Question

 

Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boats (吹噓) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so.  We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientist; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.

However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

1.The new products become more and more time-saving because         .

A. our love of speed seems never-ending

B. time is limited.

C. the prices are increasingly high.

D. the manufactures boast a lot.

2.What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to ?

A. Imaginary life                             B. Simple life in the past.

C. Times of inventions                        D. Time for constant activity.

3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?

A. Critical             B. Objective.     C. Optimistic.      D. Negative.

4.What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The present and past times.

B. Machinery and human beings.

C. Imaginations and inventions.

D. Modern technology and its influence.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

題目: 新發(fā)明變得越來越省時(shí), 是因?yàn)椋?/p>

A. 我們對(duì)速度的熱愛從未停止。 可回原文定位never-ending（因?yàn)橛羞B詞符號(hào)）。原文第一段說到Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending.事實(shí)上, 我們對(duì)速度的熱愛從未停止。A選項(xiàng)是對(duì)原文的同意改寫。

B. 時(shí)間有限。原文未提及。

C. 價(jià)格日漸攀升。原文未提及價(jià)格因素。

D. 生產(chǎn)商大肆吹噓�；卦�文定位Boast(因?yàn)橛兄形淖⑨?.第一段最后一句說Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boats (吹噓) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

解析：每年都有更高速的新車出產(chǎn), 而且新電腦也吹噓能節(jié)省寶貴的每一秒鐘�？梢�, 題目和選項(xiàng)矛盾。越來越省時(shí)是事實(shí), 不是因?yàn)榇祰u而變得省時(shí)了。

2.B

題目: 第三段的“the days”指的是什么？

A: 想象的生活

B: 過去的簡單生活

C:  發(fā)明的時(shí)間

D:  連續(xù)活動(dòng)的時(shí)間

解析： 回原文定位第三段該句Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.也許, 我們靜靜聆聽廣播里的故事節(jié)目, 任想象插上翅膀肆意翱翔的日子, 已經(jīng)一去不返了。根據(jù)前后一句可得知, 文章重點(diǎn)是說的高速生活和簡單生活的對(duì)比。故:B選項(xiàng)是對(duì)原文的正確解讀。而A選項(xiàng)的理解有偏差, 重點(diǎn)轉(zhuǎn)移了。

3.B

題目: 作者對(duì)現(xiàn)代科技的態(tài)度是？

A:  批判的  B:  客觀的  C:  樂觀的  D:  消極的

解析： 根據(jù)文章結(jié)構(gòu), 第一段陳述事實(shí), 說現(xiàn)代高科技省時(shí)省力。第二段說高速生活的弊端。第三段說對(duì)簡單生活的向往, 但最后第四段卻說高科技對(duì)現(xiàn)代生活的積極影響。所以, 作者的觀點(diǎn)是不偏不倚的。

4.D

題目: 這篇文章主要說的是什么？

A: 過去與現(xiàn)在

B: 機(jī)器和人類

C: 想象力和創(chuàng)造力

D: 現(xiàn)代科技和它的影響

解析： 根據(jù)文章首尾段的大意可知, 文章重在分析高科技的利與弊。