heavy是什么意思高二下学期英语阅读理解题训练99(含答案)

2021年1月26日发(作者：加班费)
高二下学期英语阅读理解训练
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Our favorite tech gifts of 2019
When
it
comes
time
for
the
holiday
shopping
season,
we’re
extra
choosy
about
the
countless
technology products that we will
buy and give to friends and family. Here’s what impressed editors,
reporters and producers the most in 2019.
Lumos Matrix
I recently bought a Lumos Matrix helmet (
头盔
) ($$229) with built-in lights to make riding my
bike at night a lot safer and less stressfu
l. It’s a regular pain point for bikers like me to make sure
absent-
minded drivers see you, especially when it’s dark. This definitely helps.

—

Matt Mcfarland, Writer

Goodreads app
Although this isn’t a gift, the free
Goodreads app is a gamechanger. At the beginning of 2019, I
promised myself I’d read at least one new book every month. I set a goal of 12 books on Goodreads
and used it to track my progress, keep a list of books I’m interested in and check out what friends and
others
on the app were recommending. I read 35 books this year! (That’s up from five books last year.)
Goodreads feels like one of the rare feel-good social networks.

—

Kaya Yurieff
,
Tech Reporter

Ember coffee cup
I drink my coffee slowly so it has routinely cooled by the time I get halfway through it. For my
birthday, my mum bought me a cup ($$99), which keeps my coffee warm until I finish it without trips to
the microwave for reheating. I can also set the specific temperature I want. It makes my mornings so
much easier.
—
Millie Dent, Intern

1. What is the main advantage of Lumos Matrix

helmet?




A. Helping drivers concentrate.




C. Making bikers less painful.




B. Managing the bad weather.










D. Making night riding safer.

2. What does the writer mean by referring to the Goodreads app as “a gamechanger”?




A. It inspires readers to read more through interactions.




B. It limits the number of books a reader can read.




C. It provides readers with free internet games.




D. It changes some readers’ reading rules.

3.
Which of the following can best describe Ember coffee cup?




A. Eco
-
friendly.



B. Expensive.


B

At England’s University of Plymouth, Professor Eduardo Miranda has been programming pairs of
robots to compose music. Miranda’s robots have simple “vocal cords” (
声带
) and are programmed to
sing and to listen to each other. The robots’ unique warbling sounds (
颤音
) do not perfectly match the
human voice, but each machine is exactly sharing music with the other in a new and unique way.















Each robot is equipped with speakers, software that mimics the human voice, a mouth that opens
as it “sings,” a microphone for ears, and a camera for eyes. The robots also move. Miranda hopes that
by studying his robot vocalists, he can discover something about how and why humans create, perform,
and listen to music.

When the robots sing, first one robot makes six random sounds. Its partner responds with more
sounds. The first robot analyzes the sounds to see if their sequences (
序列
) are similar. If they are, it
nods its head and commits the sounds to memory, and the second robot notices and “memorizes” the
musical sequence, too. If the first robot thinks the sounds are too different, it shakes its head and both
robots ignore the sounds. Then the process continues.

Miranda set up an experiment in which he left the two robots alone in his study for two weeks.
When he returned, his little warblers had, by imitating each other, not only shared notes but combined
them. The product of their cooperation was far from symphonic, but the robots had begun to combine
the notes into their own self
-
developed “songs”.

With the help of his warbling robots, one of Miranda’s goals is to create music that no human
would ever compose. Miranda believes the robots are ideal for this purpose because they would not be
influenced by any existing musical styles or rules.

4. Which is closest in meaning to the underlined word “mimics” in Paragraph 2?


C. Convenient.


D. Simple.




A. Controls.





C. Substitutes.











B. Copies.












D. Interrupts.

5. What did the two robots do during Miranda’s experiment?

A. They ignored the unique sound.


B. They interacted with each other.


C. They learned to sing better than humans.

D. They committed random sounds to memory.

6. What does Miranda want his robots to do?

A. Sing as well as humans do.


C. Create new styles of music.


7. What is the text mainly about?

A. Experiments by Miranda.

C. Future robots.










B. Special songs.


D. Music by robots.

C

George Nakashima always insisted that he was a simple woodworker, not an artist. Even though
major museums exhibited his works and the director of the American Craft Museum called him a
national treasure, Mr. Nakashima rejected the label of artist. For almost fifty years he simply went on
shaping wood into beautiful chairs, tables, and cabinets.



Nakashima
had
a
clear
goal.
He
intended
each
piece
of
furniture
he
made
to
be
as
perfect
as
possible. Even making a box was an act of creation, because it produced an object that had never
existed
before.
Initially
Nakashima
used
local
wood,
sometimes
from
his
own
property.
Later,
he
traveled to seek out English oak, Persian walnut, African zebra wood and Indian teak. He especially
liked to find giant roots that had been dug out of the ground after a tree was taken down. Nakashima
felt that making this wood into furniture was a way of allowing the tree to live again.



Most furniture makers prefer perfect boards, but Nakashima took pleasure in using wood with
interesting knots (
节疤
) and cracks. These irregularities gave the wood personality and showed that the
tree had lived a happy life.

He never failed to create an object that was both useful and beautiful. One early piece Nakashima




B. Memorize a variety of music.

D. Promote traditional musical styles.