Three man traveling on a train began a conversation about the world’sgreatest wonders.
“In my opinion,”the first man said,“the Egyptianpyramids”are the world’s greatest wonder.Although they were built thousands ofyears ago,they are still standing.And
remember:the people who built them had only simple tools.They did not have thekind of machinery that builders and engineers have today.”
“I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful,”thesecond man said,”But I don’t think they are the greatest wonder.I believecomputers are more wonderful than the
pyramids.They are taken people to the moon and brought them back safely.Inseconds,they carry out mathematical calculations that would take a person ahundred years to
do.”
He turned to the third man and asked,“What do you think is the greatest wonderin world?”
The third man thought for a long time,and then he said,“Well,I agree that thepyramids are wonderful,and I agree that computers are wonderful,too.However,inmy
opinion,the most wonderful thing in the world is this thermos.”
And he took a thermos out of his bag and held it up.
The other two men were very surprised.“A thermos?”they exclaimed.“But that’s asimple thing.”
“Oh,no,it’s not,”the third man said.“In the winter youput in a hot drink and it says hot.In the summer you put in a cold drink and itstays cold.How does the thermos know
whether it’s winter or summer?”
三个人在谈论世界上的伟大的奇观。其中一个人认为修建于几千年前的金字塔是最让人叹服的世界奇迹。其理由是：当时只有很简单的原始工具，并没有我们
现代化的设备和技艺精湛的工程师。第二个人则认为电子计算机比金字塔更为奇妙。因为在它们的控制下人类已经登上月球并安全返回，并且计算机的运算速
度实在惊人。第三个人的观点非常独特，他认为暖水瓶是最让人不可思议的发明。其他两个岁他的话感到十分诧异。问其原因时，那个人说：冬天，把热水倒
进去，他就能保温；夏天把冷饮倒进去，它就能保持冰凉。它怎么知道是夏天还是冬天？”
 ()The underlined word“thermos”in Chinese means“保温瓶”.有下划线的单词“thermos”在中文意思是保温瓶。
A：T B：F
 2.()That the three men could not agree on what the world’s greatest wonder was because they all had different ideas.这三个人对什么是世界上最伟大的奇迹都有不同的看
法。
A：T B：F
 3.()The first man thought the pyramids were the most wonderful things in theworld because they had been built with very simple tools.第一位男子认为金字塔是世界上最
伟大的奇迹，因为它们是用很简单的工具建造的。
A：T B：F
 4.()The third man thought a thermos was the most wonderful thing in the worldbecause it cost less than a computer.第三个人认为热水瓶是世界上最伟大的奇迹，因为它
的成本比电脑少。
A：T B：F
 5.()The third man was not very clever because he could not think of anything tosay.
第三个人不够聪明，因为他没什么好说的。
A：T B：F