/ 让学习更有效 新课备课备考 | 英语学科 / 让学习更有效 新课备课备考 | 英语学科 2025-2026学年八年级英语上册单元复习考点培优外研版（2024）Unit 4 Digital life 专题11 任务型阅读 学校:_____姓名：_____班级：_____考号：_____ 阅读下面的短文，回答文后的问题。 Bitwalking is an invention made by a small company in London. To make people walk more, this new app on the mobile phone is paying people for walking, which is based on (在……的基础上) their daily walking steps. With this app, walkers can earn one “Bitwalking dollar” for about 1, 000 steps (about 8 kilometers). Three bitwalking dollars can be earned by one person per day at most. The money people earned can be spent in special online stores or exchanged for cash. One goal behind the app is to make people healthier. But the designers also have another goal: to improve people’s lives. In poor countries, people have to walk far to work, or to school, or simply to collect water. Workers in the countryside earn less than one dollar a day. By walking around with the Bitwalking app, they could earn three times more. The company has also set up Bitwalking centers in some poor areas. At the centers, local people will learn how to use the Bitwalking dollars or trade (交易) them for cash. Bitwalking is really helpful in changing lives! 1．How many Bitwalking dollars can one person get at most every day 2．What is the purpose of Bitwalking 3．Do you think we middle school students should use this app Why or why not The days of staring at a map or the screen of your smartphone when you’re lost will soon be over—thanks to new shoes that tell you which way to turn. The shoes use a Bluetooth link to communicate with your mobile’s mapping system. The mobile works out which route you should follow and the shoes then emit a vibration (震动) in either foot telling you when and where to change direction. ①The shoes will also count the number of steps you’ve taken and the calories you’ve burned. “They are as easy to use as a tap on the shoulder,” said Krispian Lawrence, who developed the shoes with partner Anirudh Sharma in Hyderabad, India. “You can even communicate with them using hand gestures and finger snaps because the shoes have sensors that can pick up movement and sound.” The Lechal shoes go on sale worldwide in June but Lawrence and Sharma’s company, Ducere Technologies, has already taken more than 3,000 pre-orders. Lawrence believes the shoes will also improve road safety. “If I’m on my bike or motorbike, I don’t want to stare at my phone—it’s dangerous,” he says. “I’d rather be guided by my footwear.” He believes his invention will prove ②_____ for the visually impaired (视觉障碍者) and has promised that every pair sold by Ducere will subsidise (补助) a cheaper pair for a visually impaired person. The shoes don’t impress explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, however. “What’s wrong with a good old-fashioned map ” said the 70-year-old when told of the shoes. “If you rely too heavily on techn ... ...
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