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And so the mountain of electrical rubbish grows. An average British person was believed to get rid of quite a number of electronic goods in a lifetime. They weighed three tons, stood 7 feet high, and included five fridges, six microwaves, seven PCs, six TVs, 12 kettles, 35 mobile phones and so on. Even then, the calculation seemed to be conservative. Only 35 mobiles in a lifetime? The huge number of electronic items now regularly thrown away by British families is clearly one big problem. But this has other consequences. It contributes greatly to the uneasy feeling that modem technology is going by faster than we can keep up. By the time I"ve learnt how to use a tool it"s already broken or lost. I"ve lost count of the number of TV remote-controls that I"ve bought, mislaid and replaced without working out what most of the buttons did.
And the technology changes so unbelievably fast. It was less than years ago that I spotted an energetic businessman friend pulling what seemed to be either a large container or a small nuclear bomb on wheels through a railway station. I asked. "What have you got in there? Your money or your wife?" "Neither," he replied, with the satisfied look of a man who knew he was keeping pace with the latest technology, no matter how ridiculous he looked. "This is what everyone will have soon—even you. It"s called a mobile telephone."
I don"t feel sorry for the pace of change. On the contrary, I"m amazed by those high-tech designers who can somehow fit a camera, music-player, computer and phone into a plastic box no bigger than a packet of cigarette. If those geniuses could also find a way to keep the underground trains running on the first snowy day of winter, they would be making real progress for human beings. What I do regret, however, is that so many household items fall behind so soon. My parents bought a wooden wireless radio in 1947, the year they were married. In 1973, the year I went to university, it was still working. It sat in the kitchen like an old friend—which, in a way, it was. It certainly spoke to us more than we spoke to each other on some mornings. When my mum replaced it with a new-style radio that could also play cassette-tapes, I felt a real sense of loss.
Such is the over-excited change of 21st-century technology that there"s no time to satisfy our emotional needs. Even if Apple"s new products turn out to be the most significant tablets I very much doubt if they will resist this trend.
小题1:When you try getting an old mobile phone repaired, ____.
A.you are travelling through time | B.you are thought to be out of date |
C.you will find everything wrong | D.you have got to buy a new one |
A.lost and upset | B.unbelievably fast |
C.broken or lost | D.regularly wasteful |
A.the businessman mastered the latest technology |
B.mobile phones used to be quite big just years ago |
C.the businessman was a very ridiculous person |
D.the writer failed to follow modern technology |
A.time and events | B.comparison and contrast |
C.cause and effect | D.examples and analysis |
A.The fast pace of change brings us no good. |
B.We have to keep up with new technology. |
C.Household items should be upgraded quickly. |
D.We should hold on for new technology to last. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:D
解析
小题1:推理判断题,根据第一段的But try getting the thing repaired when it goes wrong. It"s like walking into a pub and asking for an orange juice. You will be made to feel like some sort of time-traveler from the 1970s. "Why not buy a new one?" you will get asked可知,这是很过时的事情
小题2:推理判断题,根据第二段的The huge number of electronic items now regularly thrown away by British families is clearly one big problem. But this has other consequences. It contributes greatly to the uneasy feeling that modem technology is going by faster than we can keep up. By the time I"ve learnt how to use a tool it"s already broken or lost. I"ve lost count of the number of TV remote-controls that I"ve bought, mislaid and replaced without working out what most of the buttons did可知,
小题3:实施细节题,根据第三段的It was less than years ago that I spotted an energetic businessman friend pulling what seemed to be either a large container or a small nuclear bomb on wheels through a railway station可知
小题4:推理判断题,根据文章出现很多分析和例子可以得出结论,
小题5:推理判断题,根据最后一段可知,我们没有必要跟随科技发展的步伐。
核心考点
试题【These days we are all conditioned to accept newness, whatever it costs. Very soo】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed, some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores(胚芽). Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places, they usually grow into new plants.
小题1:Plants can make food from______.
A.flower, water and air | B.water, sunlight and air |
C.air, water and soil | D.air, sun and light |
A.plants are important for life |
B.plants cannot grow without air |
C.there are many plants in the world |
D.we can not live without water |
A.Of all living things animals are most important |
B.Spores are seeds |
C.All fruits of flowering plants have seeds |
D.Without plants, man will die out |
A.a medicine book | B.a novel |
C.a science magazine | D.an experiment report |
A.damaged | B.polluted | C.prevented | D.guarded |
That might be fine for parents willing and able to pay thousands for private nursery schools, but will the tool actually help kids learn language and reading skills more effectively than traditional books?
Probably not, said Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center for Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston. “There is a sensory components (感官因素) to books that isn’t there with e-books,” he explained. “You can smell it, turn the pages, and taste it, as young kids are likely to do.”
That might help little ones become more familiar with the books, helping them learn from them, but far more important is whether a person is actually sitting with them while they’re looking at the pages.
Researchers have shown time and again that kids learn better when they’re having interaction (互动) with real people, rather than electronic voices reading to them from a computer or speaking to them from the TV.
A Georgetown University study found that kids who learned to put on gloves from watching a video took six times as long to learn the process as those who watched it shown by an adult standing in front of them.
“I’m a big believer in teaching kids to live in the digital society and use what the rest of the family uses, but they do need to be supervised,” said Dr. Gwenn O’Keeffe, a Boston-based children’s doctor and spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “We don’t recommend that young kids use any type of technology for very long since they have the attention span (注意力持续时间) of a butterfly.”
小题1:According to the text, the new tool .
A.is mainly used to entertain kids |
B.can be accepted by most families |
C.is designed for preschool kids |
D.can download games for free |
A.Because it doesn’t really involve many of the senses. |
B.Because it does great harm to kids’ eyesight. |
C.Because kids can’t communicate with it. |
D.Because traditional books are cheaper. |
A.show the disadvantage of kids’ watching videos |
B.prove the importance of interaction with people |
C.ask parents to teach their kids to learn |
D.prove using e-books saves much time |
A.punished | B.watched | C.encouraged | D.understood |
A.To introduce a new electronic device. |
B.To teach kids how to live in a digital world. |
C.To show parents how to help kids gain knowledge. |
D.To throw new light on kids’ use of electronic tools. |
All penguins are good parents—the male penguins are perhaps the best parents in the world. They walk in the sea in the middle of the dark Antarctic water. They choose their wives in the dark.They can only hear them—not see them.Then the female penguins lay their eggs and go away for about two months.The males take care of the eggs.If the eggs get cold,there will be no chicks.There is no food.The snow falls heavily and the wind blows strongly—sometimes at 150 kilometers an hour.The penguins do not move.When the females return from the sea,they will not remember their husbands.It does not matter.Only one thing matters—the eggs.Male penguins never fight—unless a penguin leaves a chick for a minute.They then fight because they all want it.They are strange and wonderful birds.
小题1:It seems interesting and unusual that the male penguins choose their wives ______.
A.when the female penguins return from the sea |
B.just by hearing in the darkness |
C.each time they see the lovely females |
D.after they have had their own grounds |
A.they choose their wives |
B.they see a chick left alone |
C.they want to get something to eat |
D.they walk through their neighbors’ ground |
A.penguins live a hard life |
B.penguins live in pairs |
C.penguins will fight if one walks through others’ ground without permission |
D.each penguin has a little piece of ground of its own |
A.penguins like nights very much |
B.there is no daytime in that place at all |
C.the weather is cloudy and rainy all the year around |
D.the sun can’t shine there for nearly half a year every year |
A.Female penguins take care of the eggs. |
B.Female penguins often have their new husbands. |
C.Male penguins use their ears to choose wives. |
D.Male penguins don’t move when they take care of eggs,even though the wind often blows strongly. |
The reason these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when it’s actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think and we see, we’d still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.
Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, there’s enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.
Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval (间隔) between the flash and the crash to learn how lose they were to the actual spark (闪光).
小题1:According to the author, in the area of the Central Valley____.
A.rains usually come without thunder and lightning. |
B.it is usually dry in April |
C.children pay no attention to the two natural wonders. |
D.parents are not interested in thunder and lightning. |
A.we were taught so by our parents from our childhood. |
B.we are taken in by our sense of vision. |
C.it is a common natural sight. |
D.it is a truth proved by science. |
A.Only a small number of lightning flashes occur on earth. |
B.Lightning flashes usually jump from one cloud to another. |
C.Lightning travels 5 times faster than thunder. |
D.There are far more lightning strikes occurring on earth than we can imagine. |
A.cloud | B.lightning strikes | C.lightning flashes | D.thunderstorms |
A.we should not believe what we see or hear. |
B.things moving downward are more noticeable. |
C.people sometimes may have wrong ideas about ordinary phenomena. |
D.adults are not as good as children in observing certain natural phenomena. |
Some jobs were more 26 than others, and the children were eager to be given one of the best ones. And the teacher would 27 who had been most responsible during the previous year. Among them Rita 28 . During the previous year she had followed all the teacher’s 29 perfectly.
But that year there was a big 30 . Each child received one of the normal 31 , like cleaning the blackboard. But Rita’s job was very 32 . She was given a little box containing some sand and one ant. And even though the teacher 33 that this ant was a very special ant, it 34 Rita. Most of her classmates felt sorry for her and even her father 35 Rita to ignore it. 36 , Rita preferred to show the teacher her error by making the unimportant task into a special job.
“ I will turn this little task into 37 great,” Rita said to herself.
So Rita started 38 her little ant. She gave the ant the best food, and it grew bigger than anyone had expected…
One day, the teacher 39 a man to the students and said he would tell them a 40 piece of news. The man said, “ Today they have announced the winner of the 41 , and this class is the winner! This class has been chosen to accompany me on a 42 to the tropical rainforest to investigate all kinds of insects. 43 all the schools of this region, it is this one that has best 44 for the little ant given to you. Well done!”
That day the class was filled with joy. Everyone 45 Rita and thanked the teacher. And many children learnt that to be given the most important tasks you have to know how to be responsible for even the smallest tasks.
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