However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

　　There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

　　24.The new products become more and more time-saving because

　　.

　　A. our love of speed seems never-ending

　　B. time is limited.

　　C. the prices are increasingly high.

　　D. the manufactures boast a lot.

　　25.What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to ?

　　A. Imaginary life B. Simple life in the past. C. Times of inventions

　　D. Time for constant activity.

　　26.What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?

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