Question

【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 the soccket, something that is a real soccer ball of energy. Julia Silverman and Jessica Matthews developed the soccket as part of a group project for an engineering class at Harvard University.

There are mechanisms (裝置) in a soccket. 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 soccket can provide enough electricity for an LED lamp for three hours, and the ball can store (儲(chǔ)藏) up to 24 hour’ 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. And besides that, there are a lot of health problems because without electricity, people have to use something like kerosene (煤油) lamps, which produce a lot of smoke.

Julia Silverman says the soccket ball is one small solution to a big problem. Jessica Matthews and Julia Silverman hope their soccket 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 soccket is _____.

A. a gameB. an inventionC. an energyD. a lamp

【2】If you play the soccket for half an hour, it can provide an LED lamp with electricity for _____.

A. fifteen minutesB. half an hourC. six hoursD. three hours

【3】The underlined word “crisis” in the passage means _____.

A. a time of safetyB. a time of difficultyC. a time of successD. a time of illness

【4】We can infer (推斷) from the passage that _____.

A. Julia Silverman has never been to developing countries before

B. people all over the world will use the sOccket soon

C. kicking a soccket makes the energy disappear into the environment

D. people are expected to get some energy by playing soccket

【5】The best title for the passage should be “________”.

A. How to Make ElectricityB. How to Deal With Energy Crisis

C. A Soccer Ball That Gives EnergyD. An Energy Shortage in the World

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】B

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】

本篇文章難度適中，主要講述一種被叫做插座足球的發(fā)明。茱莉婭西爾弗曼希望插座足球?qū)�為解決世界電力短缺這個(gè)問(wèn)題帶來(lái)希望和光明。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)But today we tell about the soccket, something that is a real soccer ball of energy可知，插座足球是一種發(fā)明，故選B。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)For every fifteen minutes of the game play, the soccket can provide enough electricity for an LED lamp for three hours, and the ball can store (儲(chǔ)藏) up to 24 hour’ electricity可知，玩15分鐘可以為LED燈供電3小時(shí)，那么玩半小時(shí)就會(huì)為LED燈提供6小時(shí)的電，故選C。

【3】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)One out of every five people in the world don’t have any electricity. And besides that, there are a lot of health problems because without electricity, people have to use something like kerosene (煤油) lamps, which produce a lot of smoke可知，世界上每5個(gè)人就會(huì)有一個(gè)人沒(méi)有電用，所以指世界存在能源危機(jī)，所以指“困難時(shí)期”，故選B。

【4】推理判斷題。根據(jù)Julia Silverman says the soccket ball is one small solution to a big problem. Jessica Matthews and Julia Silverman hope their soccket ball will shine more light on the problem of power shortages可知，杰西卡馬修斯和茱莉婭西爾弗曼希望插座足球?qū)�為解決電力短缺的問(wèn)題帶來(lái)希望和光明，所以推斷出“人們希望通過(guò)玩插座足球獲得一些能量”，故選D。

【5】主旨大意題。根據(jù)But today we tell about the soccket, something that is a real soccer ball of energy以及全文可知，介紹了一種能夠提供能量的足球，故選C。