《2025年学习之友九年级英语上册外研版》

Ⅳ. 阅读理解。
Have you noticed your life becoming a little easier? Now, when you go to a certain shopping mall, you can enjoy its free Wi-Fi there. When you want to take a taxi, you can book one with your phone. In fact, all these can be seen as the basic parts of a smart city.
Generally, a smart city is a city that uses digital technologies such as the Internet to improve city planning, save money and resources, and make our life convenient.
How smart can a city be? Here are great examples that we can learn from.
In 2011, Dubuque in the US was listed as one of the ten smartest cities on the planet. The city now use smart water meters to take the place of traditional water meters. They can detect(测) water waste and leakage(泄露量) and send data to let the house owner know. The same system is used for other city resources like electricity and natural gas. In this way, people know how they use their resources and are glad to help reduce waste.
Santander in Spain also gives us a look at the future. If people point a phone towards a nearby bus stop, the phone immediately shows all bus lines that serve the stop as well as their arrival times. The government has organized a research team and provided an App(应用程序) that collects data on almost everything: light, temperature, and the movements of cars and people. Opening the App near a supermarket provides immediate information on special offers.
(D)1. The underlined word "convenient" in the passage has a more similar meaning with ______.
A. useful B. normal
C. suitable D. easy
(C)2. Compared to traditional water meters, smart water meters do better in ______.
A. cleaning water
B. supplying water
C. saving water
D. producing water
(B)3. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. Digital technologies help improve city planning.
B. Smart cities will make our future life better.
C. Smart cities are very common in the world.
D. Spain and the US take the leading position in building smart cities.

答案： 1. D 2. C 3. B