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The CarCars are an important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor he doesn"t feel really poor when he has a car.Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably didn"t know how much the car was going to affect American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped make the United States what it is today.There are three main reasons why the ear becomes so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a huge one and Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. With a car people can go anyplace without spending a lot of money.The second reason why cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed an efficient and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been as common in the country as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently.The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don"t like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don"t like to have to follow an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.The gas shortage has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real solution will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much gas. The real solution to the gas shortage problem is ______.

A. to make less cars
B. to develop a public transportation system
C. to make gas-saving cars
D. to develop train service

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DennyHis nickname is Denny". He weighs 400 pounds; he is fearless and he never goes to sleep on the job. An ideal security guard For many situations he may be. And if he"s so good that you wish you had a dozen like him, just place your order. Denny is a robot guard.Denny can detect, within a 150-thor radius, the presence of anything or anybody that shouldn"t be there. Its swiveling (旋转) head contains microwave and infrared sensors that can detect people as well as smoke. In future editions the head will also contain sensors that can smell the weak smell of a human body.A high-resolution TV camera in Denny"s head is on at all time. When something unexpected comes into view, the TV transmitter switches on. Thus the human overseer (看管人) in the control center sees the sudden appearance of a picture on the monitor screen. At the same time the picture is automatically videotaped.Normal speed of the robot guards is about one mile an hour, and they can even talk: "you have been detected," warns the voice from the clever guard. Denny is designed to patrol corridors and other areas after lock-down hours (of course, he can work round the clock when necessary), not to move among people. If, say, a prisoner does get near the corridor where he should not be, it"ll immediately tell its base station by radio.Denny has understandable limitations. He can"t open doors or watch stairs, for example, or distinguish a friend from an enemy. Thus he will have to go about unarmed. And he won"t be able to replace human security guards where people move about freely. Which of the following statements is true

A. Only strong smell can be detected by Denny.
B. Denny is able to replace human security guards where people move about freely.
C. A high-resolution TV camera in Denny"s head is on and off automatically.
Denny cannot open doors or watch stairs.

The CarCars are an important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor he doesn"t feel really poor when he has a car.Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably didn"t know how much the car was going to affect American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped make the United States what it is today.There are three main reasons why the ear becomes so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a huge one and Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. With a car people can go anyplace without spending a lot of money.The second reason why cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed an efficient and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been as common in the country as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently.The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don"t like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don"t like to have to follow an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.The gas shortage has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real solution will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much gas. Henry Ford was the first to ______ cars in large numbers.

A. invent
B. sell
C. have
D. produce

DennyHis nickname is Denny". He weighs 400 pounds; he is fearless and he never goes to sleep on the job. An ideal security guard For many situations he may be. And if he"s so good that you wish you had a dozen like him, just place your order. Denny is a robot guard.Denny can detect, within a 150-thor radius, the presence of anything or anybody that shouldn"t be there. Its swiveling (旋转) head contains microwave and infrared sensors that can detect people as well as smoke. In future editions the head will also contain sensors that can smell the weak smell of a human body.A high-resolution TV camera in Denny"s head is on at all time. When something unexpected comes into view, the TV transmitter switches on. Thus the human overseer (看管人) in the control center sees the sudden appearance of a picture on the monitor screen. At the same time the picture is automatically videotaped.Normal speed of the robot guards is about one mile an hour, and they can even talk: "you have been detected," warns the voice from the clever guard. Denny is designed to patrol corridors and other areas after lock-down hours (of course, he can work round the clock when necessary), not to move among people. If, say, a prisoner does get near the corridor where he should not be, it"ll immediately tell its base station by radio.Denny has understandable limitations. He can"t open doors or watch stairs, for example, or distinguish a friend from an enemy. Thus he will have to go about unarmed. And he won"t be able to replace human security guards where people move about freely. Which of the following pieces of equipment is NOT mentioned as part of the robot according to the passages

A. The TV camera.
B. The radio transmitter.
C. The infrared sensor.
D. The video tape-recorder.

Superconductor Ceramic (陶瓷)An underground revolution begins this winter. With the flip (轻击) of a switch, 30,000 homes in one part of Detroit will soon become the first in the country to receive electricity transmitted by ice-cold high-performance cables. Other American cities are expected to follow Detroit"s example in the years ahead, which could conserve enormous amounts of power.The new electrical cables at the Frisbie power station in Detroit are revolutionary because they are made of superconductors. A superconductor is a material that transmits electricity with little or no resistance. Resistance is the degree to which a substance resists electric current. All common electrical conductors have a certain amount of electrical resistance. They convert at least some of the electrical energy passing through them into waste heat. Superconductors don"t. No one understands how superconductivity works. It just does.Making superconductors isn"t easy. A superconductor material has to be cooled to an extremely low temperature to lose its resistance. The first superconductors, made more than 50 years ago, had to be cooled to-263 degrees Celsius before they lost their resistance. Newer superconducting materials lose their resistance at-143 degrees Celsius.The superconductors cable installed at the Frisbie station is made of a ceramic material that contains copper, oxygen, bismuth (铋), strontium (锶), and calcium (钙). A ceramic is a hard, strong compound made from clay or minerals. The superconducting ceramic has been fashioned into a tape that is wrapped lengthwise around a long tube filled with liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen is super cold and lowers the temperature of the ceramic tape to the point where it conveys electricity with zero resistance.The United States loses an enormous amount of electricity each year to resistance. Because cooled superconductors have no resistance, they waste much less power, other cities are watching the Frisbie experiment in the hope that they might switch to superconducting cable and conserve power, too. What is the benefit of the revolution mentioned in the first paragraph

A. With a flip of switch, electricity can he transmitted.
B. Other American cities can benefit from the high-performance cables.
C. Great amounts of power can be conserved.
Detroit will first receive electricity transmitted by the new electrical cables.

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