2022-2023学年北京市海淀区高一（下）期末英语试卷.docxVIP

第 =page 1 1页，共 =sectionpages 1 1页 2022-2023学年北京市海淀区高一（下）期末英语试卷 一、阅读理解（本大题共11小题，共22.0分） A Do you know someone who has a hard time opening bottles or jars at home？Eighth-grade students in Mark Bolts engineering class were tasked with making changes to a product to make it easier for people with challenges to use. Rather than requiring step-by-step directions for creating their projects，Mr.Bolt preferred to leave students creative paths open.Lets see some of the students products. A Device That Easily Opens Bottles To find a solution for her grandmother who had difficulty in opening bottles，Alana looked at existing bottle openers and then she created her own. She used a piece of wood shaped like a cellphone.Next，she made three holes of different sizes in the wood so that they could match common bottle cap sizes.Each hole also had a layer of dried，sticky hot glue，which provided a firm grip for the bottle caps.With a simple twist of the device，her grandmother could open bottles without help. A Coffee Cup With A Supportive Thumb Due to arthritis，a disease that causes pain in or around the joints，Roberts grandfather had trouble holding a coffee cup.Robert simplified a robotic third thumbdevice created by a London designer.He used rubber bands and a 3 D-printed plastic form to make the extra thumbwhich can firmly support the bottom of a cup. A Reading Tool Michael noticed how dyslexia——a common reading disorder，made it difficult for a friend to follow along on pages full of text.It is a language-processing condition.The brain tends to confuse the order of numbers，letters and other images. So，Michael created a small adjustable window-blind-style device.My friend could isolate small sections of text while reading，he said. 1. Alanas grandmother could open bottles easily by ______ . A. sticking bottle caps to the deviceB. connecting the device to a cellphoneC. twisting the device that has holes in itD. cutting holes of different sizes in wood 2. What did Robert