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【題目】Answer the questions（根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下列問(wèn)題）

A different kind of alarm clock

When Matty Sallin, 24, was studying art and technology at New York University, he got an interesting task for the final exam: Create something for the ordinary family. He decided to create an alarm clock.

“To get up in time, many people have to use an alarm clock every morning. But the sound of the clock is extremely noisy and unpleasant,” he says. So before he started to design the new clock; he asked different people what they’d like to wake up to in the morning, and lots of them said, “The smell of bacon（培根）.”

So Sallin and his two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock: a wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon to wake people up. He explains, “There’s no danger of burning, because I built it carefully. It uses special light bulbs（燈泡） instead of fire for cooking and turns off automatically after ten minutes.” Just a few easy steps are required to set the “alarm”.

“What you do is to put a few pieces of bacon meat inside the box the night before, then you set the alarm,” says Sallin. “If you set the alarm for 8: 00, it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the bulbs. Then the bulbs turn off and a fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig.”

“So the pleasant smell of bacon will wake you up. There will be no more noisy alarms,” says Sallin. “Then you can open the door on the side and pull the bacon out and eat it.”

When Sallin was a kid, he spent a lot of time making drawings of inventions. “I wanted to make a lift in my back yard and a special tree house,” he says. “But I never really thought I’d become an inventor！”

Sallin got an A for his alarm clock and went on to invent other thing, but people continue to email him every day asking where they can buy his alarm clock. If he decides to produce and sell his special alarm clock, maybe he can build a successful business out of it.

【1】What was Matty Sallin？

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【2】How many people worked together on the new alarm clock？

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【3】How long did it take to cook the bacon？

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【4】Why are light bulbs used for cooking bacon instead of fire？

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【5】What’s special about Sallin’s alarm clock？

_________________ wakes people up instead of the loud alarm.

【6】What do you think of the new alarm clock？

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A college/ university student.

【2】Three.

【3】10 minutes.

【4】Because there is no danger of burning.

【5】The smell of bacon

【6】It is a great invention. /I like the new clock because I am fond of eating bacon. /I don’t think the smell can wake me up because I am a heavy sleeper. （Any reasonable answer is acceptable.）

【解析】

本文講述了Matty Sallin和他兩個(gè)同學(xué)發(fā)明了新型鬧鐘。一個(gè)長(zhǎng)著豬臉的木頭盒子和一個(gè)數(shù)字鬧鐘，它可以利用烹飪培根的氣味來(lái)叫醒人們。很多人很喜歡這個(gè)鬧鐘。

【1】句意：Matty Sallin是什么職業(yè)?

根據(jù)When Matty Sallin, 24, was studying art and technology at New York University24歲的Matty Sallin在紐約大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)藝術(shù)與技術(shù)，故答案為A college/ university student.

【2】句意：多少人一起設(shè)計(jì)了這個(gè)新的鬧鐘?

根據(jù)So Sallin and his two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock薩林和他的兩個(gè)同學(xué)發(fā)明了一種新型鬧鐘，所以是三個(gè)人。故答案為Three.

【3】句意：做熏肉要多長(zhǎng)時(shí)間?

根據(jù)If you set the alarm for 8: 00, it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the bulbs如果你把鬧鐘調(diào)到8點(diǎn)，它會(huì)在7點(diǎn)50分打開(kāi)，然后在燈泡下慢烤10分鐘，故答案為10 minutes.

【4】句意：為什么用燈泡而不是火來(lái)煮培根?

根據(jù)There’s no danger of burning沒(méi)有著火的危險(xiǎn)，故答案為Because there is no danger of burning.

【5】句意：薩林的鬧鐘有什么特別之處?

根據(jù)the pleasant smell of bacon will wake you up.熏肉的香味會(huì)讓你醒來(lái)。故答案為The smell of bacon.

【6】句意：你覺(jué)得這個(gè)新鬧鐘怎么樣?

這題是個(gè)開(kāi)放題，言之有理即可。故答案為It is a great invention. /I like the new clock because I am fond of eating bacon. /I don’t think the smell can wake me up because I am a heavy sleeper. （Any reasonable answer is acceptable.）