1、Unit 2 The Olympic Games language points 课时作业阅读理解 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、 B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AConnecting the best chefs and restaurants in the world with their fans. For True Foodies Only puts the world of food in your pocket. It is a global app and social platform where lovers of the art of food and wine
2、come to connect, be inspired and share that love.What makes the For True Foodies Only app different?It is exclusive (专一的). A “food Facebook” for only the best chefs and restaurants in the world and their fans.Users of the app from around the world can find out where to eat when they travel, giving r
3、estaurants and chefs free advertising and making sure that your vacation is full of wonderful meals at the restaurants your favorite chefs would eat at.New restaurants and chefs can only be chosen by chefs in the app, so together we build a trusted community of the highest quality.There is no cost t
4、o restaurants to be included or to users the app is free.Buy recipes the way you buy music on the internet one recipe, a bitebook or a whole cookbook. Restaurants and chefs make more profits by selling digital recipes through the app.The story behind the appCordon Bleu Chef Ted and his foodie partne
5、r Joanne love eating in great restaurants around the world. But they spent a lot of time researching where to go, in guidebooks, online and from friends, and looking for news about what their favorite chefs were creating. They wished they could easily see where their favorite chefs and foodie loved
6、to eat, and find the latest about the best chefs and restaurants all in one place.And so the idea was born. They wanted to build a trusted community of those who love the art of food and wine, with chefs and true foodies at its heart.Ted and Joanne spent the next two years using all their experience
7、Ted as a chef in Michelin star restaurants, and Joanne as an international food marketerto build a truly amazing app that included only the top restaurants and chefs. Fortunately, their work also included a lot of fine dining, which made it all worthwhile.1. How does the For True Foodies Only app di
8、ffer from other apps?A. It tries to include as many chefs and restaurants as possible.B. It only charges restaurants a small amount of money to be included.C. It provides a free download service through the app for digital recipes.D. It doesnt accept new restaurants unless recommended by trusted che
9、fs.2. What can we learn about the app from the last three paragraphs?A. It is the idea that was created by two famous chefs.B. It has enabled foodies to eat with their favorite chefs.C. Developers spent a lot of time and energy building it.D. Most of its material comes from travel guidebooks.BAre yo
10、u sick of going to bed late and waking up tired? Then grab your hiking boots and a tent. A new study suggests that camping in the great outdoors for a couple of days can reset your body clock and help you get more sleep.The body clock is an internal system that tells our bodies when its time to go t
11、o sleep and when its time to wake up. Scientists track this clock by measuring the amount of melatonin (褪黑激素)circulating in a persons blood at any given time.In a healthy sleeper, melatonin levels rise a few hours before bedtime, stay high through the night, and then settle back down when its time t
12、o wake up.In our modern society，however，most of us stay up many hours past sunset and would probably sleep in many hours after sunrise if we could. And the trouble is，your melatonin levels may still be high when your alarm clock goes off in the morning, which leads to fatigue. It may also have other
13、 health consequences as well, such as diabetes (糖尿病)，overweight and heart disease.Professor Kenneth Wright of the University of Colorado in the US wanted to see if our body clocks can be reset by a short stay in nature. His team recruited (招募)fourteen physically active volunteers in their 20s and 30
14、s. Nine went on a weekend camping trip, while the other five stayed home. At the end of the weekend, the researchers reported that in just two days, the campers body clocks had shifted so that their melatonin levels began to rise more than an hour earlier than they did before they left on the trip.
15、By contrast, the body clocks of the group that stayed home shifted even later over the course of the weekend.“This tells us we can reset our clocks fast,” Wright said.Therefore, if you want to change your sleep patterns you could try to increase your exposure to natural light during the day and decr
16、ease the amount of artificial light you see at night. And if that doesnt work，there s always camping.3. The underlined word “fatigue” in Paragraph 4 probably means _A. excitement B. tiredness C. reliefD. disappointment4. What did Wrights team discover from their experiment?A. Those staying outdoors
17、reset the clock inside their bodies over a short period.B. The body clocks of the two groups didnt show much difference.C. The body clocks of those who stayed at home remained the same.D. Changes to the body clock dont necessarily affect melatonin levels in our bodies.5. According to the passage, to
18、 change our sleeping habit, we d better_ .A. stay home to reset our body clock and get more sleepB. stay up late long past sunset and sleep long after sunriseC. get exposed to more natural light but less artificial light D. try to reduce melatonin levels as much as possible at night6. What is the au
19、thors main purpose of writing the passage?A. To inform us of a possible way to adjust the body clock.B. To explain how a lack of sleep is bad for our health.C. To analyze how the body clock influences our sleeping habits.D. To explore how the body clock is connected with melatonin levels.CThe death
20、of the plastic credit card could be a step closer as high street names including McDonalds and the Co-op prepare to test a breakthrough finger-scanning payment technology.FingoPay, developed by British start-up Sthaler, uses a biometric reader to scan the veins of a shoppers finger, building up a “m
21、ap” that is unique to each individual.By connecting this pattern with a credit card or bank account, the company plans to let shoppers pay simply by placing their finger in a pocket-sized scanner, doing away with cash and credit cards.Sthaler, founded by former music industry executive Nick Dryden,
22、will begin testing the technology next month in Proud, a London nightclub. Mr. Dryden said McDonalds is experimenting with a pilot of the technology, and that Sthaler is also planning a project with Co-ops food stores.It comes amid growing interest in using biometric identification in payments, whic
23、h backers believe are more secure and efficient than passwords and PINs. Apple Pay, which uses the iPhones fingerprint technology, launched in the UK in 2015 and was followed by the Android equivalent in May 2016.Hendrik Kleinsmiede, the director of Visa Europes innovation arm Collab, which is backi
24、ng Sthaler, said the Fingopay technology was less immune to problems such as wet and dusty fingers or fraud. “People are ready to accept biometrics as a secure authentication mechanism,” he said.Sthaler says the chance that two people have the same vein structure is 3.4bn-to-one, making it virtually
25、 impossible to crack. The vein scanner, developed by Hitachi, is already being used by Barclays to identify business customers as well as in cash machines in Japan, but Sthaler has the unique rights to license it to retailers.In the trial at Proud set to begin in September, the technology will be us
26、ed to speed up waiting times at the bar both by cutting down on cards and by being able to suggest drinks based on what a patron has previously ordered.7. Which of the following is TRUE about Fingopay?A. It works by identifying shoppers fingerprints.B. It scans the finger veins to identify shoppers.
27、C. It was first tested on Barclays cash machines in Japan.D. It is currently being tested in the Co-op Groups food stores.8. According to Hendrik Kleinsmiede, .A. it is impossible to find two people who share the same vein structureB. people have to clean their hands before they use FingopayC. it wo
28、nt be long before biometrics are more widely usedD. Fingopay technology is much more effective than passwords and PINs9. What can we conclude from the last paragraph?A. The use of Fingopay technology has bought in more customers.B. Fingopay technology helps businesses to meet customers needs.C. Fing
29、opay technology could increase the sales of certain drinks.D. The use of Fingopay technology wasnt allowed in the trial at Proud.10. What might be the best title of the passage?A. Pay with your vein: Fingopay.B. Cedit cards vs. Fingopay.C. Different ways of payment.D. A new technology: fingerprints.
30、DAuthor Norman Mailer published an essay in which he declared the graffiti(涂鸦) of the New York subway to be “The Great Art of the 70s“. But what happened to the artists and why is there no subway graffiti any more?“It started with someone just writing their name - someone saw that, and added on to i
31、t,“ recalls New York graffiti artist Nicer, born Hector Nazario.“Letters going in front of letters, coming back through a letter, behind a letter, going across a letter. the subways became our playground,“ adds Riff170.New York in 1974 was a city in crisis. The Mayor, Abe Beame, slashed the citys bu
32、dget in a bid to stave off bankruptcy(破产 ), which meant laying off school teachers, police officers and subway staff.“They were taking the money from the schools, there was a lot of corruption here, in this community, and so they took the after-school programmes away, and there was no outlets for th
33、is. So the outlet became our city,“ says Bronx-born designer Eric Orr. “It was like an explosion. The graffiti explosion. All of a sudden it took over the whole city. I dont know what happened, but overnight in the early 70s it was from no graffiti to all graffiti,“ says another former artist, Flint
34、 Gennari.Eric Felisbret, author and former graffiti artist, says graffiti culture was in a way a product of the civil rights movement. “It was never political,“ he says, “but many people were brought up with that, and to express yourself by breaking the law became a natural process for them.“The gra
35、ffiti pioneers came from all races, however. “There were writers that were African American, Latino - Puerto Rico, Dominican, Cuban - Jewish, Asian, and it became one unit - one family,“ says another graffiti pioneer, Roberto Gualtieri.Prof Gregory Snyder, sociologist and author of Graffiti Lives, s
36、ays: “For lots of people, graffiti is ugly, vandalistic, and Im not denying that. Its vandalism. now, oftentimes its very clever vandalism. It can be written on a dumpster, like a garbage bin, and if someones attempting to make a garbage bin look a little prettier maybe thats not the worst thing in
37、the world.“Although Mailer was not alone in welcoming the flowering of creativity, the authorities hated it, as did many passengers.So when Mayor Ed Koch took office, he was determined to clean up the city and set about targeting graffiti.“I remember in 1982 he brought everyone out to a train yard a
38、nd there was a single train painted white,“ says former New York Daily News reporter Salvatore Arena. Trains were taken out of service and cleaned as soon as graffiti was spotted. Carriages were protected at night and the city agreed to ban the sale of spray cans.If in 1984 80% of subway carriages c
39、ontained graffiti by May 1989 the network was graffiti-free. “Graffiti has gone through an evolution, and it will continue to evolve. Its now socially accepted in places where 20-30 years ago that would have been impossible. Its now showcased(展示)in certain museums and lets say in another 30 years fr
40、om now it may be hanging in the White House,” says Nicer.Nowadays painted graffiti is largely gone from the New York subway trains themselves and is seen instead on the walls and tunnels of the city. It has been replaced by scratchiti(刮擦艺术) created onto carriage windows using keys, knives. Unlike th
41、e vivid images of 40 years ago, these ghostly patterns are somehow easy to ignore. After all, graffiti has faded quietly into the background.11. What caused the graffitis sudden appearance in New York in the 1970s?A. The worse economy in New York then.B. It is a product of the civil rights movement.
42、C. The support and encouragement of the Mayor.D. Publishment of Norman Mailers essay on graffiti.12. In the 1970s, New Yorks graffiti artists .A. could only do graffiti on trainsB. organized a political movementC. often left their own names on their worksD. realized they were actually against the la
43、ws13. Whats Gregory Snyders attitude towards graffiti?A. Negative.B. Critical.C. Objective.D. Approving.14. The main reason why Mayor Ed Koch took measures to stop graffiti may be that .A. all passengers were against graffitiB. it wasnt the art that Ed Koch was fond ofC. it became out of date becaus
44、e of scratchitiD. it didnt benefit most subway passengers15. What is the last but one paragraph mainly about?A. Graffiti evolution makes New York subways graffiti-free.B. Graffiti has evolved and is widely accepted in some places.C. It took 5 years to clean 80% of the graffiti in New York city.D. Graffiti will sure appear on the walls of the White House.参考答案1-2DC 3-6BACA 7-10BCBA 11-15ADCDB
