题目内容
The university estimates that living expenses for international students________around $8,450 a year,which________a burden for some of them.????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? (2013·湖南,33)
A.are;is? B.are;are
C.is;are? D.is;is
A
【解析】A
解析 考查主谓一致。句意为:这所大学估计,留学生的生活费用每年大约8 450美元左右,这对一些学生来说是一个负担。第一空的主语为living expenses指“生活费用”,谓语动词用复数形式;“which________a burden for some of them”是一个非限制性定语从句,which指代前面一句话,所以此处谓语动词用单数。
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SEE a cell phone cover that you like on Taobao? Forget about placing an order, paying the bill online and waiting for days for it to be delivered to you. In the near future, you'll be able to get it in minutes just by hitting "print" on your computer.
You might find it hard to believe that you could actually "print" an object like you would a picture. But it is not that hard to understand how it would work. Just as a traditional printer sprays (喷) ink onto paper line by line, modern 3-D printers spread material onto a surface layer by layer, from the bottom to the top, gradually building up a shape.
Instead of ink, the materials the 3-D printer uses are mainly plastic, resin (树脂)and certain metals. The thinner each layer is --- from a millimeter to less than the width of a hair --- the smoother and finer the object will be.
This may sound like a completely new technology, but the truth is that 3-D printing has been around since the late 1980s. Back then, it was barely affordable for most people, so few knew about it.
Last year, though, saw a big change in the 3-D printing industry--- printers became much cheaper. For example, 10 years ago a desktop 3-D printer might have cost £20,000 (200,000 yuan), while now they cost only about £ 1,000, according to the BBC.
Taken out of the factory and introduced to more diverse and common uses, 3-D printing can create just about anything you can think of ---flutes (笛子), bikinis, jewelry, aircraft parts and even human organs. In fact, scientists from Cornell University in New York have just made an artificial ear using a 3-D printer, according to Science Daily. The fake ear looks and acts exactly like a natural one.
However, as 3-D printing becomes more commonplace, it may bring about certain problems --- such as piracy. "Once you can download a coffee maker, or print out a new set of kitchen utensils (餐具) on your personal 3-D printer, who will visit a retail (零售的) store again?" an expert in 3-D printing told Forbes News. Even more frightening, what if anyone in the world could use a 3-D printer to print out a fully functioning gun?
【小题1】According to the article, in the future, the 3-D printing technology will ___.
A.enable people to make better purchases online |
B.be applied as widely in our daily lives as computers |
C.change the way we make many products |
D.shorten the time it takes for people to get what they buy online |
A.The 3-D printing technology was taken out ofthe factory. |
B.The 3-D printer became more affordable forconsumers. |
C.The 3-D printer was used for medical treatmentfor the first time. |
D.3-D printing technology began to be used invarious fields. |
A.By analyzing a cause and an effect. | B.By making comparisons. |
C.By giving examples. | D.By presenting research findings. |
A.Printing out everything | B.Technology in the future |
C.Online shopping disappearing | D.Great demand for 3-D printers |