For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the cou

For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages. Distances between them appear no greater to a modern traveler than those which once faced men as they walked from village to village. Jet plane fly people from one end of the earth to the other, allowing them a freedom of movement undreamt of a hundred years ago.
Yet some people wonder if the revolution in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest （征服） of time and distance. Travel is something to be enjoyed, not endured （忍受）. The boat offers leisure and time enough to appreciate the ever-changing sights and sounds of a journey. A journey by train also has a special charm about it. Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. On board a plane, however, there is just the blank blue of the sky filling the narrow window of the airplane. The soft lighting, in-flight films and gentle music make up the only world you know, and the hours progress slowly.
Then there is the time spent being “processed” at a modern airport. People are conveyed like robots along walkways; baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passenger move again to another waiting area. Journeys by rail and sea take longer, yes, but the hours devoted to being “processed” at departure and arrival in airports are luckily absent. No wonder, then, that the modern high-speed trains are winning back passengers from the airlines.
Man, however, is now a world traveler and can not turn his back on the airplane. The working lives of too many people depend upon it; whole new industries have been built around its design and operation. The holiday maker, too, with limited time to spend, patiently endures the busy airports and limited space of the flight to gain those extra hours and even days, relaxing in the sun. speed controls people’s lives；time saved, in work or play, is the important thing—or so we are told. Perhaps those first horsemen, riding free across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, and the clock was not their master.
【小题1】What does the writer try to express in Paragraph1? A．Travel by plane has speeded up the growth of villages. B．The speed of modern travel has made distances relatively short. C．The freedom of movement has helped people realize their dreams. D．Man has been fond of traveling rather than staying in one place.【小题2】How does the writer support the underlined statement in Paragraph2? A．By giving instructions. B．By analyzing cause and effect. C．By following the order of time. D．By giving examples.【小题3】According to Paragraph3, passengers are turning back to modern high-speed trains because . A．they pay less for the ticketsB．they feel safer during the travel. C．they can enjoy higher speed of travelD．they don’t have to waste time being “processed”【小题4】What does the last sentence of the passage mean? A．They could enjoy free and relaxing travel. B．They needed the clock to tell the time. C．They preferred traveling on horseback. D．They could travel with their master.【小题5】What is the main idea of the passage? A．Air travel benefits people and industries. B．Train Travel has some advantages over air travel. C．Great changes have taken place in modern travel. D．The high speed of air travel is gained at a cost.B

(答案→)B 解析：在现代，人们可以乘坐飞机环游世界，体验飞机带来的高速度。然而，也有人怀疑，旅行方式的发展是否有些过度了。因为，在体验高速度的同时，人们也付出了比较大的代价。【小题1】根据第一段“the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages. Distances between them appear no greater...”可知，第一段讲的是，现代化的旅行大大缩小了世界的距离，故选B。【小题2】根据第二段“The boat offers leisure and time ...A journey by train also has a special charm about it. ...Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past”可知，作者举例来论证“旅行是享受的而不是忍受的过程”，故选D。【小题3】根据第三段“Then there is the time spent being “processed” at a modern airport. ...baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passenger move again to another waiting area. ...but the hours devoted to being “processed” at departure and arrival in airports are luckily absent.”可知，第三段讲的是，乘坐飞机时，大量的时间被浪费在了排队、检票、候机这些事情上，故选D。【小题4】根据最后一段“Perhaps those first horsemen, riding free across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, and the clock was not their master.”可知，骑马在广阔的草原上游荡，欣赏到的会是一个更美好的世界。骑马的人可以任意驰骋，而不用担心时间问题。故选A。【小题5】根据第一段“For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages.”和第二段“Yet some people wonder if the revolution in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest （征服） of time and distance.”可知，在获得高速度的同时，人们也付出了一定的代价，故选D。

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