There has been a boom in“karaoke”in Japan．Many people，no matter what their age orgender，go there often to enjoy singing out loud，to seek relief from daily stress or just for fun．The“kara”of kara-oke means“empty”．while the“oke’’is a Japanese abbreviation of theEnglish word，“0rchestra．”These two words coming together mean an orchestra without a sinG—er，karaoke systems ate widespread in many countries nowadays．“karaoke bars’’are wellknown by Americans，but actuany we have few karaoke bars in Japan．What we call“karaokebox”is more popular in Japan．

To relish karaoke is not difficult at all．All you have to do is to find some friends to gowith you．After you have settled into the room and gotten something to eat or drink，you are al-ready to sing．You look up one of the songbooks and choose a song you wish to sing in two dif-ferent ways：either by the singers name or title of the song．Then enter the code numbers ofthe song into the remote contr01．Soon your music will start．Some karaoke sets even have avoice change system．You can change your voice from a woman’s to a man’s，or a man’s to awoman’s．This is very interesting．But the important thing here is you should listen to otherpeople singing at the sanle time．Usually people like to have audiences，and you want them tolisten to you while you are singing，too．You can feel like a real singer if you have someone tolisten to you，and that’s what people like when doing karaoke．

Since you will have your own room and there will be no unfamiliar people watching you，you will feel more comfortable singing in a karaoke box than singing in front of many people，like in karaoke bars．You Call spend the time in a more relaxed atmosphere，which is more en．joyable．

Once you have experienced karaoke，you might want to go again and again，though somepeople would not like singing in front of people even if they were friends or family．But you can still have a jot of．fun there，even if you dont sing．We make jokes and we talk as if we were athome．I personally like karaoke very much．I like singing and I have so much fun every time I go．I thilnk we are seeking a way to express ourselves to people whom ，we like．

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In Japanese，the word“Karaoke”come from“kara”and“oke．”What do these words mean?

1．广告正走进人们的生活。

2．广告能提供我们大量的信息。

3．然而，广告不一定都真实。

__________.

__________.

__________.

A．See you this evening

B．Ive gotta run

C．See you again

D．won’t be back for supper

E．Ill go to the office

F．Take care

G．Don’t worry

H．Ill just take the subway

Gary：Dear，I have to go to the office early today．Can you take Sally to school?Ada：Sure．Want me to give you a ride?

Gary:N0，forget it． ____56____ ．it’s very quick．Ill pick Sally up this afterrnoon．You can just come home after work．

Ada：Ok．Oh，I almost forgot．I probably 57．Ive made an evening appointment

with Mr．Steven to talk about our next project．

Gary：Oh，I see．____58____．Hurry Sally up a little．She hasnt even had her breakfast yet．Ada：Ok． ____59____．Love you，honey．

Gary：I love you，too．____60____．

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The application of infrared scanning technolgy to agriculture met with some difficul-ties due to_________．

Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are_________

Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by_________．

Even plants can run a fever，especially when they’re under attack by insects or disease．But unlike humans，plants Can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away—straightup．A decade ago，adapting the infrared(红外线)scanning technology developed for militarypurposes and other satellites，physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take thetemperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress．The goal was to let farmers pre-cisely target pesticide(杀虫剂)spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field，which in-variably includes plants that don’t have pest(害虫)problems．

Even better．Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems be-fore they became visible to the eye．Mounted on a plane flown at 3，000 feet at night，an infra-red scanner measured the heat emitted by crops．The data were transformed into a color-codemap showing where plants were running“fevers”．Farmers could then spot-spray，using 50 to70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would．

The bad news is that Paleys company closed down in 1984，after only three years．Farm,ers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find．But with the　renewedconcem about pesticides on produce，and refinements in infrared scanning，Paley hopes to getback into operation．Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works．“This techniquecan be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States"，says George Oerther ofTexas A&M．Ray Jackson，who recently retired from the Department of Agricuhrue，thinks re-mote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade．But only if Paley findsthe financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago．

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In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely，we call use infrared scanning to _________.