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【題目】 Have you ever heard of “a ball of energy”? People often use it to describe very active children. But today we tell about an invention called the socket, that is a real soccer ball of energy. Julia Silverman explains that in fact the socket is a portable generator.

Julia Silverman and Jessica Matthews developed the socket as part of a group project for an engineering class at Harvard University. There are mechanisms in a socket. When you kick, hit or throw it, energy is then kept in it by these mechanisms instead of disappearing into the environment.

Then the user can put something directly into the ball, like a lamp, or a mobile phone charger so that they can get energy from it. For every fifteen minutes of the game play, the socket can provide enough electricity for an LED lamp for three hours, and the ball can store up to 24 hours’ electricity.

The International Energy Association reported last year that nearly one and a half billion people in the world had no electricity to use, and most of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and in India and other countries in Asia.

Julia Silverman and Jessica Matthews both had experiences in developing countries before they began the project. They knew that power shortages are a serious problem in really areas. There’s an energy crisis in the world. One out of every five people in the world don't have any electricity, there are a lot of health problems because what people use instead of any electricity are harmful choices like kerosene lamps, which produce a lot of smoke.

Julia Silverman says the socket ball is one small solution to a big problem. Jessica Matthews and Julia Silverman hope their socket ball will shine more light on the problem of power shortages. It offers people a chance to put their energy into the world’s most popular sport and get some energy in return.

【1】From the passage, we know the socket is__________.

A.an active childB.an inventionC.a lampD.a mobile phone

【2】The underlined word “crisis” in the passage means a time of__________.

A.difficultyB.safetyC.successD.sadness

【3】We can infer from the passage that__________.

A.active children care more about playing socket

B.people are expected to get some energy by playing socket

C.Julia Silverman has never been to developing countries before

D.kicking a socket can let the energy disappear into the environment

【4】The best title for the passage should be__________.

A.A soccer ball that gives energyB.The way to help save electricity

C.The best way to solve energy problemsD.An invention changing the world

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

本文介紹了一種被叫做soccket的用來提供能量的發(fā)明，這是一個真正的充滿能量的足球，實際上soccket是一個便攜式發(fā)動機。它是由Julia Silverman和Jessica Matthews兩人研制的；在soccket里有一些裝置，當你踢，打或扔它，能源就被這些裝置保存在里面，然后用戶可以把東西直接放在球上，像一盞燈，或手機充電器，使他們可以從中獲得能量，每玩15分鐘的游戲，soccket可以為LED燈提供三小時的充足電量，這個球可以儲存長達24小時的電量。Jessica Matthews和Julia Silverman希望soccket將為解決世界電力短缺這一難題帶來希望和光明。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“But today we tell about an invention called the socket, that is a real soccer ball of energy.”可知今天我們要講的是一個叫做插座的發(fā)明，它是一個真正的能量足球，故選B。

【2】詞義猜測題。difficulty困難；safety安全；success成功；sadness傷心；根據(jù)“One out of every five people in the world don't have any electricity”可知世界上每五個人中就有一個沒有電，推出前句應是說不好的事情，即世界存在著能源危機，該單詞意思是與選項A相近，故選A。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)“There’s an energy crisis in the world.”及“Julia Silverman says the socket ball is one small solution to a big problem. Jessica Matthews and Julia Silverman hope their socket ball will shine more light on the problem of power shortages.”可知Julia Silverman說soccket球是個解決這個大難題的方案，Jessica Matthews和Julia Silverman希望soccket球?qū)�為解決電力短缺的問題帶來希望和光明，可推出人們期望通過玩soccket獲得一些能量，故選B。

【4】主旨大意題。根據(jù)第一段“But today we tell about an invention called the soccket，that is a real soccer ball of energy”聯(lián)系全文內(nèi)容可知本文就是介紹了一種叫做soccket的能夠提供能量的足球的情況，故選A。