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Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives 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 boasts (吹嘘) 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 in another time zone.Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers.Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; 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 to 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 ancestors 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.time is limited                                     B.our love of speed seems never-ending   

       C.the prices are increasingly high              D.the manufacturers boast a lot

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

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

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

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

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

4.What does the passage mainly discuss?

       A.Machinery and human beings.            B.The present and past times.               

       C.Imaginations and inventions.               D.Modern technology and its influence.

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阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

       I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains.The sun was setting when my car broke down near a remote and poor village.Cursing my misfortune, I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me were arguing as to who should have the honor of receiving me as a guest in their house.Finally, I accepted the offer of an old woman who lived alone in a little house.While she was getting me settled into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse to my car to pull it to a small town some 20 kilometres away where there was a garage.

       I had noticed three hens running free in my hostess's courtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table.Some villagers brought me goat's cheese and honey.We drank together and talked merrily till far into the night.

       When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman for the trouble I had caused her.

       [写作内容]

       学校举行了英语阅读读后感交流活动。阅读了上述故事后,你准备写一篇英语读后感的稿件以便明天发言。内容要求如下:

       1.以约30个词概括本文的要点;

       2.然后以约120个词谈谈你的感受,内容包括:

   (1) 表达帮助别人或在需要时得到别人帮助的感受;

   (2) 结合汶川地震、玉树地震等灾害发生时,你或你的朋友听到或看到的感人的事情,表达自己的观点。

   (3)呼吁在别人困难时伸出援手。

       [写作要求]

       1.在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历,也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子;

       2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

       [评分标准]

       概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,篇章连贯。

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