. It's that simple.
I would like to end with this thought: do you remember"The Truman Show?”It's a media satire in which a real person doesn't know he's living in a fabricated world. Perhaps
we live in a world fabricated for efficiency. Look at some of your daily habits and as Truman did in the movie, escape the fabricated world. Why? Well, if you think that adventure is dangerous, try routine. It's deadly.
54.Why did the speaker feel shamed after taking a detour?
A.Because he felt he wasted valuable time.
B.Because he felt he disturbed the quietness of the street.
C.Because he felt he missed many beautiful things in the past.
D.Because he felt didn't use his mobile phone correctly in the past.
55.What is the author's attitude towards traditional mapping apps?
A.prejudiced B.objective
C.despised D.appreciative
56.Which city does the speaker focus on firstly while creating his happy maps?
A.London B.Boston C. Cambridge D.Manchester
57.What does the underlined "that"in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A.the efficient route
B.the enjoyable research process
C. the route based on aesthetics
D.the mapping tool based on personal emotions
58.Why does the speaker mention the movie"The Truman Show"?
A.To show our world is fabricated.
B. To compare the difference between adventure and routine.
C.To encourage the reader not to see efficiency of life.
D.To share with the reader his understanding of its efficiency of a sarcastic style.
59.Why does the author write this passage?
A.To promote a new mapping app.
B. To criticize the traditional logic of mapping apps.
C. To share his experience of creating a new map.
D.To persuade readers to break away from the past.
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