Your Car Is Ready for Take-off
The flying car has been talked about for many years，but now it appears that the idea is about to become a reality.
An international company has built a two-seater plane that, at the touch of a button ，transforms into a car perfectly suitable for driving on public roads. It has been designed so that the wings fold up automatically； and it takes just 15 seconds to switch between flying and driving. With its wings fully open and the propeller(螺旋槳）spinning, it can take off from any airfield.
Flying cars are quicker than traditional ones for travelling from city to city，and they can run on ordinary fuel. Another big advantage is that they are cool ，like something you would see in an action film. At the moment 9 however, the flying car’s wheels are illegal to leave the ground. That is not because of technical reasons or problems with the design. It is because the various road and aircraft authorities simply cannot agree on whether it is a car or a plane.
“The government and the authorities have never thought seriously about a flying car, says Alan Price ，the president of the company that has developed it. “I wanted a car that could fly and drive ，but it is difficult to find an organization prepared to insure the vehicle against accidents.
Nevertheless ? the company hopes to produce and deliver its first flying car soon. The company already has orders for 40 of them. The majority the potential customers are older and some are retired。There have even been orders from some people who have no pilot's license.
The flying car will cost around $ 200.000. “For an airplane ， that’s a very reasonable price， but for a car, It's quite expensive，” explains Alan. “But it just is not possible to make a $ 10，000 flying car yet. ”
This latest means of transport will not become a mass-market item in the near future，but in the long term it has the potential to change the way you travel. It will become no more expensive than driving your car on the motorway. Travel time could be reduced by more than half.
So the next time you are told to fasten your seat belt, it may be to prepare for take-off.
小題1:We know from the passage that the flying car______
A．has to run on special fuelB．will replace traditional planes
C．is popular with the richD．can shift between two forms
小題2:The flying car is presently forbidden to take off because______.
A．many people think driving it not very safe
B．it’s hard to decide whether it's a car or a plane
C．the government and the authorities don’t accept it
D．there are still some technical problems to be solved
小題3:We can learn from the passage that______.
A．few people will be able to afford a flying car
B．flying cars may share the market in the future
C．traffic jams will disappear because of flying cars
D．driving a flying car doesn’t require a pilot’s license

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:B

試題分析：本文介紹了一種新型的飛行汽車，它的原理、優(yōu)點和市場潛力。
小題1:細節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：An international company has built a two-seater plane that, at the touch of a button ，transforms into a car perfectly suitable for driving on public roads.可知這種汽車可以在兩種形式中轉(zhuǎn)變。答案是D
小題2:細節(jié)題：從第三段的句子：It is because the various road and aircraft authorities simply cannot agree on whether it is a car or a plane.可知現(xiàn)在不能起飛是因為不能確定它是飛機還是汽車。選B
小題3:細節(jié)題：從倒數(shù)第二段的句子：but in the long term it has the potential to change the way you travel. It will become no more expensive than driving your car on the motorway.可知飛行汽車在將來會在市場占有市場的一些份額的。選B
點評：本文介紹了一種新型的飛行汽車，它的原理、優(yōu)點和市場潛力。這篇閱讀理解集中考查了細節(jié)題，要求考生仔細閱讀全文，做好相應(yīng)的標志，以提高閱讀的效率和速度，做題時要審清題干，發(fā)覺和把握試題中有效的提示性信息，確認命題的角度、閱讀范圍和答題方式。
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A．Human beings appeared before corals were created.
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C．Diving alone has many advantages.
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A．large waters and soft sand
B．warm currents and delicious food
C．friendly creatures and flat seabed
D．clear water and suitable temperature
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Harlow’s monkey work was important because, at the time, child care “experts” and everybody’s grandmother had a “no touch, no comfort” policy toward children. They advised parents not to respond to crying babies, felt babies should sleep alone to grow up independent, and for God’s sake put those kids down. But Harlow’s work changed all that. Mothers were soon permitted to have their newborns next to them in the hospital.
The current chimp research based on Harlow’s work shows that mother love not only makes for a psychologically well-adjusted child, but also makes for a smart kid. Bard and her colleagues evaluated the abilities of the chimps when they were 12 months old with standard human tests for children of that age, tests that ask little kids to imitate some action.
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So we hear it once again. We are primates, social animals which need care and love. We need to be held and talked to and made to feel that at least one person wants to be with us all the time. And if we get that kind of connection, we are sure to be fine, even better than fine.
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B．was nothing new to people about the findings
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B．A 12-month chimps is far cleverer than a child of that age.
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What is Greenbelt Alliance (聯(lián)盟)?
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1. Try to persuade people to build new buildings on land that is already urban, not on open land.
2. Make sure that the city and town governments are all making plans to save the Greenbelt.
3. Help Bay Area towns and cities to buy pieces of open land to make into natural areas.
4. Teach people in the Bay Area why the Greenbelt is important and what they can do to help save it.
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B．The Greenbelt covers much more than half of the Bay Area.
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A．It builds new buildings on open land.
B．It buys large open land for the Bay Area.
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　　    Steve Austad at the University of Texas agrees. “People can live much longer than we think, ”he says. “Experts used to say that humans couldn’t live past 110. When Calment blew past that age, they raised the number to 120. So why can’t we go higher? ”
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A．People can live to 122.
B．Old people are creative.
C．Women are sporty at 85.
D．Women live longer than men.
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A．the average human life span could be 110
B．scientists cannot find ways to slow aging
C．few people can expect to live to over 150
D．researchers are not sure how long people can live
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A．Jerry Shay.　B．Steve Austad
C．Rich Miller　D．George Martin
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A．Most of us could be good at sports even at 120.
B．The average human life span cannot be doubled
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A．expectationB．viewC．dreamD．proposal
小題2: We can learn from the passage that              
A．Coursera, one of the two providers, leads the online courses in the US.
B．Economics is the most popular subject among these online courses.
C．FutureLearn is only set up for the Internet-users.
D．About 1,7million users are taking the free courses launched by UK.
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A．It’s really meaningful for these universities to cooperate.
B．Single university can’t do the work very well.
C．These universities will compete with each other.
D．Joint efforts by these top universities will help the program go more smoothly.
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A．Internet-users don’t need to get credit for the courses.
B．UK may top the list of online education one day.
C．The UK higher education industry stands among the top five export earners for England.
D．Some foreign students may think UK universities are not so satisfying.
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Although Japanese high-tech companies are leaders in geothermal（地熱的） technology and export it, its use is limited in the nation．
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Artist Yoko Ono has called on Japan to explore its natural energy, following the example of Iceland which uses renewable energy for more than 80 percent of its needs．
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The biggest problem to geothermal energy is the high initial cost of the exploration and constructing the factories．Another problem is that Japan's potentially best sites are already being developed for tourism or are located within national parks where construction is forbidden．
"We can't even dig 10cm inside national parks．" said Shigeto Yamada of Fuji Electric, adding that regulations protecting nature would need to be relaxed for geothermal energy to grow．
Researcher Hideaki Matsui said, "Producing electricity using hot springs is a decades-long project．We also have to think about what to do for now as energy supplies will decline in the short term．"
The Earth Policy Institute in Washington, US, believed Japan could produce 80,000 megawatts（兆瓦）and meet more than half its electricity needs with geothermal technology．
Japanese giants such as Toshiba are already global leaders in geothermal technology, with a 70 percent market share．In 2010, Fuji Electric built the world's largest geothermal factory in New Zealand．
小題1:What would be the best title for the text?
A．Alternative energies in Japan
B．World's largest geothermal plant
C．Japan takes the lead in geothermal technology
D．Japan thinks of geothermal energy
小題2:What percentage of Japan's energy needs is geothermal energy?
A．About 8%．B．Below 1%．C．Around 30%．D．Over 80%．
小題3:According to Shigeto Yamada, the growth of geothermal power in Japan needs ____．
A．a(chǎn) change of rulesB．financial support
C．local people's helpD．high technology
小題4:Geothermal energy is considered as a long-term program by _____．
A．Yoshiyasu TakefujiB．Hideaki Matsui
C．Shigeto YamadaD．Yoko Ono
小題5:It can be learned from the last two paragraphs that _____．
A．the world's biggest geothermal plant was built by America
B．Japan will not export its geothermal technology
C．the potential of Japan's geothermal energy is great
D．it is hard to find geothermal energy in Japan

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