How can you hear your friends’ voices when they are far away and you can’t make a long—distance call? Besides the web camera system with your computer, we have a new high-tech way to solve the problem and ease your pain of missing them.
The Japanese company Combiwith created a system—“talking picture”. It makes people in pictures speak!
The “talking picture” has a special pen. It is actually a pen-shaped scanner. It can scan information in special—made pictures. A connected player will then play the information out loud.
First, you need to take a picture and record what you want to say with the company. The company will then make special barcodes(条形码) onto your picture(you can’t see those codes). Those codes are your voice and your words. When you hold up the pen to scan your picture with barcodes, a player connected to the pen will start to play. It plays things you’ve recorded. That way the invention makes the “you” in the picture speak!
Do you want your friends and families talking out of pictures? Have them make pictures like that, and you can hear them whenever you want, only with the “talking picture” system. The system can play messages for up to 12 minutes.
“The pictures would be useful for those who hope to hear the voice of someone living far away,” said Mayumi Fuji, a spokeswoman for the company. “Grandparents, for example, longing to know about their grandchildren, would be happy to hear their voice when they see the picture,” Fuji said.
But it is troublesome to go to the company for taking a special picture first. And, it is much more expensive than using a telephone. The photo with barcodes costs between 17,040 and 17,990 yen(日元)(160 and 169 dollars). The larger picture you want, the more you pay.
Now, just raise a finger, lonely people can have their loved ones speak out of pictures. But, whether the “talking picture” is practical or not, let’s wait and see.
【小题1】What does “talking pictures” mean according to this article?

A.The picture can play what’s been recorded as if the person in the picture “talks”.
B.You can have a talk with the person in the picture whenever you want to.
C.The picture can tell you wonderful stories to ease your pain.
D.The picture can tell what’s on your mind when you are looking at it.
【小题2】If you want to make a talking picture, you need to ________.
A.take a picture and record what you want to say with the company
B.make special barcodes onto your picture
C.a pen—shaped scanner to go with the picture
D.All of the above
【小题3】Which of the following is NOT true accordingly?
A.The talking picture system can play messages for 12 minutes at most.
B.It will cost you more to take a larger talking picture.
C.It might take a lot of trouble to make a talking picture.
D.You can make a talking picture by just raising a finger.
【小题4】What is the attitude of the author?
A.Optimistic.B.Uncertain.C.Positive.D.Pessimistic.


Enter a typical high school, and the first thing you see is the front office, where the principal dwells and grades are stored. The front office also reinforces familiar hierarchy(等级制度): principal at the top, teachers in the middle, kids on the bottom, sitting with hands folded at their desks.
Now, imagine a school where the organizational structure is completely flat. At the New Country School in Henderson, Minn, there is no front office. Visitors are immediately embraced by an airy atrium that is the centerpiece of this one-room schoolhouse. And all around the room, 124 students sit at desks — real office desks — working at their own personal computers on their own projects.
When Dee Thomas and her colleagues got together 15 years ago to design a new high school, they knew there was one thing that had to go: The bell. "You don't go into your job in the morning and say, 'OK, for the first 45 minutes of my job, I'm going to do the math part.' And then a bell goes off, and you do the social history part of your job. You don't do that," Thomas said.
There are no teachers at New Country. Every few weeks, students must present projects they've been working on to the rest of the school community. To prepare for their presentations, they gather at tables in the middle of the school atrium and present their work to their "advisers."
Kids at New Country test better than their peers on the state tests and on the pre-college ACT. The school sends 90 percent of its graduates to college. But that doesn't tell the whole story. New Country struggles to keep its seniors from leaving. The school's senior project is demanding — 300 hours of work.
But for some students, New Country offers a rare alternative, a choice they can't find anywhere else. And the school is constantly visited by educators from around the world looking for new ideas. That's the foundation of efforts to reform American high schools today — that there's a need to experiment with an institution that is failing millions of students
【小题1】The author mentioned the typical high school in the first paragraph ___________.
A. to tell us what the typical high school is like in USA.
B. to present a sharp contrast with the experimental school, New Country.
C. to introduce the topic, New Country, of the passage.
D. to call on students to register in the typical high school
【小题2】The following statements about New Country are all true except________.

A.New Country students sit in an open environment that looks a lot like a typical
office.
B.Students consult with "advisers", who "teach" in the traditional sense.
C.No bells in New Country, students choose how to spend their time.
D.No traditional classes, students work on projects they select themselves.
【小题3】Compared with typical high school, New Country is well received for its_________.
A.high test scoresB.alternative
C.comfortable conditionsD.teaching methods
【小题4】The passage mainly tells us __________.
A.experimental school gets rid of classes and teachers.
B.typical high school and experimental School.
C.new schools in future in America.
D.education reform in America.

How can you hear your friends’ voices when they are far away and you can’t make a long—distance call? Besides the web camera system with your computer, we have a new high-tech way to solve the problem and ease your pain of missing them.

The Japanese company Combiwith created a system—“talking picture”. It makes people in pictures speak!

The “talking picture” has a special pen. It is actually a pen-shaped scanner. It can scan information in special—made pictures. A connected player will then play the information out loud.

First, you need to take a picture and record what you want to say with the company. The company will then make special barcodes(条形码) onto your picture(you can’t see those codes). Those codes are your voice and your words. When you hold up the pen to scan your picture with barcodes, a player connected to the pen will start to play. It plays things you’ve recorded. That way the invention makes the “you” in the picture speak!

Do you want your friends and families talking out of pictures? Have them make pictures like that, and you can hear them whenever you want, only with the “talking picture” system. The system can play messages for up to 12 minutes.

“The pictures would be useful for those who hope to hear the voice of someone living far away,” said Mayumi Fuji, a spokeswoman for the company. “Grandparents, for example, longing to know about their grandchildren, would be happy to hear their voice when they see the picture,” Fuji said.

But it is troublesome to go to the company for taking a special picture first. And, it is much more expensive than using a telephone. The photo with barcodes costs between 17,040 and 17,990 yen(日元)(160 and 169 dollars). The larger picture you want, the more you pay.

Now, just raise a finger, lonely people can have their loved ones speak out of pictures. But, whether the “talking picture” is practical or not, let’s wait and see.

1.What does “talking pictures” mean according to this article?

A.The picture can play what’s been recorded as if the person in the picture “talks”.

B.You can have a talk with the person in the picture whenever you want to.

C.The picture can tell you wonderful stories to ease your pain.

D.The picture can tell what’s on your mind when you are looking at it.

2.If you want to make a talking picture, you need to ________.

A.take a picture and record what you want to say with the company

B.make special barcodes onto your picture

C.a pen—shaped scanner to go with the picture

D.All of the above

3.Which of the following is NOT true accordingly?

A.The talking picture system can play messages for 12 minutes at most.

B.It will cost you more to take a larger talking picture.

C.It might take a lot of trouble to make a talking picture.

D.You can make a talking picture by just raising a finger.

4.What is the attitude of the author?

A.Optimistic.

B.Uncertain.

C.Positive.

D.Pessimistic.

 

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