话题：发明 A Have you ever heard of 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 same time. For the first time, students can learn a language by following cooking steps. The kitchen project was started by Professor Paul Seedhouse. He became interested in the idea after he visited another kind 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 does the 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 follow. Using 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 can also ask the kitchen to repeat the recipe or any information. The new kitchen can be used in schools, universities and even peoples homes, and people can buy this new kitchen at the end of 2012. The researchers will also be developing the European Digital Kitchen for the next three years. 1. The French Digital Kitchen. A. is a “talking kitchen“B. teaches students English C. was developed in FranceD. cooks all food for people 2. From Paragraph(段落) Two, we know. A. how the kitchen works B. where the kitchen can be used C. when the kitchen can be bought D. why the kitchen project was started 3. If the users dont follow the instruction on the computer, the kitchen. A. chooses another recipe B. goes on to the next step C. stops working at once D. gives the same instruction again 4. The passage is written mainly to. A. show you how computers work B. introduce a French Digital Kitchen C. teach you how to cook French food D. tell you the importance of language learning B The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but its 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 means creating 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. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was “99% hard work and 1% inspiration“! Very successful creators dont give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, “A failure is the right answer to the wrong question.“ Wrong idea No. 3: Inventors are always old people. Dont believe that you cant 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 system of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries 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. MazartB. George Nissen C. Louis BrailleD. 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 writers opinion? A. Anybody can do inventing. B. Inventors are born, not made. C. Inventors are always old people. D. An invention has to be something completely new. 8. The best title for the passage would be. A. How to Perform in a ShowB. Be a Composer C. How to Help Blind PeopleD. 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 system for the blind to read by touching. Shaking motors (震动马达) are put on each finger of the glove. They can make different sounds to tell a user which letter he is touching. Recently, two British college students have invented another special glove for the blind. It can make the user feel 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 as they hit the object in front, the waves will return to the glove. Then the waves cause the glove to shake. And the ultrasonic sensor makes different kinds of sounds. The sounds make the user know how far he is from the object. In the college invention compet