问题 选择题

下列关于地球形状的说法,正确的是(  )

A.倒扣的盘子

B.地方如棋盘

C.正球体

D.赤道略鼓,两极稍扁的不规则的球体

答案

经过计算,地球的极半径约长6357千米,赤道半径长约6378千米,故地球是两极部位略扁,赤道部位略鼓的不规则球体.

故选:D.

填空题

2008年北京奥运会正在向我们走来,“绿色、环保、人文”的北京奥运引起人们的广泛关注。

(1)在奥运村将大量使用太阳能这一清洁能源。图1为布设的太阳能路灯照片,太阳能电池在阳光照射下将太阳能转换为____________能储存起来,供夜晚路灯照明使用。

 (2)奥运场馆的设计中另一个有代表性的环保举措是建立水资源综合利用系统。通过在地下建蓄水池将雨水、中水收集处理,用于冲厕、洗车、道路浇洒及绿化。 小明看到一个自来水龙头没有关紧,水一滴一滴断续地滴落到地上。他想这个水龙头一昼夜要浪费多少水啊!为了测算水龙头一昼夜要浪费的水量,他找来了秒表、量筒。将量筒放在水龙头下,当听到水滴滴在量筒里的声音开启秒表计时,并数“l”,一直数到40滴时,按下秒表停止计时,读出秒表的示数为12s,量筒里水的体积是10m1。则每一滴水的体积为_____________ml,一昼夜要浪费的水量是___________L。

(3)图2是2008奥运部分比赛项目的标志图,这些项目所包含的物理知识有:(写出2点即可)__________________________;______________________。

(4)在足球比赛中有一种球叫“香蕉球”,如图3所示,贝克汉姆特别擅长踢这种球。这种球边旋转边前进,在旋转方向与球前进方向相同的一侧,空气相对于球的流速比另一侧___________(大/小)。由于球两侧空气的流速不等,产生压强差,最终导致球沿弧线飞行。

                                图1                                                 图2                                      图3

单项选择题

IBM has just announced the invention of the PAN—Personal Area Network — a set of devices that use humans as conductors to relay detailed textual information from one person to another, simply by touch. It is a relatively small conceptual step from the PAN processor that relays a written message through one’s body by a shake of the hand to a microcell sensory transmission system that relays ideas and sensations directly to and from the most powerful processor in the world, the human brain.
Within a few decades, PAN-type research will transform the Internet into the Life Net, a comprehensive sensory environment for human habitation. Our minds will be afforded wireless direct sensory interfacing with other people and various databases. A dramatically enhanced version of what we now call virtual reality will become as common as air conditioning. Telephones, TVs, PCs, and other media will be replaced by wireless sensory feeds from and to communal microcells.
People return to the Internet each day not from addiction, but because they can craft a new identity for themselves—any identity they choose. Or they can participate in experiences that are otherwise beyond their reach. Consider the impact of a technology affording a lifestyle in which you can go wherever you want to go and be whoever you want to be.
Today’s office and service workers have diminished physical capabilities, but are better educated. The Life Net will accelerate this trend. The need to survive while spending weeks, months, or years on the Net would be drastically reduced.
Resource depletion resulting from overpopulation will cease to be a major issue when we are subsisting on 600 calories a day in a sensory reality where we can eat all we want. Our mansions will be built in our minds, and our future Ferrairs will be driven along the roads of our collective imaginations. Our minds will work and play in ways now beyond our conception.
Time constraints dissolve when we can communicate effortlessly anywhere in the world. Humans will require less sleep, since we will need only the time to file and store the information that our brains have collected, and not to rest physical bodies. The physical body will deteriorate to a state where a return to robust health would take months—if possible at ail.
These technologies will be inexpensive. Life Net participation will consume far fewer resources than an automobile, and reduce our housing and other needs. This will help the Life Net expand into Third World countries. The equipment required for the microcellular sensory transmission technology will be modular, redundant, and like that for the Internet, incrementally inexpensive. Countries with overcrowding and famine would embrace the Life Net. Their resources would be extended, and planners would likely program the system to minimize the population’s reproductive drive.
People will still have jobs. There will be lots of work to do. People will want to consume the newest experiential sensations. Some food will need to be prepared, and equipment manufactured. Government will be divided into Geographical, Physical and Communicative. The responsibilities of the geographic governments will be to defend land masses and keep order in the physical world as much as they do today. The responsibilities of the communicative governments will be to administer, regulate and defend cyberspace.
The communicative government will also be responsible for maintaining the input-output microcells. Various online services are already functioning as a form of communicative government today—with their monthly fees as taxes. As they mature, these communicative governments will develop better defenses against cyberspace terrorism, which may come from large and potentially violent anti-technology cults.
Some people will have to remain physically active and p, because of the nature of their labor. Tools and equipment will always break down and need repair, and some operations and experiments will require a hands-on approach. Manufacturers, natural resource harvesters and explorers of all sorts are likely to be visitors to the Life Net, rather than residents.
Manufacturing will be dramatically reduced, because few people will need cars, clothing, physical tools, or countless other physical objects. Natural resource harvesters will work in every field from farming to mining. Yet as with manufacturing, the need for harvesting will decrease.
Fifty years from now, reality will consist of some wonderful things, some beautiful things, and some deeply frightening things.

The tone of the author is ______ .

A.imaginary

B.humorous

C.ironic

D.pessimistic