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We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskilled labor. Because of this, most people think that craft no longer exists.
One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability. “Homes in those days were well-built,” they say. No doubt these homes were well-built, but what these people have done is mix up the quality of material used in the house with the quality of the craftsmanship.
Homes today could be built to last just as long as those old homes if people were willing or able to pay the price. For example, most people can no longer afford solid oak stairways, although they were once fairly common in older homes. Nor can they afford the high labor cost of employing a carpenter to build the stairway. Yet if someone can pay the high cost, there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make those stairways. And not only would these carpenters know how to build them, they would probably do a better job than carpenters of old.
One thing the modern carpenter has which enables him to do a better job is much more advanced tools. Such tools as laser beams and powerplanes help them lay out a house better and make more precision cuts on the wood. Also, it is not uncommon say more to find carpenters with college degrees and carpenters with a solid knowledge of mathematics, which would enable them to deal with more difficult house designs.
The problem of modern quality, then, really boils down to the problem of material, for the modern carpenter is just as able to produce craftsmanship as the carpenter of fifty years ago, but only if given proper material.
小题1: Compared to the carpenters in the past, modern carpenters are .
A.more successful | B.more learned |
C.more imaginative | D.more hardworking |
A.Carpenters who are fond of oak stairways. |
B.Carpenters who have college degrees. |
C.People who think highly of carpenters of old. |
D.People who think that modern material is of low quality. |
A.People in the past preferred to use oak to build stairways. |
B.It is now expensive to employ a carpenter. |
C.Modern houses last as long as the old ones. |
D.Good carpenters still exist in modern times. |
A.Is Craft Dead? | B.Craft, Back to Life? |
C.History of Craftsmanship | D.Carpenters Today and Yesterday |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析
试题分析:
小题1:B理解推断题。We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskilled labor. 由文章前两段可知,现在的木工都是学习过知识的。故选B
小题2:C 细节题。由One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability. 可知C正确。
小题3:D 理解题。本文第三段第四行there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make those stairways.说明好的木工在现代依旧存在。故选D
小题4:A 文章理解题。根据文章第二段和第三段,都说明主要讲了现代与古代的木工及他们的建筑。故A正确。
点评:本文主要讲了现代与古代的木工及他们的建筑。文章所设试题主要考察细节查找,做题关键是找出原文的根据,认真核查题支和原文的异同,常犯错误有:绝对化语言,范围扩大或缩小,以偏概全,张冠李戴等。
核心考点
试题【 We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskil】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Don’t shoot butterflies with guns.
Can you 36 someone running after a butterfly with a gun in his hands? Won’t such stupidity make you burst out laughing? But wait. Stop and consider how often you might have done something 37 .
A hen, Henny-Penny, lived in a forest with many other animals and birds. One fine, sunny morning, she was busy looking for 38 in the ground. Suddenly she let out a frightened cackle (咯咯叫) with wings flapping 39 . A dry leaf had fallen down on her, and she went 40 at whoever she met, “Run, run for your lives; the sky is falling.” The other creatures stopped whatever they were doing. Some ran behind Henny-Penny, screaming warnings with her, while others 41 the unfounded story that the sky was falling.
We all have 42 people like this hen. The rest of us are like the other foolish creatures who didn’t stop to verify (证实) the 43 for themselves. They shoot butterflies with guns. They just will not think for themselves. Why don’t people think for themselves? Often because of laziness, or because they don’t want to be 44 for their way of thinking.
Walking through life 45 is more dangerous than crossing a busy road with eyes closed. Our thoughts should lead us towards the light of wisdom and sense. Our thinking should be high, 46 us to the ranks of the sensible. We have been blessed with reasoning, sensitive minds. Let us make use of them and be 47 of our own minds. Don’t let your mind be enslaved by someone else. Stop, think and then go ahead.
小题1:.
A.suggest | B.imagine | C.recall | D.prevent |
A.different | B.extraordinary | C.unusual | D.similar |
小题3: |
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A.in delight | B.in cheer | C.in fear | D.in amazement |
A.screaming | B.staring | C.praising | D.criticizing |
A.recite | B.edit | C.spread | D.print |
A.come across | B.searched for | C.looked after | D.cared about |
A.impact | B.process | C.advantage | D.truth |
小题9: |
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A.speechlessly | B.hopelessly | C.mindlessly | D.homelessly |
小题11: |
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A.masters | B.slaves | C.authors | D.employees |
Clothes can make phone calls, play music, dial your pal’s number, keep you warm during cold weather and operate your computer?
This is not a fantasy. A British company, called Electrotextiles, has created a wide range of clothes — clothes that have minds of their own! Scientists, working for the company, have invented a kind of fabric that can be blended(混合) with flexible electronic materials to create intelligent clothing. The result are electronic garments.
If you think the wearer has to be wired to different devices, think again. These designer clothes are wire-free, soft to touch and washable!! Like any electronic device, these high-tech clothes have to be powered. Currently, a tiny nine-volt battery serves the purpose. But the researchers hope that in the near future the clothes will generate electricity by using body heat. These clothes are 100 percent shock proof, they say.
The Electrotextiles team has also created the world’s first cloth keyboard. This keyboard can be sewn into your trousers or skirt. To use this device, you will have to sit down and tap on your lap! These ‘lap- tap’ gadgets(器具) are all set to take over laptop computers!
Another useful garment is the shirt-cum-mobile phone. This handy invention enables drivers to chat comfortably with others at the wheel! Other popular electronic wear include the denim(牛仔布) jacket with flexible earphones sewn into the hood(风帽) and the electronic ski jacket with a built-in heater. The ski jacket is also programmed to send signals to a satellite. This technology is known as global positioning system and can be used to track lost skiers and wandering kids.
Having completed the cloth keyboard, scientists have already started to work on a new project—a necktie that can be used as a computer mouse. What is the next? Do you have any idea?
小题1:. The electronic garments are similar to other electronic devices in that ______.
A.they feel smooth and soft |
B.they use electricity as power |
C.they can be washed in water |
D.they are made from flexible materials |
A.Body heat will be used as power. |
B.The wearer will not get shocked. |
C.A tiny nine-volt battery will work. |
D.They will get charged automatically. |
A.The laptop computer. | B.The electronic ski jacket. |
C.The shirt-cum-mobile phone. | D.The world’s first cloth keyboard. |
A.The cloth keyboard. | B.The electronic ski jacket. |
C.The necktie to be used as a mouse. | D.The denim jacket with earphones. |
A.to advertise for an English company | B.to predict the future trend of science |
C.to show how rapidly science develops | D.to introduce some intelligent clothing |
Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良) and heat-related health problems.
But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions.
Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030.
Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum’s report was “a methodological embarrassment” because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions. Dr. Pielke said that “climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost (极度的) attention.” But the report, he said, “will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed (有瑕疵的).”
However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.
In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability(弱点) to climate hazards(危害)while still curbing (限制) the emissions of the heat-trapping gases. More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report.
小题1:What is the finding of the Global Humanitarian Forum?
A.Global temperatures affect the rate of economic development. |
B.Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming. |
C.Malnutrition has caused serious health problems in poor countries. |
D.Economic trends have to do with population and natural disasters. |
A.It was challenged by some climate and risk experts. |
B.It aroused a lot of interest in the scientific circles. |
C.It was warmly received by environmentalists. |
D.It caused a big stir in developing countries. |
A.Its statistics look embarrassing. |
B.It is invalid in terms of methodology. |
C.It deserves our closest attention. |
D.Its conclusion is purposely exaggerated. |
A.Its conclusions are based on carefully collected data. |
B.It is vulnerable to criticism if the statistics are closely examined. |
C.It will give rise to heated discussions at the Copenhagen conference. |
D.Its rough estimates are meant to draw the attention of world leaders. |
A.How rich and poor regions can share responsibility in curbing global warming. |
B.How human and economic losses from climate change can be reduced. |
C.How emissions of heat-trapping gases can be reduced on a global scale. |
D.How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards. |
London has become a cycle friendly zone after the launch of a new bike hire scheme.It has been designed to encourage more people to cycle in and around central London.
So how does it work?First you have to sign up to the scheme to be sent a key.The key will unlock one of the bikes,which are kept at docking stations in and around central London.You have to pay an access fee for the key and then you pay as you go,for the length of time you use the bike.
Transport for London, which runs the scheme,are hoping to have 6,000 bikes and 400 docking stations in place by the end of the year.The new hire system is hoping to ease congestion in London and is expected to generate up to 40,000 extra cycle trips a day into the city centre. London Mayor Boris Johnston launched the scheme and said London had been “filled with thousands of gleaming machines that will transform the look and feel of our streets and become as common place on our roads as black cabs and red buses”.
However,there have been a few problems since the scheme was launched last Friday.On the first day some people found they couldn’t dock their bike properly and their usage of the bike had not registered.Transport for London did admit they had been expecting a few “teething problems” and have said they wouldn’t charge for the first day as a“gesture of goodwill”.Some other people have criticized the lack of docking stations and locks for the bikes as well as the price it costs to hire the bicycles.
Despite the comments,the green-thinking London Mayor still seems very positive about things,saying,“My campaign for the capital to become the greatest big cycling city in the world has taken a gigantic pedal-powered push forwards.”
小题1:Which is the correct order of a bike hire?
a.pay a usage charge according to the time b.pay for the key
c.cycle in and around central London d.sign up as a member to get a key
A.b-d-c-a | B.b-c-a-d | C.d-c-b-a | D.d-b-c-a |
A.People were unable to lock properly. |
B.People could not dock the bikes properly. |
C.People had no enthusiasm about the scheme. |
D.It’s too expensive for some people to hire a bike. |
A.the ‘cycling revolution’ failed once started |
B.the scheme will be put off due to the problems |
C.all the citizens in London are in favor of the scheme |
D.the London Mayor has great confidence in the scheme |
Many times when people hear the words social networking, their brains automatically go to sites such as Twitter or Facebook.However, there are sites for those into social networking and into reading. Sound crazy? It"s really not.
If you" ve ever wanted a site where you can receive book recommendations, follow your favorite authors, and keep up with what your friends are reading.then look no further than Goodreads, com.
Goodreads provides useful services for those in the reading world, It is a site where you can win books by going to giveaways and simply entering your information.Some giveaways are even signed by the author.And the books aren"t boring, old or torn copies - many of them are ARC’s (Advanced Readers Copies), for which you can write a short review on the site.Anyone can post reviews of their favorite books or series so that others may feel inclined to read them as well.
Another function of the site is offering book clubs and interest groups.You can have interactive discussions with groups of people reading the same things, sort of like a blog.You can also make friends with people and post statuses similar to Facebook.Your friends can send you hook recommendations and you can add them to your shelf if you choose.
Shelves are by far one of the best features on the site.You can categorize your entire library and put hooks you want to read on your "to - read" shelf.These virtual (虚拟的)shelves allow you to see what you" ve read and also let you keep track of the number of books you" ve read in a year.
You can even read original writing for free because many people post their own writing on the site to gain feedback and advice on how to improve.Anyone can join this site for free and fall in love with not just a hook, but a book site as well.
小题1:People who go to the site Twitter mostly want to .
A.get more books to read | B.buy goods for their daily life |
C.Set to know more people | D.post their book recommendations |
A.you have a lot of websites to log on |
B.you"d better go to Goodreads.com |
C.you should go to bookstores or libraries |
D.you can go to Twitter or Facebook |
A. have a tendency C. have no difficulty
C. have a possibility D. have no doubt
小题4:You can do all of the following things on Goodreads.com EXCEPT .
A.receiving books signed by the authors |
B.publishing your comments on books |
C.exchanging your ideas with other people |
D.buying all kinds of books that you like |
A.They are filled with all kinds of books from some libraries. |
B.They are real bookshelves presented to readers by the site. |
C.That is where people put books they have read or want to read. |
D.New books will continuously be added to readers shelves by the site. |
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