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【題目】A Kickstarter launched Friday will allow interested parties to set up a camera and pet toys in their home for anyone to play with their pets remotely. It’s called the ipet Companion, an Internet-connected camera and device that streams video online and allows basic commands from people watching. They can move the camera, look at their pet and press a button to swing a toy around.

Obviously, demand is strong. The Kickstarter proved so popular that Scott Harris, iPet Companion’s founder, said that thousands of people started asking for it.

The reason why people keep talking about this is the emotional(情感的) connection they have from a thousand miles away. If you want, you can enter a queue to move the camera and play with the pets. Each room has toys that are hooked(鉤住) into Internet-connected devices, and you can move them by pressing a button.

But there’s sort of a problem: Pets get bored easily. Young pets will stay more interested than adult pets, but finally even a baby pet will get bored, too. To stop that from happening, you’d better limit the pets’ access(接近) to the boys and change the place where they’re located in the room.

Harris understands this and said you can plug anything into that adapter(適配器) ---toys that you can get on your own. And that’s where the iPet Companion really gets interesting. Harris explained that the device is actually sort of a Trojan horse to bring the “Internet of things” to more homes. You don’t really have to use it for pets. The adapter could be used for any device with an electrical plug---a sprinkler, say, that you’d be able to activate to water your grass.

“Our whole goal, our whole purpose is to let anyone control any physical object that they want to while they travel anywhere in the woorld,” Harris said.

【1】What does the underlined word “remotely” in Paragragh 1 probably mean?

A. far away.

B. For free.

C. With pity.

D. Out of control.

【2】Many people are interested in iPet Companion because______________.

A. it can be used to kill time

B. it is easy to control online

C. it can meet all of their demands

D. they can show their love for faraway pets by using it

【3】Why do the pets stop playing the toys soon?

A. Pets are not clever enough to play the toys.

B. They don’t receive rewards from the games.

C. Toys are played with too often at the same place.

D. Adult pets prevent young ones from playing the games.

【4】What can we infer from what Scott Harris said?

A. iPet Companion is only a kind of toy.

B. Kickstarter can be used in many other ways.

C. iPet Companion can actually be turned into a toy horse.

D. iPet Companion can look after pets while their owners are away.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】本文是一篇說明文。主要介紹了Kickstarter 這一裝置，iPet Companion可以滿足人們對(duì)寵物的愛意與關(guān)心，通過遠(yuǎn)程遙控陪伴它們玩耍。另外，Kickstarter還可以通過調(diào)節(jié)器控制其他物體，滿足人們的需求。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由“The reason why people keep talking about this is the emotional(情感的) connection they have from a thousand miles away. ”可知，這款裝置可以遠(yuǎn)程遙控。故remotely最有可能意為遙遠(yuǎn)地，偏遠(yuǎn)地。故選A。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段可知，主要講述人們?yōu)槭裁磳?duì)這個(gè)裝置感興趣，因?yàn)榭梢酝ㄟ^操作，表達(dá)他們對(duì)寵物的愛。故選D。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由“To stop that from happening, you’d better limit the pets’ access(接近) to the boys and change the place where they’re located in the room.”可知，寵物們?nèi)菀讌捑耄�因此要讓它們在不同地方玩。故選C。

【4】推理判斷題。由“The adapter could be used for any device with an electrical plug---a sprinkler, say, that you’d be able to activate to water your grass.”可知，Kickstarter可以通過調(diào)節(jié)控制其他不同的物體，有更多的用途。故B選項(xiàng)正確。