限时集训(二十一) Great scientists.doc

限时集训(二十一)　Great scientists (时间：40分钟　满分：65分) Ⅰ.完形填空(共15小题，满分30分) I am never the first among my friends to use the newest technology. It is not that I dont __1__ a new toy to play with, but with money always being __2__， I try to be sensible about it. Back in the eighties, when all my schoolmates were __3__ phone messages on their pagers (寻呼机), I was still getting Post-it notes from Mom saying that “Billy __4__”. This system of written notes seemed to __5__， so I never considered updating. Then cell phones arrived and began to __6__ the pagers. They certainly offered a better system, but for a twenty-year-old dishwasher they were a bit __7__. Even though more and more of my family and friends __8__ the mobile world, I remained faithful to my old telephone. Then, about five years ago, as I was in a stage of my life where I was moving around a lot, it became difficult to keep in touch with others. A cell phone could provide the __9__，I realized. So I marched proudly into my local __10__， fully eager to join the twenty-first century. “What sort of phone are you looking for？” the nice girl behind the counter asked. So I told her that I wanted a __11__ phone to make calls with, nothing fancy. “Well，” the nice girl __12__， “we could sell you this phone that does nothing else at all, like you have said, or we could give you this nice Smartphone that does almost everything！” This girl was good; how could I __13__ her offer? So I walked out of the store with my new Smartphone! That phone had so many __14__ that it came with a two-hundredguidebook. Now my Smartphone has become my lifeline which I have to take everywhere — without it I feel uneasy. It seems that I have become one of those people who are so __15__ by their phone that they dont care about the world around them. 1．A.have　　　　　　　　　　　 　B．enjoy C．remember D．share 2．A.tight B．slow C．clean D．narrow 3．A.designing B．appreciating C．blaming D．receiving 4．A.visited B．called C．sang D．guessed 5．A.stop B．continu