题目内容
I.阅读理解
A [2015 •河南郑州高三模拟]
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 visi?ted 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 he came 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.
Coaching basketball
Basketball is popular worldwide, partly because you only need a hoop(篮簠)and a ball to play the game. But this sim?ple game experienced a technology makeover with the devel?opment of a smart sensor basketball.
The ball, called the 94Fifty Basketball, has 9 sensors in?side. They can tell you anything from how fast you are going to how accurate your shot angles are.
With a Bluetooth chip inside, the basketball can connect to your smart phone and tell you in the voice of a coach to "snap your wrist" or "go faster", depending on the data.
The hovercraft
Thanks to the California-based company Hendo, flying past your friends on a floating board could soon become a re?ality.
The hovercraft has 4 small engines. These create a spe?cial magnetic field which produces enough force to lift the board off the ground.
At the moment ， the hoverboard (悬浮滑板)can only-float an inch off the ground for 15 minutes and must fly over a metal material. It's expensive too, at $ 10,000, but the com?pany hopes that one day the technology could be used.
Wireless electricity
Most of us could not bear to live without wireless Inter?net. We use it every day for everything from our phones to our cars. But one company wants to go a step further by com?bining wireless technology with electricity.
That's right, no more tangled (缠绕的）wires and no more having to sit and hold your cellphone near a power sock?et (插 座) in the corner of the room. WiTricity, a US compa?ny? has invented technology that can power objects up to 2. 4 metres away. It uses a special plug-in coiK线圈)that creates a magnetic field!
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 smart phones while playing basketball.
D. The Bluetooth chip inside allows its users to listen to music while playing basketball.
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 prod?ucts.
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A [文章大意]本文是一篇新闻报道，主要介绍了 20U年几项重大
的发明。
1D 推理判断题。根据文章的Super banana部分可知，James Dale是根据人们的饮食习惯而发明的新食品。故选D项。
2. B 推理判断题。根据Coaching basketball部分的"They can tell you anything from how fast you are going to how accurate your shot angles are."可知，这种产品能改进你的投球和控球能力。故选B项。
3. C 推理判断题。根据The Hovercraft部分的"At the moment, the hoverboard(悬浮滑板)can only float an inch off the ground for 15 minutes and must fly over a metal material. It's expensive too, at $ 10,000…"可知，该产品还需要改进它的动力和效率。故选C项。
4.A主旨大意题。通读文章中的这两部分可知，它们都有mag-netic fields故选A项。
