【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ch as Google, where some employees have even installed treadmill (跑步機(jī)) and bicycle desks. The desk is not the first convertible on the market. As early as 2013, Stir Kinect brought out an adjustable desk. The $3,890 Stir Kinect desk has a motor to raise and lower itself, changing it into a standing desk or a traditional desk. The desk can even be programmed to move up and down slightly, making it appear to take a gentle breath to remind the user to change their positions. To move between sitting and standing positions, owners simply double tap on the screen. The desk can learn the user39。s preferences over time and suggest the best seating position. The Stir Kinect desk was created by a team of exApple and Disney engineers. It has a builtin touch screen to control and track movement, and can tell users exactly how many calories they burn by standing during their working day. It also has devices containing power points and USB ports for charging phones, to keep cables hidden. Ikea39。s heightadjustable desk is great for opening up the lower end of the market, said JP Labrosse, founder and CEO of Stir.（1）What is the text mainly about? A.Ikea has brought out an adjustable standing desk.B.Silicon Valley offered health benefits to officials.C.Google formed their tech firms to design bicycle desks.D.The Stir Kinect desk will bee mainstream in the market.（2）Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? A.Before Bekant desk, similar adjustable desks have been widely used.B.The seated desks will take the place of the standing desks in the future.C.Compared to the Stir Kinect desk, the Bekant desk is much cheaper.D.The adjustable desks were designed by the Apple and Disney Company.（3）The Stir Kinect desk______. A.can breathe in and breathe out by pressing the button onceB.can charge phones by using a device containing power pointC.can tell you how many calories you need for a walkD.can advise you to do more exercise at a proper time（4）What can we infer from the last sentence given by JP Labrosse? A.Ikea39。s adjustable desk will be popular with average people.B.Ikea will have to sell furniture at a lower price in the future.C.This height adjustable table can only be found in Ikea.D.It is not necessary for Ikea to open up the market at all.【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇新聞報(bào)道，站立式辦公桌在美國(guó)硅谷已經(jīng)比較常見，宜家近日推出了一款名為BEKANT的可調(diào)節(jié)的站立式辦公桌，這種桌子對(duì)愿意站立式工作的人健康有益。 （1）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第一段可知，站立式辦公桌在美國(guó)硅谷已經(jīng)比較常見，對(duì)愿意站立式工作的人健康有益。宜家近日推出了一款名為BEKANT的可調(diào)節(jié)的站立式辦公桌，使用者只需按一下按鈕便可將其從普通高度調(diào)節(jié)至站立式高度。宜家希望這款辦公桌占領(lǐng)市場(chǎng)，成為主流，故選A。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段可知“Bekant convertible standing desk”售價(jià)為$500；而第三段中是Stir Kinect desk售價(jià)為$3,890，故選C。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的It also has devices containing power points and USB ports for charging phones, to keep cables hidden.Stir Kinect還設(shè)置了充電接口以及USB接口，可用于手機(jī)充電，故選B。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Ikea39。s heightadjustable desk is great for opening up the lower end of the market,”宜家的可調(diào)節(jié)辦公桌有助于打開低端市場(chǎng)，故選A。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇新聞報(bào)道，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 A story posted by The New York Post Monday tells the tale of Katrina Holte, a Hillsboro woman who quit her job to cosplay a 1950s housewife. Let me start by expressing admiration to Holte for using her 2019 freedoms to follow her 1950s dreams. Everyone should be so lucky as to get to decide what they wear and how they spend their time. That39。s the future our foremothers fought for. But as much fun as I am sure she is having living a vintage (復(fù)古的) life, which literally includes watching shows like I Love Lucy and listening to vinyl recordings (刻錄碟片), I think it39。s important to remember that being a 1950s housewife was actually totally awful, and something our grandmothers and mothers fought against. For example, once I called my grandma and asked her for her recipe for Cloud Biscuits, these delicious biscuits she used to make that we would cover with butter and homemade raspberry jam on Thanksgiving. Why would you want that? she said. Go to the store. Go to the freezer section. Buy some premade biscuits and put them in the oven. She straightup refused to give me the recipe, because it was hard and took a long time to make. In her mind, it was a waste of time. Getting off the phone, it occurred to me that spending every day of your life serving a husband and five children wasn39。t fun at all. And then there are the grandchildren who eventually e along demanding Cloud Biscuits, a whole new expanded set of people to feed. She was basically a slave to those hungry mouths, cooking scratch meals three times a day. When she wasn39。t trapped in the kitchen, she had to keep the house clean, make sure she looked good enough to be socially acceptable, and make sure her kids and husband looked good enough to be socially acceptable. And she had no days off. I know my grandma loves her kids and her grandkids, her husband and the life she led, but man, it must have been a lot of thankless, mindless labor. No wonder everyone went allin on processed foods when they came around. Imagine the nice break something like a microwave dinner would give a woman working, unpaid, for her family every single day? I also had another grandma. She was a scholar who helped found the Center for the Study of Women in Society at University of Oregon. She was a pioneering secondwave feminist who wrote books, gave lectures and traveled the world. But, she did all of that after divorcing my grandpa, when most of her kids were out of the house. Back then, in the 1950s and the 1960s, there was no illusion about women having it all. How could that even possibly happen? If you were taking care of a family, waiting on your husband, you had no time to follow your dreams, unless you made that your dream. A lot of women took that approach. We call it Stockholm Syndrome now. And of course, these women I am talking about are uppermiddleclass white women. Romanticizing the 1950s is especially disgusting when you think about how women of color and poor women were treated back then, and the lack of education and choices available to t