题目内容
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
When he was a little boy, Christopher Cockerell once noticed his mother turning the wheel of her sewing machine with her hand. “Won’t it work quickly if a machine 1. (turn) the wheel for you?” he asked. “I suppose it will.” said his mother, without paying any attention to him. Christopher knew she always had a lot of work and that she was 2. stubborn that he could hardly do anything to change 3. mind. But he wanted to help. In his bedroom there was a toy steam engine 4. (buy) by his father as a gift to him. “I will make better use of it,” little Christopher said to himself. So, when his mother was not using her sewing machine, he decided to fix the toy steam engine onto it. When he finished 5.(do) it, he was quite pleased, thinking his mother would like it. “Very clever,” his mother said when she saw it. But then she sat down and went on turning the wheel 6. hand. “I 7. (work) like this for too many years,” she explained. Christopher felt very 8. (disappoint). He couldn’t understand his mother’s 9. (behave).
This teaches Christopher a lesson that anyone 10. tries to improve anything has to learn: many people don’t like new ideas.
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The Internet has become a way of life for many people around the world. So what would happen if one fine morning, you woke up to find the Internet has no existence? How would your life be changed? Well, your lifestyle might be impacted. If you were an Internet addict, you would find that your life has come to an end. With no online facilities, a considerable part of your time would be spent waiting in long lines at banks, post offices or government offices. You would be waiting for days or even weeks for your mail to arrive from another corner of the world. Suddenly, you would realize that your fast-paced life is running at a snail’s pace.
Without the Internet, your socializing would also be impacted. If you’d gotten very used to socializing online, you would now be clueless as to how you could share the pictures of your recent trip you went for with your friends across the globe. It would be difficult to interact with people living outside your locality. You might have to become a member of a club or a community in your neighborhood to make new friends. With no online social media, you would find yourself saying this very often: Let’s go and talk to them!
With no way to use emails, instant messaging, chat or social media, we would have to take advantage of the option of a telephone conversation, or sending snail mail. Communication via the internet is free, whereas the options available otherwise would cost you extra money and time. Your would have to write letters and buy stamps, as we used to do before the Internet became popular.
The Internet has become a huge sea of information and resources. No Internet would mean no instant and easy access to information at the click of a button. Your would have to walk down to your local library and actually search the whole place to get the information you’re looking for, with little chances that you’ll find what you seek instantly. The students who were accustomed to using the Internet for completing their assignments would have a tough time. There would be no way to get an education without actually going to a school or a college physically.
Without the Internet, things at your workplace would be turned upside down. If your work was largely Internet-based, your company might have to shut down. If your work involved only minor use of the Internet, for example, using online system to acquire statistics from the Internet, this simple task would now be a complicated and time-consuming process. Your desk would be full of documents and files, and you would have a nightmare searching or sorting them out by hand. In any case, life without the Internet would seem like nightmare! So enjoy living in the paradise we call the Internet and make wise use of it!
Can you imagine the world without the Internet | |
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Lifestyle | ·It would take you much longer time to get some public 1._______ ·The pace of your life would 2._______ down |
Socializing | ·You would not know how to share your things with your faraway friends ·You would have difficulty interacting with people living outside your locality ·You would need to join a club or a community to3._____ new people ·You would always be obliged to make face-to-face4._______ with others |
Communication | ·Without emails, instant messaging or social media, you would have to use old communicating ways like telephone conversation ·Communicating in old ways would be5. _______ and time-consuming |
Information | ·Large amounts of information and resources online would no longer be easily 6. _______ ·The students who were in the7._______ of using the Internet would have trouble completing their assignments ·It would be impossible for students to be8._______ via the Internet |
Workplace | ·Those companies that were heavily 9.______ on the Internet would close down ·It would be complicated and time-consuming to acquire some statistics ·Your desk would be in a10. _______ and it would be hard for you to search or sort something out |