1、Unit 3 Section Ⅰ Starting out & Understanding ideas（教参Word）- 【勤径学升·同步练测】2022-2023学年高一新教材英语必修第三册（外研版）

UNIT 3　The world of science [对应学生用书第40页] A recent survey found that the karaoke machine is regarded as the most boring gadget in Britain, because the timeless and classic songs are disturbed by some drunk people with tuneless, howling voice.A TNS Omnibus poll for the Department for Communities found this Japanese invention was topped a list of gadgets that people wished it had never been invented. When people were asked what were the top boring inventions, nearly a quarter of them chose the karaoke machine, 17 percent said 24-hour sports channels, 12 percent chose video games, while 11 percent said mobile phones and seven percent said alarm clocks. “Seeing the karaoke machine at the top of the list made me smile, ” said Kane Kramer, a director of the British Inventors Society.“When people are singing karaoke they are enjoying themselves, but as a member of the audience you are just watching somebody who can’t perform, and have to bear the unpleasant songs.This doesn’t fit social orderliness.You might have 10 people who want to sing some karaoke, which means 150 people have to suffer.But the crazy thing is that people still go to be an audience for other people’s inability to sing.” Karaoke has turned into an industry with billions of dollars since it was invented in 1971 by Daisuke Inoue, a Japanese club keyboard instrument player, when he wanted to provide music for a customer who wanted to sing on a company trip. When people were asked which gadgets invented they would like to see in the future, 18 percent said a robot cleaner, 16 percent said a time machine. 1.gadget n. 小工具;小机械 2.howling adj . 咆哮的 3.poll n. 投票;投票数;民意测验 4.top v. 居……之首;超过 5.orderliness n. 整齐状态 6.inability n. 无力;无能 1.Why is the karaoke machine regarded as the most boring gadget in Britain? 　　Because the timeless and classic songs are disturbed by some drunk people with tuneless, howling voice. 2.When a person is enjoying himself by singing karaoke, how many have to suffer? About 15. Section Ⅰ　Star