5、Timeless, classic songs wrecked by tuneless, howling drunks: the karaoke machine is the most annoying gadget in Britain, a survey for the government found.

    A TNS Omnibus poll found that the Japanese invention topped a list of gadgets that people wished had never been invented. Nearly a quarter （22 percent） of those surveyed chose the karaoke machine. 17 percent said 24-hour sports channels, 12 percent chose video games consoles, while 11 percent said mobile phones and seven percent said alarm clocks.

    "When people are singing karaoke they are enjoying themselves, but as a member of the audience you are just watching somebody who can't perform -- and isn't particularly pleasant to listen to -- for as long as you can bear it." It is anti-social. You might have 10 people who want to sing some karaoke, which means 150 people have to suffer it."But the crazy thing is that people still do go just to be a spectator at other people's inability to sing." After a short while -- unless they're very drunk -- they're going to find that listening to performers failing to perform for two hours is not the best way to spend the evening."

    Karaoke has turned into a multibillion-dollar industry since being invented in 1971 by Daisuke Inoue, a Japanese club keyboardist looking to provide music for a customer who wanted to sing on a company trip.

    Asked which gadgets people would like to see invented in the future, 18 percent said a robot cleaner, 16 percent said a time machine and 12 percent said a teleporter. Asked what the most important safety gadgets were, 69 percent said the smoke alarm, 64 percent said seat belts and 29 percent said baby seats. Pollsters TNS Omnibus surveyed 2,584 adults in England online.

1. Which is not the question put forward by the pollsters TNS Omnibus?

A．Which gadget is the one people wished had never been invented?

B．Which gadget would people like to see invented in the future?

C．What is the most important safety gadget?

D．How was the karaoke machine invented?

2. How many people surveyed chose the karaoke machine to be the most annoying machine?

   A．About 150 people                     B．Some 568 people

   C．Over a quarter of those surveyed              D．Less than 22% of those surveyed

3. Which is not the reason why the karaoke machine is the most annoying gadget in Britain?

   A．Unless drunk, they will not find listening to people who can’t perform is the best way to spend the evening

   B．Classic songs are wrecked by those who are out of tunes.

   C．Only those singing are enjoying themselves while the members of audience have to bear it

   D．It is against social rules.

4. The following are all safety gadgets except_______.

   A．the smoke alarm              B．seat belts           C．teleported            D．baby seats