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UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons, Benjamin, 10, and Thomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, puter or mobile phone. The grandmother, Lyn, said, “The more things you have, the more difficult life bees.” The boys said they fought less. Probably, they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their puter. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a trendy, beendrinking granny, to one who cooked things.26. The writer uses the quote(引語) at the beginning of the story to____________.A. tell us the truth about lifeB. tell us what life was like a long time agoC. point out what causes such a thing to happenD. point out that you experience some big problems and they may be the same27. In the passage the writer describes a picture to show that new inventions ____________.A. have stopped our livesB. have improved the quality of our livesC. may make people feel very happyD. may bring some people trouble28. The family chose to spend some time in a 1940s house because______________.A. they loved to live simple livesB. they wanted to know how people lived without modern inventionsC. they were troubled by modern inventionsD. living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them29. The passage is mainly about ____________.A. problems with technologyB. improvements in our lives caused by technologyC. changes happening to technologyD. the importance of technologyBLijiang, Yunnan, Dec. 17(Xinhuanet)—A film directed by the famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou, made its domestic debut(國內(nèi)首映式)in Lijiang, where the film was shot, in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, on Friday night.The film, titled Riding Along for Thousands of Miles, was played by the Japanese actor TakakuraKen. It tells a story that Takada, a Japanese fisherman, fulfills(完成)the last wish of his dying son by traveling thousands of miles to China’s Yunnan Province to search for the secret behind a local opera play, called Riding Along for Thousands of Miles.Zhang Yimou, who has been Takakura’s admirer for almost 30 years, made the film just forfulfilling his own wish of working with Takakura Ken.The film made its global(全球的)bedut at the opening session of the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival on Oct. 22.Takakura, one of the bestknown actors in Japan, has played roles in 204 films—includingZhang’s—and won world recognition(認可) after starting in the