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The Dutch company Nerdalie thins paying for electricity to operate the servers and then paying again to cool them is a waste of energy. So it developed a device called the e-Radiator, a computer server that also wors as a heating source.
Boa Leupe, the chief eecutive officer of Nerdalie, says the e-Radiator saves money because companies don’t have to pay to cool their servers. “…The ilowatt hour you are using is used twice — once to heat the home and once to compute the client’s tas without the cooling epenses.”
At present five homeowners in the Netherlands are testing the heating device in their homes. “We compensate the electricity the server uses, and that we can do because of the computer clients on the other side, and, in that way, homeowners actually get heating for free, and computer users don’t have to pay for the epenses of the data center.”
Jan Visser is one of the participants in the year-long eperiment. He notices that the amount of heat produced by the e-Radiator depends on the wor being done by the computer server. He reveals it cannot be used as the primary source of heat. But he is ready to try it. “If it provides enough warmth, I will be able to use my home’s heating system less, which will save me money.” he added.
Nerdalie says e-Radiators create heat temperatures of up to 55 degrees Celsius. It’s also said that the devices could save users up to $440 in heating costs a year.
25. What can we learn from this passage?
A. E-Radiator can save homeowners a big sum of money in cooling the computers. B. Google and Nerdalie developed the heating device, e-Radiator. C. E-Radiator has been put into use in the Netherlands.
D. The heating device will benefit computer users as well as homeowners. 26. According to the passage, what’s Jan Visser’s attitude towards e-Radiator?
A. Cautious.
B. Positive.
C. Satisfied.
D. Doubtful.
27. Where can we most probably read the passage?
A. In an economic report.
B. In a science magaine. D. In a computer guide boo.
C. In an education newspaper.
28. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. Money-saving heating device.
B. E-Radiator, the primary source of heat. C. Hot computers could be used to heat home. D. Nerdalie developed e-Radiator, a heating system.
C
Your car is a necessary part of your life. You use it every day. Of course, you want to hold on to it so you mae sure it has the latest alarm and immobilier. But despite all these, cars lie yours are still stolen every day. In fact, in this country, one car is stolen almost every minute! And if your car is stolen, you only have a 5050 chance of seeing it again.
Each year, car crime costs nearly ￡3 billion. Of course, if you’re insured, you won’t lose out, or will you? Firstly, you will have to pay etra insurance later on, and then you may not be offered the full amount by the agent. You will probably have to hire a car and you will also lose the value of the contents and accessories (配件) in the car.
Now comes the solution. An RAC Tracstar system, hidden in one of 47 possible secret locations in your car, is the ey of our system. If your car is stolen, radio signals are sent at twenty-second intervals from the car to the RAC Tracstar National Control Center via a satellite networ. Then a computer gives the vehicle’s eact location, speed and direction.
The RAC Tracstar National Control Center, which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, will immediately inform the police in the area where the car is located. Because the police receive information every twenty seconds, they will always now the vehicle’s location. Once the thief has been arrested, your car will be returned to you.
RAC Tracstar is unique in being able to provide the National Control Center with details of the eact location of your car, its speed and direction. And speed is the ey to successful recovery of a stolen vehicle. RAC Tracstar Control will immediately tell the police if you report your car stolen and under the 24-hour Guardian Option. It will also tell you if your car has been stolen. RAC Tracstar’s constant updates mean the police are ept informed of the car’s location. All these greatly improve your chances of seeing your car again.
29. If your car is stolen, you will have to ______.
A. hire a new car
B. pay more insurance
C. buy a RAC Tracstar system D. inform the National Control Center
30. The underlined word “It” in the last paragraph refers to ______.
A. the local police station C. the insurance company
B. the Guardian Option D. the RAC Tracstar Control
31. According to the passage, people with RAC Tracstar ______.
A. automatically find directions B. seldom get their vehicles damaged C. have less chance of being in an accident D. are more liely to get the stolen cars bac
D
Modern humans have a hard time controlling their desire to eat. Often you eat not because you are hungry, but because you are affected by many other things. How much you eat is strongly affected by how much those around you eat. People eating alone eat least. People eating with one other person eat 35 percent more than they do at home. People dining in a party of four eat 75percent more. Eating with overweight friends? You’ll eat more. Is your waitress overweight? You’ll eat more. Wide variety of food? You’ll eat more.
Plates can decide how sweet dessert tastes. If people ate it off a paper plate, they’d say, “This is good.” If they ate it off a fancy silver plate, they would say, “This is the greatest cae I’ve eaten in my entire life.”
Your nowledge about what maes food good or bad also affects how much you eat. You tend to eat more when you thin the food is good, and less when you thin it is bad. So Grandma’s cooies always taste better than other cooies. “Good food” even has a “health halo(光环) effect”. If we’re eating something healthy, we feel that everything in that meal is healthy. Due to this, people often believe that a cheese cae with a salad has fewer calories (卡路里) than the cheese cae alone. That’s perhaps also why eating organic (有机的) food might turn you into an annoying guy. Your brain may use anything that maes you feel good about your own morality to ecuse your immoral behavior .
Food and hunger affect your judgment too. Hungry judges give more serious sentences. ids who don’t eat breafast behave worse than ids who eat their breafast. People who have low blood sugar are more liely
than the average person to have trouble concentrating and controlling their unpleasant emotions. 32.What is mentioned as a cause of overeating? A. Suffering from great loneliness. C. Being treated to high quality food.
B. Being served by a helpful waitress. D. Eating with many friends.
33. According to the passage, an annoying person may be one who ______. A. finds any ecuse for eating more B. is cray about the quality of plates C. competes with others in maing cooies D. teaches people to stic to morality
34. According to the passage, people are more liely to mae a bad judgment when ______. A. they don’t feel hungry
B. they aren’t overweight
D. they now little about food
C. they have low blood sugar
35. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. When Can’t We Go on a Diet? B. What Affects Eating? C. How to Mae Good Food
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The Greeting Card Association reports that Americans purchase 6.5 billion greeting cards each year. 36 Here’s a loo at ways to reduce your holiday greeting card costs. Gold digital.
37 Add photos or video to mae your e-cards more personal. 38
If you plan to mail your cards, remember to consider postage costs. Square cards loo
cool,but they cost more than a regular stamp to mail because they’re not a standard sie. If cost is a consideration, stic to rectangular（矩形的）cards and avoid too heavy ribbons that increase your mailing costs.
D. Where to Find Safe Food