Unit 1 PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT（课时作业）- 2022-2023学年高二新教材英语选择性必修第一册【勤径学升·同步练测】（人教版）

检测卷一 PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT [对应素能提升训练第58页] （本卷满分120分　考试用时90分钟） 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 When we think of technology,we tend to think of computers,smartphones,and the Internet among other high-tech inventions.But technological development also applies to clocks.The creation of mechanical gears in clocks was a great leap forward for timekeeping devices.Here are just a few of the milestones in their history. The Pendulum （钟摆） Clock While clocks using springs and gears had already been invented by the 1500s,it was the pendulum clock developed by Christiaan Huygens in 1657 that gave timepieces a higher level of accuracy.The improvements Huygens made to the pendulum design made it 100 times more accurate than previous clocks.Rather than losing or gaining 15 minutes per day,Huygens’ pendulum clocks were accurate within a minute per week. The Power of Electricity Clocks that used a battery began to be developed around 1815,but it wasn’t until 25 years later that a Scottish clockmaker named Alexander Bain patented a clock powered by an electric current.Bain’s clock still used a pendulum,but the pendulum was powered by electromagnetism.More than a hundred years later,in 1957,the first electric watches became available to the public. Portable Watches As clock technology advanced and mechanisms became more accurate and thinner,new types of timepieces that could be carried on a person were developed.The earliest of these were pocket watches,which were created in Switzerland in 1574.Centuries later,in 1812,Abraham-Louis Breguet produced the first wristwatch,which he gave to the Queen of Naples,Napoleon’s younger sister.Originally,wristwatches were worn by women only and men continued to use pocket watches. [语篇导读]　这是一篇应用文,介绍了钟表上机械齿轮的发明历史上的一些里程碑。 1.What made Huygens’ clock more precise than previous clocks？ A.The invention of springs and gears. B.The betterment in pendulum design. C.The power of an electric current. D.The ch