【题目】It’s an ordinary morning,like all the others.But instead of being woken up by the buzzing of an alarm clock, you’ll be roused by the smell of freshly made coffee,light entering your room as the curtains open automatically,and a gentle back massage(按摩)provided by your high-tech bed.
This is what a typical(典型的) person's life will be like two decades from now,according to The Guardian. Want to know more?
After you get up, your apartment will be like an electronic orchestra with you as the conductor. With simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, you’ll be able to control your apartment’s temperature, humidity, music and lighting. You’ll be able to look through the day’s news on translucent screens while your breakfast waits for you in the automatic oven.
As you move into your kitchen, you might accidentally hit your toe on a cupboard. If you do, you’ll grab your cell phone and open the diagnostics(诊断) app. Inside your phone there will be a tiny microchip(芯片) that uses X-ray waves to scan your body. The scan will tell whether your toe is bruised or broken.
After breakfast, your driverless car will take you to work. While you “drive”, your central computer system will suggest a list of chores(家务事) that your housekeeping robots can do that day and it will also remind you to buy a gift for your mother’s upcoming birthday.
As you can see, with the help of advanced technology, our lives will be more efficient(有效率的). Technology will mitigate our forgetfulness and free us of many small burdens that distract us, such as buying a ticket. Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like preparing for a presentation or doing “deep thinking”.
However, the development of technology might have some disadvantages as well. By 2036, we’ll be relying heavily on the virtual(虚拟的) world, which will mean that all of our data will be stored in the cloud, a remote digital storage system with near limitless capacity(容量). That will increase the possibility of someone else accessing, sharing or manipulating(操控) our personal information.
【1】What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To stress the importance of developing technology.
B. To remind people not to depend too much on computers.
C. To introduce one new invention that will benefit our future lives.
D. To describe how advanced technologies will affect our future lives.
【2】According to the text, in two decades, ________.
A. you’ll be able to rely on an electronic orchestra to wake you up instead of an alarm clock
B. a tiny microchip in your phone will treat you when you are sick
C. you will be able to adjust the conditions of your apartment via oral instructions or simple hand gestures
D. technology will be smart enough to help us with important things like preparing for a presentation
【3】What does the underlined word “mitigate” in Paragraph 6 mean?
A. Make up for. B. Worsen. C. Cure. D. Take advantage of.
【答案】
【1】D
【2】C
【3】A
【解析】本文是一篇未来幻想文,介绍20年后我们的生活完全智能化,会给我们的生活带来很多便利,当然也会有缺点,比如严重依赖虚拟世界、信息泄露等。
【1】主旨大意题。本文主要是介绍20年后随着科技发展,我们的生活会更智能化,生活更舒适,故选D。
【2】细节理解题。根据第二段的描述With simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, you’ll be able to control your apartment’s temperature, humidity, music and lighting.可知,只需要口头指令或者简单的手势就可以轻松调整你房子的温度湿度等等情况。故选C。
【3】词义猜测题。根据后一句Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like可知,大脑将来只需要记住重要的事情就可以了,也就是科技会减轻人的健忘带来的负面影响,将人们从小事中解放出来。A项make up for“弥补,补偿”,代入句中意思吻合,故选A。
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Happiness is like a small stone dropped into a pool to cause a circle of ripples. 【1】Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty. There is no exact definition of【2】word “happiness”. Happy people are happy 【3】all sorts of reasons. The key is not wealth or physical well-being, since we find beggars, the disabled and so-called 【4】( fail ), who are extremely happy. 【5】(stay) happy is satisfaction of soul and character. 【6】is not selfish to try to achieve it. It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and others. Being 【7】(happy) is like an infectious disease. It causes people to stay away from the sufferer. He soon finds himself alone and sad. There is, 【8】,a cure for it: if you don’t feel happy, pretend to be! It 【9】(work). Before long you will find that you attract people. You discover how deeply rewarding it is to be the center of wider and wider circles of good will. Then the make-believe becomes
【10】reality. You become really happy.
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【题目】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项多余选项。
There have been big changes in the attitudes of most parents over the last few years. Physical punishment is banned in schools in most countries, and in many countries. there are moves to ban all physical punishment of children even at home. 【1】_ And they often use them to deal with certain misbehavior at certain ages.
【2】 One issue is that many parents find it very difficult to abandon physical punishment completely. Parents argue that this was the way they were brought up and that it didn't do any harm to them. They believe that for the child's sake they have the right to discipline the child in any way they consider fit, including using some physical punishments. 【3】_ There is not much point reasoning with a screaming child in the supermarket.
However there are several reasons why we should stop using physical punishment. One point is that most parents are not trained to deal with misbehaving children. They don't have enough resources or choices to handle the situation. 【4】____Another point is that unless people are challenged or forced to change their belief, they may keep following negative habits. An example is seat belt use-now most people wear seat belts without thinking, while years ago the idea of using seat belts are strange to most people .In the same way, banning physical punishment will force people to change their habits.
In conclusion, parents have to change some of their belief and ideas about how children should be raised. It is possible to avoid the use of physical force. 【5】.
A. It is not difficult to change some negative habits.
B. It is easy to find reasons to allow some physical punishments.
C. However, many parents still believe that. They have the right to use some physical punishments.
D. There are various ways to educate children.
E. As a result, they immediately react by hitting the child even if there are other solutions to the problem.
F. And doing so will help us move closer to the dream of removing violence from our society.
G. The other one is that physical punishment can be quick and effective.
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【题目】Autumn means different things to different people. “It all depends on your personality,” said British naturalist Richard Mabey. “Personality shapes your view of the season,” he said. “You may see it as a fading-away,a packing-up (结束),or as a time of packing in another sense—the exciting gathering of resources before a long journey.”
If this is true,perhaps it tells us a little about,for instance,Thomas Hood,the 19th Century English poet. About November,he wrote:
No warmth,no cheerfulness,no healthful ease
No shade,no shine,no butterflies,no bees
November!
On the other hand,another English poet John Keats,already sensing he was seriously ill,was inspired by a late September day to pen one of the most famous poems in the English language—To Autumn. He wrote to a friend afterwards that there was something comforting and healing about it.
According to Richard Mabey,Keats has the biological evidence on his side. Autumn is not a time of slowing down,but a time of new beginnings and great movements of creatures. For example,just at the moment that Keats's “gathering swallows” (in To Autumn)are departing for Africa,millions of creatures are fleeing from the frozen north like Iceland,Greenland and Russia to winter along the east and south coasts of Britain. According to scientists,before falling,the leaves transfer their chlorophyll(叶绿素) and carbohydrates into the woody parts of the tree for safe keeping over winter. What remains is the natural antioxidants (防老剂) in the leaves: the yellow and orange carotenoids (类胡萝卜素),and another protective chemical specially produced for autumn,the bright-red anthocyanin (花青素).High colour is not a signal of deterioration (退化) and decline,but of detox (排毒的) ability and good health.
A century after Keats,the American poet Loren Eiseley wrote in his journal: “Suppose we saw ourselves burning-like maples in a golden autumn. And that we could break up like autumn leaves...dropping their substance like chlorophyll. Wouldn't our attitude towards death be different?”
【1】From Thomas Hood's poem,we may infer that ________.
A.he suffered a lot from cold November
B.he missed the shining summer days very much
C.he had a negative attitude towards autumn
D.he enjoyed butterflies and bees very much
【2】In autumn,leaves turn yellow before falling because ________.
A.they can't bear the freezing
B.they can't get enough water from the wood part
C.chlorophyll and carbohydrates have been lost through leaves
D.chlorophyll and carbohydrates have come back to the wood part
【3】From the passage we can learn that ________.
A.autumn has different faces in different people's eyes
B.John Keats was a good biologist as well as a poet
C.all creatures move from the cold north to Britain for winter
D.the three poets were only known for their poems about autumn
【4】Which word can best describe Loren Eiseley's attitude towards autumn?
A.Fearful.B.Optimistic.C.Doubtful.D.Realistic.
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【题目】根据短文内容, 从短文中的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(共5小题, 每小题2分, 满分10分)
Some jobs require employees to work night shifts. Working the night shifts often means better money, but that also comes negative side effects.
The human body is naturally inclined(倾向于)to work during the day and sleep at night. 【1】 Your body will be able to fully adjust to this new style of rest and work. However, according to the National Sleep Foundation, constant exhaustion(疲倦) may be part of the lifestyle of working the night shift.
In addition to exhaustion from working the night shift, sleep disturbances can occur, even when your body has the opportunity to get some shut-eye during the day. 【2】 Instead of getting a full eight hours of sleep, which is what most people need, it’s typical for night shift workers to only take a long nap after their shift.
Working night shifts can also cause social and relational problems. Because many social events happen during the evening, people who work the shift miss out on important relationship-building opportunities. 【3】 When husbands or wives rarely see one another or rarely go to bed together, this will affect their communication and their marriage life.
【4】 Exhaustion, sleep problems, personal and relational issues and other health issues, over time, can lead to depression if not taken care of properly.
【5】 According to the National Sleep Foundation, you can avoid these problems by working with others during your shifts, taking naps during your shifts and setting up a support group with other employees to discuss the problems you’re facing.
A. Working night shifts can help us a lot.
B. So working the night shift will take an adjustment.
C. Doctor and nurses often work night shifts to care for their patients.
D. In the long run, this can be harmful to relationships, especially marriage.
E. What’s worse, depression is likely to occur with all of these factors.
F. Of course, you can do something to reduce the side effects of working night shifts.
G. Many people have trouble getting to sleep and staying asleep during daytime hours.
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【题目】In a time when a dangerous number of people are overweight, many people seem to have forgotten the most important way to keep healthy and slim---exercise. And as a new study carried out on mice in the lab has shown, exercise done early in life can reward you in your adult years.
A team of researchers at the University of California studied the effects of early exercise on adult physical activity, body mass and eating. They found that early-age exercise in mice has positive effects on adult levels of voluntary exercise in addition to reducing body mass.
“These results may have an effect on the importance of regular physical education in elementary and middle schools,” said Theodore Garland, a professor of biology, who led the research project. “If kids exercise regularly through their school years, then they may be more likely to exercise as adults, which could have far-reaching positive effects on human health and well-being.”
Although the positive effects of early-life exercise lasted for only one week, it is important to note that one week in the life of a mouse is the same as about nine months for humans. “Our results suggest that any positive effects of early-life exercise on adult exercise will need to be kept up if they are to be long-lasting.”
His team of researchers found, too, that all mice that had access to early exercise were lighter in weight than non-exercised mice.
Garland explained that, in general, exercise will stimulate appetite sooner or later. However, it is possible that certain types of exercise, done for certain periods of time or at certain light levels, might not stimulate appetite much, if at all, at least in some individuals.
“If we could understand what sorts of exercise these might be, then we might be able to tailor exercise recommendations in a way that would bring the benefits of exercise without increase in appetite, leading to a better chance of weight loss,” he said.
【1】How long do the positive effects of early-life exercise last for a mouse?
A. One day B. One week
C. One month D. Nine months
【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?
A. More study is needed to better understand the effects of different types of exercise.
B. Early-life exercise has life-long positive effects on people
C. Kids should be encouraged to do exercise as early as possible to ensure physical health.
D. The new study on mice mainly focused on how exercise affects appetite.
【3】The underlined word “stimulate” in the last but one paragraph is closest in meaning to _______.
A. decline B. improve C. vary D. harm
【4】 What is the article mainly about?
A. New ways to fight against being overweight.
B. The positive effects of mice
C.The possible risks of doing exercise
D. The positive effects of early- life exercise.
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增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
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