Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor cars ________ a hundred miles in more than an hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of ________ seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts(吹嘘) of ________ precious seconds in handling tasks.
All these save time, but at a cost. When we lose or ________ 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(时差). Our bodies feel that they have been ________ behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at ________ results in painful wrists(手腕) and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers: too much use may transmit harmful ________ into our brains.
However, how do we ________ the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so used to constant activity that we find it ________ to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a ________ . Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen ________ 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(耕作) of the ________ or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace. There is much that we might envy about a ________ of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors ________ . Modern machines have ________ people from that primitive(原始的) existence.
21. A.explore | B.get | C.cover | D.fly |
22. A.speed | B.time | C.product | D.distance |
23. A.wasting | B.losing | C.saving | D.spending |
24. 25. A.left | B.come | C.forgotten | D.felt |
26. A.ships | B.airplanes | C.computers | D.cars |
27. A.prevention | B.radiation | C.combination | D.damage |
28. A.control | B.handle | C.do | D.deal |
29. A.uncomfortable | B.easy | C.difficult | D.good |
30. A.second | B.day | C.year | D.time |
31. A.actively | B.quietly | C.quickly | D.curiously |
32. A.surface | B.water | C.land | D.island |
33. A.way | B.view | C.pathway | D.point |
34. A.expressed | B.charged | C.inspired | D.faced |
35. A.freed | B.remained | C.kept | D.cleared |