Unit 3 Life in the future
Ⅰ.阅读理解
[2024·南昌市重点中学高三年级段考试题]As life in cities worldwide becomes more expensive, urban designers are using modern technology to help citizens avoid traffic jams, and shorten the time needed for bus waiting and other things. Technology is also used to cut costly waste.
In Santander, a Spanish port city, parking is easy to find. As one car drives away, an underground sensor shows that a parking space is now free. 400 sensors send messages to signs on streets, and GPS devices direct drivers to the nearest available parking spaces, reducing traffic jams. Trash is collected only when the bins are full and bus stop signs show exactly when the next bus is coming. The public parks are watered only when the soil gets dry. All this is made possible by 20,000 sensors installed on buildings, street posts and even buses. They are part of the “smart city” project, launched by the University of Cantabria seven years ago.
University researchers like Luis Munoz regularly meet with locals to discuss how to make their city even smarter. “They propose their ideas and sometimes even develop them by themselves. Here, we give them the opportunity to see these ideas happen in real life，” said Munoz. For example, the university helped a woman create an app that outlines the easiest route for walking with a baby stroller. Another provides information to residents about their water consumption and sends an alarm to their phone if there is a leak.
The Santander smart project is attracting the attention of larger cities in Europe and elsewhere that are looking for smart solutions to urban problems.
1．What is the life like in Santander? A．It is meaningful. B．It is full of freedom. C．It is likely to change fast. D．It is efficient and convenient. 2．How can residents help Munoz's job? A．By offering some original or fresh ideas. B．By showing him around the city. C．By installing sensors themselves.
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D．By using as little water as possible.
3．What does the underlined word “Another” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A．A university. B．A phone. C．An app. D．An easy route.
4．What can be the best title for the text? A．A Worldwide Problem B．A Smart City Project C．A Creative Researcher D．A Trend in Urban Design Ⅱ.七选五
[2024·昆明质量检测]Is there a best way to pack clothes? The following ideas are of great help to those who are always on the way.
Where to start?
__1__ Once you see how much you lay in front of you, be brave and reduce about a third. Because the truth is like your wardrobe, you never seem to use as much as you take.
How to deal with clothing?
Start with your shoes. Put stockings or socks inside of them to hold the shape of your shoes. Thus, you can make use of every square inch of space. Once your shoes are firmly in place, fill small gaps with very soft items. __2__
Lay out the first clothes with one end inside the suitcase and the other end dropping over the edge. Put the next clothes on top of this, but place them the other way around. __3__ In this way, you'll get another flat layer soon. Finally, one by one, fold the clothes back in.
Where to put non-clothing?
__4__ These awkward shaped items are difficult to pack. You'd better put them towards the middle to give maximum protection. Remember to double bag your toiletries (洗漱用品) kit to avoid spotting your clothes.
Top tips：
If you take belts, slip them along the inside of your case. __5__ That will take more space. Next, use the hard shape of the case to offer protection. Leave your toiletries kit in your suitcase, when you return home. It's ready for the next time you travel.
A．Don't roll belts up.
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B．Be sure to put away socks.
C．This idea will create a flat first layer. D．And then continue laying other clothes. E．That will make the job a whole lot easier.
F．Lay everything you want to take with you on the bed.
G．Non-clothing items are things like books, toothbrushes and cameras. Ⅲ.完形填空
[2024·福建三校联考]Draper, the owner of a secondhand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelope fell from one. Inside was an undated __1__ and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was __2__ it, it meant the author had died.
Tears were welling up in Draper's eyes. These were a __3__ woman's last words to her child. He had to __4__ Bethany. “Whoever it is will __5__ this，” he thought. “You wouldn't __6__ a letter like that.”
He supposed if the __7__ ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he __8__ recognized the little girl's face. Even if she'd since left the area, there might be someone in the town who would recognize the __9__.
He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the __10__ letter.
__11__， Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n) __12__ herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the __13__. As she read her mother's __14__， which she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be __15__.
Bethany was only 4 when her mother __16__. Five years later, her family moved to a new home and the letter, put away in the pages of a book for safe keeping, was unintentionally __17__.
She remembers unpacking and looking for the letter, and then __18__ searching through everything in the hope that it was there. “That's when I realized it was __19__ gone by now and I'd never see it again，” she said.
Draper __20__ the letter in person. He also brought her a children's book for her son. Bethany was greatly moved to have the letter back, and also touched by the stranger's kindness.
1．A.message B．email
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C．postcard D．letter 2．A.reading B．destroying C．forgetting D．copying 3．A.determined B．kind C．selfish D．dying 4．A.find B．introduce C．phone D．comfort 5．A.enjoy B．avoid C．want D．like
6．A.tear up B．throw away C．cut up D．pull out 7．A.book B．girl C．reporter D．news 8．A.hardly B．accidentally C．unfortunately D．actually 9．A.author B．picture C．teacher D．stranger 10．A.wet B．valuable C．lost D．broken
11．A.However B．Therefore C．Meanwhile D．Eventually 12．A.mother B．editor C．daughter D．assistant 13．A.ticket B．magazine C．homework D．article 14．A.vocabularies B．terms C．words D．languages 15．A.writing B．dreaming C．joking D．playing 16．A.came back B．died out C．passed away D．calmed down 17．A.burned B．donated C．dirtied D．robbed 18．A.madly B．suddenly
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C．secretly D．regularly 19．A.almost B．long C．still D．never 20．A.kept B．composed C．delivered D．published Ⅳ.书面表达
[2024·南昌模拟]假定你是李华，你和几个朋友打算去参观茶园，想邀请美国交流生Henry同往。请你给他写一封邮件告知其活动安排。内容包括：
1．时间和地点； 2．学习如何沏茶、品茶； 3．介绍中国茶文化的历史和发展。 注意：1.词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Dear Henry，
________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
Yours， Li Hua
课时作业(二十三)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
体裁：说明文 主题语境：人与社会——科技与生活——城市智能化
【语篇解读】 传感器、GPS定位等现代科技手段帮助西班牙的港口城市桑坦德避免了交通拥堵、缩短等车时间、减少资源浪费等，这种做法正在吸引欧洲的大城市以及其他更多地方的注意力，他们都在寻找解决城市问题的智能方案。
1．D 考查推理判断。根据题干中的关键词in Santander定位到文章的第二段。根据该段中的内容，尤其是“parking is easy to find”“Trash is collected only when the bins are full”“The public parks ... gets dry”可推知，在桑坦德的生活是高效方便
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2024高考英语一轮复习Unit3Lifeinthefuture课时训练新人教版必修5
