题目内容
B. Speaking; heard
C. To speak; hear
D
Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.
Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world.
Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.
Many countries are making rules to flight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air.
We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground, there will be less pollution.
Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.
【小题1】Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because ______.
| A.there were not any modern machines |
| B.there was no modern medicine |
| C.both A and B |
| D.there were not many people |
| A.Water pollution |
| B.Air pollution |
| C.Noise |
| D.Pollution |
| A.noise pollution |
| B.air pollution |
| C.water pollution |
| D.A, B and C |
| A.before they are thrown away |
| B.when they are thrown away |
| C.after it is thrown away |
| D.before it is thrown away |
| A.a few years ago, there was no smog at all |
| B.today people don’t have to talk to each other in a loud voice |
| C.we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes |
| D.people are making rules in order to fight pollution |
“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”
This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lived in Rome in AD 52 wrote it.
We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improve the quality of our lives?
Picture this: You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night 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.
One 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, 10, and Tomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.
The grandmother, Lyn, said, “It was hard physically, but not mentally.” She believed life was less materialistic. “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes,” She said. The boys said they fought less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a “trendy(时髦的), beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things.”
Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!
Don’t be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t check your e-mail every day.
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.
1.The passage is mainly about _______.
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A.problem with technology |
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B.improvements of our life with technology |
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C.the important roles technology plays in our everyday life |
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D.major changes which will be likely to happen to technology |
2.The writer quoted (引用) what a citizen in ancient Rome said at the beginning of the story in order to ______________.
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A.share a truth about life |
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B.tell us what life was like long time ago |
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C.make us wonder what causes such a thing to happen |
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D.point out that you experience some big problems and they may be the same |
3.Why did the family choose to spend some time in a 1940’s house? Because ______________.
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A.they liked to live simple lives |
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B.they were curious about how people lived without modern inventions |
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C.they were troubled by modern inventions |
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D.living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them |
4.What do you think the underlined word “available” in the first suggestion offered by the writer mean?
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A.Busy on line |
B.Free |
C.Be able to |
D.Be found by others. |