Activity 1b Listen and match the inventions with the dates.

活动1b 听力，请将发明与日期配对(ps&[]~X_pxkDDcD_Gf。

Life must have been difficult when you were a kid.

你小的时候生活一定非常艰苦E-a1M#7#z7kD_*7Ab。

Oh, not really. Why do you say that?

不是，你为什么这么说？

Well, you didn't have many modern inventions.

因为当时没有现代发明Gv;WtrDRmZxnH。

Like, you probably didn't have a telephone, right?

当时的生活没有电话，对吗？

Of course we did!

我们当然有！

How old do you think I am?

你认为我多大了？

The telephone was invented in 1876.

电话的发明时间是1876年NZ&xJ7JT]tOzb5i。

How about cars? I bet cars weren't invented yet.

汽车呢？我猜轿车还没有发明出来BI,VQGn%psUIlnft。

Sure they were. Cars were invented in 1885.

已经发明了轿车s=JE^FN%y8K。轿车的发明时间是1885年P[jhW=NvRWv7KV。

My family had a car.

我们家有一辆轿车![s[jZIw%81。

I think you need to take a history class, Alice.

爱丽丝，我想你应该去上历史课DR%UxNo)cZ%6Ipnp。

Ha, ha! Well, did you have a TV?

好吧，当时有电视吗？

No, we didn't.

我们没有5m=cXprn#w_#。

The TV was invented around 1927, I think.

我想电视是在1927年左右发明的q8NhLT(i[HCw。

Some friends of mine had one.

我的许多朋友都有电视7t|(v!s3nEXMGh9+0。

But in those days, TVs were really expensive,and we couldn't afford one.

但是在当时，电视非常贵，很难买得起~^im2&yo7gZZcoS2t。

And I bet you didn't have calculators and computers and stuff.

我想当时一定没有计算器和电脑]+@lN&7^Ym6d5L。

That's something I do know.

我知道这些东西9H1#V*f1,Q,o5_MJ2。

We learned in school that handheld calculators were invented in 1971 and personal computers were invented in 1976.

我们在学校学了，手持计算器是在1971年发明的，个人电脑是在1976年发明的xB[q7n#)f*)#Ee*aX。

You're right.

对---08#I]1)。

I didn't have those things when I was young.

我小的时候没有这些东西(3fvlF=58D。

But I do now!

但是我们现在有！

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