江苏省常熟市-高一上学期期中英语试题(11)

【10题详解】

推理判断题。由第三段倒数第二句“She didn't even know our names, but showed her support and

encouragement to us.”（她甚至不知道我们的名字，但对我们表示支持和鼓励。）可知，妇女把她房子的钥匙交给作者的家人是因为她想支持和鼓励他们。故选C项。

【11题详解】

词句猜测题。由倒数第二段中第三句“Young couples and old. Rich and poor. White, black, and brown. All made our travel experience wonderful.”（不管是年轻夫妇和老人。富人还是穷人。白人、黑人还是棕色人。所有人都使我们的旅行经历非常精彩。）可知，all指代的是不同的人。故选A项。

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We may think we're a culture that gets rid of our worn technology at the first sight of something shiny and new, but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices(装置) well after they go out of style. That’s bad news for the environment — and our wallets — as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.

To figure out how much power these devices are using, Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life — from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device. This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s. Devices were grouped by generation —Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992. Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997. And MP3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.

As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn't throw out our old ones. "The living-room television is replaced and gets planted in the kids' room, and suddenly one day, you have a TV in every room of the house," said one researcher. The average number of electronic devices rose from four per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007. We're not just keeping these old devices — we continue to use them. According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions（排放）more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

So what's the solution（解决方案）? The team's data only went up to 2007, but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that serve more than one function, such as a tablet for word processing and TV viewing. They found that more on-demand

entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by

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