Improvements in technology often happen overnight. Some gadgets get smaller and faster. Others are replaced (代替) by newer things like smartphones. They can do hundreds of things. Here are some old gadgets that people used to use.
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Do you have a landline at home? These are phones that people plug (插入) into their living room walls. Mobile phones didn’t use to be so common at that time, so most families had a landline. But landlines only worked at home. What did people do when they were outside and needed to call someone? They looked for a pay phone! Then, most people had their own mobile phones and many homes no longer had landlines.
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People today store plenty of information online, or on SD cards. But in the 1980s and 1990s, people used to use floppy disks. The first floppy disks were large, expensive, and not very useful — each disk could store just 175 KB of information! Later, floppy disks got smaller and better. But even the best ones could only hold 1.44 MB. You would need three or four disks just for one song, and about 22,000 disks to match the storage (储存空间) available on a 32 GB phone!
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It’s easy to take photos today. People often have thousands just on their phones! But photos used to be expensive, and people took fewer of them. To take a photo, you had to buy a roll of film. This allowed you to take about 30 photos. After finishing the roll, you left it at a shop. The shop developed the photos to make them be seen, which you could collect after a few days.
Technology changes all the time, and the gadgets we use today will one day be old. What do you think will be next to disappear?
【小题1】What does the underlined word “gadgets” mean in Paragraph 1?| A．Toys. | B．Tools. | C．Games. | D．Phones. |
a. Goodbye Disks b. Music to My Ears c. Picture This d. Call Me e. Film Development
| A．①-d, ②-b, ③-e | B．①-d, ②-a, ③-c | C．①-c, ②-a, ③-b | D．①-c, ②-b, ③-e |
| A．They could store much. | B．They were very useful. |
| C．They cost a lot of money. | D．They were easy to carry. |
| A．It was convenient to take photos with film. |
| B．People outside used landlines to call someone. |
| C．Improvements in technology change people’s life. |
| D．For a time, many people had pay phones at home. |
| A．The Changing Phones. | B．The Products of Tomorrow. |
| C．Old Things We Use Today. | D．The Things We Used to Use. |
The 2022 World Internet Conference just closed on Nov. 11 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. People have seen lots of cool technology there. What are they? Let’s take a look.
A smart helmet  | When delivery (递送) people send food around, they often use their phones while riding. It’s very dangerous. To be safer, China’s food delivery company Eleme has made a new helmet. It connects (连接) with the cellphone and can “talk”—it tells the delivery people new orders and the locations (位置). The delivery people can also take orders and answer messages by talking to the helmet. If the wearer has an accident, the helmet can also make a call for help right away! |
A business card? A computer!  | If you see a device (设备) in the size of a business card, don’t get it wrong. It’s a computer! It’s called Raspberry pi. It’s the world’s smallest computer. Although it only costs a few hundred yuan, it has a memory of 8G and can do a lot of difficult calculations (计算). You can also use it to learn some simple coding (编程) and create your own computer games! |
Type with eyes  | Many disabled (残疾的) people cannot move their hands. They find it hard to type on a computer. China’s tech company Tencent showed eye-controlling technology. By looking at the screen and moving their eyes, people can type words easily. The worker at the conference showed people how to type “hello”. |
Magic mirror for health  | Scan (扫描) your face, and then the software (软件) will know a lot about your health. This is what “Magic Mirror” can do. It’s an AI health check system (人工智能健康识别系统), you don’t need to wear any devices. Just stand in front of it for 30 seconds, and it will know your heart rate (心率), blood pressure (血压), and the risks (风险) of some diseases. At the conference, many people tried it to check their health. |
| A．To help them ride faster. | B．To give them a safer ride. |
| C．To help them take more orders. | D．To make them look cooler on the road. |
| A．China’s food delivery companies all have made this kind of smart helmet. |
| B．The world’s smallest computer only costs a few hundred yuan with a memory of 80G. |
| C．The magic mirror can help you know more about your health if you wear some devices. |
| D．With the help of eye-controlling technology, people can type on a computer by moving their eyes. |
| A．HISTORY | B．SCIENCE | C．CULTURE | D．LIFE |
Robots seem very new to some people, but in fact they have a long history. The first robot was made by a Greek inventor (发明家). You may often see robots in lots of movies.The robots in the movies are stronger, faster and cleverer than people.In real life, most robots are used in factories.They are used to do many dangerous, difficult or boring jobs. Some people can’t look after themselves and robots are used to help them. For example，some people can’t see. They use dogs to help themselves move around.These dogs are called guide dogs.Scientists are making robots to help them. In the future, robot dogs might take the place of these guide dogs.
Robots are also used in American hospitals. At one hospital, a robot takes meals from the kitchen to the sick people’s rooms. It never loses its way because it has a map of the hospital in its computer system (系统).
In the future, robots will work in space. Robots will never take the place of humans, though they can help us in a lot of different ways.
【小题1】People can often see stronger, faster and cleverer robots ________.| A．in space | B．in all hospitals | C．on the streets | D．in the movies |
| A．占位 | B．获胜 | C．代替 | D．发生 |
| A．they walk after the doctors | B．they can ask people the way |
| C．they have a map in their hands | D．their computer system helps them |
| A．robots are still very new to some people |
| B．the first robot was invented by an American many years ago |
| C．most robots work as guides for people |
| D．robots can work in space now |
Most people have flown a kite or have seen one fly in strong spring wind.
| A．The Chinese use sticks, strings and paper for their kites. |
| B．Not so many people know that kites were first made in China thousands of years ago. |
| C．Men who were at war with them would hear these sounds and ran away. |
| D．They would fly these war kites in the dark. |
| E．Sometimes they tied long strings(绳子)and hooks to their kites. |
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