2015四川成都外国语学校高三10月月考英语试题及答案(3)

Property papers: Loot and Renting
Loot is an important source (来源) of information about private housing for co-renters. The offers are from private landlords, agencies and individuals looking for other co-renters. They also have a website: www.loot.com. The advantage of using Loot is that there are some excellent bargains. The disadvantage is that there is no quality control over the offers. 
Renting is another useful paper. The offers in this paper are mainly from accommodation agencies. Their website is at www.renting.co.uk.
Accommodation agencies
The majority of rented accommodation in London is probably advertised through accommodation agencies. The advantage of using accommodation agencies is that: you will have access to a large number of accommodations. A good agent will listen to your requirements and can save you time in looking for the right accommodation. The disadvantage is that they will make a range of charges to potential renters. 
Noticeboards
Around the universities you will find a number of noticeboards where offers of accommodation will be posted. These will either be from landlords or from students. Some universities will also have online noticeboards where students can advertise to other students. Advertisements from students can be an excellent way to find accommodation. However, advertisements from landlords can be problematic.  
Word of mouth
Some of the best housing in London is never advertised but is passed on from one group of students to another by word of mouth. It might be that you can find out about good offers from final year students. However, don’t suppose that just because you have found out about housing from a friend it is necessarily going to be better than that found through any other source. 
Family 
    Faced with the very high rents charged in London, some students and their parents will consider buying as an alternative. In some cases this might be a good choice. 
35. What is the advantage of using Loot? 
   A. It has more offers from accommodation agencies than Renting. 
   B. It gives you personal information about other co-renters. 
   C. Their website is designed mainly for students. 
   D. There are some good bargains. 
36. A good agent can help you ____.
A. know more people                  
B. find cheap accommodation
C. get the right accommodation quickly 
D. get free information about most accommodations 
37. The information passed on by word of mouth is important because____. 
   A. it is better than that found through any other source
   B. it helps you find some of the best housing never advertised. 
   C. the final year students always offer better information
   D. the landlords have little valuable information  
38. For students going to London for the first time, which of the following provides the most reliable information?
A. University accommodation offices.      B. Loot and Renting
C. Noticeboards.                       D. Family 
C
Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour. Aircraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster each new computer boasts（吹嘘）of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone. Again spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers according to some scientists; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
39. The new products become more and more time-saving because       .
A. our love of speed seems never-ending B. time is limited
C. the prices are increasingly high D. the manufacturers boast a lot
40. What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Imaginary life B. Simple life in the past
C. Times of inventions D. Time for constant activity
41. What is the author’s attitude towards the modem technology?
A. Critical B. Objective C. Optimistic D. Negative
42. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The present and past times B. Machinery and human beings
C. Imaginations and inventions D. Modern technology and its influence