46. What happens when a new technology emerges?
出题句：第一段 Attitudes toward new technologies often fall along generational lines. That is generally, younger people tend to outnumber older people on the front end of a technological shift.
正确答案：D) It usually draws different reactions from different age groups.
47. What does the author say about the driverless car?
出题句: 第二段 When you look at attitudes toward driverless cars, there doesn’t seem to be a clear generational divide.
正确答案：A) It does not seem to create a generational divide.
48. Why does the driverless car appeal to some old people?
出题句: 第四段 Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.
正确答案：B) It helps with their mobility.
49. What is likely to affect one’s attitude toward the driverless car?
出题句: 倒数第二段 Where a person lives matters, too. More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than whose who lived in rural areas.
正确答案：A) The location of their residence.
50. Who are likely to be the first to buy the driverless car?
出题句： 最后一段 Once driverless cars are actually available for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.
正确答案：C) The wealthy
51. What do we learn from the passage about people in pre-industrial Europe?
出题句：第二段 This comfortable cycle, in which the rhythms of the day helped shape the rhythms of the meals, …
正确答案：C) Their daily routine followed the rhythm of the natural cycle.
52. What does Professor Carole Conahan say about pre-industrial European families eating meals together?
出题句：第二段 “Meals are the foundation of the family,”…“so there was a very important interconnection between eating together” and strengthening family ties.
正确答案: B) It brought family members closer to each other.
53. what does “cultural metabolism”(Line 1, Para. 3) refer to?
出题句：第三段 “Since industrialization, maintaining such a low cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could …”
正确答案：D) Pace of life
54. What does the author think of the food people eat today?
出题句：第三段 “Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of protein and dairy products available, …”
正确答案：B) It is varied, abundant and nutritious.
55. What does the author say about Italians of the old days?
出题句：最后一段：“Take Italy. It’s no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat.”
正确答案：A) They enjoyed cooking as well as eating.

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王峰： 哈尔滨新东方国内考试部教师。主讲四级阅读，新概念，考研复试课程。毕业于瑞典查尔姆斯理工大学。拥有多年欧美国家游历学习的经验。剑桥英语教学能力证书考试高分获得者，拥有非英语国家成人英语教师英语教学能力证书。曾参加英国剑桥贝尔学校的英语教师培训。曾获得新东方集团教师授课大赛二等奖。