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You don"t need to get in a time-traveling machine to see how technology will reshape our lives, such as the way we shop．Several new technologies that are to change your buying habits already exist．Let"s see what"s in store for your future shopping．
Try it on, virtually （虚拟的）．Want to shop online for a new pair of eyeglasses? You don"t need to guess which pair looks best on you. Go and see the eBay Fashion iPhone app to try a pair of eyewear you"re checking out on a picture of your face．But what if you want to buy something bigger? Thanks to Microsoft Kinect"s motion tracking camera, you can cover clothes on your screen body．You can even choose the background of your virtual fitting room to enrich your shopping experience．
Get a perfect, custom fit．Everyone"s body is shaped differently．To get a perfect fit, you sometimes have to get your clothes changed．But by using 3D scanning technology, all the clothes you buy will fit your body perfectly．Some companies scan your body using High-tech to get the most accurate measurements, so they can make special clothes just for you．
High-tech shopping carts and checkout counters．High-tech shopping carts could, in time, be a common sight in malls and supermarkets．Microsoft Kinect-enabled carts are currently under test．The cart can follow you along the aisles （通道）, controlled merely by your movement and your voice．In China, a supermarket chain introduced tablet-equipped carts that guide shoppers around the stores" aisles．
In the United States, several supermarkets use a device called Scan It that gives buyers the freedom to scan purchases on their own while they shop．While it"s great not having to line up at a checkout counter, we wouldn"t mind it if the store used Toshiba"s new Object Recognition Scanner．The machine identifies a product as soon as it"s placed in front of a camera just by its shape and color, even if it has no bar code．
小题1:What"s the best title for this text?| A．Ways for future shopping | | B．Influence of new technology | | C．Inventions to change habits | | D．A new time-traveling machine |
小题2:According to Paragraph 2, The eBay Fashion iPhone app can _____．| A．make vivid pictures of our face | | B．help us sell more clothes online | | C．create us a virtual dressing room | | D．choose suitable eyeglasses for us |
小题3:Which of the following can get the most accurate shape of our body?| A．Object Recognition Scanner． | | B．The eBay Fashion iPhone app． | | C．3D scanning technology． | | D．Microsoft Kinect-enabled carts． |
小题4:The Object Recognition Scanner can identify a product more quickly by____．| A．the customer"s voice | | B．its shape and color | | C．the customer"s movement | | D．the bar code on it |
小题5:What can we infer from this text?| A．Checkout counters will disappear from supermarkets in future． | | B．Buyers can use Scan It to go around the supermarket by themselves． | | C．High-tech shopping carts will be widely used in malls and supermarkets． | | D．The new technologies are only dreams that are impossible to come true． |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:C |
解析
试题分析：这篇文章讲的是新科技会改变人们购物的方式。人们在网上购物更方便，更适合，超市里面的购物车也是人性化的，付钱的时候也会更快。
小题1:主旨题：从第一段的句子：Several new technologies that are to change your buying habits already exist．Let"s see what"s in store for your future shopping．可知这篇文章讲的是新科技会改变人们购物的方式。选A。
小题2:细节题：从第二段的句子：Go and see the eBay Fashion iPhone app to try a pair of eyewear you"re checking out on a picture of your face．可知The eBay Fashion iPhone app 可以让我们选择适合的眼镜，选D
小题3:细节题：从第二段的句子：But by using 3D scanning technology, all the clothes you buy will fit your body perfectly．可知3D扫描系统可以选择最适合我们身体的衣服，选C
小题4:细节题：从最后一段的句子：The machine identifies a product as soon as it"s placed in front of a camera just by its shape and color, even if it has no bar code．可知The Object Recognition Scanner可以凭物体的颜色和形状很快的识别物体，选B。
小题5:细节题：从第四段的句子：High-tech shopping carts could, in time, be a common sight in malls and supermarkets．可知高科技购物车将在购物超市广泛使用，选C |
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My 8-year-old son, Kevin, has made friends with some boys in the neighborhood. He has been with them after school. My wife，Qugen, and I are he has other kids to be with and we have and encouraged him to play with his friends. We also want Kevin to learn _，so we have asked him to tell us he"s going and to come home at a specified time.
The started when Kevin didn"t come home on time. On one occasion，I asked Kevin to be back at 6 pm. By 6：30，I needed to go him. I found him at a friend"s house，and he looked that he couldn"t continue playing. After we came home，I sat Kevin down for a talk about the of keeping his word. I told him I was not worried about him arriving a few late，but after half an hour，I’m going to be . He told me he understood.
The next day，I came home from work at about 6:30 p.m. and Qugen asked me to go and get Kevin she said he should be back home at 6. I walked to his friend"s house and a look of appeared on Kevin"s face when he came to the door.
At ，Qugen and I spoke to Kevin about why he didn"t come home on time again. He said he just wanted to playing. This was ，so Qugen and I decided to ground(罚不准出门)him for a week. This no playing with his friends.
For the next week，whenever his friends came to ask for Kevin，we let him to them that he was grounded. We felt this would help him be responsible for his .
As a ，I believe one of the most important things we can teach our kids is self-responsibility and that actions have consequences.
| 小题1: | | A．studying | B．playing | C．chatting | D．quarreling |
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| 小题2: | | A．glad | B．lucky | C．worried | D．sure |
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| 小题3: | | A．made | B．allowed | C．trained | D．forced |
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| 小题4: | | A．amusements | B．communication | C． honesty | D．responsibility |
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| 小题5: | | A．when | B．why | C．where | D．whenever |
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| 小题6: | | A．changes | B．conflicts | C．worries | D．problems |
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| 小题7: | | A．looking for | B．picking up | C．waiting for | D．calling up |
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| 小题8: | | A．angry | B．nervous | C．disappointed | D．ashamed |
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| 小题9: | | A．quality | B．importance | C．stories | D．ways |
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| 小题10: | | A．hours | B．minutes | C．days | D．times |
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| 小题11: | | A．satisfied | B．shocked | C．surprised | D．concerned |
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| 小题12: | | A．if | B．unless | C．because | D．so |
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| 小题13: | | A．guilt | B．disappointment | C．excitement | D．hatred |
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| 小题14: | | A．home | B．school | C．work | D．office |
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| 小题15: | | A．finish | B．keep | C．learn | D．stop |
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| 小题16: | | A．impossible | B．impolite | C．unacceptable | D．unbelievable |
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| 小题17: | | A．meant | B．suggested | C．showed | D．implied |
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| 小题18: | | A．reply | B．apologize | C．tell | D．explain |
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| 小题19: | | A．decisions | B．words | C．actions | D．friends |
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| 小题20: | | A．teacher | B．parent | C．writer | D．professor |
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阅读下面短文回答问题，将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（注意题后的字数要求）
【1】People study their family history for different reasons. For some, genealogy(家谱学) is important to their religion（宗教信仰）. Other people who get involved in genealogy may want to confirm （证实）stories they heard about a family member. Some people say their interest in genealogy came from an eight-part series on television called Roots. Roots was first broadcast in 1977 and was based on a book which describes how the author’s ancestor, long ago in Africa, as slave was brought to America. After watching Roots, many Americans wanted to study ________________.
【2】Finding family roots is not always easy. So how exactly does someone start a genealogical research?
【3】Experts say you should start with yourself. Write down your own history. One idea is to ask your parents what they can remember about their parents or grandparents. You can often find a lot of information in family pictures, letters and other documents.
【4】Resources on local history may also provide useful information. Large libraries may have hundreds of helpful books. In the United States, several groups have large collections of genealogical materials. These collections are open to the public.
【5】Governments often have many helpful records of genealogies. Governments usually keep official copies of birth, marriage and death records. Local governments may have copies of wills. These statements of final wishes often contain details about a person’s life and wealth.
【6】Today, many people use the Internet. There are thousands of websites related to genealogy. They can guide people to historical records and provide information about how to write down their family’s history.
小题1:What is the passage mainly about? ( no more than 10 words)
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小题2:How many ways are mentioned in how to start a genealogical research? ( no more than 2 words)[
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小题3:Fill in the blank in Paragraph 1 with proper words. ( no more than 6 words)
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小题4:Why should people ask governments for help in the study of genealogy? ( no more than 8 words)
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小题5:What does the underlined word “They” (Paragraph 6 ) probably refer to ? (no more than 5 words)
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All across California, honeybees are flying away from their hives(蜂箱) and dying. Empty hives are causing a lot of worry about some important food crops.
Bees give us a lot more than delicious honey. They are pollinators（授粉者）—they enable plants to produce the fruits and nuts we enjoy by carrying pollen from one plant or flower to the next. The wind pollinates oats, corn, and wheat, but many other plants (like apple and cherry trees and melon vines) depend on insects, bats, and birds. In the U.S., millions and millions of bees kept by human beekeepers fly around doing a lot of this important work for food crops. “Bees are worth protecting because their work adds so much to our diet,” says Dr. Jeff Pettis of the Bee Research Laboratory.
California’s almond (杏仁) crop alone depends on about half the bees in the country. But now the almond crop and many others could be in trouble with so many bees dying.
Researchers at government and university labs all over the country are trying to figure out why so many bees are dying. However, bees are hard to study. Most die away from the hive, so researchers don’t have dead bodies to examine. And when researchers return to a hive after two weeks, about half the bees they studied on their first visit will be dead, replaced by new ones in the natural life cycle of bees. “It isn’t like studying a large animal like a cow that doesn’t move around much and is easy to find out in the cow field,” says Pettis.
Researchers have some ideas about what could be affecting bee health. They could be sick from poisons widely used to kill insects, or they might not be getting enough good food to stay strong. Also, tiny insects called mites feed on bees. “A virus or bacteria could also be doing the killing.” explains Pettis.
小题1:What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?| A．The wind helps pollinate. | | B．Bees are important in food crops. | | C．Bees give us a lot of delicious honey. | | D．Cherry trees are pollinated by bees. |
小题2:Bees are hard to study because ____________.| A．they move around too much | | B．new bees soon replace all the bees studied by researchers | | C．they are too tiny | | D．they never return to hives |
小题3:What could cause so many bees to die?| A．Poisons to kill birds. | B．Eating too much. | | C．Large insects. | D．Some virus. |
小题4:What can we learn from the article?| A．A large number of bees have died in the hive. | | B．Without bees, some foods would disappear from our diet. | | C．Only researchers in California want to know what kills bees. | | D．Large animals are easier to study than tiny insects. |
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A recent experiment held in Japan shows that it is almost impossible for people to walk exactly straight for 60 metres. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology found 20 healthy men and asked them to walk as straight as possible to a target 60 metres away at normal speed. Each man had to walk on white paper fixed flat to the floor wearing wet colored socks. The footprints revealed that all walked in a winding rather than a straight line. Researchers found that people readjust the direction of walking every few seconds. The amount of the winding differed from subject to subject. This suggests that none of us can walk in a strictly straight line. We walk in a winding way mainly because of a slight structural or functional imbalance of our limbs (四肢). Although we may start walking in a straight line, several steps afterwards we have changed direction.
Eyesight helps us to correct the direction of walking and leads us to the target. Your ears also help you walk. After turning around a lot with your eyes closed, you can hardly stand still, let alone walk straight.
It’s all because your ears help you balance. Inside your inner ear there is a structure which contains liquids. On the sides of the organ are many tiny hair-like structures that move around as the liquid flows. When you spin (旋转) the liquid inside also spins. The difference is that when you stop, the liquid continues to spin for a while. Dizziness is the result of these nerves in your ear. When you open your eyes, although your eyesight tells you to walk in a straight line, your brain will trust your ears more, thus you walk in a curved line.
小题1:The experiment held in Japan proved that _______.| A．the participants kept readjusting their direction of walking | | B．all the participants had a good sense of direction | | C．the experiment was done in different ways | | D．none of the participants finished the 60 metres |
小题2:The underlined word “subject” in Para. 1 refers to ________.| A．a person with a functional imbalance | | B．a person chosen to be studied in an experiment | | C．the subject one studies at school | | D．the direction of walking |
小题3:The purpose of writing the article is to ________.| A．prove that ears and eyes help us to walk straight | | B．explain why we can hardly walk in a strictly straight line | | C．point out the importance of noticing everyday science | | D．give background information about a latest study |
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Women work harder than men at university and get better degrees as a result, according to a study at Brunel University.
The research, which followed 200 students for four years, found that women consistently outperformed men in their studies even though they had started their courses with almost identical A-level grades.
An analysis of the results showed that while 65 percent of female graduates were awarded, only 35 percent of male graduates did as well. Girls are known to outperform boys at school, but this research showed that trend continued at university.
Fiona Smith, who led the research, said, “The research shows that the difference has something to do with schools in general.”
“It also shows something about the inequality for working women in terms of pay and promotion. Women work harder at school, harder at university, and do better at both, but they still receive less pay.”
The research found that female students were more faithful, less likely to miss lectures, and more likely to believe that their marks reflected their abilities than male students. Female students were also more likely to ask for and receive support from their professors.
Women were also more likely to choose their universities because they liked the courses offered.
In contrast, men were more likely than women to miss lectures due to “other affairs” and “laziness”, and to believe that playing sports was an important part of university life.
Generally, people think that women’s success comes from more emphasis on coursework, but the research showed that female geographers at Brunel did better in their exams than in their coursework.
Dr Smith said, “Most women feel that getting good grades is the most important part of university life. They believe that they need to work harder in order to compete in the male-dominated (男性主导的) environment they will encounter at work. Good grades are viewed as an ‘insurance policy’ for success. Men, on the other hand, prefer going out and playing sports to academic work.”
“This research shows how important it is to get all young people working hard and teach them the value of higher education,” he said.
小题1:The research at Brunel University showed that women ________.| A．did worse than men both at school and at university | | B．got better grades than men | | C．paid little attention to their courses | | D．often missed classes |
小题2:Which of the following about men is TRUE according to the passage?| A．They work as hard as women. | | B．They spend as much time on courses as women. | | C．They play a lot more than women. | | D．They consider good grades to be an “insurance policy” for success. |
小题3:We can infer from the results of the research that ________.| A．women do better both at school and at university | | B．female students are more likely to ask for and receive support from their professors | | C．compared with men, women are in an unfavorable condition in the male-dominated world | | D．it’s easier for women to get rises in pay and promotion |
小题4:The main purpose of the research is to _________.| A．give the government some advice on higher education | | B．show us some information about higher education | | C．show the sex difference in higher education | | D．make all students work hard and realize the importance of higher education |
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