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必修contractor2 Unit 4 Cyberspace(A)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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(2020·安徽省部分重点学校联考)Remember Vitaminwater's “ free of rolling screens for a year” challenge that people to be free from smart phones for a whole year will win $100,000? Well，Elana Mugdan，a New York woman，has been into it for eight months，and just four months away from claiming the grand prize.
Vitaminwater made news headlines last December when it announced its unique challenge.Thousands of people applied to be chon as the perfect candidate to spend a year without touching their smart phones，but in the end，the only person who got to try and survived for an entire year without a handheld smart phone was Elana Mugdan，a 29yearold fiction writer from Queens，New York.Eight months into the challenge，she claims
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it has been a free and eyeopening experience that shows her just how dependent she becomes on her smart phone.Even though there are times when she miss her handheld smart phone，she plans to go on living without it even after the challenge ends，becau she really doesn't want to go back to days when she overud it，wasted time，stayed up all hours of the night on it，and was circus是什么意思obsd无所谓英语_with social media.
But not having access to her smart phone really made certain situations a lot harder than she could have imagined them before.“Many people did me a favor. However，once，I almost get stranded (被滞留的) in the SeaTac Airport becau the phone number I'd written down was wrong，and I had no way of referring to the right one，no way of calling a cab，and no one in the state who could help me，” the young writer said.
Another time，her car's “ check engine” light turned on while she was driving in an unfamiliar area at night.She couldn't u her phone's GPS，or even check what the light meant online or find a nearby car repair shop.But she learned to overcome the situatio
ns.And now she claims the last eight months of phonefree life have been one of the best adventures of her life and that she'll keep it for another four months.
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【语篇解读】 文章讲述了Elana Mugdan在参加Vitaminwater发起的一年不用手机的挑战过程中，所遇到的困难及其感受。
1．What's the challenge “free of rolling screens for a year”？
A．People free from smart phones can live a richer life.
B．People living a telephonefree life can be awarded money every year.
C．People living without computers for a year will win a grand prize.2012英语二真题答案
D．People spending a year free from smart phones will get a reward.
D [surveycraft细节理解题。根据第一段第一句中的“challenge that people to be free from smart phones for a whole year will win $100,000”可知，这个挑战要求参加者一年内不使用手机，参加者完成挑战后可以获得奖金。故选D。]pul
2．Which phra can replace the underlined part “obsd with” in Paragraph 2?
A．satisfied with B．accustomed to
C．addicted to D．popular with
C [词义猜测题。根据第二段画线词所在句中的“she really doesn't want to go back to days when she overud it，wasted time，stayed up all hours of the night on it”可知，Elana Mugdan曾经过度使用手机，浪费了时间，并且还熬夜玩手机。此处与上文内容相衔接，由此可以推测出，此处表示她当时对社交媒体非常迷恋，即上瘾。故选C。]
3．What does Elana Mugdan mainly want to express in Paragraph 3?
A．It's fantastic to have someone to help her all the way.
B．It's unimaginable to lo her phone number on the way.
C．It's unnecessary to refer to information with a smart phone.
continueD．It's difficult to get out of the trouble without a smart phone.
D [推理判断题。根据第三段第一句“But not having access to her smart phone really made certain situations a lot harder than she could have imagined them before”以及本段所列举的事例可知，Elana Mugdan在第三段想告诉我们，没有手机很难摆脱困境。故选D。]
4．What can we learn about Elana Mugdan?
A．She couldn't live without a smart phone.
安徽好一点的二本大学B．She finds no one can help her in the adventure.
C．She has not won the grand $100,000 prize yet.
D．She ud to u her smart phone to write fiction.
C [细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句中的“she'll keep it for another four months”可知，Elana Mugdan还要继续四个月的挑战，由此可知她还没有获得奖金。故选C。]
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(2020·东北三校第一次联合模拟)Clothing rental is a hot new industry and retailers (零售商) are demanding to get on board in the hope of attracting green shoppers.
But is renting fashion actually more environmentally friendly than buying it，and if so，how much more? Journalist and author Elizabeth Cline investigated this question and concluded that it's not as sustainable as it ems.
Take shipping，for example，which has to go two ways if an item is rented—receiving and returning.Cline writes that consumer transportation has the cond largest carbon footprint of our collective fashion habit after manufacturing.
She writes，“An item ordered online and then returned can relea 20 kilograms of carbon each way，and increas up to 50 kilograms for rush shipping. By comparison，the carbon impact of a pair of jeans purchad from a physical store and washed and worn at home is 33.4 kilograms，according to a 2015 study by Levi's.”
