Max Valverde has designed a special cap to deal with bad hair days. The inventor came up with the super hat for people to solve the problem, who wake up with a loose hairstyle in the morning.

The morning-head invention is shaped just like a shower cap. It is made of an absorbent material that acts like a sponge (海綿) when it is placed under a tap. It can wet hair in seconds. Once the hair is wet, it can be dried and combed (梳頭) into place without any mess.

Mr Valverde said, “I shower every night, and every morning I wake up with terrible bed hair. I would either have to take another shower, which was wasteful and taking much time, or wet my hair in the sink, which never really worked properly and made a mess."

After wetting my hair in the sink for more than ten years, I spent a weekend trying to find a most effective way to wet the hair and cure the bed head. I needed to find a material that could hold a lot of water and then release that water when pressure was applied. You add water to the inner of the cap and wait a couple of seconds for that water to be taken in by the cap. You then put it on your head, rub it around for a few seconds and your hair is then wet as if you just toweled off after a shower.

The main users of the cap are people who shower at night, parents getting their kids ready for school, and people riding motorcycles or bicycles. It can also be used on people who take naps and people with hat hair.

1.Why did Max Valverde design the cap?

A.To keep track of fashion. B.To deal with a bad hairstyle.

C.To save money of having hair cut. D.To improve people’s memory.

2.What's the special about the cap?

A.It looks like a shower cap. B.It is intended for lazy men.

C.It can wet hair without water. D.It's made of sponge material.

3.According to Mr Valverde, ________.

A.he was too busy to wash his hair regularly

B.it took him ten years to create the morning-head cap

C.he would like to give people the caps for free

D.the cap can comb the hair within seconds

4.The last paragraph mainly shows us ______.

A.the different sizes of the cap B.the advantages of the cap

C.the users of the cap D.the price of the cap

5.How does the writer develop the text?

A.By asking questions. B.By listing reasons.

C.By giving an example. D.By comparing data.

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