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| 完形填空 I'm about to talk of the negative effects of technology. 1 , I don't know 2 these effects are bad or not but someone should be discussing them when they talk about technology. Most of them are about 3 problems. First of all, it is 4 to communicate with machines but not people. When we ring up for help, we have to go through a pile of 5 into our telephone to get some information. We get some 6 phone reply messages: if you want this, press one; if you want this, press two; if you want this, press 99; if you want to 7 , press "﹟" and you sit there and gradually get 8 in the face, angrier and angrier. This kind of thing is very 9 and is bound to cause something bad. So this is a problem of technology because even with a simple telephone, you used to get a 10 at the other end who says how can I help you,which made you feel 11 . The second one is about taking 12 the work done by people. We used to have people do a lot of jobs and now we have got 13 . They build cars, and they build them very well because they don't get 14 , they can work 24 hours a day, they generally don't 15 ; they don't get ill; they don't have 16 and so they needn't ask for at least half a year's leave. The trouble is the people who did those jobs. What are they to do? Those workers' life is 17 . Have you ever seen a typist lately? That is one sitting in a shop with typewriters typing letters to make a 18 . No, it's 19 . Everybody does their own letters on a computer and presses buttons, and it 20 and so forth. | ||||
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阅读下面的短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind，and she chooses to live alone far away from people in Blize．Her home is in a small village which can be 1 only by sea or air．After a 10-mile walk into the hills，one 2 reaches a piece of land and two smal1 houses so 3 in the thick over-grown forest that only a 4 of people know．Dorothea is there．
She lives 5 and totally 6 vegetables． Sometimes a local man will come and cut 7 for her and a group of soldiers will come 8 her and be greeted with the 9 of a cup of coffee．
At night，she lies in her little room with the dogs and cats on the floors and 10 for hours to any Spanish，English，German or French 11 she can find on her 12 ．Sometimes she gets lonely but 13 of the time the animals
and the radio are company enough．
But recently the very things she had 14 to get free from so well have begun to 15 her．The peace of the forest has been 16 by the noise of earth-moving machines．What she once only heard of 17 on the radio is now on her 18 ．Things began to change 3 years ago． The new main north-south road in Blize has 19 the forest only or five miles away．“Now 20 people know I'm here，”she says，“I feel more and more uneasy （troubled or anxious）each day．”
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III. 阅读 (共两节，满分40分)
第一节：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As goods and services improved, people were persuaded to spend their money on changing from old to new, and found the change worth the expense. When an airline equipped itself with jets, for example, its costs (and therefore air fare) would go up, but the new planes meant such an improvement that the higher cost was justified. A new car (or wireless, washing machine, electric kettle) made life so much more comfortable than the old one that the high cost of replacement was fully repaid. Manufacturers still cry their goods as persuasively as ever, but are the improvements really worth paying for? In many fields, things have now reached such a high standard of performance that further progress is very limited and very, very expensive. Airlines, for example, go to enormous expense in buying the latest prestige jets, in which vast research costs have been spent on relatively small improvements. If we abandon these vast costs we might lose the chance of cutting minutes away from flying times; but wouldn’t it be better to see airfares drop dramatically, as capital costs become relatively insignificant? Again, in the context of a 70 m. p. h. Limit, with lines of cars traveling so close as to control each other’s speeds, improvements in performance are actually irrelevant; improvements in handling are unnecessary, as most production cars grip（抓牢） the road perfectly, and comfort has now reached a very high level. Small improvements here are unlikely to be worth the thousands that anybody replacing an ordinary family car every two years may have spent on them. Let us instead have cars — or wireless, electric kettles, washing machines, television sets — which are made to last, and not to be replaced. Significant progress is obviously a good thing, but the insignificant progression from model-change to model-change is not.
1. The author is obviously challenging the social norm (社会规范) that ________________.
A. it is important to improve goods and services
B. development of technology makes our life more comfortable
C. it is reasonable that prices are going up all the time
D. slightly improved new products are worth buying
2. According to this passage, airfares may rise because ______________.
A. the airplane has been improved
B. people tend to travel by new airplanes
C. the change is found to be reasonable
D. the service on the airplane is better than before
3. According to the author, passengers would be happier if they ____________.
A. could fly in the latest model of good planes
B. could get tickets at much lower prices
C. see the airlines make vital changes in their services
D. could spend less time flying in the air
4. When manufactures have improved the performance of their products to a certain level, then it would be _______________.
A. justified for them to cut the price
B. unnecessary for them to make any new changes
C. difficult and costly to further better them
D. insignificant for them to cut down the research costs
5. In the case of cars, the author advises that we _____________.
A. cancel the speed limit B. further improve their performance
C. change models every two years D. improve their durability (耐久性)
III. 阅读 (共两节，满分40分)
第一节：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As goods and services improved, people were persuaded to spend their money on changing from old to new, and found the change worth the expense. When an airline equipped itself with jets, for example, its costs (and therefore air fare) would go up, but the new planes meant such an improvement that the higher cost was justified. A new car (or wireless, washing machine, electric kettle) made life so much more comfortable than the old one that the high cost of replacement was fully repaid. Manufacturers still cry their goods as persuasively as ever, but are the improvements really worth paying for? In many fields, things have now reached such a high standard of performance that further progress is very limited and very, very expensive. Airlines, for example, go to enormous expense in buying the latest prestige jets, in which vast research costs have been spent on relatively small improvements. If we abandon these vast costs we might lose the chance of cutting minutes away from flying times; but wouldn’t it be better to see airfares drop dramatically, as capital costs become relatively insignificant? Again, in the context of a 70 m. p. h. Limit, with lines of cars traveling so close as to control each other’s speeds, improvements in performance are actually irrelevant; improvements in handling are unnecessary, as most production cars grip（抓牢） the road perfectly, and comfort has now reached a very high level. Small improvements here are unlikely to be worth the thousands that anybody replacing an ordinary family car every two years may have spent on them. Let us instead have cars — or wireless, electric kettles, washing machines, television sets — which are made to last, and not to be replaced. Significant progress is obviously a good thing, but the insignificant progression from model-change to model-change is not.
1. The author is obviously challenging the social norm (社会规范) that ________________.
A. it is important to improve goods and services
B. development of technology makes our life more comfortable
C. it is reasonable that prices are going up all the time
D. slightly improved new products are worth buying
2. According to this passage, airfares may rise because ______________.
A. the airplane has been improved
B. people tend to travel by new airplanes
C. the change is found to be reasonable
D. the service on the airplane is better than before
3. According to the author, passengers would be happier if they ____________.
A. could fly in the latest model of good planes
B. could get tickets at much lower prices
C. see the airlines make vital changes in their services
D. could spend less time flying in the air
4. When manufactures have improved the performance of their products to a certain level, then it would be _______________.
A. justified for them to cut the price
B. unnecessary for them to make any new changes
C. difficult and costly to further better them
D. insignificant for them to cut down the research costs
5. In the case of cars, the author advises that we _____________.
A. cancel the speed limit B. further improve their performance
C. change models every two years D. improve their durability (耐久性)
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