题目内容
Sports shoes that work out whether their owner has done enough exercise to ensure time in front of the television have been invented in the
The shoes―dubbed Square Eyes contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter passes the information to a receiver connected to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day’s efforts.
The design was inspired by a desire to combat the rapidly ballooning waistlines among British teenagers, said Gillian Swan, who developed Square Eyes as a final year design project at Brunel University in
Once a child has used up their daily allowance gained through exercise, the television automatically(自动地)switches off. And further time in front of the TV can only be earned through more steps.
Swan calculated how exercise should translate to television time using the recommended daily amounts of both. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes equals precisely one minute of TV time.
56. The best title for the passage might be_____.
A. New Shoes and watching TV in the
B. A newly-invented type of shoes in the
C. Smart shoes deciding on television time.
D. The problem of children’s obesity.
57. Gillian Swan developed Square Eyes______.
A. to gain enough TV time
B. to deal with childhood obesity.
C. to encourage TV watching.
D. to finish university design project.
58. The underlined word “allowance”( in Paragraph 4)probably means “___”.
A. the money given to children. B. the money for watching TV.
C. the steps to be taken. D. the time of watching TV.
59. If a child takes 2,25o steps on Saturday, he can earn____ of TV time.
A. 22 minutes and 30 seconds. B. 22 minutes and 50 seconds
C. 11 minutes and 25 seconds D. 11 minutes and 15 seconds
We all thought that Betty could have run _______ if she had worn the sports-shoes that day.
A.even faster | B.more slower | C.much quickly | D.still fastest |
When you run, you put force that is equal to three times your body weight on your feet. The human foot contains twenty muscles. This means that there is a lot that can go wrong when you run.
Most sports have some kind of running or jumping So experts at many shoe companies work hard to design good sport shoes. First, a designer enters a plan for a shoe into a computer .Engineers then improve the design. A second computer designs a model for the shoe. Then a few pairs are made. Next, the shoe is tested.
Different kinds of sports shoes are made for different uses. Some are made to help marathon(马拉松) runners save energy during a race. Some are made for the stop-and-go kind of running tennis players. But all sport shoes have one thing in common: they are designed to help people’s feet comfortable during sports. Today, nearly every sport has its own special shoe designed for just the kind of running that sport needs.
【小题1】The first in making a new shoe is to ________.
A.make a computer | B.put a design plan into a computer |
C.design a shoe model | D.test several pairs |
A.Because they are comfortable to wear. |
B.Because they help to develop leg muscles. |
C.Because they help to change body weight. |
D.Because they are both good and cheap. |
A.The number of the bones of human muscles. |
B.The design for a shoe model. |
C.The materials of sport shoes. |
D.The effect of shoes upon sports. |
A.Three | B.Four | C.Five | D.Six |
A.are made in different shoe companies |
B.are designed for people of the different weight |
C.are of the same price |
D.meet the needs of different sportsmen |