With the development of technology, there have been a lot of changes in
our life. Admittedly, some of these changes are bad, causing many environmental
and social problems. However, most of these changes contribute to making our
life more convenient, more comfortable and more wonderful.
First of all, due to the improvement of technology, people can enjoy
more convenience than ever. For example, it only takes travellers or
businessmen several hours to go to other countries by jet plane, which makes
the world seem to be much smaller. With the help of Internet, people at different
corners of the world can communicate with significantly high speed and low
cost. It is technology that has cleared away the barriers that once prevented
people from leading a convenient life.
Secondly, technology has made our life as comfortable as we can imagine.
Sitting in air conditioned rooms, people do not have to suffer the extremely
cold or hot weather any more. Whatever vegetable or fruit we want to eat, we
can always find it in a supermarket without worrying about the season.
We can also go to work in a place far away from our homes by using automobiles
or public transportation tools.
In addition, technology provides us many choices to spend our spare
time. Listening to music by using an MD, MP3 or walkman, surfing the internet
or watching digital movies, all of these entertainments make our life
wonderful.
In conclusion, although technology
has brought about some problems, such as air pollution caused by increasing
automobiles, ethnic problems caused by cloning human beings, the benefits of
technology far outweigh its bad influences. So it is safe to say that
technology has made the world a better place to live.
COMPREHENSION
1. Which one would be the best title
for the text?
a)
The drawbacks of technology. q
b)
The Importance of Technology in our Modern
Life. q
c)
The difference between life in the past and
present. q
d)
Technology in Students’ life. q
2. Pick out two advantages from the
passage showing the importance of technology in our life.
a)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...……………………………………………………………………………
b)…………………………………...……………………………………………………………………………………...……………………............……………………………………………
3. Decide if these statements are
true of false. Then, justify your answer.
a. With the help of
technology, our life has become more convenient.
Truer Falser
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...................................
b. With the help of Internet, people at different corners
of the world find problems communicate with each other.
Truer Falser
………………………………...………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...................................
c. The advantages of
technology are more than its bad influences.
Truer Falser
……………………………………………...…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...................................
4. Complete the following sentences
with examples of the benefits of technology from the text.
a. With the help of air conditioners, people.................................................................................
b. With the help of modern means of
transportation, People......................................................
c.
MD, MP3 or walkman...............................................................................................................
5. Put the words between brackets
before the appropriate definition/ meaning.
(Convenient, bring about, cloning, outweigh)
1……………………………….: Biology. The process
of creating an animal or plant in a laboratory that is an exact copy of another
using the original animal’s or plant’s DNA.
2……………………………….: Easy to do, or not causing
problems or difficulties.
3……………………………….: to make something happen,
especially to cause changes in a situation.
4……………………………….: to be more important,
useful, or valuable than something else.
6. Match the following words with
their antonyms.
Word |
# |
Antonym |
1.
Conveniences |
A.
Low. |
|
2.
High |
B.
Difficulties. |
7. What do the
underlined word in the text refer to?
- It
( Paragraph 3) :
…………………….……….…………
- Its
( Paragraph 5) :
…………………….….………………