题目内容
【题目】The year of 2014 saw smart people always busy inventing useful things,which have helped to
make the world better,smarter and a little more fun. Now,let's take a look at some of the inventions.
Super banana
Australian biogeneticist(生物遗传学家)James Dale
visited Uganda,a poor African country,in the early 2000s,
where he found that 15%-30% of children under 5 were at
the risk of going blind because they didn't get enough vitamin
A. Dale also learned that people there love bananas. They
eat 3 to 11 bananas a day. So hecame up with an idea to
plant bananas containing added nutrition in order to improve
Ugandans' health .With the help of Bill Gates' foundation,Dale developed the“super banana,’·He added a gene to the fruit,making it rich in vitamin A.
【1】Which of the following statements would James Dale agree with?
A. Children in Uganda should eat fewer bananas.
B. Vitamin A is largely found in fruits like bananas.
C .Super bananas are definitely a safe biological product.
D. People's eating habits can be used to develop new food.
【2】What is the biggest advantage of the 94Fifty Basketball?
A. The sensors hidden inside can help players run faster in a game.
B. It can help players to improve their shooting and ball-handling skills.
C. It allows players to connect to their smartphones while playing basketball.
D. The Bluetooth chip inside allows its users
【3】What can we learn about the hovercraft from the text?
A. It enables its users to float off the ground freely.
B. It can work on many different kinds of surfaces.
C. It still needs to improve its power and efficiency.
D. It is an affordable means of transport for a family.
【4】What do the hovercraft and wireless electricity have in common according to the text?
A. They create magnetic fields to produce power.
B. They apply technologies to many things in life.
C. They are technologies which can produce electricity.
D. They use wireless technology to improve their products.
【答案】
【1】D
【2】B
【3】C
【4】A
【解析】
【1】D,细节题,根据第二段内容:Dale 了解到当地人非常喜欢吃香蕉,而产生了种植一种包含更多营养的新香蕉,被称为“超级香蕉”,据此判断答案选D,人们的饮食习惯可以用来形成新的事物。
【2】B,细节题,根据第三部分中的句子:They can tell you anything from how fast you are going to how accruate your shot angles are.可知答案选B,它可以帮助我们提高投篮技术。
【3】C,细节题,通过第四部分中句子:At the moment , the hoverboard can only float an inch off the ground for 15 minutes and must fly over a metal material .可知,他目前行驶距离较短,也就是电池电量较少,并且只能在金属路面上行驶,所以它在电池和材料方面都需要提高,故答案选C。
【4】A,细节题,两部分中都有谈到了用磁场(magnetic field)故答案A正确。