Question

       Modcm inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a bundred miles in little more than an hour. Aireraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every ycar motor-cars are produced which go even faster each new computer boasts（吹嘘）of saving preeious seconds in handling tasks.

       All this saves timc, but at a prick.When we lose or gain half a day in speeding aeross the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfoerable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel tlru they have been left bebind in anot ar nine zoors Again pending too long at compulers resul’s in painti ninrts and fingers. Mobile phones also to dange according to some seientists; too much uss may thesmit h bul radiation into our brains, a we do not like to think about.

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

       There was a time when some people’s lives were devotcd simply to the cultivation of the land or the eare of eattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives wenl 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 ancestors faeed;:they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modem machinery has freed peope fre that primitive existcnee.

1.The new rooucts opcome more and more time-saving beeause_________.

       A.our love of speed secure never-ending

       B.time is limited

       C.theprices are increasingly high

       D.the manufacturers boast a lot

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

       A.I maginary life               B.Simple life in the past

       C.Times of inventions           D.Time for constant activity

3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modem teehnology?

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

4.What does the pa mge mainly diseuss?

       A.The present and past times             B.Machinary and human beings

       C.Imaginations and inventions            D.Modem technology and its influenec

Answer 1

【小题1】A

【小题2】B

【小题3】B

【小题4】D

解析:

【语篇解读】新科技，新材料，新技术使得我们的地球变得越来越小，新发明使得我们人类节省了大把大把的时间和精力，但是，与这些所谓的“所得”相比，我们也失去了很多东西，我们没有时间放松自己，我们没有时间和精力享受自然，我们只是在一味地忙碌……

【小题1】细节理解题。由第一自然段中的Indeed，this love of speed seems never?ending.一句可知本题选A项。

【小题2】词义猜测题。根据本句意思可以推断出此处the days指的是：过像过去那样简朴生活的日子，故本题选B项。

【小题3】推理判断题。根据第三自然段中的Certainly not relax一句可以推断出本题选B项。

【小题4】主旨大意题。根据主题段——第一自然段的大意可知本文大意是说明现代科技及其影响，故本题选D项。