湖北省宜昌市20xx-20xx学年高一英语下学期期中联考试题

湖北省宜昌市20xx-20xx学年高一英语下学期期中联考试题内容摘要：

ebook’s vice president Elliot Schrage, the pany is simply making changes to improve its service, and if people don’t share information, they have a “less satisfying experience”. Some critics(批评家 ) think this is more about Facebook looking to make more money. In original business model, which involved selling ads and putting them in the side of the pages totally, who wants to look at ads when they’re on line connecting with their friends? The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington. In April, Senator Charles Schumer called on Facebook to change its privacy policy. He also urged(催促 ) the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social working sites. “I think the senator rightly municated that we had not been clear about what the new products were and how people could choose to use them or not to use them,” Schrage admits. I suspect that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade our privacy, it’s only the beginning, which is why I’m considering cancelling （取消 ） my account. Facebook is a handy site, but I’m upset by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don’t know. That’s too high a price to pay. 28. What do we learn about Facebook from the first paragraph? A. It is a website that sends messages to users who want to get married B. It earns money by putting on advertisements C. It provides loads of personal information to its users D. It makes money by selling its users’ personal data 29. What does the author say about most Facebook users? A. They are unwilling to give up their personal information B. They care very little about their personal information C. They don’t identify themselves when using the website D. They don’t know their personal data enrich es Facebook 30. Why does Facebook make changes to its rules according to Elliot Schrage? A. To obey the Federal guidelines B. To provide better service to its users C. To improve its users’ connection D. To expand its business 31. Why does the author plan to cancel his Facebook account? A. He doesn’t wan t his personal data badly used B. He finds many of its users untrustworthy C. He is dissatisfied with its present service D. He is upset by its frequent rule changes D Electric cars are dirty. In fact, not only are they dirty, but they might even be more dirty than their gasolinepowered cousins. People in California love to talk about “zero emissions (排放 ) vehicles”, but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity es from. Power plants(工厂 ) mostly use fire to make it. Apart from the few people who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators (发电机 ). Generators are fueled by something— usually coal, oil, but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal (地热 ) plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something. In other words, those “zero emissions” cars are likely coal burning cars. Because the coal is burned somewhere else, it looks clean. It is not true. It39。 s as if the California Greens are covering their eyes— “If I can39。 t see it, it39。 s not happening.” Gasoline is an incredibly ( 极其 ) efficient way to power a vehicle。 a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heatat the generator, through the transmission lines, etc. A gallon of gas may drive your car 25 miles. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gaswon39。 t get you nearly as far— so electric cars burn more fuel than gasolinepowered ones. If our electricity came mostly from wind or geothermal, or solar, then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical, and economic reasons, we don39。 t use much of those energy sources. In addition, electric cars39。 batteries which are poisonous for a long time will eventually end up in a landfill (垃圾填埋场 ). And finally, when cars are the polluters, the pollution is spread across all the roads. When it39。 s a power plant, though, all the junk is in one place. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot. 32. Which of the following words can replace “b e clueless about” in Paragraph 2? A. be familiar with B. be curious about C. fail to understand D. show their interest in 33. The electricity we get from a gallon of gas may make our car r。