高二英语阅读训练14

高二英语阅读训练14

第一部分: 完型填空

You and I agree to meet at four-thirty. I show up at 4:33. I don’t say anything,because that’s close enough to satisfy our social __1___. Only after five minutes do you ___2___ me to say, “sorry I’ m late.” At ten minutes I owe you an ___3__: “the free way exit was closed. I had to go four miles out of my way.” After twenty minutes I have to make a full and serious __4__ .After forty minutes I’d better not ___5___ at all.

That sort of thing ----so formally __6__ and never explicitly stated----- drives people from other cultures __7___. Anthropologists (人类学家）list the __8___ things to cope with inn a foreign land . Second only to the language barrier is the way we deal with __9__.

Now psychologists look at our __10__of time another way. They go into several countries and measure the ___11___ of life. They measure the accuracy of bank clocks and how fast city residents walk. They time transactions (交易)in banks and post offices . They see ___12___ people take to answer questions.

Japanese keep a ___13___of the fastest pace. Americans are a ___14___ second. Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the ___15___. Italians give long answers to your questions. Indonesians don’t __16__ setting their bank clocks.

__17__ American cities, Boston and Kansas City are fastest. New York is up there, of course, but we keep a faster pace here in Houston, California’s “slow -pace”reputation is ___18___, as the slowest pace of all is kept in Los Angeles.

In a technology-dense world, the tension of life has changed our view of time. __19__, if we are smart enough, we should not live by the clock only when we have to.

Now it’s 4:55. I’m walking ___20___, towards our 4:30 meeting.

1. A. contract B. connection C. construction D. confidence

2. A. order B. intend C. require D. expect

3. A. action B. announcement C. explanation D. eruption

4. A. apology B. excuse C. option D. opinion

5. A. look up B. stay up C. keep up D. show up

6. A. observed B. introduced C. impressed D. imitated

7. A. immoral B. unaware C. crazy D. thrilled

8. A. fastest B. toughest C. strangest D. funniest

9. A. study B. time C. budget D. transport

10. A. view B. comment C. contact D. phenomenon

11. A. rhyme B .pace C. ratio D. session

12. A. how often B. how far C. how soon D. how long

13. A. tradition B. note C. record D. secret

14. A. narrow B. shallow C. close D. severe

15. A. mood B. address C. reference D. list

16. A. take over B. care about C. reply to D. answer for

17. A. Off B. Among C. Despite D. Besides

18. A. ruined B. accomplished C. erased D. deserved

19. A. However B. Therefore C. Thus D. Rather

20. A. consistently B. unconsciously C. unhurriedly D. anxiously

第二部分: 阅读理解

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Flickering lights are annoying but they may have an advantage. Visible light communication (VLC) uses rapid pluses of light to transmit information wirelessly. Now it may be ready to compete with conventional Wi-Fi.

In a recent TED talk, Harald Hasas from the University of Edinburg, UK demonstrated one VLC prototype(原型），“Li-Fi", transmitting a video from a store-bought LED lamp to a solar cell to a laptop. “Li-Fi is essentially the same as Wi-Fi, except for a small difference- we use