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（吹噓）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

【小題1】A

【小題2】B

【小題3】B

【小題4】D

解析:

【語篇解讀】新科技，新材料，新技術使得我們的地球變得越來越小，新發明使得我們人類節省了大把大把的時間和精力，但是，與這些所謂的“所得”相比，我們也失去了很多東西，我們沒有時間放松自己，我們沒有時間和精力享受自然，我們只是在一味地忙碌……

【小題1】細節理解題。由第一自然段中的Indeed，this love of speed seems never?ending.一句可知本題選A項。

【小題2】詞義猜測題。根據本句意思可以推斷出此處the days指的是：過像過去那樣簡樸生活的日子，故本題選B項。

【小題3】推理判斷題。根據第三自然段中的Certainly not relax一句可以推斷出本題選B項。

【小題4】主旨大意題。根據主題段——第一自然段的大意可知本文大意是說明現代科技及其影響，故本題選D項。