Question

A "talking kitchen" teaches students how to cook French and speak French. Researchers at New Castle University in the United Kingdom have developed the French Digital Kitchen. Professors Paul Seedhouse and Patrick Olivier led the project. Professor Seedhouse told us that it works like a satellite navigation（导航）systemin a car.

The kitchen equipment and tools use motion sensor（动作传感器）technology. The sensors help a computer guide the students through instructions in French.

The system can tell whether you've done what you were asked to do or not. For example, the system tells you to take some butter and cut it with a knife. There's a sensor on the package containing the butter so it can tell where the butter's being moved. The sensor in the knife not only knows that the knife is moving, but it also knows what motion the knife is making. So it can know whether the knife is cutting or not. And it doesn't go on to the next step of the program unless you've done what it senses you've done.

Students can ask the computer to repeat the instructions or translate them into English. There are vocabulary lessons before and after the cooking.

Professor Seedhouse says the French Digital Kitchen turns the process of learning language into a real-life experience. "Here you're taking it out of the classroom and you're actually using the language to produce something which you can eat at the end of it. It's very enjoyable."

The system could be available for sale by the end of 2012. Adding the technology to a new kitchen could add about ten to twenty percent to the building costs. The researchers have also been given money to develop programs in six other languages, including English, Italian and Spanish.

68.   The “talking kitchen” developed by New Castle University is mainly aimed at        .

A. helping students who love French foods

B. helping house owners prepare their meals

C. helping learners who study French as a foreign language

D. helping housewives who want to learn cooking French foods

69.   The third paragraph mainly tell us        .

A.what the system is                  B. how the system works

C.what a motion sensor is              D. how the system was invented

70.   What does the underlined word “it” (in Para 5) refer to?

A. French food.                          B. French language.

C. The process of cooking and learning.       D. The process of listening and translating.

71.   What would be the best title for the passage?        .

A. Learn While Eating.               B. A Talking Kitchen.

C. A New Trend of Kitchen.           D. Kitchens Become Classrooms.

Answer 1

CBCB   68. C. 推理判断题。这种智能“厨房”系统用法语发出指示，帮助学生学习法语，故可推知研发者起先主要是帮助法语为外语的学习者。

69. B. 细节理解题。根据第三段描述的工作程序可知B正确。

70. C. 代词指代题。结合上文讲烹饪和本段第一句讲把语言学习从教室带到真实的生活中可指指代的是烹饪与学习合一的过程。

71. B. 标题归纳题。本文大意是介绍一种能用外语发出语音指令的智能“厨房”系统，文章第一句即主题句，故B标题最切合主旨。