阅读下面短文,并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)

阅读下面短文,并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)

Modern inventions have speeded up people's lives amazinglyMotor cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an houraircraft cross the world inside a daywhile computers operate at lightning speedIndeedthis love of speed seems never endingEvery year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts(吹嘘)of saving precious seconds in handling tasks

All this saves timebut at a priceWhen we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplaneour bodies tell us soWe get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet lag our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zoneAgainspending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingersMobile phones also                    according to some scientiststoo much use may put harmful radiation into our brainsa consequence we do not like to think about

Howeverwhat do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relaxor so it seemsWe are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a timePerhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radioletting imagination take us into another world

There was a time when some people's lives were devoted simply to the cultivation(耕耘)of the land or the care of cattleNo multi tasking theretheir lives went on at a much gentler paceand in a familiar patternThere is much that we might envy about a way of life like thisYet before we do sowe must think of the hard tasks our ancestors facedthey farmed with bare handsoften lived close to hungerand had to make tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

76What's the passage mainly about?(within 10 words)

                                                                        

77List the difficulties our ancestors met according to the text(within 15 words)

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

78Fill in the blank in the 2nd paragraph with proper words or phrases

                                                                        

79Why do we make new products more and more time-saving according to Paragraph 1 of this passage?

                                                                         

80Translate the underlined sentence in the 3rd paragraph into Chinese

                                                                        

                                                                       

答案

76. Modern technology and its influence.

77.farming with bare hands.

living close to hunger.

making tools from wood and stone.

78. have their danger/ have bad effects on us

79. Because our love of speed seems never ending.

80.那些我们可以聆听电台里的音乐,让思绪飞扬的时代已经远去了。

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