【正确答案】 1、正确答案：At first, she held a skeptical attitude toward the washing machine, for it consumed a lot of hot water and soap, but it couldn"t make the clothes clean. She couldn"t help thinking about how happy she once was beside the fountain in the small town. Together with her friends, they washed the clothes as clean as the new ones while chatting. However, this machine seemed to gradually get her favorable impression. This was a machine after all, which can do the work automatically without stop. She thought it was wonderful: a machine can remember so many things and it will promise what you demand, always waiting there. It was also wonderful with the dish-washing machine. You could wear the clothes suitable for going out at night. The water would never make your gloves wet at all. When the mistress was absent, and the children had gone to school, she would put the dirty clothes into the washing machine, and turned it on, and then put the dishes into another machine and turned it on, after that, she would put pieces of spicy ham veals onto electric fry pan and turned it on. Then she could sit in front of the TV and watched it in the drawing room. She could hear all the machines working around her. It made her feel pleased and in possession of dominant power.