A "talking kitchen" teaches students how to cook French and speak French. Researchers at New Castle University in the United Kingdom have developed the French Digital Kitchen. Professors Paul Seedhouse and Patrick Olivier led the project. Professor Seedhouse told us that it works like a satellite navigation（導(dǎo)航）systemin a car.

The kitchen equipment and tools use motion sensor（動(dòng)作傳感器）technology. The sensors help a computer guide the students through instructions in French.

The system can tell whether you've done what you were asked to do or not. For example, the system tells you to take some butter and cut it with a knife. There's a sensor on the package containing the butter so it can tell where the butter's being moved. The sensor in the knife not only knows that the knife is moving, but it also knows what motion the knife is making. So it can know whether the knife is cutting or not. And it doesn't go on to the next step of the program unless you've done what it senses you've done.

Students can ask the computer to repeat the instructions or translate them into English. There are vocabulary lessons before and after the cooking.

Professor Seedhouse says the French Digital Kitchen turns the process of learning language into a real-life experience. "Here you're taking it out of the classroom and you're actually using the language to produce something which you can eat at the end of it. It's very enjoyable."

The system could be available for sale by the end of 2012. Adding the technology to a new kitchen could add about ten to twenty percent to the building costs. The researchers have also been given money to develop programs in six other languages, including English, Italian and Spanish.

68.   The “talking kitchen” developed by New Castle University is mainly aimed at        .

A. helping students who love French foods

B. helping house owners prepare their meals

C. helping learners who study French as a foreign language

D. helping housewives who want to learn cooking French foods

69.   The third paragraph mainly tell us        .

A.what the system is                  B. how the system works

C.what a motion sensor is              D. how the system was invented

70.   What does the underlined word “it” (in Para 5) refer to?

A. French food.                          B. French language.

C. The process of cooking and learning.       D. The process of listening and translating.

71.   What would be the best title for the passage?        .

A. Learn While Eating.               B. A Talking Kitchen.

C. A New Trend of Kitchen.           D. Kitchens Become Classrooms.

CBCB   68. C. 推理判斷題。這種智能“廚房”系統(tǒng)用法語發(fā)出指示，幫助學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)法語，故可推知研發(fā)者起先主要是幫助法語為外語的學(xué)習(xí)者。

69. B. 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段描述的工作程序可知B正確。

70. C. 代詞指代題。結(jié)合上文講烹飪和本段第一句講把語言學(xué)習(xí)從教室?guī)У秸鎸?shí)的生活中可指指代的是烹飪與學(xué)習(xí)合一的過程。

71. B. 標(biāo)題歸納題。本文大意是介紹一種能用外語發(fā)出語音指令的智能“廚房”系統(tǒng)，文章第一句即主題句，故B標(biāo)題最切合主旨。

 

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A. unfriendly and ta lkative

B. forceful and daring

C. gentle and reliable

D. older than expected

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A. To see Alec himself.

B. To see Alec's mother.

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