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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.