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Have you ever heardof a"talking kitchen"?A French Digital(数码的)Kitchen has been developed at Newcastle University in the UK.It teaches students how to cook French food and speak French at the sametime.For the first time,studentscan learn a languageby following cooking steps.
The kitchen project was startedby ProfessorPaul Seedhouse.He becameinterested in the idea after he visited anotherkind of talking kitchen.He said,"The purpose(目的) of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational."
How doesthe kitchen work?There is a computer in the kitchen.With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe(菜谱)that they want to ing information in the computer,the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish.If you follow the instructions on the computer,it moves on to the next.If you go wrong,the program goes back and repeats(重复)the instruction.At any time,the users canalso askthe kitchen to repeatthe recipe or any information.
The new kitchen can be used in schools,universities and even people's homes,and people can buy this new kitchen at the end of2012.The researcherswill also be developing the EuropeanDigital Kitchen for the next threeyears.
1.The French Digital Kitchen.
A.is a"talking kitchen"
B.teachesstudentsEnglish
C.wasdevelopedin France
D.cooksall food for people
2.From Paragraph(段落)Two,we know.
A.how the kitchen works
B.wherethe kitchen can be used
C.when the kitchen can be bought
D.why the kitchen project was started
3.If the usersdon't follow the instruction on the computer,the kitchen.
A.choosesanotherrecipe
B.goeson to the next step
C.stopsworking at once
D.gives the sameinstruction again
4.The passageis written mainly to.
A.show you how computerswork
B.introduce a FrenchDigital Kitchen
C.teachyou how to cook French food
D.tell you the importance of languagelearning
B
The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it!Perhapsthis sounds crazy,but it's true.Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing,so read on to discover the truth.
Wrong idea No.1:An invention has to be something completely new.
Inventing meanscreating something"new",but the idea could come from something that already exists(存在).The Wright brothers,for example,got the idea for building a "flying machine"from watching birds.
Wrong idea No.2:Inventors are born,not made.
There are a lot of factors(因素)that make invention possible.Take Mazart,for example.He was born with a talent for musical composition.But other factors were also important for his creativity.His father was a music teacher,and Mozart practiced for hours every day,from the time he was four years old.ThomasEdison said that being an inventor was"99%hard work and1%inspiration"!
Very successful creators don't give up when they get something wrong.As one inventor said,"A failure is theright answerto the wrong question."
Wrong idea No.3:Inventors are always old people.
Don't believe that you can't invent something when you are young.Here are two examples of young inventors:Louis Braille went blind when he was a child.When he was fifteen,he invented a systemof reading and writing for blind people that is still used in mostcountries today.
As a young man,George Nissen was watching some artists performing in a show. He watched how they fell into the safety net and then jumped back up again.This gave him an idea,and he invented the trampoline(蹦床).
5.got the idea for building a"flying machine"from watching birds.
A.Mazart
B.GeorgeNissen
C.Louis Braille
D.The Wright brothers
6.The underlined word"talent"probably means.
A.态度
B.品质
C.天赋
D.能量
7.Which of the following is the writer's opinion?
A.Anybody can do inventing.
B.Inventors are born,not made.
C.Inventors are always old people.
D.An invention hasto be something completely new.
8.The best title for the passage would be.
A.How to Perform in a Show
B.Be a Composer
C.How to Help Blind People
D.Be an Inventor
C
Last year,a special kind of glove came out.It was invented to help blind people to learn Braille,which is a special systemfor the blind to readby touching.Shaking motors (震动马达)are put on eachfinger of the glove.They can make different soundsto tell a user which letter he is touching.Recently,two British college students have invented anotherspecial glove for the blind.It can make the userfeel small and quick movements. An ultrasonic sensor(超声波传感器)with a battery is put on the back of the glove. When the user wearing the glove is close to an object(物体),ultrasonic waves(超声波) from the glove are sent out(发出).As soon asthey hit the object in front,the waves will return to the glove.Then the waves causethe glove to shake.And the ultrasonic sensor makesdifferent kinds of sounds.The soundsmake the user know how far he is from the object.
In the college invention competition,the two studentsgot first prize and won1,540 pounds.One of the designerssaid,"Now the ultrasonic sensoron the glove is quite large. We're going to usethe money to develop a smaller andlighter ultrasonic sensor."
9.The underlined word"Braille"in the passage means""in Chinese.
A.盲文
B.口语
C.手语
10.The glove with an ultrasonic sensor.
A.canmake only one kind of sound
B.canmake the userfeel small andquick movements
C.wasdesignedby two American college students
11.Picture shows how the glove with an ultrasonic sensorworks according to the passage.。