Grace, usually known as the Home of Microsoft, is inside an office building in Redmond, Washington. Once you come into the building, you will feel that you're in a modern and future home.
When you enter the building, Grace's voice, coming from a hidden speaker, tells you your messages. In the kitchen, you set a bag of flour(面粉) on a flat stone table. Grace sees what you're doing and makes a menu of flour-based foods on the table. Once you choose one, Grace gives you ingredients(配料).
There's also a notice board in the kitchen made of “intelligent(智能的) cloth” that works like a touch screen computer. You can deal with postcards and invitations and surf the net with the touch of a finger. The invitations could be encoded(编码). You can deal with them on the computer. It's part of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology, whose aim is to make every object more efficient(有效率的).
“The day when your house becomes a member of your family is not far,” says Pam Heath, a manager of Microsoft. At the Andersen Windows Company, Jay Libby imagines that windows made of intelligent glass can be changed into TVs. “Nobody wants a television set,” says Libby. “What you want is the service it provides.” If the TV isn't improved, it will disappear in the future.
Home entertainment is one consideration for the future. At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, scientists are designing systems that will allow old people to live better on their own. So Grandma's home can be cleverly designed to recognize(识别) her ways of waking, sleeping and movement. Family members will be told any change by their computers.
(1)We can know from the passage that Grace _________.
A. is an idea known as the Microsoft Home
B. is a machine that works like a TV
C. can understand what its master does
D. can cook meals for its master
(2)According to the passage, all the following are true EXCEPT________.
A. Grace can help you in the kitchen
B. you can use the computer with a touch screen
C. windows will take the place of TV sets in the near future
D. TV technology needs improving (3)It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that ________.
A. the building in the future will be intelligent
B. your windows will be changed into TVs
C. few people will like watching TV in the future
D. all the old people will live without others’ help
(4)Which would be the best title for the text?
A. Modern Home
B. Popular Home
C. Future Home
D. Smart Home
【答案】 (1)C (2)C (3)A (4)D
，我们将会及时处理。
