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Computers are very important to modern life. Many people think that in the future computers will be used in lots of everyday life. It is thought that we won’t have to go shopping because we will be able to get most things which are sold in shops on the Internet. There will be no more books because we will be able to get all texts from computers. The Internet will be used to play games, see films and buy food. Most telephone calls will be made by computers, too.
Some people are glad about these new ways of shopping and communicating(交际). Others do not think that computers will replace our old ways.
Let’s look at books, for example. Some people think that one day we will not read books made of paper. Instead, we will buy and read books using computers. We will read texts on small pocket computers. The computers will keep many different books in them at the same time. We won’t need to turn lots of pages and paper will be saved. Computerized(计算机化) books will be used more and more.
Is Internet shopping such a pleasure as going to the shop? Many people say it is not. It is a pleasure to go in to shops and look at things you want to buy. It is also unlikely that many people will want to read large texts on our computers. Because paper books will perhaps be more friendly. Maybe computers won’t change these two habits.
1. In paragraph(段落)1 it is thought people will use computers for _______.
A. playing games, shopping and making telephone calls
B. making telephone calls, having meals and seeing films
C. seeing films, buying food, and going for holidays
D. playing games, making telephone calls and seeing the doctor
2. Which reason for using computerized books is NOT said in the passage?
A. Computerized books won’t be very expensive.
B. Computers can keep many different books in them.
C. We won’t have lots of pages.
D. We won’t need any paper.
3. Paragraph 4 tells _______.
A. about the old and new ways of shopping and communicating
B. if the Internet will change our habits
C. about computerized books
D. about future uses of computers
4. The title for this passage is _______.
A. Computers will Replace Shops and Books
B. Computers Are the Future
C. Computers will Do Everything for Man
D. How Computers Change Our Habits
【答案与解析】本文主要叙述计算机在未来生活中的应用以及计算机能否改变我们的一些生活习惯的问题。
1. A。细节题。在第一自然段中我们可知在未来计算机会涉及到我们日常生活的方方面面，其中提到了购物、玩游戏、看电影和打电话。
2. A。细节题。从文章的第三自然段中可知计算机可同时贮存许多本书，这样我们就不再看书本了，并且还节约了纸，computerized(计算机化) books 被使用的越来越多。但有一点理由没有说，那就是 computerized books 是非常贵的。
3. B。语义理解题。计算机虽给我们带来了许多便利，但有些人仍然喜欢到商店购物，paper books 仍旧受许多人的青睐，那么这 Internet 将是否改变人们的习惯呢?
4. B。主旨题。纵读全文(特别是开头的两句)可知，计算机与我们的生活息息相关，所以说…computers are the future。
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Paragraph 1
Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds. (2) citrus(柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal(谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.
Paragraph 2
People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw(生的) or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
Paragraph 3
There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry.
The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.
1. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?
A. chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages
B. potatoes, carrots, rice, bread
C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes
D. beef, pork, fish, milk
2. It is important for people to eat _______.
A. three times a day
B. dinner at twelve o’clock
C. cooked food all the day
D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day
3. People in different countries and different places of the world _______.
A. has the right kinds of food to eat
B. cooks their food in the same way
C. has their meals at the same time
D. eat food in different ways
4. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.
B. There are too many people in the world.
C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.
D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.
5. If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?
A. When people eat their lunch
B. What to do with the two problems
C. How to cook food in different ways
D. Why people eat different kinds of food
【答案与解析】文章第1段叙述人们每天必需的七类食品;第2段说明了最重要的是吃的是什么;最后一段介绍了要解决的两个问题。
1. A。细节判断题。根据文章中科学家所提供的人们每天必须的7类食品，可知作中餐食品的 A 类最佳。
2. D。细节题。根据Paragraph 2可知人们每天吃几餐不重要;在哪个时间进食不重要;吃生的或熟的、罐装的或冷冻的食品不重要，重要的是人们必须吃到这七类食品的每一种。
3. D。细节题。根据文章内容，不同的国家和地区，人们进食的方法也不一样。
4. C。细节题。在 Paragraph 3里要解决的二个问题之一就是 find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry(找到解决饥饿问题的方法)。所以C项说法是错误的。
5. B。推断题。在 Paragraph 3里提到要解决的两个问题，如果有 Paragraph 4，那么应该就是议论如何来解决这两个问题。
