限时规范练18(必修3 Module 6)
核心素养关键词:培养学生人与科学、了解新闻制作的素养能力意识
一、阅读理解
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Google Maps made some major progress in making it more accessible for millions of users.It announced that its public transportation navigation option will now include a “wheelchair-accessible” feature that presents the best possible route for users in wheelchairs and with other physical disabilities.The new feature is only accessible in six major cities around the world.
If you do live in one of these cities,it’s very easy to program Google Maps to show you accessible routes.All you have to do is enter your start and end points in the app as usual,choose the public transportation option,and click“Options”.Now,you should see the “wheelchair-accessible” option;click it and go back to the route options,and you’ll see start,end,and transfer points (换乘点) that take place at stations accessible to everyone,including those who are in a wheelchair.
Google also notes that they’ve introduced other features to the app to increase accessibility.Google Maps users can now add accessibility details about restaurants,stores,and attractions to each location’s information page,where other users can check to see whether a place has a step-free entrance or wheelchair-friendly washroom.They’ve also sent Street View cameras into transfer stations and other busy areas so users can take a look at a place before going there and make sure they’ll be able to get in and out easily.
Transport for All,an organization that asks for more accessible public transportation in
London,welcomed the option.“This is a big step forward.But the success of this new option will depend on accurate information to prevent disabled people from coming across broken lifts or inaccessible routes,” they wrote.In 2017,actor Zach Anner tried to make his way across New York City through public transportation,and found that he often couldn’t navigate his wheelchair around subway stations that were said to be accessible;the journey,which was supposed to take 28 minutes,according to Google Maps,ended up taking several hours.
1.What’s Google Maps’ new invention?
A.New means of transport. B.Street View cameras. C.A new map function. D.A new photos app.
2.What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? A.How to access the new option. B.The features of Google Maps. C.What wheelchair users should know. D.The details of options in Google Maps.
3.What does Transport for All think of the invention? A.It should be tested before coming into service. B.It fails to guide disabled people. C.It needs improvement. D.It is a success.
4.How might Zach Anner feel about routes planned by Google Maps? A.Time-saving. C.Clear.
B
If you could design your own school and study whatever you wanted,what would you choose to learn? This isn’t an unlikely question for students at Monument Mountain Regional High School,who are taking part in an activity called the Independent Project.The program is a special school within the Massachusetts public high school that’s completely run by students—no teachers,parents,or adults are allowed—and they’re in charge of deciding their whole curriculum.
B.Blocked. D.Busy.
These teens’ homework and what they study in the classroom are all totally up to them.Charles Tsai,a journalist,made a 15-minute film about the project that shows the wide variety of activities different students join.
Students aren’t taking this lightly — instead of reacting irresponsibly to the freedom to design their own studies,they’re dealing with their own interests by writing poetry collections,learning instruments and taking flight lessons.
The program is this:On Mondays students come up with questions in relation to one of their school subjects,and then they spend the rest of the week researching and coming up with possible conclusions to these questions.On Fridays,they present this information to their classmates.
“I think the more choices we have in our school,the more students we will help develop into the kind of citizens that we need,” Principal (校长) Marianne Young explains in the film.
In the video,teens express their satisfaction with the program because it holds different kinds of learners,even those who don’t always succeed in a traditional study situation.
“I have difficulty in reading and writing.School has always been a big problem for me,” one student named Sergio explains in the video.“If it were not for this program,I don’t know if I’d be graduating — I don’t know where I’d be right now.I think this has really been my savior (救星) and got me through the last two years of high school.” 5.What is the Independent Project about? A.Various activities for students. B.Student-centered curricula. C.A self-designed school. D.Teacher-free classes. 6.How does the program work?
A.Teachers work out a curriculum for students. B.Students research topics they put forward. C.Teachers work together with students.
21高考英语外研一轮复习限时规范练必修3 Modle 6 含解析
