Radio,telephone and television are widely used in the world. When you switch on the radio, you can listen. But when you use telephone, not only can you listen to others but also you can chat with them;however, you cannot see anything at all. Television is much better than both of them. People can watch TV and listen to it, but they cannot take part in what they see.
Today, some people are using a new type of telephone called visionphone. With it two pople who are talking can see each other.
Visionphones can be of great use when you have something to show the person whom you are calling. It may also have other uses in the future. Some day you may be able to call up a library and ask to read a book right over your visionphone. You may be able to do the shopping through it, too. Perhaps in the near future.visionphones will come into wide use in our everyday life.
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According to the passage we can guess that the ____ was invented last.
A.radio B.television C.telephone D.visionphone
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Maybe the visionphone can take the place of ____ some day.
A.the radio B.the telephone C.the television D.all the above
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Through a visionphone we can ____ .
A.take medicine B.order what we need C.travel around the world D.try on clothes
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In the future, you can use a visionphone to ____ .
A.read a library book
B.ask a librarian to read a book for you
C.ask a librarian to bring you a book
D.ask a librarian to do some shopping for you
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Visionphones will be ____ in our daily life in the future.
How much sleep do we need? The answers are different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Amexicans sleep for an average of seven to eight hours a night. After age fifty, the average sleep hours go down to 6.5 hours a night.
Most people will have a bad night when they can't fall asleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is called insomnia(失眠症).
This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these people had their own ways to sleep well. Benjamin Franklin(本杰明·富兰克林), the famous inventor, had four beds.He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Louis XIV (国王路易十四) of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous writer, had a different way: he hy on his side(侧卧) across the end of the bed!
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Most Americans usually sleep for about _________ hours a night.
A. 3 B. 5~6 C. 10 D. 7~8
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(2)
As people grow older,they need __________ at night.
A. less sleeping time
B. more sleeping time
C. the same amount of sleeping time
D. a fixed time to sleep
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(3)
If there are 100 million people in the US hav-ing a problem with sleep,what's the popula-tion of it? About _______.
A. 200 million B. 300 million C. 600 million D. 900 million
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(4)
Franklin tried to go to sleep by __________.
A. moving from one to another of his 413 beds B. moving from one to another of his 4 beds
C. inventing a bed for himself D. lying on his side across the end of the bed
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(5)
It's not mentioned in the passage,but we know that Mark Twain was ___________.