学年高中英语Unit2TheUnitedKingdomReading课时作业1新人.docx

1、学年高中英语Unit2TheUnitedKingdomReading课时作业1新人Unit 2 The United Kingdom Reading 第一节：阅读理解(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。AEverywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their hightech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electroni

2、cally, they are away from physical reality.People have been influenced to bee technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most monly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure

3、 of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.The main goal of technology panies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freed

4、om, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.I see people trapped in a pathological (病态的) relationship with timesucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am refe

5、rring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we a

6、re to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, bee the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technolog

7、y. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” But its time to discover that it does not work for technology.Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.” To break the grand digital connection people

8、must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without todays overused technology.21The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means _.Aadvantage BattractionCadaption Dattempt22From the passage, technology panies aim to _.Aattract people to buy their productsBprovide the latest informa

9、tionCimprove peoples quality of lifeDdeal with cultural diseases23Whats the authors attitude towards the overusing of hightech devices?ANeutral. BSkeptical.CDisapproving. DSympathetic.答案与解析文中讲述人们过度使用科技的弊端，反对大众对科技的过度依赖。BStore Scent(香味)What is the first thing you notice when you walk into a shop? The

10、products displayed (展示) at the entrance? Or the soft background music?But have you ever noticed the smell? Unless it is bad, the answer is likely to be no. But while a shops scent may not be outstanding pared with sights and sounds, it is certainly there. And it is proving to be an increasingly powe

11、rful tool in encouraging people to purchase.A brand store has bee famous for its distinctive scent which floats through the fairly dark hall and out to the entrance, via scent machines. A smell may be attractive but it may not just be used for freshening air. One sports goods pany once reported that

12、 when it first introduced scent into its stores, customers intention to purchase increased by 80 percent.When it es to the best shopping streets in Paris, scent is just as important to a brands success as the quality of its window displays and goods on sale. That is mainly because shopping is a very

13、 different experience to what it used to be.Some years ago，the focus for brand name shopping was on a few people with sales assistants disproving attitude and donttouch what you cant afford displays. Now the rise of electronic merce (e merce) has opened up famous brands to a wider audience. But whil

14、e e shops can use sights and sounds, only bricks and mortar stores (实体店) can offer a full experience from the minute customers step through the door to the moment they leave. Another brand store seeks to be much more than a shop, but rather a destination. And scent is just one way to achieve this.No

15、w, a famous store uses plex man made smell to make sure that the soft scent of baby powder floats through the kid department, and coconut (椰子) scent in the swimsuit section. A department store has even opened a new lab, inviting customers on a journey into the stores windows to smell books, pots and

16、 drawers, in search of their perfect scent.24. According to the passage, what is an increasingly powerful tool in the success of some brand stores?A. Friendly assistants.B. Unique scents.C. Soft background musicD. Attractive window display.25. E shops are mentioned in the passage to_.A. show the adv

17、antages of bricks and mortar storesB. urge shop assistants to change their attitudeC. push stores to use sights and soundsD. introduce the rise of e merce26. The underlined word “destination” in Paragraph 5 means _.A. a platform that exhibits goodsB. a spot where travelers like to stayCa place where

18、 customers love to goD. a target that a store expects to meet27. The main purpose of the passage is to_.A. pare and evaluate B. examine and assessC. argue and discuss Dinform and explainCYou may not have heard of Ashoka, but for the past 27 years, this association, founded by Bill Drayton, has fough

19、t poverty and sickness, promoted education and encouraged small businesses. To support these worthy causes, Ashoka provides money for the worlds most promising “changemakers” seeking to solve urgent problems and would like to create a world in which every citizen is a changemaker.Drayton believes th

20、at anyone can bee an agent for change. The important thing is to simply give yourself permission. If you see a problem that you care about, you can help solve it. The young in particular are willing to accept this concept because at heart every child wants to grow into a happy, healthy, contributing

21、 adult. In fact, it is many young peoples ambition to set up programmes or businesses that improve social conditions. An excellent example is an Ashoka project started in 1995 in Dhaka, which handled the rubbish problem facing the city, helped local farmers and provided an ine for poor people there.

22、When Masqsood and Iftekhar began to study the problem of all the uncollected rubbish that lay in Dhakas streets，attracting rats and disease, they discovered that 80% of it was natural waste. So they educated the poor people in the city to post (把制成堆肥) this waste. They knew that they would have a mar

23、ket for the end product because local farmers were struggling with chemical fertilisers (化肥) which were expensive and had reduced the natural minerals in the soil over the years. At first, they were refused，but once they were able to persuade them that there was money to be made, the project took of

24、f. In 2009 sales were $14,000.Drayton is optimistic that in ten years Ashoka will be making really serious，practical progress in bringing about social change by changing the way we look at economic development.28. Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?A. Changemakers B. Busi

25、nessmenC. Social Conditions DRubbish Problem29. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to“_”A. the local farmersB. Masqsood and IftekharC. Drayton and his teamD. the poor people in Dhaka30. It can be concluded from the passage that anyone can bee a changemaker if he_.A. considers

26、Draytons conceptB. gets permission from AshokaC. tries to improve social conditionsD. is a young, happy and healthy adult31. The authors attitude towards Ashokas program can be described as_.A. changing B. forgivingC. cautious D. positiveDWhen different species of birds flock(聚集) together, their fli

27、ght formations are determined by social dynamics both between and within species.New research from the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter reveals for the first time that, contrary to current models used to explain the movement of flocks, the differences between bird species and social relationship

28、s between individuals play a critical role in determining the dynamics of mixedspecies flocks.The unified(群集) behaviour of bird flocks has puzzled scientists for hundreds of years. One naturalist from the turn of the century even suggested telepathy(心灵感应) may be involved. There have since been more

29、logical explanations, including mathematical models that show that repeated interactions among individuals following simple rules can generate coordinated(协同的) group movements. However, these models usually rely on the assumption that individuals within groups are identical and interact independentl

30、y, which may not reflect reality.Jolle Jolles, a PhD student at the University of Cambridges Department of Zoology and author of the paper, said：“Spectacular collective behaviour can be found in a large range of animal species, and we now know that often these plex coordinated group movements may be

31、 the result of individuals following simple rules. However, rarely are the individual characteristics and social relationships within them taken into account. Our research highlights that these striking displays of group behaviour are much more plex.”By analysing highresolution photographs of mixed

32、flocks of rooks and jackdaws(both from the corvid family), the researchers found that rather than individuals interacting in a consistent fashion throughout the flock, interactions depended on social dynamics between the different species as well as relationships within a species.The researchers discovered that birds prefer to fly close to members of their own species, and that the larger and more dominant rooks take the lead