题型：任务型阅读 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
安徽省黄山市屯溪第一中学2019-2020学年高一上学期英语10月月考试卷
Everybody hates the idea of cutting back financially(财政上) because it usually means living without things you like. But not always..They could reduce your costs by thousands of dollars a year.
An increasing number of grocery chains are selling their own lines of food. Actually, these brands cost vastly less than the name brands, but taste the same. Switch and you could save 25 percent on your grocery bills.
Make a list.
Whether you're buying groceries or gifts, spur－of the－moment impulses(一时冲动)are your enemy.. If you want to buy something on impulse, force yourself to go home and think about it.
Carry snacks.
. The same holds true for anything you eat out. So if you know you're going to be out for several hours and likely to get hungry, throw an apple in your car or carry a six-pack of soda or water in your bag.
Use it up.
Before you run to the store, make sure you check your fridge. There's a good chance that you've got lots of unused or partially used items that will go to waste while you waste your cash buying more..
A. Make a savings plan
B. Switch to store brands
C. There are many painless ways to save
D. Choose reliable brands of well-known companies
E. Write a to-do list before you go shopping and stick to it
F. Whether it's food or beauty care, use it up before you replace it
G. Buy a soda at a restaurant and you're likely to pay twice as much
Every time we get behind the wheel of a car, we put our lives and the lives of others at risk. Self-driving cars are designed to reduce those risks by letting technology control our vehicles.
Accident rates for self-driving cars have been much lower than the rate, for human-driven cars. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
As humans, we can make moral choices in avoiding accidents. To avoid hitting a child, for example, human drivers might sharply turn a car away from the child even if others may be injured. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Researchers studied this issue. They have developed the Moral Machine website to help explore the choices self-driving cars should make.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} You are shown two possible traffic situations and you choose between them. An accident will take place. You choose how many living beings would be hurt or killed.
In one situation there may be a female doctor, a child, two dogs and a homeless person who would be killed. In the other situation, you might have two babies and a cat who would be killed. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}
The Moral Machine website has many situations and many possible outcomes. When you click on the situation of your choice, it will be highlighted. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} At the end of the situation, you are shown the results, based on the choices you made. The results show which character you were most likely to save and which character you were most likely to have die.
A. Who should those victims be? B. Then the next situation appears. C. You choose who lives and who dies. D. You can use the Moral Machine to be the judge. E. But what moral choices can self-driving cars make? F. The Moral Machine website lets you choose how you would react in a collision. G. Google's self-driving car has had only 13 collisions after traveling 1.8 million miles. |
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