【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 program it to e on at 3 a. m., and it will just wetmop the floor for you.”When it es to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. “More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly,” he says. “A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy（能量）lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.”“The fridge will be the center of the home,” says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen （觸摸屏幕）where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your , keep a shopping list and order vegetables. “Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night,” says Lee.Ever wonder why a man and a woman have to cook meals on counters（工作臺）of the same height. “The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women,” says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. “But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.” At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT’s Counter lab has made the Dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics.57. How many inventions are mentioned in the passage? A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six. 58. In future, if you want to clean your house, you will _________.A. have a recycling system built in the wallB. get up early to start your cleaning systemC. use your fridge to give orders to a cleanerD. leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine 59. What is future kitchen work like?A. Terrific and relaxing. B. Easy and interesting.C. Enjoyable and exciting. D. Funny and amazing. 60. From the passage, we know _________.A. people will have more and more time enjoying themselvesB. future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every dayC. the fridge can be found in the center of a future houseD. people must be expert at puters to use these inventions第II卷 （共42分）一. 語言知識運(yùn)用（2）（共10分，每小題2分）根據(jù)中文意思完成句子。 1. 六點(diǎn)鐘了，該吃晚飯了。It’s six o’clock. __________________ supper. 2. 博物館很近，為什么不走著去呢？The museum is quite near. __________________ on foot? 3. 我的電腦壞了，你能幫我修一下嗎？____________________________________ my puter. Could you help me mend it? 4. 很抱歉讓你久等了。I’m sorry ___________________________ for a long time. 5. 他過去玩電腦游戲的時間太多，結(jié)果對學(xué)習(xí)不感興趣了。_________________________________________ he was not interested in his lessons.二. 口語交際（共10分，每小題2分）根據(jù)上下文的意思補(bǔ)全對話。在橫線上寫出所缺少的內(nèi)容。Susan: Hello, _________6________ Kate?Mike: Sorry, she isn’t in right now. Is that Susan speaking?Susan: yes. Who’s that?Mike: This is Mike ________________________? 7Susan: Fine, thanks. Can I leave a message?Mike: Of course. __________________, please. I’ll go and get a pen. 8(Soon Mike returns.)Mike: OK, please.Susan: I’d like to ask her if she will go to the English Festival next week. Will you please tell her to call me back when she returns?Mike: No problem. ____________________________________? 9Susan: It’s 78340631.Mike: OK, byebye.Susan: Thanks. ___________________________. 10三. 閱讀與表達(dá)（共10分，每小題2分）閱讀短文，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容回答問題。Americans love sports—they love to play them, to watch them on television, and to talk about them. But this hobby sometimes has serious results—at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow（肘部）and in this way they develop “tennis elbow”. Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game. These injuries（損傷）happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt.A few months ago, Kathleen Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation（手術(shù)）or she might not be able to play again. She felt very sad and didn’t know what to do.Then Simmons learned about “video operation”. With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injuries and get people back on the playing field and back to their jobs much faster. Simmons found a hospital that was using this new science and went to see the doctor there. The doctors told her the operation could help.For this operation, her doctor didn’t have to open her knee. Instead he put a very small camera lens（鏡頭）inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeare