云南省曲靖市2014
高考英语(阅读理解)一轮训练题(5)及答案 modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster each new computer boasts(吹嘘)of saving precious seconds in handling tasks. all this saves time, but at a prick. when we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. we get t