7744-casesensitive
Module 7
Unit
1
Living with
technology
Ⅰ
.
单项填空
1.
—
Mary didn't
turn up at my birthday party as she had promised.
—
No surprise at
all. That's just ______ of her.
A.
ashamed
B.
certain
C. typical
D. critical
2. This woman
succeeds in her career ______ the sacrifice of her
family.
A. at
B.
for
C. with
D.
through
3. Bored with all
those tasks, he decided to take a week off ______.
A. winding up
B. to wind up
C. winding
down
D. to wind
down
4. I ______ my homework and was
about to go to bed when my father came back from
work
last night.
A. would
finish
B. have
finished
C. was finishing
D. had finished
5.
—
How's your sleep problem recently, Mrs. Smith?
—
Oh, it is almost not
troubling me any more. I ______ take sleeping
pills now.
A. eventually
B. badly
C. rarely
D. seriously
6.
—
The worst thing about a
party is clearing up afterwards.
—
But if we deal with it
without delay, we can get it all ______ in an
hour.
A. to do
B. do
C. doing
D. done
7. The girl was so touched
by the audience's warm welcome ______ for a moment
she was at a
loss for words.
A. until
B. when
C. that
D.
since
8. To my great disappointment, my
report was ______
，
and all my work on it went for nothing.
A. presented
B. rejected
C.
refused
D. completed
9.
My
classmate
Lily
has
made
great
progress
in
her
English
study
this
term
and
deserves
______.
A. to praise
B. to be praised
C. praised
D. being praised
10.
—
Look, your
glass is broken. I'll get you ______.
—
Thank you.
A.
the other
B. other
C. the others
D. another
11. I won't tell my son the answer to
the physics problem until
he ______ on
it for half an hour.
A. has been
working
B. will have worked
C. is working
D. had worked
12. Thanks to those
hard-
working actors and actresses, the
television ______ of the stage play
was
very successful.
A. translation
B. solution
C. evolution
D. adaptation
13. At the foot of the mountain
______
，
which has
a population of no more than 10,000.
A.
is a quiet small town lying
B. lies a quiet small town
C. does a quiet small town
lie
D. a quiet small town
is lying
14. Frank put the
medicine in the top drawer to make sure it would
not be ______ to the kids.
A. accessible
B. relative
C.
acceptable
D. sensitive
15. ______ more time with her children
after work, the woman works very hard even without
taking a rest in the company.
A. Spend
B. Spending
C.
To spend
D. Having spent
Ⅱ
.
完形填空
A
China's Shenzhou-
9 capsule,
with its crew of three, docked
(
对接
)with the
Tiangong-
1 space
lab. The
__1__ of the flying vehicles occurred at
14
：
07 Beijing time.
The latest Shenzhou mission
was launched on Saturday, taking the nation's
first __2__ astronaut
into orbit.
33-
year-
old Liu Yang, the
first Chinese woman in space, flew with __3__ Jing
Haipeng,
46, and fellow flight
engineer, Liu Wang, 42.
It was another
two hours after the docking before the astronauts
moved between the vehicles.
They first
had to wait for pressures inside the vehicles to
be __4__ before they could open the
hat
ches(
舱盖
)
．
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Jing
Haipeng,
who
headed
the
crew,
led
the
way
into
the
lab,
followed
by
Mr
Liu.
Ms
Liu
__5__ stayed behind in
the Shenzhou capsule in case of __6__.
A video camera inside Tiangong relayed
pictures of the entrance of the two men, who waved
into the camera. They immediately __7__
checking systems in the Tiangong-
1
space lab. After 20
minutes, Ms Liu
followed her male colleagues into Tiangong, and
the three then turned to the camera
as
a group to __8__.
This is China's
fourth manned mission. It followed last year's
unmanned Shenzhou-
8 successful
docking with the Tiangong-
1
space lab, which gave China the __9__ to put
astronauts on the current
flight.
Monday's docking was a(n) __10__
procedure. That is to say, it was computers
—
rather than
the
crew that were in charge of events. The union
happened at a(n) __11__ of about 340km (210
miles) over the earth. Ms Liu operated
a handheld video camera to record the moment of
docking.
During
the
flight,
a
range
of
scientific
experiments
were
__12__
，
including
a
number
of
medical
tests. At some point in the next few days, the
astronauts were to attempt a
manual(
手动
)
docking.
1. A.
joining
B.
separating
C. crashing
D. interacting
2. A. young
B. old
C. male
D. female
3. A. Operator
B. Commander
C.
Programmer
D.
Designer
4. A. great
B. weak
C. equal
D. sensitive
5.
A. calmly
B. initially
C. excitedly
D. eventually
6.
A. emergency
B.
accidents
C. necessity
D. fires
7. A.
put off
B. gave up
C. stuck to
D.
set about
8. A. sign
B. perform
C. speak
D. wave
9. A.
confidence
B.
power
C. permission
D. gift
10. A. gradual
B. specific
C. automatic
D. smooth
11. A. attitude
B. altitude
C. distance
D.
length
12. A. carried out
B. called off
C. showed off
D.
made up
B
Streaming
is
a
technique
for
transferring
data
so
that
it
can
be
processed
as
a
steady
and
continuous stream. Most
traditional users do not have fast 1.__________
access to download large
multimedia
files
quickly.
2.__________
，
with
streaming,
you
connect
directly
to
the
server
and
stream
the
movie
or
music
to
your
computer
or
smart
phones,
meaning
you
can
watch
movies
or
listening to music over 3.__________
Internet connection. The big difference with
streaming is that
you pay to access
content, rather 4.__________ actually owning it
yourself.
The main advantage of
streaming is convenience. You can have access
5.__________ thousands
of
movies
and
songs
at
the touch
of
a
button. Also, by
only
accessing
content,
you
don't
have
to
worry
about
storage
space.
You'll
never
fill
6.__________
your
hard
disk
with
MP3s,
or
your
bookshelf
with
DVDs.
Streaming
is
good
for
the
environment
too.
Streaming
files
uses
much
7.__________ energy than creating,
shipping and watching or listening to DVDs and
CDs.
But some criticize
streaming for its bad sound and image quality. A
CD will probably sound a
lot better
than 8.__________ streamed song, and a movie on
Blu-
ray will look better than a
streamed
one too.
Ⅲ
.
阅读理解
It was a modest test drive: moving
forward 15 feet, turning in place 120 degrees,
then backing
up about 8 feet. The
entire trip took about 16 minutes.
But for the team behind Curiosity, the
six-
wheeled NASA
rover(
探测器
) that landed on
Mars
17 days ago, the first tracks on
Mars were an exciting milestone.
“
It couldn't be more
important
，
”
Peter
C.
Theisinger,
the
mission's
project
manager,
said.
“I
mean,
we
built
a
rover.
So
unless
the
rover
moves, we really haven't accomplished anything.”
Curiosity,
which
was
launched
on
November
26,
2011,
is
to
spend
about
a
couple
of
years
traveling
through
a
96-
mile-
wide
crater(
陨石坑
)and
up
a
mountain
at
the
center
of
the
crater,
exploring for signs that early Mars
could have been habitable for life.
But that journey of miles started a few
feet away from Bradbury Landing, where Curiosity
set
down
on
Aug.
6,
2012.
The
spot
had
been
named
for
Ray
Bradbury,
the
author
of
“The
Martian
Chronicles” and
other influential science?fiction novels. He would
have turned 92 on Wednesday.
Recently,
Curiosity
has
been
busy
with
other
exercises.
On
Sunday,
the
rover
fired
a
laser
instrument
for
the
first
time,
hitting
a
rock
and
analyzing
the
atomic
makeup.
On
Monday,
it
extended its arm. On Tuesday, it moved
its four corner wheels in preparation for the
drive.
“
Everything has been going
extremely well
，”
Mr.
Theisinger said. So far, the only broken
instrument has been a wind sensor that
may have been damaged during the landing, NASA
said.
During
the
next
week,
as
more
instruments
are
checked
out,
Curiosity
is
to
head
to
its
first
destination,
called
Glenelg.
At
first,
Curiosity
will
move
only
about
30
feet
at
a
time.
As
its
engineers gain
experience, the drives will stretch to longer than
the length of a football field.
Mr. Theisinger warned that
the early successes did not ensure future ones. So
far, the mission
has accomplished only
two of its primary goals: to launch on time and to
land on Mars.
“
We've got
a long way to go before this mission
meets its full potential
，”
he said.
1. What does Peter
C. Theisinger think of the test drive?
A. It is unimportant.
B. It
is very important.
C. It ended up as a
failure.
D. It is not smooth.
2. How long will Curiosity stay on Mars
traveling through the crater?
A. About
one year.
B. About two years.
C. About four years.
D.
About five years.
3. Curiosity is
mainly designed to ______.
A. search
for life evidence on Mars
B. prepare
for human landing on Mars
C. explore
the natural resources on Mars
D. try
out some scientific instruments
4. We
can infer that Ray Bradbury ______.
A.
designed the Mars rover Curiosity
B. is
a space scientist from NASA
C. has just died
D. is an
English science-
fiction writer