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1.I wonder _________________________ that you spent fifty minutes on such a short trip as I can cover within fifteen minutes. (come)

我想知道怎么会发生这样的事,你花了五十分钟走的路程而我不到一刻钟就能走完了。

2.________________ some unimportant details will make you article better organized and more concise. (cut)

删掉一些不重要的细节会使你的文章更有组织性、更简洁。

3.Not a single day ____________________ his bad temper. I request to work in another team. (put)

我一天也不能再忍受他的坏脾气了。我请求到别的团队去工作。

4.My calculation was wrong because I overlooked one tiny point. I wish I _________________ then. (careful)

由于忽略了一个细微之处,我的计算错了。我希望当时更细心些。

5.Though the food __________________, the miners tried their best to keep up their own spirits and waited for the rescue team. (run)

尽管食物快吃完了,这些矿工们尽力地保持着自己的精神状态,等待救援队的到来。

6.It is the famous doctor alongside her assistants ________________________ to look into the causes of the infectious disease. (appoint)

已被委派去调查那种传染病起因的正是那位著名的医生和她的助手。

7._____________________ that so many great works of art from the late 19th century to the 21st century are housed in the same museum. (amaze)

令人惊奇的是,在同一家博物馆里竟能容纳下19世纪后期到21世纪的如此众多的名家著作。

8.“I can’t bear _________________ by all the kids in my class.” The boy cried to his mother. “They say I have a big head.” (fun)

“我不能忍受我们班所有的孩子都取笑我,”小男孩哭着跟妈妈说:“他们说我长了一个大脑袋。”

9.We should consider students’ request that every student __________________ the library. (access)

我们应该考虑学生们的要求,即每个学生都有机会使用图书馆。

10._____________________ smoking a cigarette, remind yourself that you are non-smoker. (feel)

每次你想要吸烟的时候,你就提醒你自己,你是不吸烟的人了。

 

These days we are all conditioned to accept newness, whatever it costs. Very soon, there is no doubt that Apple's tablet (平板电脑) will seem as a vital tool of modern living to us as sewing machine did to our grandparents. At least, it will until someone produces an even smarter, thinner and more essential tablet, which, if recent history is any guide, will be in approximately six months' time. Turn your back for a moment and you find that every electronic item in your possession is as old as a tombstone. Why should you care if people laugh just because you use an old mobile phone? But try getting the thing repaired when it goes wrong. It's like walking into a pub and asking for an orange juice. You will be made to feel like some sort of time-traveler from the 1970s. "Why not buy a new one?" you will get asked.

And so the mountain of electrical rubbish grows. An average British person was believed to get rid of quite a number of electronic goods in a lifetime. They weighed three tons, stood 7 feet high, and included five fridges, six microwaves, seven PCs, six TVs, 12 kettles, 35 mobile phones and so on. Even then, the calculation seemed to be conservative. Only 35 mobiles in a lifetime? The huge number of electronic items now regularly thrown away by British families is clearly one big problem. But this has other consequences. It contributes greatly to the uneasy feeling that modem technology is going by faster than we can keep up. By the time I've learnt how to use a tool it's already broken or lost. I've lost count of the number of TV remote-controls that I've bought, mislaid and replaced without working out what most of the buttons did.

And the technology changes so unbelievably fast. It was less than years ago that I spotted an energetic businessman friend pulling what seemed to be either a large container or a small nuclear bomb on wheels through a railway station. I asked. "What have you got in there? Your money or your wife?" "Neither," he replied, with the satisfied look of a man who knew he was keeping pace with the latest technology, no matter how ridiculous he looked. "This is what everyone will have soon—even you. It's called a mobile telephone."

I don't feel sorry for the pace of change. On the contrary, I'm amazed by those high-tech designers who can somehow fit a camera, music-player, computer and phone into a plastic box no bigger than a packet of cigarette. If those geniuses could also find a way to keep the underground trains running on the first snowy day of winter, they would be making real progress for human beings. What I do regret, however, is that so many household items fall behind so soon. My parents bought a wooden wireless radio in 1947, the year they were married. In 1973, the year I went to university, it was still working. It sat in the kitchen like an old friend—which, in a way, it was. It certainly spoke to us more than we spoke to each other on some mornings. When my mum replaced it with a new-style radio that could also play cassette-tapes, I felt a real sense of loss.

Such is the over-excited change of 21st-century technology that there's no time to satisfy our emotional needs. Even if Apple's new products turn out to be the most significant tablets I very much doubt if they will resist this trend.

1.When you try getting an old mobile phone repaired, ____.

A. you are travelling through time            B. you are thought to be out of date

C. you will find everything wrong            D. you have got to buy a new one

2.Throwing away so much electronic rubbish makes the writer feel quite _____.

A. lost and upset    B. unbelievably fast

C. broken or lost     D. regularly wasteful

3.The example of the businessman implies that____.

A. the businessman mastered the latest technology   

B. mobile phones used to be quite big just years ago

C. the businessman was a very ridiculous person     

D. the writer failed to follow modern technology

4.The passage is organized in the pattern of ____.

A. time and events    B. comparison and contrast   

C. cause and effect      D. examples and analysis

5.Which of the following is conveyed in the passage?

A. The fast pace of change brings us no good.     

B. We have to keep up with new technology.

C. Household items should be upgraded quickly.   

D. We should hold on for new technology to last.

 

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