| Electric Backpack Backpacks are convenient. They can hold your books, your lunch, and a charge of clothes, leaving your hands free to do other things. Someday, if you don’t mind carrying a heavy load, your backpacks might also power your MP3 player, keep your cell phone running, and maybe even light your way home. Lawrence C. Rome and his colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. , have invented a backpack that makes electricity from energy produced while its wearer walks. In military actions, search and-rescue operations, and scientific field studies, people rely increasingly on cell phones, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, night-vision goggles, and other battery-powered devices to get around and do their work. The A. they can be very large. B. they can hold as many things as you want to carry. C. your hands are freed to do other things. D. you do not have to carry things with you. [单项选择]In recent years, backpacks have begun sporting outside pockets that are, not coincidentally, the perfect size for an iPod. Handbags routinely feature cell-phone compartments. And now, from practical to modem, the fashion industry is taking a cue from these gadgets, integrating their technologies into the fabrics rather than merely providing storage for them.
From where do fashion designers get the idea of integrating technology into fabrics according to the passage A. The outside pockets for iPods on backpacks. B. The cell-phone compartments on handbags. C. Costumes from science, fictional thrillers. D. The small gadgets of modem technologies. [单项选择]
Haute Tech In recent years, backpacks have begun sporting outside pockets that are, not coincidentally, the perfect size for an iPod. Handbags routinely feature cell-phone compartments. And now, from practical to modem, the fashion industry is taking a cue from these gadgets, integrating their technologies into the fabrics rather than merely providing storage for them. Known as "haute(高级定做服装) tech." these designs sometimes resemble costumes borrowed from the set of a sci-fi thriller. Like all old mood ring, one dress can sense the mood of its wearer by gauging his or her gestures and then respond with all appropriate song from its MP3-integrated hood (风帽, 兜帽). The innovations know no bounds, and can be quite funny: Erik De Nijs, a student at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, created a pair of tech jeans that incorporates a wireless Bluetooth keyboard into the lap of the pants. Speakers are integrated into the knees o A. A Bluetooth. B. An MP3. C. A mouse. D. Speakers. 我来回答: 提交
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