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easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system (系统) that"s built
into the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum (吸尘器). Then the
system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop (用拖把擦) it up. "This may trouble you," says
Kara, an expert in Mason"s company. "But you can program it to come on at 3 a. m., and it will just wet-mop the
floor for you."
When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots
will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. "More than just fun, future kitchens will be
environmentally friendly," he says. "A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy (能量)
lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm."
"The fridge will be the center of the home," says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch
screen (触摸屏幕) where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e-mail, keep a shopping list and
order vegetables. "Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night," says Lee.
Ever wonder why a 1.9-meter man and a 1.6-meter woman have to cook meals on counters (工作台) of the
same height. "The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women," says Jane
Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. "But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you
press a button and it moves to whatever height you want." At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT"s Counter lab
has made the Dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the
dishes are changed straight back into plastics.
B. Four.
C. Five.
D. Six.
B. get up early to start your cleaning system
C. use your fridge to give orders to a cleaner
D. leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine
B. Easy and interesting.
C. Enjoyable and exciting.
D. Funny and amazing.
B. future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every day
C. the fridge can be found in the center of a future house
D. people must be expert at computers to use these inventions
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uses. 1.______ A German clothing maker has invented the "mp3 blue jacket". This kind of jacket can be used as
both an MP3 player and mobile phone. An English company has developed a cloth keyboard that can be put onto
your pants. 2.______ If it gets dirty, the keyboard can be washed and even ironed. As the technology improves,
smart clothes will get much smarter. Researchers are developing clothes that can show your body temperature
and heat you up before you feel cold. 3.______ They can tell the doctor when you are in danger. This
technology can also provide important information about your environment. 4.______ Jackets with GPS
(全球定位系统) technology can keep you from getting lost. People have begun to love the idea. Probably smart
clothes will one day be common on Paris streets-and even in your own home.
A. Shirts can warn you of high pollution levels.
B. Some kinds of smart clothes have come into the market.
C. You can control your computer with it easily anywhere.
D. Other smart clothes to wear are special medical ones.
B. Smart Clothes on Paris Streets
C. Smart Clothes for New Century
D. Smart Clothes with Keyboard
The first computer 1._______ (build) in 1946. It 2._______ (be) as large as a room and very difficult and
slow 3._______ (use). But since the invention of silicon chip (硅片), computers 4._______ (become) smaller,
easier and faster to operate. Some computers are as small as TV sets. Some can even be made smaller than a
book. And computers 5._______ (get) smaller and smaller all the time. Who knows the computers of tomorrow
6.________ (be) like?
There 7._______ (be) several resons (原因) why the computer is useful to us. First, a lot of information can
8._______ (put) into computers. Second, the computer 9._______ (work) very quickly-thousands of times
faster than a man and it will not be tired. Third, modern computers can be built into other kinds of machines like
radio, cars and planes. So today people can spend less time 10._______ (do) more work with a computer.
birds. About 100 years a 2 , someone took the first ride on an airplane. This ride lasted for less than one m 3 .
These first planes were very s 4 , too. Only one o 5 two people could fly in them at one time.
Today these p 6 are very big and fast. H 7 of people can travel in them at one time. W 8 them, people
can get f 9 one side of the United States to the other in less than one day. Traveling is very d 10 from the
way it was 100 years ago.
1.________ 2.________ 3.________ 4.________ 5.________
6.________ 7.________ 8.________ 9.________ 10.________
to learn a kind of skill so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet, no one
can learn everything at school. A teacher can"t teach his students everything. The teacher only teaches them how
to read and how to think. But the students themselves need to learn much more outside of school.
1. As a student, we go to school for ________.
2. Jim wants to find a job, at first, he"d better go to school ________.
3. If we want to know the development of our country, we must learn much _______ and _______ of school.
4. In class, the role of a teacher is ________.
5. The student who ________ is the best student.
without it. Computers are used in many 3 , such as offices, factories, big shops, schools and even homes.
With the computer people are living a better 4 .
The computer is one of the greatest inventions in the 5 century. The first computer was built in America
in 1945 which was named ENIAC, and it was not only very 6 , but also quite heavy. It was as big as ten
ordinary (普通的) rooms!
But the computer is developing very fast. Today they"re becoming smaller and smaller, lighter and lighter, and
7 faster and faster. There are so many kinds of different computers in the market that you can choose one
that you like best.
The computer can do a lot of things for people, and it also helps us to learn about the real world. With the
computer you can 8 an e-mail just in a few seconds to your friend far away, but if you post the letter, it will
take your friend quite a long time to receive your 9 .
Now you can see the computer really gives us a very nice picture about the world of tomorrow. So as a
student in the 21st century, you have to work hard and learn how to 10 the computer very well. Don"t you
think so?