小括号2019英语四级考试精读荟萃100篇练习题(11)

2021年1月14日发(作者：司马昱)
2019英语四级考试精读荟萃100篇练习题(11)

(The only way to travel is on foot)

The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by
anthropologists. Descriptions like ‘ Palaeolithic Man’,
‘Neolithic Man’, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When
the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to
the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label
‘Legless Man’. Histories of the time will go something like
this： ‘in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use
their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and
trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators
in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This
situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because
of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they
didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They
built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every
huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by
the presence of large car parks. ’

The future history books might also record that we were
deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one
place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air
travel gives you a bird’s-eye view of the world – or even
less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way.
When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the
countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in
particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and
on： they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great
motorways, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves
mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old