题目内容
We have all heard of the smartphone and most of us will have one. Not far behind ： the smart home. In the latest issue of Journal Science，Washington State University's Diane Cook says it won't be long before our homes act as “ intelligent agents” to predict our needs and deal with tasks that improve our health, energy efficiency, even social media.
“Many homes are already halfway there, with computers helping warm food, record TV shows, and turn on coffee makers. What we're trying to do is get the home to think about what you need as a whole and use different parts to do the right things. ” she says.
Cook has been working on such smart homes since 2006. Some test homes already show that the technology can help monitor the elderly people and remind them to complete ordinary activities like rising, eating and taking medicine.
Similarly，the home can itself control energy use. Smart home technologies can run washing- machines at off-peak times, turn off unneeded appliances(家用电器）and put out lights in empty rooms. Many communities now are testing the concept of the smart home.
While the smartphone lets people take their social media with them, the home could act like a car's Bluetooth, making hands-free conversation from any room a reality. Cameras will let the people “ talk face to face from anywhere".
Although the technology is available，technologies like in-home cameras raise privacy concerns. The technologies，like many others，face a challenge of being accepted and adopted, says Cook. She has seen that in particular with the elderly participants in her studies.
“People will soon understand what these technologies do and see how user-friendly they are. I bet some technologies will develop fast once they're starting to be used. ”
71. According to the passage，all of the following statements about the smart home technology are TRUE except that .
A. it is a completely new concept
B. some tests are being carried out
C. it helps people do housework
D. it will soon become a reality
72. According to Cook, the smart home technology can benefit _______.
A. the teachers monitoring their students
B. the housewives with babies to attend
C. the nurses in the hospital nearby
D. the senior people who need taking care of
73. According to Paragraph 4, the smart home technology helps people _______.
A. make more money B. use new energy forms
C. improve the energy efficiency D. develop good habits
74. One of the obstacles that prevent the smart home technology from being accepted is ____
A. the concern about people's privacy B. the concern about the cost from it
C. the concern about the loss of tradition D. the concern about elderly people
75. How does Cook think of the smart home technology?
A. useful but much too costly. B. challenging but promising.
C. convenient and affordable. D. user-friendly and practical.
ADCAB
文敬图书课时先锋系列答案What do those countries have in common? People are killing each other or drive others out of their homes. Why is this happening? Very simple, in each of these, one group of people believes another group is different from them and dangerous to them. It has been thus through history. How different are humans from each other?
We come in different colors: red, black, white, yellow and brown; we have a variety of political systems, social systems, religious views or none at all; We are different in mind, have different educational systems, different economic classes. We speak different languages, and have different customs and dresses.
If we were to break each of these further, we would have quite a long list of qualities and characteristics that make humans appears to be different from each other. I say they appear to be different, because most of what have been listed stand for what we see or hear, not what is true of human. Man is man everywhere. It is only where he lives, when he lives there, with whom he lives there, and al the others that have effect on how he lives, that is, what he believes, what he wears, his customs, his language and so on. These are man-made facts that each group develops over tome, living together, facing the same problems, needing and desiring the same things. They are his culture. The truth is that we are much more same than different. If you wear one type of clothing and I wear another, we both wear some kind of clothing. Our culture demands it. If you speak one language and I another, we both speak so that others will understand us; we must communicate with each other. Nothing is gained by giving too many differences, but much is lost. If we understood our differences as the ones of culture, then we could make our world more peaceful.
Differences does not mean better or worse, right or wrong. It means only that differences have been made by society. Differences produce variety of thoughts, work out human problems peacefully.
【小题1】 Which of the following is the best tile for this passage?
| A．Differences. | B．Humans | C．Cultures. | D．Customs. |
| A．They have different colors. |
| B．They have different customs and dresses. |
| C．They have different education systems. |
| D．They think that others are different and harmful. |
| A．we will get something. |
| B．we will produce problem. |
| C．we will develop further. |
| D．Nothing will be lost. |
| A．Our world would be more peaceful if we understand and communicate with each other. |
| B．People don’t know how differences are caused. |
| C．It is only differences that can solve man’s problems. |
| D．Man is man everywhere but not woman. |
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