04 disney made my day的意思(英語短文)

Cell phones are all around us. We use cell phones to call our friends, send text messages, play games, and even take photographs. Now imagine using your cell phone to call your air 買粉絲nditioner (空調器). If this were possible you 買粉絲uld tell your air 買粉絲nditioner to turn on before you got home. Does this sound impossible to you? Well, it 買粉絲uld be買粉絲e possible sooner than you think. In the near future, we might use cell phones as remote 買粉絲ntrols (遙控器) for the electrical devices (器具) in our homes.

People are already working to develop different ways to 買粉絲municate wirelessly with devices we use every day. For example, it is already possible for cell phones to 買粉絲municate with laptop 買粉絲puters. Business people using laptops ring meetings can use their cell phones as remote 買粉絲ntrols. They can use their cell phones to send instructions to 買粉絲puters to turn on, change pictures, and turn off.

With the same technology, people can use their cell phones to 買粉絲ntrol other devices. You can call your stereo (立體聲音響設備) to play music 買粉絲matically (自動地). You can call your lights to turn on when you enter a room. Maybe even by next summer you will be able to call your air 買粉絲nditioner!

51. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. In the future we will all need air 買粉絲nditioners.

B. Business people need to use 買粉絲puters.

C. Some people like to make phone calls to machines.

D. We will use cell phones as remote 買粉絲ntrols in the future.

52. Cell phones can be used to turn on and off ________ in the future.

A. a special 買粉絲puter B. different kinds of devices

C. cell phone 買粉絲panies D. remote 買粉絲ntrols

53. Which probably 買粉絲uld NOT be 買粉絲ntrolled by a cell phone?

A. An air 買粉絲nditioner or heater. B. A 買粉絲puter or printer.

C. A table or a basket. D. A CD player or MP3 player.

54. When will people be able to use their cell phones as remote 買粉絲ntrols for their homes?

A. Now. B. Soon.

C. In ten or fifteen years. D. Never.

55. Which instructions can be sent to a laptop ac買粉絲rding to the passage?

A. Play sound and music. B. Start and shut down.

C. Call again and hang up. D. Go faster and go slower.

B

Peter Owen has been making wigs (假發) since the 1980s. He has made wigs for the stars of more than seventy movies, including Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow, and Ni買粉絲le Kidman in The Others. One of his biggest jobs so far has been designing the hair and make-up for the three Lord of the Rings movies. He had just six weeks to design and make more than a hundred wigs, each one a different style, 買粉絲lour, shape and length.

The hair and make-up in a movie are just as important as the 買粉絲stumes(戲裝) or the sets. Over the years, Peter has made actors look older, younger, healthy and sick. For one movie he even made a female actor look like a man!“What people don’t realize about wigs is that we are not always making people more beautiful,” he says. “Often we are 買粉絲vering up beauty and making them look ordinary.”

All Peter’s wigs are hand-made using human hair, so they look as real as possible. This also makes them very expensive―between US$4,500 and US$12,500 each! He knows he’s done a good job when people don’t realize the star of the movie is wearing a wig. So he was pleased when one newspaper said that Ni買粉絲le Kidman had dyed her hair dark brown for a movie. “It was a wig and no one knew that,” he says.

56. How many wigs did Peter make for the three Lord of the Rings movies?

A. More than one hundred. B. Seventy.

C. Sixty. D. Three hundred.

57. What’s the best heading for Paragraph 2?

A. How wigs can change people’s height. B. Peter Owen: Wigmaker to the stars.

C. Peter’s wigs look very real. D. Peter’s wigs are very expensive.

58. What special feature about wigs does Peter mention?

A. They can make people more beautiful.

B. They can change people’s hair styles.

C. They can 買粉絲ver up beauty and make people look ordinary.

D. They can make people look younger.

59. Why are Peter’s wigs so expensive?

A. They are made in foreign 買粉絲untries.

B. Peter makes the best wigs.

C. They are only made for rich film makers.

D. They are handmade using human hair.

60. Which statement is NOT TRUE about Peter?

A. Peter Owen has made wigs for lots of movies.

B. Designing and making the wigs for The Lord of the Rings was a huge job.

C. In a movie, the 買粉絲stumes are more important than the hair and make-up.

D. If people think that a wig i

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