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If cars had wings, they could fly and that just might happen, beginning in 2012.The company Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, says it plans to deliver its car­plane, the Transition, to customers by the end of 2012.

“It’s the next ‘wow’ vehicle, ”said Terrafugia vice president Richard Gersh. “Anybody can buy a Ferrari, but as we say, Ferraris don’t fly.”

The car plane has wings that unfold for flying—a process the company says takes one minute—and fold back up for driving. A runway is still required to take off and land.

The Transition is being marketed more as a plane that drives than a car that flies, although it is both. The company has been working with FAA to meet aircraft regulations, and with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to meet vehicle safety regulations.

The company is aiming to sell the Transition to private pilots as a more convenient and cheaper way to fly. They say it saves you the trouble of trying to find another mode of transportation to get to and from airports: You drive the car to the airport and then you’re good to go. When you land, you fold up the wings and hit the road. There are no expensive parking fees because you don’t have to store it at an airport—you park it in the garage at home.

The car­plane is designed to fly primarily under 10,000 feet. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,430 pounds, including fuel and passengers. Terrafugia says the Transition reduces the potential for an accident by allowing pilots to drive under bad weather instead of flying into marginal(临界)conditions.

The Transition’s price tag: $194,000. But there may be additional charges for options like a radio, transponder or GPS. Another option is a full­plane parachute.

“If you get into a very awful situation, it is the necessary safety option，” Gersh said. So far, the company has more than 70 orders with deposits. “We’re working very closely with them, but there are still some remaining steps，” Brown said.

1.We can learn from the first two paragraphs that________.

A. people might drive a car­plane in 2012

B. car­planes will be popular in 2012

C. both Transition and Ferrari can take off and land

D. Richard Gersh is the vice president of Massachusetts

2.It takes the car­plane one minute to________.

A. fold and unfold its wings B. meet flying safety regulations

C. land in the airport D. unfold wings for flying

3.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. The car­plane needs a runway to take off and land.

B. The car­plane may fly as high as normal planes.

C. To meet aircraft regulations, the company has been working with FAA.

D. People can park the car­plane in the garage at their home.

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Cars with Wings Can Fly As Fast As Plane

B. Which To Choose: A Ferrari Or A Car­Plane?

C. A More Convenient and Cheaper Way To Fly

D. Cars with Wings May Be Just Around the Corner

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f cars had wings，they could fly and that just might happen, beginning in 2011.The company Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, says it plans to deliver its car-plane, the Transition, to customers by the end of 2011.

“It’s the next‘wow’vehicle，”said Terrafugia vice president Richard Gersh.“Anybody can buy a Ferrari, but as we say, Ferraris don’t fly.”

The car plane has wings that unfold for flying—a process the company says takes one minute—and fold back up for driving.A runway is still required to take off and land.

The Transition is being marketed more as a plane that drives than a car that flies, although it is both.The company has been working with FAA to meet aircraft regulations, and with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to meet vehicle safety regulations.

The company is aiming to sell the Transition to private pilots as a more convenient and cheaper way to fly.They say it saves you the trouble from trying to find another mode of transportation to get to and from airports: You drive the car to the airport and then you’re good to go.When you land, you fold up the wings and hit the road.There are no expensive parking fees because you don’t have to store it at an airport—you park it in the garage at home.

The car-plane is designed to fly primarily under 10,000 feet.It has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,430 pounds, including fuel and passengers.Terrafugia says the Transition reduces the potential for an accident by allowing pilots to drive under bad weather instead of flying into marginal(临界)conditions.

The Transition’s price tag: $194,000, But there may be additional charges for options like a radio, transponder or GPS.Another option is a full-plane parachute.

“If you get into a very awful situation, it is the necessary safety option,”Gersh said.

So far,the company has more than 70 orders with deposits.“We’re working very closely with them, but there are still some remaining steps,”Brown said.

1.We can learn from the first paragraph that________.

A.car-planes will be popular in 2011

B.people might drive a car-plane in 2011

C.both Transition and Ferrari can take off and land

D.Richard Gersh is the vice president of Massachusetts

2.lt takes the car-plane one minute to________.

A.fold and unfold its wings           B.unfold wings for flying

C.land in the airport                 D.meet flying safety regulations

3..According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A.The car-plane needs a runway to take off and land.

B.To mcet aircraft regulations, the company has been working with FAA.

C.The car-plane may fly as high as normal planes.

D.People can park the car-plane in the garage at their home.

4..The underlined word“it”in the last but one paragraph refers to________.

A.the radio                           B.the transponder

C.the GPS                            D.the full-plane parachute

5.What’s the best title for the passage?

A.Cars With Wings May Be Just Around The Corner.

B.Which to Choose: A Ferraris or a Car Plane?

C.A more Convenient and Cheaper Way to Fly.

D.Cars With Wings Can Fly as Fast as Planes.

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Go and make someone laugh —______just might help them live longer.

A. it                    B. which            C. that         D. they

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It was 7:00 am in Kyoto, Japan, and the taxi company had just called a second time to say they couldn’t find my house. Once again I spelt out directions even a blind person could follow. I glanced impatiently at my watch, and waited. Only two hours remained until my flight left—and it was an hour and a half trip to the airport.

Outside, heavy rains were pouring down. My house was so far north in the city that buses pass only here times a day.

The telephone rang again. “Terribly sorry,” began the man at the taxi company. Then I realized that the taxi company, flooded with calls, could only offer in-city runs. I had heard this happens when the weather gets bad. I shouted into the phone that I had a plane to catch and I would meet the taxi outside my house.

Standing in the wind-driven rain, I looked up and down the road. No taxi. A car went by, the driver and passenger staring at the crazy foreigner in the downpour.

Finally a white car appeared and pulled to a stop. A young man threw open the door, waving for me to get in. Shaking with cold and anger, I climbed in.

In the most polite Japanese, the man said he was called Mike, with who I had spoken three times that morning. He had left his post in the office and raced here in his personal car. He apologized again, but didn’t explain why a taxi would not pick me up. Delivering me straight to the airport, he refused the 2,000 yen I pressed into his hand.

A few hours later, as the storm-delayed 727 took off, I opened the newspaper. On the second page my eyes caught the headline of a short article: Taxi Strike Begins This Morning in Kyoto.

1.Why did the writer call a taxi early in the morning?

A. He wanted to catch a plane.

B. He as unable to find the airport.

C. There were few taxis in town.

D. All the buses stopped because of the rain.

2.What was the reason for the taxi company not being able to pick him up?

A. More people were riding in taxis on rainy days.

B. The writer didn’t give the correct address.

C. The taxi drivers refused to work.

D. The taxi drivers didn’t like to drive long distance.

3.The writer got to the airport ____________.

A. by riding in Mike’s car from the taxi company

B. with the help of Mike from the post office

C. by getting a lift in a passing car

D. with the help of a taxi driver sent by his company

4.We can learn from the text that the driver was _____________.

A. quick-minded at taking action

B. a self-employed driver

C. unwilling to drive to the airport

D. warm-hearted toward people

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Now Glen doesn’t like to think what might have happened had he and his best friends, Ray Wightman and Chris Johnson, picked their usual path along a rocky outcrop－the faster route to Johnson’s home on Triangle Mountain. They were heading there after school that day－April 14, 1999－to play street hockey in Johnson’s driveway. There were other lucky twists, too: not stopping at the shops to get a cola, as they usually did; hearing the strange cry.

It was 3:30 pm. The three teens were laughing and talking when suddenly they heard a strange cry coming from the ditch(沟渠) across the road. Crossing to take a look, they found an Adidas gym bag sitting deep in the icy water. They climbed down the steep bank and pulled the bag from the water, expecting to find abandoned cats or dogs inside. Instead, the boys found a trembling newborn girl. Wrapped in an old blanket, wearing a thin nightshirt, she was almost blue, her lips shaking from the cold and her crying.

The boys couldn’t have been more astonished. They knew this one needed to get warm and dry, although they didn’t know much about babies. Ray dug through his gym bag and wrapped her in a T-shirt. “We didn’t know what to do,” said Glen. “I didn’t think any of us had really held a baby before.” So the three stood beside the ditch, dumbfounded, taking turns to hold the baby to their chests to keep her warm.

“We knew it was no use walking up to Ray’s house, because his mum was working and no one would be home. We figured we’d have a better chance just staying by the road and flagging down someone.” So they stood there and waited.

A car drove by and the boys caught the driver’s attention, telling her that they had found a baby. The woman then drove off to get help. When the police and ambulance came 20 minutes later, the teens were told the baby was probably two or three hours old and had perhaps been in the ditch for an hour or more. They were also told that they had saved her life and that given 10-20 minutes more in the cold water, she probably would be drowned.

1.On April 14, 1999, Glen and his best friends ________.

A. were on their way to school

B. bought bottles of cola as usual

C. had intended to play street hockey

D. picked the faster route to Johnson’s home

2.When the three teens spotted an Adidas gym bag, ________.

A. they didn’t expect to find a baby

B. they found a cat crying in it

C. they found a little clog in it

D. they found the bag was wrapped in an old blanket

3.Why did the teens know it was no use walking up to Ray’s house?

A. Because it was too far away from Ray’s house.

B. Because his mum was working and no one would be home.

C. Because Ray’s parents had gone away on holiday elsewhere

D. Because the baby was in bad condition- and time was limited.

4.What can be the theme of the Text?

A. A life-changing twist　　 B. An icy ditch

C. Three warm-hearted teens　　 D. A lucky newborn girl

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“Let’s have a journey. Why not fly out and meet me, Dad?” I say one day.

My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thoughts, and his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.

He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.

“What's our first stop？” asks my father.

“What time is it？”

“Still don't have a watch？”

Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(花岗岩), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of a little boy.

“Unbelievable,” he says. “How was this done？”

A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.

We stare up and I ask myself, “Would I ever devote my life to anything？”

No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father's voice. Now I hear them in my own.

The next day we’re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.

“Did you ever travel with your dad？” I ask.

“Only once,” he says. “I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other — but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”

That last sentence — it’s probably the same thing I’d say about my father. And what I’d want my child to say about me.

In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I've never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling, I realize — and maybe a regular job won't be as dull as I feared.

Weeks after our trip, I call my father.

“The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he says. “We've got to take another trip like that sometime.”

I tell him I've decided to settle down, and I'm wearing a watch.

1.We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father _____.

A. was a very fashionable manager

B. was unhappy with the author's lifestyle

C. got bored with his job so he retired

D. liked the author's collection of stamps

2.What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore?

A. He should pursue a specific aim in life.

B. He should learn sculpture in the future.

C. His father is as innocent as a little boy.

D. His father is interested in sculpture.

3.From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author _____．

A. wants his children to learn from their grandfather

B. hopes to give whatever he can to his father

C. learns how to communicate with his father

D. comes to understand what parental love means

4.What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?

A. They decide to learn photography together.

B. They begin to change their attitudes to life.

C. The call solves their disagreements.

D. The Swiss watch has drawn them closer.

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Two weeks ago, we reported about developments with 1. (electricity) planes and flying cars. That technology could bring change to commercial and personal travel. Last week, two 2.(company), Kitty Hawk and Uber, announced their plans to bring flying cars to reality. Sooner 3.you think, flying cars may appear in the skies. Imagine never 4.(have) to worry about traffic, stoplights, or road construction. A flying car could get somewhere much faster than one traveling by road.

Kitty Hawk is a start-up tech company supported by Google co-founder. Its first flying cars, 5.travel at a speed of up to 40 kilometers an hour, 6.(expect) to go on sale by the end of 2017. Uber expects to launch flying taxis in Texas and Dubai by 2020. 7.says its flying taxis could travel up to 241 kilometers an hour, with the travel time 8.(reduce) from 2 hours on the road to 15 minutes in the air between San Francisco and San Jose, California. Riders could use the Uber app 9.(book) a flying taxi to take them to their destinations. It is estimated that flying taxi travel will be much 10. (expensive) compared with road taxi travel.

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Tim Cook is both blind and deaf. And try as they might, staff on a recent flight just couldn’t figure out how to ______ with the man, who was traveling all alone.

But then, a 15-year-old girl used ______ language and genuine sympathy to save the day.

Teenager Clara Daly was ______ with her mother Jane from Boston to Los Angeles when the flight attendants made a(n) ______ over the speaker. They were ______ for anyone onboard who knew sign language.

Clara ______ the call button, as she’d studied a year of American Sign Language in school. She was the only one on the plane ______ of truly communicating with Tim, and her heart went out to him.

“Imagine six hours of just not being able to ______ to anyone,” she said.

Clara used ______ to talk to Tim. This way, Tim could ______ Clara’s hands and they could communicate. First, Clara helped the flight attendants ______ all of Tim’s needs were met. Then, she ______ the rest of the time just chatting with him.

Together, they ______ stories about their families and Clara’s future plans, while Clara learned about Tim’s past as a salesman.

A nearby passenger named Lynette Scribner couldn’t ______ taking a photo and sharing it on social media. She mentioned how ______ she was to have witnessed such incredible __________.

After writing about Clara’s real-life act of ______ on social media, Lynette’s post ______. In fact, it has since been shared over 730,000 times on US social media platform Facebook.

The ______ teen was quick to point out that she just did what any one of us should do when given the ______: help out.

“Everyone should be helping each other just because that’s the nature of people,” Clara said.

1.A.reason B.put up C.communicate D.deal

2.A.sign B.rich C.spoken D.plain

3.A.quarrelling B.traveling C.working D.staying

4.A.forecast B.effort C.decision D.announcement

5.A.looking B.waiting C.standing D.sending

6.A.removed B.fixed C.pressed D.stole

7.A.afraid B.capable C.nervous D.free

8.A.admit B.complain C.smile D.talk

9.A.eyes B.tongue C.fingerspelling D.words

10.A.feel B.catch C.shake D.hold

11.A.discover B.ensure C.prove D.recognize

12.A.spent B.wasted C.calculated D.saved

13.A.cared B.made C.wrote D.shared

14.A.allow B.avoid C.help D.finish

15.A.pitiful B.amazed C.unfortunate D.ashamed

16.A.sympathy B.adventure C.courage D.wisdom

17.A.politeness B.bravery C.self-confidence D.kindness

18.A.put up B.came up C.set off D.took off

19.A.childish B.humorous C.modest D.stubborn

20.A.time B.opportunity C.money D.benefit

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— They have just bought a fancy new car for $ 75,000.

—______. They already have two cars and they cost them a pretty penny.

A. It was nothing                 B. That’s Ok                C. Beats me                          D. All right

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Look and listen, and that concert poster just might be singing. Engineers have designed antennas（天线）that can turn everyday objects, from posters to clothing, into radio stations. Anyone walking or driving by can tune in and hear what’s on. The devices use radio waves, but they don’t generate their own. They hijack（劫持）the same waves that carry music and news to your smartphone.

Vikram Iyer co-led the project with Anran Wang, a graduate student in computer science and engineering. The two got the idea for their invention by paying attention to what was already around them. “It’s the ideal way to minimize the power consumption for any kind of communication,” notes Iyer. Their research had focused on new types of wireless communications that won’t require much energy. They wanted something that would work outdoors in a city. Then they realized the air is already filled with wireless communications in the form of radio stations.

Radio waves carry energy at the speed of light from tall transmission towers to radios in cars, phones and homes. These waves of the antennas take in existing radio waves and change them slightly. Those changes add new sound information. The changed waves are then sent back out into the world where people can listen in. So the device only needs enough power to change the waves, not to generate them.

The scientists tested their device with a poster. It advertised a Seattle concert by Simply Three. People standing almost 4 meters away from the poster could use FM receivers on smartphones to listen to all songs of the band’s music, Those in cars as far as 18 meters away could use car radios to pick up some parts of the songs

The technology could even extend to clothes. Iyer, Wang and their team turned the shirt into an antenna. It let the shirt talk to the wearer’s smartphone. If a sensor in the shirt tracked a person’s heart rate during exercise, for instance, the antenna could transmit those data to the wearer’s phone.

1.The underlined word “generate” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to “　　　　 ”.

A. promote　　 B. repair　　 C. produce　　 D. recycle

2.Which of the following is one advantage of the new antennas?

A. They save energy.

B. They are small-sized

C. They can be used in villages.

D. They can improve radio signals.

3.What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A. The way the antennas take in radio waves.

B. The working principle of the antennas.

C. The benefit people can get from the antennas.

D. The situation where the antennas can be used

4.What can be inferred from the text?

A. The antennas can be available at present.

B. Vikram Iyer created the antennas with much money.

C. The antennas cannot be used in the students dormitory and classroom.

D. The closer people stay to the antennas, the stronger signals they pick up.

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