高中英语 Unit 1 Art单元测试卷解析版 新人教版选修6

fellow workers into the computer to make the company work more effectively. As the company’s lifeblood，the computer would contain a record of all conversations and communication for future reference and hold secret information such as accounts in password(口令) protected areas.

36．The passage is mainly about ________. A．the importance of working in the future B．how to escape your office C．how to work with a computer D．virtual offices in the future 答案 D

解析 本文主要介绍了未来的虚拟办公及其特征，该部分内容在文章中所占的比例较大。

37．According to the passage, which of the following things is NOT necessary for a virtual office?

A．A manager. B．An office building.

C．A telephone. D．A central processing computer. 答案 B

解析 根据第一段“Being able to work wherever you like...If you wish, you can even work on a river boat”可知，虚拟办公不需要固定的场所。

38．Which of the following is an advantage of a virtual office? A．There aren’t strict time limits.

B．Employees aren’t overseen by the manager. C．Employees needn’t see each other every day. D．Fewer employees are needed in every company. 答案 A

解析 由文章首句中“...as a means of escaping the nine-to-five office life”可知，虚拟办公可以不必朝九晚五上班，故该办公方式没有严格的时间限制。

39．From the passage we can learn that ________.

A．a computer is the only necessary thing in a virtual office. B．in a virtual office, all information is open to workers. C．managers can observe their employees in a virtual office. D．the number of employees will be smaller in a virtual office. 答案 C

解析 根据第三段“...managers would have the ability to view several employees at once on their screen”可知，C项内容符合题意。

B

Parents and kids today dress alike，listen to the same music，and are friends.Is this a good thing？Sometimes，when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter，Elizabeth，listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy，such as pop culture，he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.

“I would never have said to my mom，‘Hey，the new Weezer album is really great.How do you like it？’”says Ballmer.“There was just a complete gap in taste.”

Music was not the only gulf.From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations，earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.

Today，the generation gap has not disappeared，but it is getting narrow in many families.Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago.Now they are comfortable and common.And parent-child activities，from shopping to sports，involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood.

No wonder greeting cards today carry the message，“To my mother，my best friend.”

But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents.

“There’s still a lot of strictness and authority on the part of parents，but there is a change happening，”says Kerrie，a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College.“In the middle of that change，there is a lot of confusion among parents.”

Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes.They see the 1960s as a turning point.Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say.

“My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change，but today’s parents，the 40-year-olds，were on the ‘after’ side，”explains Mr.Ballmer.“It’s not something easily accomplished by parents these days，because life is more difficult to understand or deal with，but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”

40．The underlined word gulf in Para.3 most probably means ________. A．interest B．distance C．difference D．separation 答案 B

解析 词义理解题。由上文中提到的“...he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.”以及“There was just a complete gap in taste.”可知gulf应表示两代人之间关系的“代沟”。separation指“分开，分离”。

41．Which of the following shows that the generation gap is disappearing? A．Parents help their children develop interests in more activities. B．Parents put more trust in their children’s abilities. C．Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs. D．Parents share more interests with their children. 答案 D

解析 细节理解题。由文章的第一段可知答案。

42．The change in today’s parent-child relationship is ________.

A．more confusion among parents

B．new equality between parents and children C．less respect for parents from children

D．more strictness and authority on the part of parents 答案 B

解析 细节推断题。由文章的最后五段可知，现在父母和孩子之间的关系趋于平等。

43．By saying “today’s parents，the 40-year-olds，were on the ‘after’ side，”the author means that today’s parents ________.

A．follow the trend of the change B．can set a limit to the change C．fail to take the change seriously

D．have little difficulty adjusting to the change 答案 A

解析 句意理解题。20世纪60年代被看作一个转折点。以前的父母高高在上、固执保守，而现在的父母与孩子在同一平面上，同孩子一起快乐地分享共有的兴趣。故A项“紧随潮流的变化”最符合。

C

Within fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste.The word rubbish could lose its meaning because everything that goes into the dumps would be made into something useful.Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else.

The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out.The aim is to find out how many of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city.This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel and copper，but also paper and rubber as well.