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课时作业4 eq \a\vs4\al(Ⅰ) 单句语法填空 1．I’m not going to put myself ____________ the mercy of the bank. 答案：at 2．She was highly praised for her selflessness and devotion ____________(work)． 答案：to work 3．It’s high time that we ____________(update)the equipment of our office. 答案：updated 4．The aim of the scheme is ____________ (simplify) the complex social security system. 答案：to simplify 5．The sentences are numbered for ease of ____________ (refer)． 答案：reference 6．The children seemed ____________(eat) something in the room. 答案：to be eating 7．We received several answers, and we picked one ____________ random. 答案：at 8．These plants have a tendency ____________(grow) in the more rural areas. 答案：to grow 9．Do you still remember the days ____________ we stayed in America? 答案：when 10．If I ____________(have) a lot of money now, I would travel around the world. 答案：had eq \a\vs4\al(Ⅱ) 阅读理解 Goldfish have pretty boring lives，so maybe it’s a good thing that they can only concentrate for nine seconds! But according to a new research，humans are becoming like goldfish.Our attention span(时长) is getting shorter...and it’s all because of technology. “We move quickly from one site to another on the web，”says Doctor Ted Selker，a computer scientist from Massachusetts，“and we are losing the ability to concentrate.” With millions of websites to choose from，the attention span of the average Internet user is just seconds.There are other digital distractions(分心) too: email，instant messaging and quickie movies on websites. Some people are worried about the effect on young people.“You need time to understand and think about what you read，” says Julia Wood，from London.“Young people search the net all the time and their brains become full of useless information but there is no time to make sense of it.I am trying to persuade my pupils to read more books，so that they concentrate on one subject for longer.” Other teachers are trying more unusual methods to improve students’ concentration.Anne Savan，from Wales，