You are a German living in Berlin. One day you’ re walk??ing down the street, minding your own business, when sudden??ly a stranger comes up with a smile on his face. After stopping you, he holds a small electronic device (装置) close to his face and speaks slowly into it, saying, in English," Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?" What should you do? (a) Run away; (b) Call the police; or (c) Listen closely for the device to say in German," Konnen Sie mir bitte sagen, welches sauerkraut haufen kann?"

The most proper answer would be (c) because the person in front of you is only a tourist trying to enjoy himself. The de??vice is said to be the world’s first portable(便携的) translator — a hand-held microcomputer that at the same time translates one spoken language into another. The four-pound, battery-op??erated product is called the Voice, and it is the invention of Advanced Products and Technologies, an American electronics company. When the Voice is introduced in the Unite States in late April — at a price of (1,500 — it will be used to trans??late spoken English into Italian, German, French and Span??ish. The product comes with separate cartridges(盒式存储器) for each of the four languages, which can be changed when the user travels from one country to another. It will be sold in Eu??rope soon after the US introduction, with cartridges that trans??late Italian, German, French and Spanish into English.

The Voice uses a microchip(微型集成电路片) to trans??late languages. It is Started by voice command and produces voice output through a built-in speaker. When the user makes a statement or asks a question, the Voice immediately repeats what has been said in another language.

1. The device held by the stranger is probably a kind of________.

A. a two-way radio                      B. language translator

C. easily-carried speaker                     D. a multi-functioned computer

2. What does the last sentence of the first paragraph mean?

A. Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?

B. Can I ask for some information from the police?

C. Would you like to try my device?

D. Would you not run away if I ask you where to buy some sauerkraut?

3. When the stranger says," Can you tell... sauerkraut?" he is ________.

A. learning German from his device

B. asking you the way to the sauerkraut shop

C. making fun of you with his device

D. testing his device for fun

4. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?

A. The price of the hand-held microcomputer.

B. The function of the product Voice.

C. The producer pf the small electronic device.

D. The number of the device sold to the European coun??tries.

You are a German living in Berlin. One day you’ re walk??ing down the street, minding your own business, when sudden??ly a stranger comes up with a smile on his face. After stopping you, he holds a small electronic device (装置) close to his face and speaks slowly into it, saying, in English," Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?" What should you do? (a) Run away; (b) Call the police; or (c) Listen closely for the device to say in German," Konnen Sie mir bitte sagen, welches sauerkraut haufen kann?"

The most proper answer would be (c) because the person in front of you is only a tourist trying to enjoy himself. The de??vice is said to be the world’s first portable(便携的) translator — a hand-held microcomputer that at the same time translates one spoken language into another. The four-pound, battery-op??erated product is called the Voice, and it is the invention of Advanced Products and Technologies, an American electronics company. When the Voice is introduced in the Unite States in late April — at a price of (1,500 — it will be used to trans??late spoken English into Italian, German, French and Span??ish. The product comes with separate cartridges(盒式存储器) for each of the four languages, which can be changed when the user travels from one country to another. It will be sold in Eu??rope soon after the US introduction, with cartridges that trans??late Italian, German, French and Spanish into English.

The Voice uses a microchip(微型集成电路片) to trans??late languages. It is Started by voice command and produces voice output through a built-in speaker. When the user makes a statement or asks a question, the Voice immediately repeats what has been said in another language.

The device held by the stranger is probably a kind of________.

A. a two-way radio                            B. language translator

C. easily-carried speaker                     D. a multi-functioned computer

What does the last sentence of the first paragraph mean?

A. Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?

B. Can I ask for some information from the police?

C. Would you like to try my device?

D. Would you not run away if I ask you where to buy some sauerkraut?

When the stranger says," Can you tell... sauerkraut?" he is ________.

A. learning German from his device

B. asking you the way to the sauerkraut shop

C. making fun of you with his device

D. testing his device for fun

Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?

A. The price of the hand-held microcomputer.

B. The function of the product Voice.

C. The producer pf the small electronic device.

D. The number of the device sold to the European coun??tries.

You are a German living in Berlin. One day you’ re walk??ing down the street, minding your own business, when sudden??ly a stranger comes up with a smile on his face. After stopping you, he holds a small electronic device (装置) close to his face and speaks slowly into it, saying, in English," Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?" What should you do? (a) Run away; (b) Call the police; or (c) Listen closely for the device to say in German," Konnen Sie mir bitte sagen, welches sauerkraut haufen kann?"

The most proper answer would be (c) because the person in front of you is only a tourist trying to enjoy himself. The de??vice is said to be the world’s first portable(便携的) translator — a hand-held microcomputer that at the same time translates one spoken language into another. The four-pound, battery-op??erated product is called the Voice, and it is the invention of Advanced Products and Technologies, an American electronics company. When the Voice is introduced in the Unite States in late April — at a price of (1,500 — it will be used to trans??late spoken English into Italian, German, French and Span??ish. The product comes with separate cartridges(盒式存储器) for each of the four languages, which can be changed when the user travels from one country to another. It will be sold in Eu??rope soon after the US introduction, with cartridges that trans??late Italian, German, French and Spanish into English.

The Voice uses a microchip(微型集成电路片) to trans??late languages. It is Started by voice command and produces voice output through a built-in speaker. When the user makes a statement or asks a question, the Voice immediately repeats what has been said in another language.

The device held by the stranger is probably a kind of________.

A. a two-way radio                      B. language translator

C. easily-carried speaker                     D. a multi-functioned computer

. What does the last sentence of the first paragraph mean?

A. Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?

B. Can I ask for some information from the police?

C. Would you like to try my device?

D. Would you not run away if I ask you where to buy some sauerkraut?

When the stranger says," Can you tell... sauerkraut?" he is ________.

A. learning German from his device

B. asking you the way to the sauerkraut shop

C. making fun of you with his device

D. testing his device for fun

Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?

A. The price of the hand-held microcomputer.

B. The function of the product Voice.

C. The producer pf the small electronic device.

D. The number of the device sold to the European coun??tries.

I have eyes that are said to be “cow brown”, and my long fair hair is my best feature (特征). I am not overweight, but I’m not too   36   either.

I’m relatively happy with my   37  , but where did I get it? Do I share the same features as some unknown stranger?   38  , while walking down the street, I tried to   39   that stranger, imagining that one of the women I passed   40   possibly be my biological mother (生母).

For a long time I wondered what life would be like with   41  . I was never   42   with my life I just never   43   wondering what it would be like to have been raised by my biological mother. And then one day, I   44   a poem which compared adoption (收养)   45   

a seed that was planted by one person and then taken care of by another. The second person had

  46   the seed and made it grow to be tall and beautiful. I found that it compared perfectly to my   47  .

Gradually I   48   that my mom had made me who I am today. She did my hair for my first dance. She was there for my first heartbreak … She’d been there for   49   that ever mattered. And I started to notice that we had the same silly   50  , the same attitude to life, and the same way of treating people.

Sometimes when we’re out somewhere, people comment on   51   we look alike, and we turn to each other and laugh,   52 that she wasn’t the one who gave birth to me.

   53   I may not know why I look the way I do, I know why I am who I am. The mom I have now is the   54   one I ever could have hoped for, not only because she holds a huge amount of unconditional love, but because she has   55   who I am today.

36. A. thin                    B. fat                           C. strong               D. weak

37. A. eyes                   B. appearance               C. weight                     D. hair

38. A. Still                    B. Even                        C. Again                D. Often

39. A. run after             B. pick out                    C. bring back         D. turn down

40. A. should                B. would                      C. could                D. must

41. A. the biologist         B. my adoptive mother   C. the stranger              D. my birth mother

42. A. dissatisfied          B. content                     C. angry                D. pleased

43. A. enjoyed               B. stopped                    C. escaped             D. allowed

44. A. wrote down        B. put up                      C. handed out        D. came across

45. A. with                   B. for                           C. to                            D. as

46. A. buried                 B. harvested                  C. planted              D. watered

47. A. thought               B. seed                         C. situation            D. history

48. A. realized               B. guessed                    C. hated                D. expected

49. A. something           B. everything                C. everyone           D. someone

50. A. problem                     B. illness                       C. adoption            D. personality

51. A. how much          B. how far                    C. where               D. why

52. A. proving               B. noticing                    C. forgetting          D. remembering

53. A. Though               B. Unless                      C. As                    D. Until

54. A. happiest                     B. best                         C. prettiest             D. wisest

55. A. saved                  B. regretted                   C. shaped                     D. declared