How the Iron of Tomorrow Can Change Your Lifestyle Today.

(the first Self Cleaning Iron)

General Electric introduces the iron of tomorrow. The iron can clean itself inside where an iron gets dirty. Because it cleans itself each time you empty it. How? With a push of a magic blue button.

◆The magic blue button

The first thing you’ll notice that’s different about this iron is the blue button on the side. It’s marked "Self Clean". Push this blue button, and you can wash out loose mineral deposits(沉淀物) that remain and block up inside. Push this button, and you’ve made life a lot easier.

◆Less chance of brown spots

Sure, Self Cleaning Iron is going to cut down on brown spots. (Those ugly spots that happen on nice, cleanly pressed clothes.) Because a Self Cleaning Iron becomes clean each time you press that magic blue button.

◆Steams better longer

Common sense tells you that if you’ve an iron that blocks less often it has to stay younger for a long period of time. In other words, it steams better longer. That’s another joy of ow­ning General Electric’s Self Cleaning Iron.

◆What does it mean to you

Today you are doing so much more than just running a house and running after the kids. You’re working. You’re going to school. It’s all part of your lifestyle. The iron can change that lifestyle by giving you less trouble before you iron. If we can make it easier for you to be a better wife, a better mother, a better housekeeper, we want to. The new Self Cleaning Iron is another one of Home-Makers from Gener­al Electric.

Lifestyle .We are with yours. Gener­al Electric.

1.This passage is ________.

A．an introduction to General Electric

B．an operating instruction of Self Cleaning Iron

C．an advertisement of Self Cleaning Iron

D．a description of the change of lifestyle

2.This iron can clean itself by ________.

A．emptying itself                         B．washing out mineral deposits

C．blocking up mineral deposits               D．giving off more steam

3.According to the passage, what is most likely to attract the customers?

A．It is made by General Electric.

B．The iron will not produce mineral deposits.

C．There will be fewer brown spots on pressed clothes.

D．Their clothes will be cleaned at the same time.

4.Self Cleaning Iron can help change your lifestyle because________.

A．you can run your house better

B．you don’t have to run after the kids

C．you can use it while you are working

D．we want you to be a better housekeeper

五、短语填空（10分）、

71．Lead a …._______过着….的生活       72.move ______离开，起程，出发

73.  struggle______ 为…..而斗争          74.search______寻找

75．up_____now直到现在                       76.star________担任主角，主演

77. major________主修                                   78.________general总的来说

79．Be familiar______对….熟悉               80.come_______实现

根据下列句子及所给汉语提示，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式,并将完整答案写到二卷答题纸上。（每空只写一词）

1.You're very cool with your brother, but with your friends you really ______ ____ ______.（活跃起来）

2. ____ ________ (总的来说) her work has been good.

3. I ______ ________(偶遇) an old school friend in Oxford Street this morning.

4. I’ll get a newspaper to______ _____ _______（刊登事情的经过）on the incident.

课文填空

1.袁博士从梦中醒来，希望能种植一种可以养活更多人的水稻。

Dr Yuan awoke from his dream ______  ______  ______  ______ producing a kind of rice that could feed more people.

2.在有的地方，你还能和大魔术师梅林一起观看魔术表演。

In one place, you ______  _____  ______  ______ with Merlin the Wizard.

3.不幸的是他的父亲去世了，整个家庭状况更糟了。

______ his father died, ______ his family even _______  _______.

4.但总的来说，在当今文化交融的世界，学习不同国家的习俗肯定能帮助我们避免交往中的困难。

______  _______, though, studying international customs can certainly_______  _______  difficulties in today's world of cultural crossroads!

5.她主张应该让野生动物留在野外生活，而不能用于娱乐或广告。

She has argued that wild animals should _____ _____ in the wild and not used for_____   or _______.

五、短语填空（10分）、
71．Lead a …._______过着….的生活       72.move ______离开，起程，出发
73.  struggle______ 为…..而斗争          74.search______寻找
75．up_____now直到现在                       76.star________担任主角，主演
77. major________主修                                   78.________general总的来说
79．Be familiar______对….熟悉               80.come_______实现