陜西省咸陽(yáng)市20xx-20xx學(xué)年高二下學(xué)期期末教學(xué)質(zhì)量檢測(cè)英語(yǔ)試題(文件)
【正文】 had a lot of free time and was bored. 27. What can we learn from the Poem Nostalgia? A. He missed his family and homeland a lot. B. He didn’t want to e to his homeland. C. He lived with his mother on the riverside. D. His mother had died when he got married. C English teenagers will receive cooking lessons in schools. The idea is to encourage healthy eating to solve the problem that many people are overweight. Also, it worries people that basic cooking and food preparation skills are being lost because parents use too much preprepared fast food. Cooking was once regarded as an important part of education in Englandeven if it was mainly for girls. In recent years cooking has bee less important in schools. But the rising level of obesity has led to rethink about the food that children are given and the skills they should be taught. “What we want is to teach young people how to do basic , simple meals, which they can use now at home and then in their life,” said Ed Balls, an education expert. The new lessons will start in September, but some schools without kitchens will be given a longer time to prepare. Also, there may be a shortage of teachers with the right skills, since schools have been teaching food technology rather than practical cooking. Besides, the lessons for handon cooking will only be one hour a week for one term. But the wellknown cookery writer, Pru Leith, believe it will be worth it. “If we’d done this thirty years ago we might not have to face the problem about obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to cook, not just so that they’ll be healthy, but because it’s a life skill which is a real pleasure.” The renewed interest in cooking is an effort to reduce the obesity rate, which is almost the highest in Europe, and according to the government, half of all British people will be obese in 25 years if present trends are not halted. 28. The passage mainly talks about . A. the reason for obesity B. the lost cooking skills C, the healthy eating D. the cooking classes 29. Which of the following is NOT the aim of bringing back cooking lessons in Britain? A. To encourage teenagers to eat healthy food. B. To reduce the country’s increasing obesity rate. C. To stop parents from turning to preprepared fast food. D. To prevent basic cooking and food preparation skills from being lost. 30. How will cooking lessons do good to the students? A. All of them will bee good cooks in their later life. B. Students will be healthy and enjoy the pleasure of such a life skill as well. C. Students will be able to make food experiments with the knowledge and skills. D. Students will be able to control the level of obesity in the whole country. 31. The underlined word “halted” in the last paragraph probably means “ ” . A. continued B. stopped C. discussed D. kept D Robot are about to enter our lives. From doing housework, entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, scientists say we will soon be weling robots into our homes and workplaces. Researchers believe we are on the cusp (過(guò)渡點(diǎn) ) of a robot revolution that will mirror the quick growth of the puter revolution. They are developing new laws for robot behavior, and designing new ways for humans and robots to municate. “I think robots will change who we are , just as eyeglasses and fire changed who we were before, says Rodney Brooks, a director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Some ideas and technologies may sound like science fiction, but they are fast being science fact. Robots scientists invented are already beginning to perform everyday tasks like cleaning our floors. The latest types from Japan are able to help the elderly to get out of bed or get up after a fall. They can also remind them when to take medication (藥物 ), or even help wash their hair. “Robot now are not human like. For example they are things like automatic (自動(dòng)的 ) beds and wheelchairs,” says Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University, Japan. He believes the time is ing when robots start looking less like machines, and more like us. “In the near future we are going to use more human like robots. I really think so, says Prof Ishiguro. Prof Maja Mataric at the University of Southern California agrees. “I’m very excited about the fact that today we are trying to make robots that look like human beings,” she says. “I believe we love robots because they’re reflections (反映 ) of ourselves,” says Ken Goldberg, director of
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