【題目】A smile may show love or politeness. It can also hide true feelings so it often causes ______across cultures.

A. freedom B. confusion C. memory D. celebration

【題目】As motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters traveling by “skycar”.

These could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. “When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that’s hard to use,” said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways and prevent total pandemonium(吵雜狂亂的喧鬧)－if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.

“The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,” said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing’s research and development arm. “But we’re trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy(散開) a fleet of these.”

Past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.

Although it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot’s functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the “hub-and-spoke(中心輻射型)” model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large “hub” airports and then on to secondary flights to “spoke” airports near their final destinations.

【1】The best title for this text would be_______ .

A. Developing Skycars

B. The Traffic Jams in the Sky

C. How to Guide Flying Cars in the Sky

D. What Flying Cars Will Look Like

【2】The underlined word “envision” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “ “.

A.imagine B. expect C. think D. announce

【3】When engineers develop the skycars, they have to deal with the following difficulties except____ .

A. how to fly out of regional airports

B. how to prevent the disorder of the airways

C. how to reduce expenses and the vehicle’s weight

D. how to fly the skycars to enter skies

【4】Now Nasa researchers’ aim is to .

A. make big flying cars

B. work out the plan---how to transform small plane travel

C. develop a new kind of small plane different from the traditional one

D. build a new kind of small plane with road-driving abilities

【題目】 I was wondering what to do with my car which won’t start ______ a kind man offered to help.

A. while B. and C. so D. when

【題目】Cob is a six-year-old boy. An aid organization brought him to the farm run by Joy from another province. Both Cob’s parents died of serious disease when he was a two-month-old baby. His eighty-year-old grandmother treated him badly. He developed a disease over time, which led to him being unable to keep things in mind well; on the other hand, there was nothing good for him to bear in mind as well.

When he first arrived at the farm, it appeared to him like a huge playground. Cob plyed around, hid behind trees and bushes, and enjoyed this new area.

Over time, he gained confidence, chose Joy as his new mother, and let her carry him around. Amy, Joy’s real daughter, the same age as Cob, had to learn to share her mother with the other child. She also needed to see the other children as her brothers or sisters and accept them although she may be unwilling to do so.

In the beginning, Cob did not use the facilities(設施) on the farm. Slowly Joy tried to help him use them and during the day, he kept on with them but not at night. All attempts(嘗試) to send him to school failed. As soon as he arrived there, he ran off into the wide world like a free rabbit. He enjoyed running around in school rather than doing what teachers told him to do. Finally, the head teacher announced that the school was not suitable for Cob.

Cob had to go back to the farm. At daytime, he watched adults and elder children bicycle and if there was any chance, he took a bicycle, then pushed and pulled it up and down the hill. One day Cob found there was a small bicycle standing next to the big ones. It was a gift for him! It was new with wheels on each side of the back wheel, which was just right for a little child without any experience in riding a bicycle. Cob pushed it up the hill, got on it and off from time to time.

From then on Cob began riding his bicycle every day. Although he often fell and got hurt, he went on. During rainy days, he stored the bicycle in his room and slept close to it at night. Maybe even in his dreams he was happy — he had found the entrance to a happy and satisfying life.

【1】What can we learn about Cob from Paragraph 1?

A.His parents left him when he was born.

B.His grandma was too old to know him.

C.He was sent to hospital many times.

D.He suffered from a poor memory.

【2】Upon being taken to the farm, Cob felt_________.

A.confused B.frightened C.annoyed D.excited

【3】What can we learn from Paragraphs 3& 4?

A.Cob turned out to be Joy’s real son.

B.Amy had a similar experience as Cob.

C.Joy has helped many children like Cob.

D.Joy seldom thought of sending Cob to school.

【4】.What does the passage mainly tell us?

A.Riding bicycle is Cob’s favourite.

B.Cob has a mixture of good and bad luck.

C.How to live a happy and satisfying life.

D.Cob suffered much physically in his family.

【題目】The teenager sat there for hours ______ end in silence after he was put ______ prison.

A. on; into B. in; into C. on; to D. in; to

【題目】Since then, finding ways ______ more peanuts has been his life goal.

A. to growing B. of being grown

C. with growing D. to grow

【題目】一You don’t go to that supermarket quite often, do you?

—No, I only go there ______because it’s too far away from my house.

A. gradually B. Temporarily

C. occasionally D. briefly

【題目】What’s this by my door? A handwritten letter from am old university friend. It stands out among the bills and junk mail like gold. Given its rareness, the Government should be praised for announcing that the new secondary school should include lessons that teach students how to write personal and business letters in the correct form.

Letter-writing skills have fallen off a lot in the age of eamils and text messages. Many pupils leave school only able to write a letter for a job application, let alone other kinds of letters. You can’t turn back the clock, but you can stick to your own rules to protect old-fashioned values. Someone who leaves school unable to write a letter is going into the adult world unprepared. And if teachers don’t ram home that message, who else will?

Usually, it does not matter whether someone can write a letter or not — other means of communication will serve. And with computerised spell-checks, people can get by for years without the kind of letter-writing skills. But it is the rare occasion that matters when things can not be made clear with a simple text. When the former England cricket(板球) captain Andrew Strauss decided to leave his job, he had sent handwritten letters to his teammates. Many people thought it unbelievable. But among the disbelief there was something else: admiration, even among the Twitter generation(一代).

I have been a letter-writing lover all my adult life, and am just about to sit down and pen a reply to my university friend. And I hope the sight of a letter by his door will give him as much pleasure as his did me.

【1】How did the author feel when receiving the handwritten letter?

A.Disappointed. B.Excited. C.Worried. D.Proud.

【2】The underlined part“ram home that message”in Paragraph 2 means“______”.

A.teach the students the importance of letter writing

B.teach the students how to protect traditional values

C.teach the students the importance of communication

D.teach the students how to write letters of application

【3】The author mentions Andrew Strauss’s example in order to show that________.

A.letter-writing skills are very important

B.handwritten letters can bring admiration

C.handwritten letters are more important than emails

D.whether someone can write a letter makes little difference

【4】What’s the text mainly about?

A.A study on why handwritten letters become less popular.

B.A concern about the bad results of technology.

C.A call for more attention to letter writing.

D.A touching story between two friends.

【題目】The airline said the two flights to Shanghai were stopped ______ passengers.

A.for lack of B. in need of

C. in favor of D. with the help of

【題目】 We have a high regard for Mr. Black because he always tries to ________ his principles.

A. live up to B. look forward to

C. catch up with D. put up with