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| It all started a year before when my daughter Suzanne and I were shopping in Sydney. In the window of a sports shop I noticed a photo of a group of young people climbing the rock 1 in a canyon (峡谷). "That's what I'm going to do next 2 ," I said. Suzanne laughed. "Sure, Mum! Don't forget you're 65 years old!" I didn't feel I was that age! I 3 a club and trained weekly. Each day I felt my physical energy 4 and, along with it, my confidence (信心). Then Suzanne pointed out, "Ws good, but how can you clear away the 5 of height?" "I've got it all worked out," I replied bravely. "We're going to the indoor climbing centre." While I was going up the high wall, I was afraid to look down as if a terrible animal was after me. Some time later, as I reached the ground, I sat down 6 on the floor. Later that night, as I lay in bed, I encouraged myself, "You had climbed the wall! You will certainly make it!" We set off with our packages to the Grand Canyon. When we reached it, I found the canyon was a huge black hole-far 7 than I had imagined. As the guide clipped (夹住) me onto the rope, my heart 8 double-time and I wondered why I had got myself into this. Time lost all meaning 9 I pushed my body forward. Only the strong rope kept me from 10 hope. I began to think it would never end when everyone had stopped. "This is as far as we go, and we can climb out after a few steps," the guide said finally. Two and a half hours later, we returned to the car park at last. I began to shake, one hard step after another. Getting onto the bus, I 11 into the seat I had left so confidently a lifetime before. Then, while I was in the seat catching my breath, a feeling of great happiness spread 12 me. I had done it, at 66 years of age. | ||||
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Matt Mason has seen the future—and it’s fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives 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.
1. How many inventions are mentioned in the passage?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
2. In future, if you want to clean your house, you will _________.
A. have a recycling system built in the wall
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
3. What is future kitchen work like?
A. Terrific and relaxing. B. Easy and interesting.
C. Enjoyable and exciting. D. Funny and amazing.
4. From the passage, we know _________.
A. people will have more and more time enjoying themselves
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
Matt Mason has seen the future--and it's fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives 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.(1)How many inventions are mentioned in the passage?
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]|
A ．Three. |
B ．Four. |
C ．Five. |
D ．Six |
(2)In future, if you want to clean your house, you will ________.
[
]A
．have a recycling system built in the wallB
．get up early to start your cleaning systemC
．use your fridge to give orders to a cleanerD
．leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine(3)What is future kitchen work like?
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]|
A ．Terrific and relaxing. |
B ．Easy and interesting. |
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C ．Enjoyable and exciting. |
D ．Funny and amazing. |
(4)Why is our fridge the first place we go in the morning and the last place at night ion the future?
[
]A
．We will eat something in the fridge from the morning to the evening.B
．We can surf the Internet and check our e-mails from it.C
．We can buy vegetables and watch TV from it.D
．We will have some fridges in our homes.(5)From the passage, we know ________.
[
]A
．people will have more and more time enjoying themselvesB
．future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every dayC
．the fridge can be found in the center of a future houseD
．people must be expert at computers to use these inventions
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