专题8 任务型阅读
(2018·江苏淮安）B）
A new smart city will soon be built in the middle of the Arizona Desert, thanks to Bill Gates’ Smart City Project.
What is a smart city?
A smart city is a city area and people there can use the latest technology to collect information and manage resources. People live a quality life. The environment there is clean and sustainable(可持续的).
Gates bought 25,000 acres(英亩) of land near Phoenix two years ago. He planned to build a smart city with the latest technology, high speed Internet, and large data centers, the city is named Belmont. It will become one of Arizona’s largest cities.
About 3,800 acres will be used for office and business space. About 470 acres will be used for public schools. Around 80,000 flats will be built.
The project says that about 182,000 people will live in Belmont in the future.
The project also introduces how cities of the future are run, so it is great.
Most people think it is the hardest project. Also, at present no one knows when it will begin, or how much they will spend. Gates hasn’t revealed(透露) any detail yet. But he has already spent more than $ 80 million on the project.
根据上面短文内容填空。
71. Bill Gates had a plan to build a new smart city ________ the Arizona Desert, and he ________ 25,000 acres of land near Phoenix two years ago.
72. A smart city can provide the latest technology for people to ________ and manage resources and should have a clean and sustainable ________.
73. The city Belmont will be built into a smart city ________ the latest technology and high speed Internet. The city will ________large data centers.
74. ________ the project, Belmont will have a ________ of about 182,000 in the future.
75. The project is considered to be the most ________, and now nobody knows ________ will be spent on it.
B【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文。短文说明的是盖茨投资建设的未来智慧城市的样子。
71.in the middle of；bought 短文第一句话和第四段第一句提示答案。
72. collect information; environment 短文第三段提示答案。
73. with; have 第四段第二句话提示答案，第一个空格用介词with表示“带有；具有”作定语；第二个空格根据介词with的意义，用have作谓语动词。
74. According to；population 根据文中The project says...可知用according to表示“根据；按照”；原文182,000 people提示用have a population of表示“有……人口”。
75. difficult; how much原文中的hardest，提示在most后用hard的同义词difficult构成多音节形容词的最高级形式；原文和下文的spend提示用how much表示“多少钱”，即投入多少。
(2018·贵州铜仁) 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容完成76-80小题（每空一词）。答案务必另书写于答题卡卷II各小题规定的位置。
There are many holidays and festivals in China. One of them is International Labor Day. It’s on May 1st. People enjoy a one-day holiday. They often go shopping or traveling.
The Dragon Boat Festival is on lunar May 5th. On this day, people have dragon boat races in many places and eat zongzi to remember Qu Yuan. People can enjoy a one-day holiday, too.
October 1st is National Day of the PRC. It is a very important holiday. All the people in the country celebrate the birthday of China on this day. In Beijing, Many people go to Tian’ Tian’anmen Square to watch the national flag rise.
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Festival
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Date
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Activities
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Labor Day
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On 76 1st.
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Go shopping or 77 .
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Dragon 78 Festival
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On 79 May 5th.
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Have dragon boat races
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National Day
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On October 1st
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Watch the national flag 80
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