It is Saturday night and you want to turn on your television. Can you? Or do you first need to call your partner, or your child, or whoever it is in your household who knows which handset to use and which buttons to press? If so, you are not alone. Our televisions are an unspoken disaster zone. Finally, somebody has said something.
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All hail (致敬) the Duke of Edinburgh. “To work out how to operate a television set, you practically have to make love to the thing,” he says, in this week’s Saturday Review. “And why can’t
you have a handset that people who are not ten years old can actually read?”
The Duke is often a reactionary (反动者), but this is not reactionary thinking. Our computers become ever easier to operate. Our cars almost drive themselves. Some mobile telephones, such as the phone, are obvious wonders: successful designs that could be operated by a child. The remote control of your television, by comparison, has changed only for the worse.
The first wide – spread commercial remote control was the Zenith Space Command, designed in 1956. It had four buttons: power, channel up, channel down and volume. Oh, for such simple things in our lives today. Before long, the remote control was out of control. Not just with televisions, but with video players, too. They came and went, and a whole generation never figured out how to use them. Why not? In all other ways, televisual technology has developed a great deal. The screens have grown grander, the picture definition (清晰度) has grown higher, and the sound clearer. The remote controls have merely grown. Nobody ever uses half those buttons. A remote revolution is long overdue.
68.What does “Our televisions are an unspoken disaster zone” mean?
A. Television is actually a great danger to humans.
B. It is very difficult to use many TV handsets properly.
C. We should treat televisions in a friendly way.
D. Somebody has said something about television.
69.What the Duke of Edinburgh says actually means that ________.
A. TV remote controls should be made easier to use
B. we must learn to respect TVs
C. we should love watching TV
D. we should buy handsets to control our TVs
70.What’s the author’s attitude to television remote controls?
A. Positive. B. Negative. C. Neutral (中立的). D. Indifferent (漠然的)
71.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Remote Revolution. B. From Buttons to Handsets.
C. Televisions－Out of Control. D. Computers－Under Control.
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The sun was shining when I got on No.151 Bus. We passengers sat jammed together in heavy clothes. No one spoke. That’s one of the 36 rules. 37 we see the same faces every day, we prefer to 38 behind our newspapers. People who sit so close together are using those thin sheets of newsprint to keep their 39 .
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Surprisingly we all did it. Still no one smiled. I faced an older woman, her head wrapped in a red scarf(围巾).I saw her 44 every day. Our eyes met 。We waited for the next 45 from the driver. “Now repeat after me. Good morning neighbor!”
Our voice were 46 .For many of us, these were the 47 words we had spoken that day. But we said them together, like 48 , to the strangers beside us. We couldn’t help 49 .There was the feeling of relief, that we were not being held up（抢劫）. But more, there was the sense of ice being 50 . “Good morning, neighbor.” It was not so 51 after all. Some of us repeated it, others shook hands, many laughed. The bus driver said nothing more. He didn’t 52 to. Not a single newspaper went back up. I heard laughter, a warm sound I had never heard before in 53 .
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52. A. need B. want C. like D. begin
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