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We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing(惊人的) and can even change our lives. Every week, School Edition carries a story on Page 6 of some great new invention. Remember the smart home, the magic see-through-coat and robots searching Mars?
But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?
You are rushing to computer to finish your homework. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all right to get it done. How calm and happy do you feel?
Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead simpler lives.
Our family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today.
The grandparents, with their daughter and grandsons Benjamin, ten and Thomas, seven, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house.
They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.
The grandma Lyn, said, “It was hard physically, but not mentally.”
She believed life was less materialistic(物质享受的) . “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes,” she said.
The boys said they fought less. Probably they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a “trendy, beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things”.
Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!
(1) Don’t be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t check your emails every day.
(2) Don’t reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying(烦人的) .
(3) Make sure you spend more time talking to your family. Set aside one evening a week when you don’t turn on the television. Play cards and chat instead.
(4) Get a low-tech hobby. Every day, do something in the old fashioned way, such as walking to have a face-to-face meeting instead of using the email or telephone, or making a birthday card.
1. The writer uses the quote(引语) at the beginning of the story to __________.
A. share a truth about life
B. tell us what was like long ago
C. point out that whatever time you live in, you experience some big problems and they may be the same
D. make us wonder what causes such a thing to happen
2. Why did the family choose to spend some time in a 1940s house?
A. Because they loved to live simple lives.
B. Because they were curious about how people lived without modern inventions.
C. Because they were troubled by modern inventions.
D. Because living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them.
3. The writer gives the example of “a family in UK back in time” to __________.
A. show the new inventions also bring people some problems
B. show the life in the past is better than that of today
C. explain why new inventions are so useful
D. test the life without new inventions is terrible
4. What do you think the underlined word “available” in the first suggestion offered by the writer means?
A. Able to be found by others. B. Online.
C. Free. D. Busy.
5. According to the passage, the writer seems to think that__________.
A. technology brings us nothing but bad effects
B. technology sometimes makes people feel stressed and tired
C. the problems that technology brings can not be avoided
D. human beings are still not able to deal with the problems that the technology brings
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“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.” This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, it was written by an unknown citizen who lived in Rome in AD 53.
We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing(惊人的) and can even change our lives. Every week, School Edition carries a story on Page 6 of some great new invention. Remember the smart home, the magic see-through-coat and robots searching Mars?
But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?
You are rushing to computer to finish your homework. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all right to get it done. How calm and happy do you feel?
Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead simpler lives.
Our family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today.
The grandparents, with their daughter and grandsons Benjamin, ten and Thomas, seven, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house.
They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.
The grandma Lyn, said, “It was hard physically, but not mentally.”
She believed life was less materialistic(物质享受的) . “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes,” she said.
The boys said they fought less. Probably they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a “trendy, beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things”.
Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!
(1) Don’t be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t check your emails every day.
(2) Don’t reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying(烦人的) .
(3) Make sure you spend more time talking to your family. Set aside one evening a week when you don’t turn on the television. Play cards and chat instead.
(4) Get a low-tech hobby. Every day, do something in the old fashioned way, such as walking to have a face-to-face meeting instead of using the email or telephone, or making a birthday card.
1. The writer uses the quote(引语) at the beginning of the story to __________.
A. share a truth about life
B. tell us what was like long ago
C. point out that whatever time you live in, you experience some big problems and they may be the same
D. make us wonder what causes such a thing to happen
2. Why did the family choose to spend some time in a 1940s house?
A. Because they loved to live simple lives.
B. Because they were curious about how people lived without modern inventions.
C. Because they were troubled by modern inventions.
D. Because living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them.
3. The writer gives the example of “a family in UK back in time” to __________.
A. show the new inventions also bring people some problems
B. show the life in the past is better than that of today
C. explain why new inventions are so useful
D. test the life without new inventions is terrible
4. What do you think the underlined word “available” in the first suggestion offered by the writer means?
A. Able to be found by others. B. Online.
C. Free. D. Busy.
5. According to the passage, the writer seems to think that__________.
A. technology brings us nothing but bad effects
B. technology sometimes makes people feel stressed and tired
C. the problems that technology brings can not be avoided
D. human beings are still not able to deal with the problems that the technology brings
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Ausubel of Rockefeller University in New York, US. says the key renewable energy sources, including sun, wind and biofuels, would all require vast 1 of land if developed up to large scale production1 – unlike nuclear power. That land would be far better left alone2, he says. Renewables look attractive when they are quite 2 . But if we start producing renewable energy on a large scale, the fallout is going to be horrible. Instead, Ausubel argues 3 renewed development of nuclear.
Ausubel draws his conclusions by analysing the amount of energy renewables, natural gas and nuclear can produce in terms of power per square metre of land used3. Moreover, he claims that as renewable energy use increases, this measure of efficiency4 will 4 as the best land for wind, biofuels, and solar power gets used up.
Using biofuels to obtain the 5 amount of energy as a 1000 megawatt nuclear power plant would require 2500 square kilometres of farm 6 , Ausubel says. "We should be sparing land for nature5, not using it as pasture for cars and trucks," he adds.
Solar power is much more efficient than biofuel in terms of the area of land 7 , but it would still require 150 square kilometres of photovoltaic cells to 8 the energy production of the 1000 MW nuclear plant. In another example, he says meeting the 2005 US electricity demand via wind power alone would need 780,000 square kilometres, an area the size of Texas.
However, several experts are highly critical 9 Ausubel’s conclusions. John Turner of the US government’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that 10 the US got all of its power from solar energy, it would still need less than half the amount of land that has been paved over for highways. Further, it need not 11 additional land. The US could get a quarter of its energy just from covering rooftops of 12 buildings, he says.
According to Turner, the same "dual use" also applies to wind power6. "The footprint for wind7 is only 5% of the land that it 13 . Farmers can still farm the land that the turbines are on8. Turner says looking solely at land use is an oversimplification of the 14 . "I’m not sure I’d want to build one of these nuclear plants in Afghanistan9, but we could 15 put in wind and solar power," he adds.
A. figures B. amounts C, unmbers D. digits
A. small B. huge C. little D. vast
A. at B. over C. for D. against
A. expand B. minimize C. enlarge D. decrease
A. same B. similar C. alike D. identical
A. region B. site C. area D. land
A. leased B. cultivated C. used D. purchased
A. patch B. match C. catch D. fetch
A. in B. with C. of D. on
A. even if B. only if C. what if D. as if
A. lock up B. take up C. give up D. set up
A. towering B. interesting C. nice-looking D. existing
A.surrounds B. contains C. includes D. covers
A. issue B. stuff C. summary D. suggestion
A. doubtfully B. supposedly C. certainly D. honestly
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It was quite terrible. It took me some time to c___________ down myself.
Parents are always c_____________ much about their children.
I'm terribly sorry. I didn't do it on p__________.
It took her a long while to r___________ from her heart operation.
The children played ____________ (在户外)until it started to rain.
After the war, a new g_______________ was set up for that country.
The people p__________ at the meeting were all for the suggestion.
The ball went in the d_______________ of the man sitting in a boat on the river.
At the party a foreign teacher was r______________(要求) to sing some folk songs.
He was a young sailor on his first sea v______________.
The mother i_________ that he finish his homework first, which made his son very angry.
Whether you will succeed or not in doing the work depends on your a________ to it.
This song sounds f_____________ to me. I must have heard it sung somewhere before.
She ________________ (毕业)from Peking University last year.
The speech contest was o______________ well.
When she heard the news that her husband was killed in the accident, she b_______ into tears.
After the earthquake, the whole city was in r_________.
J_______ from his accent, we know he comes from the west.
Prices have _____________ (上涨) quickly.
The building was completely ______________(摧毁) by fire.
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