2020-2021学年新教材英语外研版选择性必修第二册课时作业（七） Unit 3　Times change Section Ⅰ　Starting out Understanding ideas Word版含解析

1、课时作业(七)unit 3section starting out & understanding ideas.阅读理解ai realized i would not see a real person named sophie at sophie's eatery, because like most new restaurants these days, sophie's eatery is a robot­restaurant. when i walked in, a cute little manager robot appeared, looking

2、 rather like a toaster with blinking blue eyes. it escorted me to a nice table in the back. the menu monitor popped out of my table and showed me pictures of my dining choices. i tapped my choices and clicked ok, and the screen slid back down. i watched as full plates rode the conveyor belts that mo

3、ved along each aisle (过道) of tables. in just a few minutes, my dish stopped at my table, and i took it from the belt. later, i placed my empty plate back on the conveyor belt, and it was taken away into the kitchen to be cleaned. i watched the little toaster showing customers to tables while i ate m

4、y main dish. the food was delicious, but i was starting to feel extremely angry because dealing with robots always makes me feel inhuman. pretty soon, i wanted to talk to someone real, even if it was just a few sentences. so when my dessert arrived, i took action. i dropped my plate on the floor wit

5、h a satisfying crash. i was so happy when i saw the manager toaster's blinking red eyes at last, a real live person would arrive! but instead, a crew of two robots quickly appeared. a robot broom rushed over and started to sweep the pieces of the broken plate into a robot garbage can. they finis

6、hed and moved back into the kitchen. my plan to get a little reality into sophie's eatery failed. i hope the robot­restaurant trend ends soon. i want to deal with people again!1what does the underlined word “escorted” in paragraph 2 mean?aregistered. bguided.cconducted. drushed.2what is the

7、 purpose of the author crashing his plate?ato deal with a real human.bto catch attention from the robots.cto play jokes on the robots.dto complain about the bad service.3which of the following best describes the author's feeling at sophie's eatery?asatisfied. bshocked.cannoyed. dcurious.4wha

8、t is the text mainly about?athe trend of dining with robots.bthe advantage of robot­restaurants.cthe food variety of a robot­restaurant.dthe dining experience at a robot­restaurant.b ownership used to be about as straightforward as writing a cheque. if you bought something, you owned

9、it. if it broke, you fixed it. if you no longer wanted it, you sold it or threw it away. in the digital age, however, ownership has become more slippery. since the coming of smartphones, consumers have been forced to accept that they do not control the software in their devices; they are only licens

10、ed to use it. as a digital chain is wrapped ever more tightly around more devices, such as cars and thermostats, who owns and who controls these objects is becoming a problem. buyers should be aware that some of their most basic property rights are under threat. the trend is not always harmful. manu

11、facturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, and ensure that their machines do not break down, support environmental standards and prevent hacking. sometimes companies use their control over a product's software f

12、or the owners' benefit. when hurricane irma hit florida this month, tesla remotely updated the software controlling the batteries of some models to give owners more range to escape the storm. but the more digital strings are attached to goods, the more the balance of control leans towards produc

13、ers and away from owners. that can be inconvenient. picking a car is hard enough, but harder still if you have to dig up the instructions that tell you how use is limited and what data you must give. if the products are intentionally designed not to last long, it can also be expensive. already, item

14、s from smartphones to washing machines have become extremely hard to fix, meaning that they are thrown away instead of being repaired. privacy is also at risk. users become terrified when irobot, a robotic vacuum cleaner, not only cleans the floor but also creates a digital map of the inside of a ho

15、me that can then be sold to advertisers (though the manufacturer says it has no intention of doing so). cases like this should remind people how jealously they ought to protect their property rights and control who uses the data that is collected. ownership is not about to go away, but its meaning i

16、s changing. this requires careful inspection. devices, by and large, are sold on the basis that they enable people to do what they want. to the extent they are controlled by somebody else, that_freedom is compromised.5what benefit does it bring to customers if companies control the ownership of prod

17、ucts?ait provides them with knowledge to prevent hacking.bit gives them the chance to be protected from danger.cit enables them to own the copyright of the products.dit helps them know more about complex technology.6the underlined words“that freedom” in the last paragraph refer to the freedom to _.a

18、control other peoplebshare the ownershipcinspect devices at any timeduse devices as one's wishes7the author may agree _.acustomers should buy fewer digital devicesbproducers should control property rightscproperty rights need to be protecteddbetter after­sales service is required.完形填空brando

19、n ponzo's sitting on a lone barber chair. the fifth­grader is wrapped in a dark red barber's cape (披肩). to his left, a cartoon plays on a small tv. he _1_ out of the corner of his eye, careful to keep his head _2_. to his right, two other boys sit on folding chairs, looking over books _

20、3_ they wait their turn. ponzo's barber who also _4_ as his principal gets to work. terrance newton has turned a spare room at warner elementary school into his personal _5_. in the afternoons, he pulls a few boys from the final minutes of class and _6_ them to a fresh cut. it's a small deed

21、 that shows his students that he not only cares about their _7_， but also wants them to be happy with themselves and how the world _8_ them. newton has been cutting his students' hair for about 15 years. using equipment _9_ by a friend who is a barber, he brought his _10_ to warner in his first

22、year as principal. cutting hair requires both skills and care. newton _11_ tilts (使倾侧) brandon's head from side to side, getting his hairline just _12_.the barbershop session is a unique time for newton to interact with his students _13_ the classroom. the “barbershop talk” that fills the tempor

23、ary space is a (n) _14_ for him and his students to relax, get to _15_ each other better and think about the future. the boys might not realize it, but every barbershop session is filled with mini­teaching moments. newton asks them about school and what vocabulary words they're being tested

24、 that week.1a.watches bobservescnotices dadmires2a.smooth bhealthycpretty dstraight3a.before bwhilecthough duntil4a.expands bpreparescdoubles doperates5a.studio bclassroomcrestroom dbarbershop6a.treats breferscintroduces dexposes7a.appearance beducationcfuture dcondition8a.understands bacceptscrewar

25、ds dsees9a.produced bdesertedcdonated drepaired10a.students bbooksccustoms dskills11a.quickly bcarefullycnormally dcasually12a.long bshortcright dtight13a.outside bbetweencinside daround14a.promise bintentionclesson dchance15a.realize bknowcrecognize dtolerate课时作业(七).阅读理解a【语篇解读】本文讲述了作者在机器人餐厅的用餐体验，作者

26、对这种改变并不满意，而是渴望有真人服务的餐馆。由此可见，改变有时也是有利有弊的。1答案与解析：b词义猜测题。根据第四段中的“i watched the little toaster showing customers to tables while i ate my main dish.”可知，机器人把顾客带到餐桌前。“it escorted me to a nice table in the back.”中的escort应与show意义相近，即escort意为“引导”。2答案与解析：a推理判断题。根据第四段中“pretty soon, i wanted to talk to someone

27、real, even if it was just a few sentences.”可知作者想和一个真人说说话。第五段中作者采取行动，即把盘子掉在地板上，结合“at last, a real live person would arrive”以及下一段的转折可知，作者摔盘子的目的是想和一个真正的人打交道。3答案与解析：c推理判断题。根据第四段中“i was starting to feel extremely angry”可知，作者对在这家餐厅吃饭感到非常生气。因此annoyed最能描述作者在机器人餐馆的就餐心情。4答案与解析：d主旨大意题。通读文章可知，本文主要讲述了作者在一家机器人餐厅就

28、餐的经历，故选d项。b【语篇解读】 随着数字时代的到来，“所有权”的意义正在改变，但它不会消失。5答案与解析：b细节理解题。根据第二段中“sometimes companies use their control over a product's software for the owners' benefit. to give owners more range to escape the storm.”可知，特斯拉的例子指出如果产品公司控制产品的所有权，该公司可以采取措施避免他们的顾客遭受危险。6答案与解析：d推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“devices, by and l

29、arge，are sold on the basis that they enable people to do what they want. to the extent they are controlled by somebody else, that_freedom is compromised.”可推知，画线词组的意思是“按个人的希望使用设备的自由”。7答案与解析：c推理判断题。根据第四段中“cases like this should remind people how jealously they ought to protect their property rights and control