Calling My Air Conditioner

陈晓静

Today cell phones are useful for us. We use cell phones to call our friends， send messages， play games， and even take photos. Now imagine using your cell phones to call your air conditioner. Then you could ask your air conditioner to turn on before you got home. Does this sound impossible to you？ Well， it could become possible soon. In the future， we might use cell phones to control the machines in our homes.

People are working hard to develop different ways to communicate with machines we use every day. For example， it is already possible for cell phone to communicate with laptop computers. Businessmen using laptops during meetings can use their cell phones to work like remote controls. They can use their cell phones to send instructions to computers to turn on， change pictures， and turn off.

I. 词语拓展

用下列词语的适当形式完成句子。

[air conditioner 空调; imagine  想像; laptop computer 笔记本电脑;

remote  遥控;偏远的; instruction 指令  ]

1. The  of my room is not working.

2. To tell you the truth， I regret （后悔） having bought such an expensive .

3. The bomb was detonated （引爆） by  control.

4. You cant  how I missed my sister.

5. Sorry that I cannot follow your .

II. 阅读练习。

（A） 判断正（T）误（F）。

1. It will be possible for us to turn the air conditioner on before we get home in the future.

（B） 根據短文内容，回答下列问题。

1. What can businessmen using laptops at a meeting use their cell phones to do？

2. What is the main idea of this text？