Question

  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(吹喊) 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, ac?cording to some scientists;too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains，a con?sequence 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 ma?chinery 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 increasing high

    D. the manufacturers 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

1—4 ABBD 

A本文是一篇议论文。现代科技给人类生活带来省时高效的同时也使人类失去了过往生活的简单和安逸。

1. A细节理解题。由第一段Indeed,this love of speed seems never ending可知_Q

2. B词义猜测题。由画线词后面的定语从句when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world可知，the days指过往那种简单自然地生活。

3. B推理判断题。作者说现代科技帮助人类节约了宝贵的时间，但是又使人类远离简单安逸的生活，因此作者对现代科技的看法是客观公正的。

4. D主旨大意题。本文的主要内容就是现代科技给人类带来的利与弊，也就是现代科技对人类的影响。

B本文为微型人物传记，主要介绍了英国著名侦探小说家阿加莎.克里斯蒂的一生。