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This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown person who lived in Rome in AD（公元） 53 wrote it.
We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?
Picture this. You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How happy do you feel?
Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave up feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity（电） often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they live simpler lives.
One family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10 and Thomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave（微波炉）, computer or mobile phones.
The grandmother, Lyn, said, “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes.” The boys said they fought less. Probably, they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a “trendy（赶时髦的）, beer-drinking granny”, to one who cooked things.
小题1:The writer uses the quote（引号） at the beginning of the story to ________.
| A．tell us a truth about our lives |
| B．tell us what life was like long time ago |
| C．point out what causes such a thing to happen |
| D．point out some problems we will meet in the life |
| A．have speeded up our lives | B．have improved the quality of our lives |
| C．may make people feel very happy | D．may bring people some trouble |
| A．they loved to live simple lives |
| B．they wanted to know how people lived without modern inventions |
| C．they were troubled by modern inventions |
| D．living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them |
| A．People who live far away from noisy cities often seem to be happier. |
| B．An unknown Roman was sure that the quality of life would get better. |
| C．The family had some changes when they lived in a 1940s house. |
| D．With the improvement of our lives, we often feel stressed and tired. |
| A．problems with technology |
| B．improvements of our lives with technology |
| C．changes happening to technology |
| D．the importance of technology |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:A
解析
试题分析：这篇短文中作者主要想告诉我们随着现代科学技术的发展，我们的生活中有了很多新的发明，但是这些新发明让人们感到压力和疲惫。作者开头引用了一个不知名的罗马人所说的话，点明了短文的中心，即科学技术的发展给人们带来的问题。
小题1:句意理解题。短文的开头作者引用了一个生活在公元53年的罗马的一个不知名的人所说的话，意为：生活在加速，每个人都因此而不安。作者这样做的原因是因此他在这篇短文中想要谈论的话题，即生活的快速发展到底对我们是好的还是坏的。故选A。
小题2:细节理解题。根据短文第四段的内容可知，在这一段中作者给我们描述了一个画面，画面中的我们在一系列的现代发明面前，生活没有变得更加舒适，反而是一塌糊涂。故选D，新发明可能会给我们的生活带来麻烦。
小题3:细节理解题。根据短文第六段One family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today.可知，英国的一个家庭想要回到过去的时间，去看看过去的时候，在没有所有这些新发明之前人们的生活是怎样的。故选B。
小题4:推理判断题。根据people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity（电） often seem to be happier可知A这句话是正确的；根据短文第六段可知Ｃ这句话也是正确的；根据短文Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave up feeling stressed and tired.可知Ｄ这句话也是正确的；根据短文的开头可知Ｂ是不正确的。故选Ｂ。
小题5:主旨大意题。这篇短文中作者主要想告诉我们随着现代科学技术的发展，我们的生活中有了很多新的发明，但是这些新发明让人们感到压力和疲惫。所以作者在这篇短文中讨论的是科学技术的发展给人们带来的问题。故选Ａ。
核心考点
试题【“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”This may sound like something 】；主要考察你对科普环保类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs. They say that in a film or on TV .We may see elephants, or monkeys, dogs, bears, or other animals doing a lot of things. If you watch carefully, you may find that those animals are always given something to eat in return(作为回报) for doing them. The scientists say that many different animals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get something to eat in return.
Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and elephants can be used to do some heavy jobs. And we can also teach animals to work in factories. Apes(猿猴), for example, have been used in America to help make cars and scientists believe that these large monkeys may one day get in crops(收割庄稼) and even drive trains.
小题1:Elephant scan be used to do some heavy jobs because ____.
A. they can eat a lot B. they are very heavy, too C. they are very strong
小题2:Dogs can be used to guard a house for his host because ____.
A. they are good at running
B. they are very kind and friendly to people
C. they are brave enough to get the strangers(陌生人)and thieves away from the house
小题3:Many different animals may be taught to do some simple jobs if ____.
A. they have enough food to eat
B. if they are sent to school
C. they learn they will get something to eat in return after doing them
小题4:____ can be trained to work for us.
A. Only a few animals B. A lot of animals C. Few animals
小题5:Many scientists are working hard to ____.
A. make monkeys get in crops and drive trains
B. make monkeys guard houses like dogs
C. make bears get in crops
Setting personal goals can give your life a sense of direction. Goal setting is used by top sports players, successful business people and achievers in all fields. Before you set personal goals, think about what you want to achieve with your life.
Try to set goals in some of the following categories (类别).
| Education—Will you achieve the educational goals after finishing high-school? Are you still growing and learning Family—What kind of relationship do you want with your parents and other family members? Creative—Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? | Career— What job do you want to take when you grow up? What do you need to make your dream come true? Public Service—Do you want to make the world a better place? Physical—Are you fit enough to do the things you want to do? Pleasure—How do you want to enjoy yourself? |
Remember, your goals can change as time goes on. But be sure your goals are things you hope to achieve, not what your parents, family or teachers want.
小题1:According to the passage, we set goals to ________.
| A．have better future |
| B．enjoy pleasure in life |
| C．know where to have a journey |
| D．give our life a sense of direction |
A. The education you want to get
B. The job to support your family.
C. The relationship with family members.
D The time you’ll spend reaching your goal
小题3:What’s the best advice to achieve the main goal?
| A．building the self-confidence. |
| B．creating a daily To-Do list of things. |
| C．dividing your goals into smaller tasks |
| D．setting the time to achieve the main goal |
| A．Once you set your goals, they can’t change. |
| B．Not all the people can get success by setting goals. |
| C．Enjoying success in one goal can help you do better in the next one. |
| D．Your goals are the things you and your parents, families or teachers want. |
| A．A long journey |
| B．Goal setting for life |
| C．The direction of life |
| D．Ways to achieve goals |
But it wasn’t a dream. Her phone showed that during the night, Priedeman had read a text message from her friend. She did it while she was fast asleep.
Reading and sending text messages while asleep—called “sleep texting”—is an unusual sleep behaviour, similar to sleepwalking. It’s also a growing concern(关心的事) among doctors: young people can’t live without their cell phones.
One in three teenagers sends more than 100 text messages a day, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And at least four out of five teenagers said they sleep with their phone on or near their bed.
Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, has studied sleeping texting. She said that having a phone nearby all night is a big part of the problem.
Andrew Stiehm, a sleep medicine expert with Allina Health in Minnesota, agrees. It’s possible for the part of the brain that controls motor skills (动作技能) to wake up, while the part of the brain that controls memory and judgment(判断) may be still asleep. That’s why some people can perform basic movements ---such as walking, talking, texting or even driving—while they’re sleeping. Some of Dowdell’s students said that they’re disturbed by their nighttime texting behavior. But because sleep texting is unconscious, it’s a difficult habit to break. Dowdell said she knows of some students who wear socks on their hands to keep themselves from texting.
Marjorie Hogan, a doctor at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suggests keeping all electronic devices(电子设备) outside the bedroom at certain times.
小题1:What happened to Olivia Priedeman?
| A．She sleepwalked to a friend’s house. |
| B．She dreamed of making plans with a friend. |
| C．She phoned one of her friends during the night. |
| D．She read a text message from her friend while asleep. |
| A．judgment | B．language | C．memory | D．motor skills |
| A．无法 | B．无意识的 | C．无反应的 | D．无规律的 |
| A．Stop text during the daytime. |
| B．Take some medicine to control the behaviour. |
| C．Keep their phones out of their bedrooms while they sleep. |
| D．Wear socks on their hands to stop themselves from texting. |
| A．It’s easy to give up a sleep texting habit. |
| B．One in three teenagers has a sleep texting habit. |
| C．Sleep texting can reduce the quality of one’s sleep. |
| D．Sleep texting does more harm to one’s health than sleepwalking. |
How can we see colour? We see colour when light hits(射入)our eyes. Dogs and many other animals can’t see colours. But bees(蜜蜂) can. They even see colours we don’t see. This helps them find flowers to fly to.
We sometimes use the names of colours to say things. People may say that they “see red” when they are angry(生气). Or you may say you “feel blue”. This means you are sad. We use colour to tell things., too. Red is the colour of stop signs. It means to stop. Green means to go.
Animals come in all kinds of colours. Many of these are very pretty. An animal’s colour may say “here I am”., “stay away” or “be careful” or it may help the animal hide(隐藏). Some animals can make their colours look like the trees around them, then other animals or people can not find them.
小题1:The best title(题目) of the article is _______.
| A．Sky | B．Sea | C．Animal | D．Colours |
| A．many kinds of colours | B．the function(作用) of colour |
| C．the colour of the sea | D．the colour of the sky |
| A．A little boy | B．A bee | C．An old man | D．A dog |
| A．Everything has colour. |
| B．All animals’ colours may help them hide. |
| C．Bees can see colours we don’t see. |
| D．When you see green at the crossing, you must stop. |
| A．We see colour when light hits our eyes. |
| B．We sometimes use the names of colours to say things. |
| C．We see colours in pictures and in books. |
| D．We can’t see colour in our food. |
You needn’t feel if you have no cars. It’s true that cars are . Many people find it hard to think about life will be like if they have no cars. But now more people know that too many cars bring great . They make streets too .
People are trying to stop pollution (污染) from cars. One way is to make cars. But it much to make these cars. And more people think about better ways. We can our lifestyle. A lot of Americans go to work bike now. Riding bikes is clean and healthy. It helps people get strong. Let’s try together! I hope we can live in a green world with no pollution .
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