高考英语考前训练每天7道题第236天

高考英语考前训练每天7道题第236天 20201,At Dallas/ Fort Worth Airport, the lights are controlled by sensors that measure sunlight. They dim immediately when it’s sunny and brighten when a passing cloud blocks the sun.A wall of windows at a University of Pennsylvania engineering building has built-in blinds(百叶窗) controlled by a computer program that follows the sun’s path.Buildings are getting smarter－and the next generation of building materials is expected to do even more.Windows could catch the sun’s energy to heat water. Sensors that measure the carbon dioxide breathed out by people in a room could determine whether the air conditioning needs to be turned up. Many new materials and technology have been designed in the last 15 years. They are now being used in a wave of buildings designed to save as much energy as possible. They include old ideas, like “green roofs,”where a belt of plants on a roof helps the building keep heat in winter and stay cool in summer, and new ideas, like special coating for windows that lets light in, but keeps heat out.As technologies such as sensors become cheaper, their uses spread. The elevators at Seven World Trade Center, which is underconstruction in New York, use a system that groups people traveling to nearby floors into the same elevator, thus saving elevator stops. People who work in the building will enter it by swiping ID cards that will tell the elevators their floor; readouts will then tell them which elevator to use. The building also has windows with a coating that blocks heat while letting in light.More new building materials and technology are in development.A Philadelphia building firm is now working on “smart wrap” that uses tiny solar collectors to catch the sun’s energy and transmitters the width of a human hair to move it. They are expected to change the face of the construction industry in the next ten years or so.1. ________ will be developed and used in the construction industry.A. “Green roofs” that cool or heat buildingsB. “Smart wrap” that catches the sun’s energyC. Sunlight-measuring sensors that control lightsD. Window coating that lets light in, but keeps heat out2. The elevators at Seven World Trade Center are special because they can ________.A. send people to floors with fewer stopsB. teach people how to use their ID cardsC. make people stay very cool in summerD. help people go travelingin the building3. The underlined word “it”in the last paragraph refers to _________.A. a human hairB. smart wrapC. the sun’s energyD. a transmitter4. What might be the most suitable title for the text?A. Buildings Are Becoming SmarterB. Buildings Are Getting More SunlightC. Buildings Are Lacking in Much EnergyD. Buildings Are Using Cheaper Materials2,I recently wrote an autobiography in which I recalled many old memories. One of them was from my school days, when our ninth grade teacher, Miss Raber, would pick out words from the Reader’s Digest to test our vocabulary.Today, more than 45 years later, I always check out “It pays to Enrich your Word Power” first when the Digest comes each month.I am impressed with that idea, word power. Reader’s Digest knows the power that words have to move people -- to entertain, inform, and inspire. The Digest editors know that the big word isn’t always the best word. Take just one example, a Quotable Quote from the February 1985 issue: “Time is a playful thing. It slips quickly and drinks the day like a bowl of milk.”Seventeen words, only two of them more than one syllable, yet how much they convey! That’s usually how it is with Reader’s Digest.Small and simple can be profound (意义深远).As chairman of a foundation to restore the Statue of Liberty, I’ve been making a lot of speeches lately. I try to keep them fairly short. I use small but vivid words: words like “hope”, “guts”, “faith”, “dreams”. Those are words that move people and say so much about the spirit of America.Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against using big words, when it is right to do so, but I have also learned that a small word can work a miracle -- if it’s the right word, in the right place, at the right time. It’s a “secret” that I hope I never forget.1. The passage is mainly about.A. one of the many old memoriesB. using simple words to express profound ideasC. Reader’s Digest and school speechesD. how to make effective speeches2. It seems that Reader’s Digest is a magazine popular with .A. people of all agesB. teenagersC. school teachersD. elderly readers3. The author’s “secret” is .A. to avoid using big words at any timeB. to use words that have the power to move peopleC. to work a miracle by using a small wordD. to use small and simple words where possible4. According to the author, words that have power can give people .A. hope, courage, and ideasB. confidence, determination, and strengthC. pleasure, knowledge, and encouragementD. humor, information, and power3,A. Gesichter of OrientsDocuments of the life of the various cultures who lived in the region of present-day Jordan, from the early Neolithic (8th century B.C.) to the early Islamic period. Besides, there are documents about other religious group.B. Covering the RealWorks by Warhol, Richter, Polke, Baldessari and another 20 artists show the relationship between art of different ages in different ways-photography, painting, video, installation and the press picture.C. At Home with ter BorchWhile Gerard ter Borch the younger is well known as a Dutch master, few people know that the other members of the family were also highly skilled in art. The exhibition shows about 80 drawings by ter Broch, his father and his half-brothers and sister.D. Robert Couturier: 100Ans of SculptorCelebrate the 100th birthday of the French sculptor, the exhibition brings together more than 100 sculptures and drawings. Couturier, who developed a close relationship with Maillol, found hisinspiration in the human body, and use stone, plaster and bronze to express it.E. Follow me! Chinese Art at the Treshold of the New Millennium Looks at the work of 19 artists born after 1960 who escaped the ideological influence of the Cultural Revolution. Everyday life and separation in the new age and in the big cities, as well as marks of the Revolution.F. China Crossroads of CultureExplores the development of Chinese art from the Han through the Tang dynasties, a period when waves of conquest, trade and immigration along the Silk Road set off a new Chinese creativity. The 200 items include objects in jade, gold, silver, textiles, works on paper and wall painting.请阅读以下个人信息，然后为其选择合适的地方。