2019学年度人教版选修八Unit3Inventorsandinventions单元综合测试之一(18页含有解析word版).pdf
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1、2019 学年度人教版选修八Unit 3 Inventors and inventions单元综合测试之一 第卷 第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分40 分) 第一节(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。 A I prided myself on being unattached to any device ( 装置). Then, I got a smart phone. Its not a very fancy smart phone, but I was lost. It was used duri
2、ng commercial breaks, the line at the bank, the three minutes it takes for popcorn to be ready. I even checked my phone while on the phone with someone else. I broke the most sacred ( 不得违背的 ) technology rule I have with my kids no devices in the bedroom. I didnt just take my smart phone in the bedro
3、om. I charged it there. Soon that device was the first thing I caught after waking. I used to keep a book with me in my spare time; now I kept the smart phone. I opened some apps without conscious thought; remembering to look up on a sports field became a challenge. Recently, I was waiting for my yo
4、ungest childs soccer game to start, trying to answer emails, text my husband, and update a website. The phone lost its signal before my updating the website. I drove home and rushed to the laptop. Coat still on, I started troubleshooting (检 修故障 ). My oldest sat across from me. I asked the standard M
5、om-questions half-heartedly, half-listening as she responded. She was talking about some music opportunity, something she was excited about. I glanced up from my screen and saw her looking right at me. My fingers froze and I had an awful feeling. I realized it was the first time I had looked at her.
6、 I started apologizing, but she just laughed. “My friends are much better at multitasking online.” The next morning, I did something that was more painful than Id like to admit. I deleted (删除) my apps. When I finished, my smart phone was just a phone again something I could forget in the car. 21. Wh
7、at does the author require her kids not to do at home? A. Make a long phone call with others. B. Discuss something about technology. C. Handle several things at the same time. D. Use electronic equipment in the bedroom. 22. What happened to the author since she got a smart phone? A. She paid more at
8、tention to her kids. B. She set technology rules with her kids. C. She was more interested in reading books. D. She became more and more dependent on it. 23. How did the oldest daughter feel about her mothers half-heartedness? A. She felt quite angry. B. She didnt take it to heart. C. She was very s
9、urprised. D. She was worried about her mother. 24. What decision did the author make at last? A. Never use a phone again. B. Only do one thing at a time. C. Never surf on the Net again. D. Use her phone only when necessary. B Can modern life make you sick? Have you ever experienced the following sur
10、prising syndromes? Margarets friend is taking a new job in a faraway city. She wants to hold a farewell dinner party at her home. But she cant. Margaret suffers from CHAOS (Cant Have Anyone Over Syndrome). Her apartment is always messy and shes embarrassed by it. “My best friend gave me somegood adv
11、ice. He told me to get a maid,” she says. These days we get and receive so much information every day. People call, text, and email us all day long and they expect quick responses from us. It can be very demanding and its making some people sick. They have information fatigue ( 疲劳) syndrome. There i
12、s so much information that they become paralyzed and cant think clearly. “I cant sleep at night because I worry,” says Bahman, a college senior. “Its terrible.” Do you sometimes engage in “deskfast ” (eating breakfast at your desk at work)? If your answer is “yes”, then you may suffer from hurry sic
13、kness. Hurry sickness is a straightforward name for another syndrome of modern life. “Im always rushing. I get headaches a lot. Taking aspirin seems to help, ” says Mari, a company employee. Weve all complained about having too much work to do. Well, how about not having enough work? Underload syndr
14、ome is caused by having little or nothing to do at the office. You have to pretend that youre working. Steven works as a project manager. “I can finish my work in about four hours, but Im afraid to say anything about it. I dont want to be assigned too much work!” If you were these people, how would
15、you reduce your sufferings? 25. What can we learn about Margaret? A. She is not a tidy person. B. She is going to take a new job. C. She is good at throwing a party. D. She is unwilling to accept others advice. 26. What do Bahman and Mari have in common? A. Both are full of energy. B. Both like work
16、ing greatly. C. Both are under great stress. D. Both always seem to be rushing. 27. Whats wrong with Steven? A. He is not well qualified for his job. B. He tries to stay away from pressure. C. He is too busy to have his own life. D. He lacks confidence when working. C In Japan, Christmas just isnt C
17、hristmas without butter. Thats because the Japanese love to celebrate Christmas Eve with “Christmas cakes,” which are filled with whipped cream (生奶油 ) and topped with strawberries. Making this tasty treat requires some serious amounts of butter. But this year, the creamy golden spread is in short su
18、pply on the island nation. In fact, many Japanese supermarkets are fresh out of dairy (milk) products entirely. Those that do still have butter often limit shoppers to one box apiece, and the price for that box is much higher than normal. Northern Japan has been suffering unusually cold winters in r
19、ecent years, and all of Japan has had to endure ( 忍受) hotter summers. This extreme weather has stressed out the nations dairy cows. They have not been able to produce their expected amount of milk. However, even before the bad weather, Japans butter supply was in trouble. The number of dairy farms i
20、n the country has been steadily shrinking. Not many young people in Japan want to become dairy farmers anymore. The demand for dairy products in Japan has also been falling. The Japanese diet consists mainly of rice and seafood, and it often doesnt require many milk products. So the government decid
21、ed to cut back the number of the countrys dairy cows in 2007. This led to a butter shortage in 2008 as well as the current shortage. The Japanese government has tried to increase the stock of butter by importing (进口) about 10,000 tons from overseas. But even this emergency supply has done little to
22、end the shortage this Christmas season. Blogger Audrey Akcasu says Japanese people are using substitutes in their cooking or paying more money for real butter. “Some bakeries are choosing to replace butter with margarine (人造黄油 ) this year, claiming the slight change in taste will be less noticeable
23、than the potential higher price we would see if they used imported butter,” she writes in Nikkan Gendai, a Japanese newspaper. “But for many shoppers, itll have to be margarine or nothing this Christmas.” 28. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. The milk. B. The butter. C. The s
24、trawberry. D. The Christmas cake. 29. Which of the following is probably very popular in Japan? A. Being dairy farmers. B. Enjoying various dairy products. C. Eating cakes at Christmas. D. Tasting margarine rather than real butter. 30. Which of the following is Japan actually facing now? A. A cow cr
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