四川省眉山市2014-2015学年高一下学期期末统考 英语试题(2)

25. While you are taking great pains to write a research report, _______ can most probably be a help. A. Wikipedia

B. SparkNotes

C. D. Facebook 26. is a place_______. A. where you can make friends all over the country

B. where you can communicate with your professors C. that gives you information about professors in advance D. that gives tips on how to get along with your professors

27. Which of the following will you most probably refer to, if you need brief ideas for class discussion in reading? A. Wikipedia.

B. Facebook.

C. SparkNotes. . 28. The passage was mainly written to_______. A. explain some websites for parents B. compare some educational websites C. introduce different parts of a website D. offer some websites that may help students

C

Are you willing to work for a robot boss? Sorry if your answer is "no", because it will be common in the near future, according to the researchers from the Oxford.

Deloitte, the Oxford Martin School and the University of Oxford found.

Wired magazine went further. "It may be hard to believe, but before the end of this century, 70 percent of today's jobs will be replaced by automation(自动化技术)," said the magazine in 2012.

Of course, people being replaced by robots is not recent news. Robots have been taking over labor work in factories and on farms for some time, lifting heavy boxes and picking fruit and vegetables. Next, cleaning jobs in offices and schools will be taken over by late-night robots, starting with easy-to-do floors and windows and eventually moving to toilets, Wired predicted.

But that's just the beginning. Even white-collar jobs are not safe. Any jobs dealing with sales and services or lots of paperwork could be taken over by robots in the future. For example, in the UK, library assistants have decreased by 48 percent since 2001, sales-related jobs have fallen by 40 percent, and travel agents by 44 percent, the Daily Mail reported.

But that doesn't mean that human beings will have nothing to do in the future. Instead, we need to update our

skills. Digital know-how, management and creativity will be in greater need in the future, said British Consulting Company Deloitte.

29. The underlined sentence means _______. A. a third of British jobs are dangerous B. a third of British jobs are well-paid

C. British people may replace a third of robots' jobs D. British people may lose a third of their jobs

30. In the fifth paragraph, the writer's opinion is made believable mainly by_______. A. telling stories B. using figures C. making comparisons D. asking questions

31. From the passage, we know the following jobs are disappearing except _______. A. workers in factories and farms B. library assistants C. salesmen D. architect

D

The bed should be used as a place for sleep, but more and more people like to read an iPad a lot in bed before they go to sleep.

Charles Czeisler, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and his coworkers got a small group of people for an experiment. For five days in a row, these people read either a paper book or an iPad for four hours before sleep. Their sleep patterns were monitored all night. Before and after each trial period, they took hourly blood tests to paint a day-long picture of just how much melatonin(褪黑激素) was in their blood at any time.

When the people read the iPad as compared to the paper books, they felt less sleepy at night and less active the following morning. People also took longer to fall asleep on the iPad nights, and the blood tests showed that their melatonin secretion(分泌) was delayed by an hour and a half.

The researchers concluded that because of the rise of e-readers and the widespread use of e-things among children and teenagers, more research into the "long-term influence of these e-things on health and safety is

urgently needed." Czeisler and coworkers went on, in the research paper, to point out that reading an iPad in bed may increase cancer risk.

However, software has been developed that can reduce some of the blue light from the screens of phones and computers, and there are also glasses that are made to reduce short wavelengths. While they seem like a logic solution for the nighttime tech users, it needs more research.

32. In Charles Czeisler's experiment, the group of people were asked to_______. A. sit in a row and receive the strict tests B. have their sleep patterns observed all night C. read a paper book and an iPad before sleep D. have their blood tested per hour during the trial

33. The third paragraph tells us the iPad readers were likely to_______. A. feel less sleepy and tired in the day B. fall asleep more easily after reading C. become less energetic the next morning D. have a lot more melatonin secretion

34. The special software recently developed can _______. A. reduce the blue light from the screens completely B. help prevent eyes being harmed by short wavelengths C. reduce the harm caused by doing nighttime e-reading D. be used in all the e-things widely and safely 35. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. No e-reading in bed before sleep B. New software for night e-readers C. Wrong things to do before bedtime D. No games on iPad in bed

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