高考英语阅读冲刺：阅读理解5_高考复习指南

高考英语阅读冲刺：阅读理解5

　　A. speak for the majority B. support a veto

　　C. speak ill of the government D. argue for the value of the death penalty

　　65.Which of the following is among the heated arguments across the USA besides death penalty?

　　A. Air pollution. B. The war against Iraq.

　　C. Equal rights. D. Election of president.

　　66.The numbers in the last paragraph show that ______.

　　A. if they stick to death penalty, the number of murders will be reduced

　　B. death penalty almost stopped from 1954 to 1963

　　C. the population of California has risen

　　D. death penalty is of little value

　　67.It can be inferred that the writer thinks that ______.

　　A. the death penalty is the most important problem in the United States today

　　B. the second type of murderers (in Paragraph 4) should be sentenced to death

　　C. the veto of the law about death penalty is of little importance

　　D. the value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is not to be discussed

　　(D)

　　Technology has been an encouragement of historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century, and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth. Rapid advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture (制造) of goods, which has changed ideas about work. One of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time. People also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product: each nail was exactly like every other nail, meaning that each nail could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass production, although mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks.