中考英文閱讀理解
A Japanese toy maker says that theyve developed a gadget(小器具)that translates dog barks (吠)into human languages and plan to begin selling the gadgets—under the name of Bowlingual—in the US pet stores and present shops this summer.People laughed when the Japanese toy maker Takara company made the worlds first dog-human translation machine last year .But about 300,000 of them have been sold since it was on sale in Japan last year .Far bigger sales will be expected once an English language translation machine for dogs comes to America in August .The United States is home to about 67 million dogs ,more than six times the number in Japan.“We know that the Americans love their dogs so much ,so we dont think theyll mind spending $ 120 on this gadget”, the Takara marketing manager said before the journalists at a meeting in Atlanta. Bowlingual ,one of US Time magazines coolest inventions of 2002, has two parts .A microphone is tied to the dogs collar(項(xiàng)圈)and sends out sound information to the gadget held by the owner .Then the translation is done in the gadget by a database (數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù))with every kind of barks .Those barks show six feelings—happiness, sadness ,disappointment ,anger ,declaration and desire .Each of the feelings is then translated into words like “Lets play.” “Look at me !” or “Spend more time with me.”Takara says it has spent millions of dollars developing the gadget .One thing that seems certain is that the markets for animal translation machines will probably be a dogs world since Takara has no plans to develop such a gadget for cats . “too unpredictable (反復(fù)無(wú)常) ,”the marketing manager said.67.The first three paragraphs of the passage mainly tell us that BowlingualA.was invented in Japan B.has developed quicklyC.will be sold in America D.sells well for its price68.The underlined word “they” in the last sentence refers to .A.markets B.dogs C.plans D.cats69.When was this passage most probably written?A.In the winter of 2002. B.In the spring of 2003.C.In the summer of 2002. D.In the autumn of 2003.70.From the passage ,we can see that Takara is the sale of its new gadget in the US.A.
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