2019届一轮复习人教版必修五Unit 1 Great scientists 单元测试 (3)

Unit 1 Great scientists 单元测试Ⅰ.阅读理解AJust as the summer draws to a close, I will finally get away on holiday: I have rented a cottage deep in the mountains at the end of the month. What attracted me most was not so much its beautiful countryside, but the word of caution offered by previous visitors. “Please note，”they said, “there is no WiFi here or mobile phone coverage, unless you climb to the top of the nearest mountain.”That's wonderful! A week without feeling the need to check my email for the handful of important messages. While you can always choose not to check your email while on holiday, how many of us have the willpower to ignore the arrival of yet another message, or how many of us can risk losing trust from your boss?There is good news for the employees. The managers of the German car giant Daimler have offered their 100,000 employees an app that automatically deletes all emails sent to their work accounts while they are on holiday. Alternatively, they can be forwarded to a colleague. “Our employees should relax on holiday and not read work-life emails，”said Wilfried Porth, Daimler's board member for human resources. “With ‘Mail on Holiday’，they start back after the holidays with a clean desk. There is no traffic jam in their mailbox. That is an emotional relief.”The idea of a regular digital detox(禁令) is catching on. The Germans believe that it restores a more sensible work-life balance and helps prevent employee “burn-out”. V olkswagen's phone servers have stopped sending emails to employees' BlackBerrys during the evenings. Bosses at Deutsche Telekom agreed to stop sending emails to staff during the evenings, weekends and holidays. Germany's labour ministry, meanwhile, has also instructed its managers to stop emailing or calling staff out-of-hours except in an emergency.So, good for Daimler. It recognizes that too many of us have been unable to look up from our phones or iPads. I can't wait to get up to that cottage without any internet connection.Though doubtless after a day or two, I'll be climbing up the nearest mountain, desperately searching for a mobile signal.语篇导读本文为说明文，介绍了一款APP，其功能是过滤邮件，让员工享有不受工作邮件干扰的假期。

1．What makes the author happy about his vacation?A．Beautiful scenery. B．No mobile signals.C．Access only to vital emails. D．Disappearance from the boss.解析B细节理解题。

根据第一段第二、三句可知，没有WiFi，没有手机信号覆盖，可以不受电话和工作邮件的打扰，故选B项。

2．What is the advantage of “Mail on Holiday”？A．It can help clean desks. B．It can delete work accounts.C．It can provide traffic information. D．It can forward emails to workmates.解析D细节理解题。

根据第三段…they can be forwarded to a colleague可知，此款APP 的功能是可以将邮件转寄给同事，故选D项。

3．What's the purpose of digital detox?A．To reduce emails.B．To stop using phones in the evenings.C．To call for help in case of emergency.D．To keep balance between work and life.解析D细节理解题。

根据第四段第二句可知，digital detox能让员工在工作和生活之间重新建立一种合理的平衡，也有助于避免让员工过度劳累，故选D项。

4．What do we know about the author from the last paragraph?A．He finds the cottage boring. B．He needs digital service badly.C．He enjoys life without phones. D．He likes climbing the mountains.解析B推理判断题。

根据最后一段可知，作者强调的是最后一句，即使去了没有信号的地方度假，过不了几天也会拼命地去搜索手机信号，故选B项。

BIf you're ever reading a book or watching a movie and get the clear feeling that you've come across the story before—or even better, can predict exactly what's going to happen next—there could be a good reason for that.Researchers from the Computational Story Laboratory at the University of Vermont studied the complete text of some 1,737 fiction works available on Project Gutenberg, an online collection of more than 50,000 digital books in the public area. They discovered that English literature consist of just six kinds of emotional arcs(情感弧线) that make up nearly all of the most well-known stories. By analyzing the sentiment(情感)of language used in these texts, the researchers were able to show the emotional ups and downs for the stories as a whole. They discovered that negative words like “poverty”，“dead”，and “punishment” dragged the emotion down, while positive terms like “love”，“peace”，and “friend” brought it up.According to the researchers, those six core emotional arcs are：●“Rags to riches” (An ongoing emotional rise)●“Tragedy, or riches to rags” (An ongoing emotional fall)●“Man in a hole” (A fall followed by a rise)●“Icarus” (A rise followed by a fall)●“Cinderella” (Rise-fall-rise)●“Oedipus” (Fall-rise-fall)Interestingly, based on download statistics from Project Gutenberg, the researchers say the most popular stories are ones that use more complex emotional arcs, with the Cinderella and Oedipus arcs registering the most downloads. Also popular are works that combine these core arcs together in new ways within one story, such as two “Man in a hole” arcs stuck together, or the “Cinderella” arc coupled with a tragic ending.语篇导读本文为说明文。