陕西省咸阳市秦都区2020学年高一英语下学期第三次月考试题本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。第I卷第一部分阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）第一节（共 15小题；每小题2分，满分30分 ）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上用铅笔将该项涂黑。 AI live in a city, and I like quiet life. I hate nosy (爱管闲事的) neighbors but its very unlucky that I had one for myself. They moved in a couple of months ago and although I never felt that they were a strange family, Ive always hated the way they get “too close” to me, my house, my garden, and even my garbage cans.One day, my neighbors were mowing their lawn (草坪). My garbage cans were near their lawn. For some strange reason, I found the wife looking through my garbage cans. I felt angry but since they were from a different culture, I thought that maybe it was “normal” from their ideas.That afternoon, the couple knocked on my front door. When I opened, they gave me a plastic bag. Inside were my old daily bills, credit cards and bank statements, and an old birthday card that my old uncle sent. They said that they were returning them to me because these documents contained very private information that may be used by others.Ive heard of it before. I asked them how those documents can be used by others and they started telling me their very own experience, which forced them to leave their home and move next door to us. The wife told me that she never destroyed the bills. They also had a “nosy neighbour” who looked through their garbage cans which they actually thought was pretty strange. Little did they know that this “nosy neighbor” was collecting their personal information from their rubbish. Then all their money was taken out from the bank by their neighbor.It was a very painful experience for all of them and they wanted to leave it all behind so they left. I was very thankful. They were not nosy neighbors. They simply didnt want us to experience the same thing that they did.1. What made the author angry?A. His neighbors came to knock at his door at night.B. His neighbors were mowing their lawn one morning.C. His neighbors got too close to his own home.D. His neighbors wife was looking through his rubbish.2. Why did the couple come to the authors home?A. To return the documents to the author.B. To get to know each other better.C. To introduce themselves to the author.D. To borrow some money from the author.3. The neighbors moved to live next door to the author because . A. they no longer had money to live in their former home B. their personal documents were used by their former neighbor C. they didnt want to live in such a noisy home as before D. they thought the author was much better than their former neighbor4.Which of the following can we infer from the last paragraph?A. The author was kind and helpful to the neighbors.B. The author changed his idea about his neighbors.C. The neighbors didnt have enough money.D. The neighbors had to move from place to place. BWhat can you imagine the life 100 years from now? In fact, no one can know it from now, but scientists studying the evolution of the society, human life and the world in general make such kind of predictions based on scientific data. According to their publications in scientific journals, lets see how the world might look like in 100 years from now.Embedded computersAccording to predictions by Ian Pearson and Patrick Tucker, by 2050 the human body will be embedded2 with computers, at least in a big part of the population, and by 2075 most of the citizens of the developed world will have some kind of chips built in their brains to make them work faster and share thoughts in the form of computer data.Superhuman geniusesDevelopments in genetic engineering will create human geniuses who will live forever. Does it sound unbelievable? It is sure that there will be a way to influence the brain to increase the intelligence level and with the help of genetics it will be possible to maintain human body for many years.Global currencyAccording to futurists, it is very likely that a global electronic currency will be created. They say that the local and national currencies will be few until mid-century and will gradually disappear, let alone metal currencies.Three world languages There will be only three world languages: English, Spanish and Chinese. Other languages will have no chance to survive through time. Futurists say that many minority languages are already extinct and the fac t that all educated people in the world speak at least one of these languages will help in this way.Oceans as a food sourceIt is one of the most “confident” future devel opments, according to scientists, because if the world population continues growing at the same rate, it will reach ten billion. So the food will not be enough. Thus the oceans will be used to raise fish and to provide population