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　　2014-2015学年度第二学期 模块测试
　　高二英语
　　第I卷　共60分
　　第一部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
　　第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
　　A
　　“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell. ”This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lived in Rome in AD 52 wrote it.
　　We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improve the quality of our lives?
　　Picture this: You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How calm and happy do you feel?
　　Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have not telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead a simpler life.
　　One family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10, and Tomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.
　　The grandmother, Lyn, said, “It was hard physically, but not mentally.” She believed life was less materialistic. “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes,” She said. The boys said they found less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a “trendy（时髦的）, beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things.”
　　Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!
　　Don’t be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t checr e-mail every day. Don’t reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying.
　　1. The passage is mainly about __________.
　　A. improvements of technology            B. troubles with technology
　　C. the importance of technology D. major changes in technology
　　2. The writer quoted（引用）what a citizen in ancient Rome said at the beginning to __________.
　　A. tell us what life was like          B. mas wonder what life is
　　C. tell us a truth about life D. point out some big problems
　　3. The family choose to spend some time in a 1940’s house because they ___________.
　　A. had trouble in their daily life B. liked to live a simple life
　　C. were tired of modern inventions      D. were curious about the life then
　　4. What do you thinnderlined word “available” mean?
　　A. on hand         B. on line          C. able to use          D. free to leave
　　5. According to the writer of the passage, we know that ___________.
　　A. new inventions may bring people some trouble
　　B. We would feel stressed without the new inventions
　　C. new inventions have improved the quality of our lives
　　D. People far away from noisy cities never seem to be happier
　　B
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