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阅读理解 Starting a restaurant can be rewarding but challenging. Here are some steps to help you to make your restaurant business a success. First, take a look at the restaurants that will be your competition. Learn what your competitors (竞争者) are serving and use the information to create a restaurant that will stand out among them. Speak to people to understand what type of restaurant they would like to have in the area. Next, you will need to make a decision as to what kind of food you plan to offer. Choosing your target customers will help determine what type of food you will offer. Research the different types of menus and select the menu items that will be right for your restaurant. Deciding on the building and its location is also important for your success. Make sure that the building is easily found and reached. It is important to be located in an area that will attract customers. Finally, do plenty of public relations work and advertisement of the restaurant opening. Consider having some special discounts and door prizes on the day of the grand opening. According to the passage, the first step in starting a restaurant is to ____________.
A、find a suitable location.
B、set up your profit goal.
C、learn much about your competitors.
D、advertise the opening of your restaurant.
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In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and English and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at US's Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany's University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other. One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme. Another prototype (雏形机) can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. "It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you," Waibel said. Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe (转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal(液晶) display (LCD) screen. Then there's the Muscle Translator. Electrodes (电极) capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted (植入) in a person's face, according to researchers. During a demonstration (演示) held last Thursday in CMU's Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Stan Jou had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed-without speaking aloud-a few words in Mandarin (普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: "Let me introduce our new prototype". This particular gadget (器械), when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, "to switch your mouth to a foreign language". "The idea behind the university's prototypes is to create 'good enough' bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world," Waibel said. With spontaneous (自发的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there. |
1. What kind of prototype did the Chinese student named Stan Jou try? |
A. Lecture Translation. B. Translation Glasses. C. Muscle Translator. D. We don't know. |
2. What is the purpose of inventing the translators? |
A. To help students to learn English easily. B. To help people to watch foreign TV programs without trouble. C. To help people travel in foreign countries. D. To promote cultural exchanges between countries. |
3. What is the best title of this text? |
A. Speak different languages at the same time B. Flow to learn to speak foreign languages C. New ways to learn foreign languages D. You're welcome to learn foreign languages |
A、Kowtowing to their grandparents.
B、Putting their palms together.
C、Shaking hands.
D、Waving hands.
A、fearless individualism
B、aimless freedom
C、unbounded individualism
D、depleted freedom
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