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1、阅读提升作业 一Module 1Period 1阅读理解A A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one another. I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day a
2、nd. . . I became invisible, absent from the conversation. The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel?Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closen
3、ess of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine. As alm
4、ost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation(疏远)index goes up. You cant even call a person to get the phone number of another person anymore. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated. I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM
5、card, a voice mail system, and an e-mail account. Giving them up isnt wise; theyre a great help to us. Its some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy. More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation, or being relieved that voice mail picked up b
6、ecause I didnt really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier, or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts. So Ive put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no cell phoning in the presence of friend
7、s, no letting the voice mail pick up when Im at home. 【语篇概述】现代科技的发展给人们的生活带来了极大的便利, 人们逐渐习惯于使用电子邮件、电话等途径进行交谈、交流。然而, 科技带给人们便利的同时, 也在逐渐地让人们变得疏远。1. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?A. The Advance of Communications TechnologyB. The Consequences of Modern TechnologyC. The Story
8、 of the Communications RevolutionD. The Automation of Modern Communications【解析】选B。主旨大意题。根据第二段“I became invisible, absent from the conversation. ”和第三段“Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction. ”可知, 科技带给人们不好的影响是让人们逐渐变得疏远, 文章着重讲的是现代科技的负面作用。2. The sen
9、tence“Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent”means that _ . A. the people sitting beside you have to go away to receive a phone callB. you can hardly get in touch with the people sitting beside youC. modern technology makes it hard for people to have a face-to-face talkD. people can now
10、 go to work without going to the office【解析】选C。推理判断题。根据第二段“. . . and his cell phone rang. . . I became invisible, absent from the conversation. ”和第三段“we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another”可知, 当朋友接电话的时候, 作者仿佛成了摆设, 随着科技的发展, 人们通过电话、邮件等途径进行交谈, 这使得面对面的交谈变得很难。3. The writer feels t
11、hat the use of modern communications is _ . A. satisfyingB. encouragingC. disappointingD. embarrassing【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据倒数第三段“Its some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy. ”可知, 本该让人们的生活变得更方便的现代科技却在使人们变得疏远, 现代科技的一些不好的影响让作者感到不舒服。4. The passage implies that _ . A. modern technology is
12、bridging peopleB. modern technology is separating peopleC. modern technology is developing too fastD. modern technology is interrupting our communication【解析】选B。推理判断题。根据第四段“As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. ”和第六段“The industry dev
13、oted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier, or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts. ”可知, 每当科技有了新发展, 人们的联系方式变得更自动化, 人与人之间的疏远指数就会上升, 帮助人们保持联系的科技却让人变得更孤独, 助长了人们不喜欢社交的本能。BThe majority of astronauts from America have been men. At the start of the space programme, there was strong re
14、sistance from some people against having women in space. However, some women were very keen to become astronauts and in the end they were successful. In 1978, NASA began the first training programme for women astronauts. Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe were both astronauts and they were both wome
15、n, but in many other ways they were very different. Both of them were on Flight STS51L. Judy Resnick was born in 1949 and studied engineering at university and went on to obtain a PhD in 1977. She was a member of the first group of women selected for astronaut training in 1978, and in 1984, she beca
16、me the second woman in space. During that flight, she helped to launch three new satellites and she carried out a programme of research. She was, in many ways, a professional astronaut whose whole life was devoted to space travel. Christa McAuliffe was born in 1948 and she was an astronaut almost by accident. In 1984, NASA decided to find a teacher who could accompany astro
