精品解析：广东省揭阳市2021-2022学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题

揭阳市2021—2022学年度高中三年级教学质量测试 英语 本试卷共10页，考试时间120分钟，满分120分 第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Most of us have dreamed of being a great inventor to create something great. However, just because someone’s invented something, it doesn’t mean that they’re happy with the end result. Albert Einstein—The Atomic Bomb It’s Albert Einstein’s work that made the creation of the atomic bomb possible. However, years later Einstein regretted having signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging him to support the research into nuclear chain reactions, because he believed the Germans were already working on it. “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb,” he said, “I would have never lifted a finger.” Ethan Zuckerman—The Pop-up Advertisement If you’ve ever found yourself yelling at your computer screen in frustration as yet another pop-up ad leaps into view, Zuckerman is the person to blame. “The business model that got us funded was advertising. The model was analyzing users’ personal homepages so we could better target ads to them. Along the way, we ended up creating one of the most hated tools in the advertiser’s toolkit: the pop-up ad,” Zuckerman explained. Bob Propst—The Office Cubicle In the 1960s, Bob Propst introduced the office cubicle to Americans. It was designed to “give knowledge workers a more flexible environment than the rat-maze boxes of offices”. Companies saw his invention as a way to save money, doing away with individual offices and replacing them with open plans and cubicles. However, Propst came to complain his invention. “The cubiclizing of people in modern corporations is extremely mad and stupid,” he said. 1. What are the initial purpose of the inventions of the Pop-up Advertisement and the Office Cubicle? A. To save money. B. To entertain the users. C. To benefit the companies. D. To impress the companies. 2. What do the three inventions have in common? A. Their inventors r