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Enjoy creative inventions

Every November, Time magazine picks out “The 25 Best Inventions” of the year. These are the things that have made our lives different. TEENS has chosen three of the most interesting ones on the list. If you want to know more, please click Here.

Ember Mug

It’s hard to always keep coffee at the right temperature, especially in winter. It’s too hat to drink at first, but before we know it, it gets too cold and loses all its taste. According to Time, the perfect level of warmth for a cup of coffee only lasts for 37 seconds, which makes the Ember Mug a great invention. It keeps your coffee or tea at a certain temperature, anywhere between 48 and 62, once you set it through a smartphone app.

Tasty One Top

TV cooking shows make it look so easy, but it’s almost impossible to get the recipes to look the same as how the professionals make them. However, the Tasty One Top DIY cooking helps. Developed by Buzzfeed, the cooker can be connected to a smartphone app, which has more than 1,700 recipes and videos. You choose a recipe and the app will let the cooker know what to do. For example, it’ll tell you when to turn your steak or when to add certain ingredients.

Jibo

Smart speakers from companies like Amazon and Xiaomi have added a lot of fun to our lives. Though they’re still faceless speakers. However, Jibo, developed by MIT professor Cynthia Breazeal, has brought smart technology to life. Said to be “the world’s first social robot for the home”, Jibo looks like a cartoon character, a round head and a voice that sounds like a 10-year-old boy. Inside its “head”, there are different sensors and cameras, which allow it to recognize (辨认) faces and speech. Jibo will move to face you whenever you talk to it. It can also set alarms, remind you of important things, tell you the weather and read news or messages from your friends and family.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

1Who chose the three of the most interesting inventions on the list?

A.Time magazineB.TEENSC.BuzzfeedD.Cynthina Breazeal

2What’s special about Ember Mug?

A.It can help make coffee or tea.B.It’s used for drinking coffee or tea.

C.It keeps coffee or tea at a certain temperature.D.It keeps coffee or tea fresh.

3Why do people choose Tasty One Top?

A.Because TV cooking shows make cooking so easy.

B.Because after connecting to a smartphone app, it knows what to do itself.

C.Because it’s very cheap and helpful.

D.Because it can make more delicious food.

4What can’t Jibo do according to the information above?

A.Help do some housework.B.Move to face people when people talk.

C.Set alarms and remind things.D.Tell the weather and read news or messages.

5Where is probably the list from?

A.A textbook.B.A website.C.A cooking magazine.D.A guidebook.

【题目】 The lyrebird (琴鸟) is one of Australia’s best-known birds. It has a small head and long, strong legs. Its body is dark brown or gray. The female has a long brown tail behind her but the lyrebird is remembered because of the male’s extremely beautiful tail. It has sixteen feathers and is about one metre long. The two outer feathers of the tail are golden brown and curved. This curved shape reminds people of a musical instrument the lyre. The other surprising thing about the lyrebird is that it can copy perfectly any sound around. It can remember the songs of about twenty other kinds of birds. These days, lyrebirds have been heard copying the sounds of car alarms and crying babies!

Lyrebirds are found in wet rainforest. Because they are not great flyers, they spend most of their time on the floor where there is plenty of food. They use their strong claws to turn over rocks to find something to eat.

After growing into an adult, the male makes a space in the forest, or builds a hill, and he dances on the hill. He spreads his tail forward over his head and shakes it, jumping and moving slowly from side to side. The male sings wonderful songs. How could any female refuse his love?

The female builds her own nest in an old tree or on some rocks. It is a round nest with a hidden side entrance which helps to protect the eggs from other hungry animals. She lays a single egg and brings up her chick alone.

When in danger, lyrebirds will try to run away. They can use their wings to fly onto low trees and rocks. They also use strange sounds they can make to scare away their enemies.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

1Which of the following shows a lyrebird?

A.B.C.D.

2What ability makes the lyrebird unusual?

A.It can fly very high in the sky.B.It can break rocks with its claws.

C.It can copy many sounds it hears.D.It can fight its enemies with tail.

3What can we learn about lyrebirds?

A.They usually eat leaves.B.They mainly live on the ground.

C.They are in danger of dying out.D.They always live in pairs and love each other.

4What will happen after a hill is built?

A.The female will soon lay an egg on it.

B.The female will take it as its new home.

C.The male will begin to watch its enemies.

D.The male will try to catch the female’s attention.

5What’s the best title for the text?

A.The development of lyrebirds

B.The living environment of lyrebirds

C.The lyrebird - one of Australia’s best-known birds

D.The lyrebird- a natural musical instrument

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