Question

Modern inventions have speeded up people's lives amazingly. Motor cars cover a hundred miles in light 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(吹噓) 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 computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also                   , according to some scientists；too much use may put 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(耕耘) 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 make tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
小題1:What's the passage mainly about?(within 10 words)
                                                                       
小題2:List the difficulties our ancestors met according to the text.(within 15 words)
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小題3:Fill in the blank in the 2nd paragraph with proper words or phrases.
                                                                       
小題4:Why do we make new products more and more time-saving according to Paragraph 1 of this passage?
                                                                       
小題5:Translate the underlined sentence in the 3rd paragraph into Chinese.
                                                                       
                                                                       

Answer 1

小題1:Modern technology and its influence.
小題2:①farming with bare hands.
②living close to hunger.
③making tools from wood and stone.
小題3:have their danger/ have bad effects on us
小題4:Because our love of speed seems never ending.
小題5:那些我們可以聆聽(tīng)電臺(tái)里的音樂(lè), 讓思緒飛揚(yáng)的時(shí)代已經(jīng)遠(yuǎn)去了。

試題分析：文章主要講述了科技給人們的生活帶來(lái)的改變。人們對(duì)速度的追求使科技不斷得到更新，科技發(fā)展節(jié)約下來(lái)的時(shí)間并沒(méi)有被用來(lái)進(jìn)行放松。
小題1:根據(jù)“Modern inventions have speeded up people's lives amazingly...All this saves time, but at a price.”可知，文章主要講的是當(dāng)代技術(shù)發(fā)明和它的影響。故填Modern technology and its influence.
小題2:根據(jù)“they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to make tools from wood and stone.”可知，祖先面臨的困難有：徒手耕作、挨餓和用木頭、石頭制作工具。故填①farming with bare hands. ②living close to hunger. ③making tools from wood and stone.
小題3:根據(jù)“too much use may put harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about”可知，這里說(shuō)的是手機(jī)不好的一面，故填have their danger/ have bad effects on us。
小題4:根據(jù)“Indeed, this love of speed seems never ending.”可知，人們對(duì)速度的追求似乎沒(méi)有終點(diǎn)，故填Because our love of speed seems never ending.
小題5:the days are long gone when...是一個(gè)定語(yǔ)從句，letting imagination take us into another world是非謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞作伴隨狀語(yǔ)，故翻譯為：那些我們可以聆聽(tīng)電臺(tái)里的音樂(lè), 讓思緒飛揚(yáng)的時(shí)代已經(jīng)遠(yuǎn)去了。