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Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at computer results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, 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. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went 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 faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
The new products become more and more time-saving because .

A．the manufacturers boast a lot	B．time is limited
C．the prices are increasingly high	D．our love of speed seems never-ending

What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Simple life in the past.	B．Imaginary life.
C．Times of inventions.	D．Time for constant activity.

. What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?

A．Critical.

B．Optimistic.

C．Objective.

D．Negative.

. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A．The present and past times.	B．Modern technology and its influence.
C．Imaginations and inventions.	D．Machinery and human beings.

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Signal rescuers for help.
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Do not walk away.
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If you get frostbite(冻伤), do not rewarm the affected area until you’re out of danger.
You can walk on frostbitten feet, but once you warm the area and can feel the pain, you will not want to walk anywhere. Try to protect the frostbitten area and keep it dry until you are rescued.
1. When lost in the mountains, you can increase your chances of survival if you .
A. take a space blanket with you
B. do more physical labor
C. try to find a car immediately
D. walk as far as possible to find help
2. According to the passage, people most probably fail to survive if they _________.
A. do not take enough equipment
B. stay in the middle of the mountain
C. do not keep themselves warm
D. stay in a snow-covered area
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A. Don’t travel by yourself
B. Mountain traveling is dangerous
C. Don’t get frightened in danger.
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There are many ways to find a job. It can be as easy as walking into a neighborhood store to look at its announcement board. Local stores often have areas where people can put small signs telling what kind of service they need or can provide. Such services include caring for children or cleaning houses .Or, job searchers can look in the newspaper. Local newspapers have employment announcements placed by companies seeking workers.
Another popular tool for finding jobs is the Internet. For example, people in four hundred and fifty cities around the world can use the Craigslist Web site to buy objects, meet people or find a job. Craigslist says that it receives two million new job listings each month.
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A. Finding a job.
B. College students’ part-time jobs.
C. Craigslist Web site.
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A. sell your old things
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1.Why did the author feel bitter about her father when she was a young adult?
A. He was silent most of the time.                B. He was too proud of himself.
C. He did not love his children.                    D. He expected too much of her.
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A. nervous                B. sorry                     C. tired            D. safe
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A. the author’s son                                      B. the author’s father
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Ms Lo could hardly bear her sorrow when she received the call that her husband had died in a car accident. Her pain quickly turn to shock---- the car involved in the accident was driven by a friend. That friend, Henry Lee, had chosen to remain silent on the accident details in court. Her shock soon turned to extreme anger when Lee decided not to let out what had happened.
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B. Henry Lee drove their car in the car accident
C. She was informed only after the accident occurred
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A. they did not sign a contract
B.she began working in a photo studio
C.there was a quarrel between them
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D. To offer basic knowledge of the topic.
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D. a university in America
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A. one                   B. two                   C. three                 D. four
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