Question

 (10·江西D篇)

Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boats (吹噓) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so.  We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientist; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.

However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

68. The new products become more and more time-saving because         .

A. our love of speed seems never-ending

B. time is limited.

C. the prices are increasingly high.

D. the manufactures boast a lot.

Answer 1

答案：A

題目: 新發明變得越來越省時, 是因為？

A. 我們對速度的熱愛從未停止。 可回原文定位never-ending（因為有連詞符號）。原文第一段說到Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending.事實上, 我們對速度的熱愛從未停止。A選項是對原文的同意改寫。

B. 時間有限。原文未提及。

C. 價格日漸攀升。原文未提及價格因素。

D. 生產商大肆吹噓�；卦�文定位Boast(因為有中文注釋).第一段最后一句說Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boats (吹噓) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

解析：每年都有更高速的新車出產, 而且新電腦也吹噓能節省寶貴的每一秒鐘�？梢�, 題目和選項矛盾。越來越省時是事實, 不是因為吹噓而變得省時了。

 69. What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to ?

A. Imaginary life                             B. Simple life in the past.

C. Times of inventions                        D. Time for constant activity.

答案：B

題目: 第三段的“the days”指的是什么？

A: 想象的生活

B: 過去的簡單生活

C:  發明的時間

D:  連續活動的時間

解析： 回原文定位第三段該句Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.也許, 我們靜靜聆聽廣播里的故事節目, 任想象插上翅膀肆意翱翔的日子, 已經一去不返了。根據前后一句可得知, 文章重點是說的高速生活和簡單生活的對比。故:B選項是對原文的正確解讀。而A選項的理解有偏差, 重點轉移了。

 70. What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?

A. Critical             B. Objective.     C. Optimistic.      D. Negative.

答案：B

題目: 作者對現代科技的態度是？

A:  批判的    B:  客觀的    C:  樂觀的    D:  消極的

解析： 根據文章結構, 第一段陳述事實, 說現代高科技省時省力。第二段說高速生活的弊端。第三段說對簡單生活的向往, 但最后第四段卻說高科技對現代生活的積極影響。所以, 作者的觀點是不偏不倚的。

 71. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The present and past times.

B. Machinery and human beings.

C. Imaginations and inventions.

D. Modern technology and its influence.

答案：D

題目: 這篇文章主要說的是什么？

A: 過去與現在

B: 機器和人類

C: 想象力和創造力

D: 現代科技和它的影響

解析： 根據文章首尾段的大意可知, 文章重在分析高科技的利與弊。