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人教版九年级全一册Unit6阅读专练
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读下面的文章,然后回答文章后的问题。请在1~5小题后的横线上写上答案。
Today most people can't live without a television set! During the 1980s and 1990s the quality(质量) of both pictures and sound became very, very good. The first VCR was introduced in 1977 in the USA. With VCRs,people could record their favorite programs, but the quality was not perfect. The invention of the CD and the DVD during the 1990s produced a better quality of both pictures and sound. The first DVD player was introduced in 1997 in the USA. At that time you could not record programs with DVD players, but today DVD recorders are available.
During recent years, people began to develop new ways to record television programs with machines that had memory. This way your television set can save films, almost like a computer. This new invention is called TiVo,and it has become popular in the USA.With TiVo,television sets are similar to computers, but at the same time computers are similar to television sets. With a computer you can now pay to download (下载)films and TV programs from the Internet and watch them on the computer screen. In the future, computers will probably take the place of television sets.
Living rooms with large-screen TV sets and big speakers(扬声器)are like small cinemas at home and they are called “home movie theaters". It's fun to watch movies at home or in the cinema, but some people think that cinemas are still the best places to watch movies.
1. What were the early VCRs used to do?
2. When was the first DVD player appeared?
3. Does TiVo have memory?
4. What will take the place of television sets?
5. What do people think of watching movies at home or in the cinema?
B
读下面的文章,然后回答文章后面的问题,正确的答案写T,错误的答案写F。请在6~10小题的括号内答题。
“I'll think of it.” It is easy to say this, but do you know what great things have come from thinking?
Sir Isaac Newton was sitting in his garden when he saw an apple fall from a tree. He began to think and tried to find out why the apple fell. Then he discovered how the sun,moo