【概括大意】Bad design is largely to blame, says Sanchez. In a separate survey of CD players last year, her colleague Wolfgang Huber found that two machines with similar features used 28 watts and 2 watts respectively on stand-by. "For most products, we believe that stand-by power can be reduced to one watt or less," says Sanchez. The main idea of this paragraph is __________.

【完成句子】 Recent studies showed that the average high school student spends fifteen to thirty hours a week watching television and only two hours a week in organized play or exercise. That is one reason why one-third of the 200, 000 pupils tested for the President's Council on Physical Fitness failed a simple test of strength, stamina, and flexibility. Some of the boys and girls could not raise themselves to a sitting position without using their hands! Some people have difficulties in standing up due to _________.

【概括大意】For more than ten years there has been a big rise in car crime than in most other types of crimes. An average of more than two cars a minute are broken into or stolen in the UK. Car crime accounts for almost a third of all reported offenses(进攻)with no signs that the trend is slowing down. The main idea of this paragraph is __________.

【完成句子】The same year Henry Ford shocked the world with the $5 — a-day minimum wage scheme, the greatest contribution he had ever made. The average wage in the auto industry then was $2. 34 for a 9-hour shift. Ford not only doubled that, he also took an hour off the workday. In those years it was unthinkable that a man could be paid that much for doing something that didn't involve all awful lot of training or education. The Wall Street Journal called the plan "an economic crime", and critics everywhere laughed at Ford. But as the wage increased later to daily $10, it proved a critical component of Ford's dream to make the automobile accessible(可及的)to all. The critics were too stupid to understand that because Ford had lowered his costs per car, the higher wages didn't matter---except for making it possible for more people to buy Cars. Ford's cars became available to ordinary people thanks to _________.

【概括大意】Ford's great strength was the manufacturing process---not invention. Long before he started a car company, he was a worker, known for picking up pieces of metal and wire and turning them into machines. He started putting cars together in 1891. Although it was by no means the first popular automobile, the Model T showed the world just how creative Ford was at combining technology and market. The main idea of this paragraph is __________.

【完成句子】There are many other traps to avoid. The has found little awareness among drivers about safe parking. Most motorists questioned made no efforts to avoid parking in quiet spots- just the places thieves' love. The A.A. advises drivers to park in places with people around- thieves don't like audiences.Car drivers are found to be careless in choosing _________.

【阅读判断】When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was unrealistic. Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to airports.Q: Holonyak’s colleagues thought he would fail in his research on LEDs at the time when he started it.

【阅读判断】Today, not too far off Nixon’s deadline, America is looking at that possibility. Over the weekend, Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of former president Bill Clinton, announced her run for 2008 presidency.Q: Bill Clinton will strongly support Hillary to run for the 2008 presidency.

【阅读判断】On March 27, the US Government scientists made a decision after they predicted the eruption of Mount Saint Helens; they telephoned all states and local officials in the area and told them that a serious eruption was possible at any time.Q: American scientists predicted that Mount Saint Helens was to erupt soon.

【阅读判断】Studies show that children who eat breakfast do better in school. It doesn't take much further thought to believe that adults will feel better and perform better at work as well.Q: Adults who eat breakfast will perform better at work．