题目内容
3.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 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 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 computer 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 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.Modem machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
68.The new products become more and more time-saving becauseA.
A.our love of speed seems never-ending.
B.time is limited.
C.the prices are increasingly high.
D.the manufacturers boast a lot.
69.What does"the days"in Paragraph 3refer to?B
A.Imaginary life.
B.Simple life in the past.
C.Times of inventions.
D.Time for constant activity.
70.What is the author's attitude towards the modem technology?B
A.Critical B.Objective.
C.Optimistic D.Negative.
71.What does the passage mainly discuss?D
A.The present and pad times.
B.Machinery and human beings.
C.Imaginations and inventions.
D.Modern technology and its influence.
分析 本文主要讲述了现代的一些发明以及高科技加快了人们的生活步伐,节省了一些时间,但同时也带来了一些弊端,例如坐飞机可以节省时间,但由于身体适应不了时差会感到不舒服;电脑可以节省时间,却导致了手腕和手指的酸痛;过多的使用手机也可能会有一些有害的东西辐射到我们的大脑等;但是现代化的生活已使得我们过去静静地用收音机听故事的生活一去不复返了;有了现代化的生产设备后,人们也脱离了原始的生产状态.
解答 答案:
68 A 细节理解题 根据第一段"Indeed,this love of speed seems never-ending.实际上,这种对速度的爱好像是永无止境的"可知,新产品越来越省时,是出于人们对速度无止境的热爱;故选A
69 B 细节理解题 根据第三段"Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio,letting imagination take us into another world.或许当我们静静地听收音机里的一个故事,让我们的想象力把我们带到另一个世界的那些日子已经远去了."可知,这里指的应是过去简单的生活;故选B
70 B 内容归纳题 根据最后一段,作者描述了以前没有先进的机器设备时,祖先们的艰难生活;有了这些现代化的生产设备后,人们便脱离了原始的状态;因此可知,此处只是作者对客观事实的描述;故选B
71 D 主旨大意题 通读全文可知,本文主要描述了现代的发明以及高科技给人们的生活带来的各种影响;故选D
点评 做本题时,首先应快速浏览全文,把握文章的主旨大意以及作者的态度;其次,可以通过对相关细节的理解,以及通过内容归纳,概括段落大意,从而选出正确的答案.
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