【创新设计】2015高考英语(浙江专用)大二轮总复(11)

【创新设计】2015高考英语(浙江专用)大二轮总复习仿真模拟卷一]

B．The hospital staff had a good time for several days.

C．Brenda's children will have a trip to Disney World.

D．Brenda had the letter mailed two months after her death.

解析 细节理解题。根据最后一段，当地的许多企业努力实现她的愿望。他们筹集了资金，将要送他们全家去迪尼斯乐园游玩。

答案 C

45．What qualities best describe Brenda?

A．Active and optimistic.

B．Loving and selfless.

C．Enthusiastic and generous.

D．Brave and confident.

解析 推理判断题。根据全文内容可知，Brenda是一个无私，善良又充满爱心的妻子及母亲。

答案 B

B

According to The Daily Telegraph in London，the year 2014 is a year worth expecting，because a lot of amazing inventions and new technology are coming into our life.

■Faster Online Deliveries

In this age of instant satisfaction，waiting days for Internet purchases to arrive seems very annoying.So，in 2014，Amazon and eBay will be stepping up their efforts to deliver goods on the same day they're bought，even if that day's a Sunday.Eventually，Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is testing unmanned delivery to bring products to our doors within half an hour.In the meantime，he's increasing his number of goods and cooperating with express companies to get us what we want as quickly as possible.

■The Swiss Army Knife Of Credit Cards

According to a recent survey，one in five consumers in America no longer carry any cash on them.In 2014，they won't need their plastic payment cards either.A San Francisco company—Coin has invented a device(装置) the same size as a credit card that holds the information of up to eight credit，membership，gift cards.Customers press a button to choose which one they want and then just use their Coin in the usual way.And if you lose your Coin？The card is connected to your smart phone and when the two are separated your phone receives an official notice.In other words：you can't leave home(or a shop，or a restaurant)without it.

■Trip To Mars

At present，if you feel like making the 54－million－mile trip to Mars，it would take you nine months.That's around 39 weeks dealing with all kinds of difficulties during the trip.But VASIMR could change all that.Set to be tested aboard the International Space Station in late 2014 to early 2015，the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket is an experimental engine that，if it works，could get us there in three months.VASIMR takes a tiny bit of propellant(推进燃料)，heats it to very high temperatures (2，000，000 ℃) using radio waves，and then pushes it out at extremely high speeds.The result is a steady，continuous increase in speed，using far less fuel.