1、杭州外国语学校 2019 年高考英语集训阅读理解每日一练 28倒数第五周星期三AThe angry locals of an English village blocked the driver of a Google Street View car who was filming the neighborhood, saying they feared he world encourage thieves, a report said Friday.One local, Paul Jacobs, told the BBC he had warned his neighbors after s
2、potting the car from his window in Broughton, Buckinghamshire, southern England, on Wednesday.“I dont have a problem with Google wanting to promote villages. What I have a problem with is the invasion （侵犯）of privacy, taking pictures directly into the home,” Jacobs said.“Weve already had three homes
3、broken into locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are made noticeable all over Google, its an invitation for more criminals to strike. I was determined to make a stand, so I called the police.”After his call, a police car arrived in Broughton in response to an argument between a crowd of peop
4、le and a Google Street View contractor.“They felt his presence was a threat to their privacy. When police arrived at the scene, the car had moved on,” explained a spokeswoman for Thames Valley Police.The Google Street View project, set up last month in Britain, aims to provide detailed 360-degree vi
5、ews online of streets all over Britain.The project has already been strongly criticized by associations like Privacy International, a pressure group which has launched legal action against the IT company.Google is confident that their new mapping project is within the law.“Before launching Street Vi
6、ew we sought the guidance and approval of the Information Commissioners Office. The ICO has repeatedly made clear that it believes that Street View includes the safeguards necessary to protect peoples privacy,” a Google spokesman said.“The Metropolitan Police （in London） told us they saw no signific
7、ant security risk, that thieves are likely to make use of the opportunities, and that mapping products can be useful in solving and mapping crime in an area.”He added: “Engaged in new projects, we sometimes meet unexpected challenges, and Street View has been no exception.”41 When the police car arr
8、ived at the village, .Athe villagers were angrily arguing with the Google car driver.Bthe map car was stopped from leaving the village.CThe map car had stopped its working and gone on its way.DThe map car was surrounded by the angry villagers.42 The underlined phrase “make a stand” in Paragraph 4 me
9、ans .Astand there all the time whole waiting for the policeBshow full support to Googles filming the neighborhoodCattempt to defend locals by stopping Googles filming the neighborhoodDstand in the way to stop the car moving on43 Which of the following sentences is TRUE?AGoogles mapping project has n
10、ot been officially approved.BThree homes had been visited by thieves with the help of Google pictures.CThe police rushed to stop a fight between locals and Google contractors.DIt was not the first time that the Google map project had been criticized.44 Whats the best title for the passage?AGoogles M
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16、977 there were fewer than ten. These are the only black robins left in the world. The island has many other birds, of different kinds, large and small; these seem to multiply very happily.Energetic steps are being taken to preserve the black robin. Detailed studies are going on, and a public appeal
17、for money has bee made. The idea is to buy another island nearby as a special home, a “reserve”, for threatened wild life, including black robins. The organizers say that Little Mangere should then be supplied with the robins foodit eats only one kind of seed. Thousands of the required plants are at
18、 present being cultivated in new Zealand. The public appeal is aimed at the conscience of mankind, so that the wild black robin will not die out and disappear form the earth in our time at least.Is all this concern a waste of human effort? Is it any business of ours whether the black robin survives
19、or dies out? Are we losing our sense of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?In the earths long, long past, hundreds, of kinds of creatures have evolved, risen to a degree of successand died out. In the long, long future, there will be many new and different forms of life. Those creatures tha
20、t adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time. Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early. This is natures proven method of operation.The rule of selection“the survival of the fittest”is the one by which human beings have themselves arrived on
21、 the scene. We, being one of the most adaptable creatures the earth has yet produced, may last longer than most. You may take it as another rule that when, at last, human beings show signs of dying out, no other creature will extend a paw to put off our departure. On the contrary, we will be hurried
22、 out. For nature, tough fair, is a hard-hearted mistress. She has no favorites.Life seems to have grown too tough for black robins. I leave you to judge whether we should try to do something about it.57 The black robin is dying out mainly because .Apeople have been very careless about its survivalBi
23、ts only food supply is far from enough on Little MangereCthe other birds on the island have destroyed itDthe appeal for money has come at the wrong time58 In Paragraph 3, the writer puts forward three questions to .Amake a comparison Bmake an argumentCintroduce a topic Dpresent his own idea59 As for
24、 selection and survival, the decisive factor seems to be .Athe ability to adapt to changed or changing conditionsBthe number of wild life reserves that are availableCthe concern and generosity of the publicDthe size of the home, or the amount of space one has to live in60 The writers attitude towards the protection of the black robins is .Aactive Bpassive Cunconcerned Doptimistic参考答案4144 CCDB 4548 CDCB 4952 DCBC 5356 CCBD 5760 BDAB
