1 . 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.
1. | A．explore | B．get | C．cover | D．fly |
2. | A．speed | B．time | C．product | D．distance |
3. | A．wasting | B．losing | C．saving | D．spending |
4. 5. | A．left | B．come | C．forgotten | D．felt |
6. | A．ships | B．airplanes | C．computers | D．cars |
7. | A．prevention | B．radiation | C．combination | D．damage |
8. | A．control | B．handle | C．do | D．deal |
9. | A．uncomfortable | B．easy | C．difficult | D．good |
10. | A．second | B．day | C．year | D．time |
11. | A．actively | B．quietly | C．quickly | D．curiously |
12. | A．surface | B．water | C．land | D．island |
13. | A．way | B．view | C．pathway | D．point |
14. | A．expressed | B．charged | C．inspired | D．faced |
15. | A．freed | B．remained | C．kept | D．cleared |
