1. Where is the speaker now?
| A．In a classroom. | B．In a hospital. | C．On a plane. |
| A．Make sure that the child’s oxygen mask is on first. |
| B．Make sure that your own mask is on first. |
| C．Make sure that the child can help himself with the mask. |
| A．Make sure you take your luggage with you. |
| B．Put on your oxygen mask at once. |
| C．Find the nearest exit first. |
| A．On the seat. | B．In the passenger’s pocket. | C．In the seat pocket. |
| A．He drove very carefully. |
| B．He drove carelessly and got a traffic ticket. |
| C．He always drove through a lot of traffic. |
1. Where does Flight 256 take off?
| A．Seattle. | B．New York. | C．Los Angeles. |
| A．Because of the repairs. | B．Owing to an accident. | C．Due to the bad weather. |
| A．At 10:20 am. | B．At 3:20 pm. | C．At 3:50 pm. |
| A．Watch a safety video. | B．Have a meal. | C．Ask some questions. |
4 . Like all big cities, Paris has a traffic problem: lots of cars, lots of traffic jams and lots of pollution from exhaust fumes. So the city began a project to improve the situation.
Under the Velib project (‘Velib’ comes from velo liberty, or ‘bicycle freedom’) people can take a bicycle, use it for as long as they want, and then leave it at the same or another bicycle station. The first half-hour on the bike is free, but if you don’t return it after 30 minutes, you have to pay. But it’s only €1 a day or €29 a year! The bicycles are heavy (25kg), and they are all gray and have baskets. There are about 20, 000 of them in the city, and around 1, 450 bicycle stations. So there are a lot more Velib stations than the 298 subway stations!
Paris is not the first city to have a project like this. But not everybody thinks it’s a great idea. One Parisian said, “These bicycles are only for short journeys. If people want to travel across the city, they won’t use a bicycle —they’ll still use their cars.”
A city spokesman said, “The bicycle project won’t solve all our traffic problems, of course. But it might help reduce air pollution. Traffic, together with factory fumes, is a big problem. There aren’t any simple answers to traffic problems and pollution in cities. But unless we do something now, there will be more traffic jams and temperatures will continue to rise, so the problems in our environment will get worse. The bikes might help people to lead a healthier life, too.”
1. What can we learn about the Velib project?| A．Its bikes have no baskets. | B．Its bikes are light and colorful. |
| C．It aims to make traveling easier. | D．It owns more stations than the subway. |
| A．Free. | B．€1. | C．€29. | D．€30. |
| A．The cost is rather high. | B．It’s hard to find a Velib station. |
| C．It’s not suitable for a long journey. | D．The distance between two Velib stations is long. |
| A．position. | B．smoke. | C．quality. | D．loss. |
| A．Worried. | B．Positive. | C．Uncaring. | D．Doubtful. |
1. Why are the speakers excited in the beginning?
| A．They park near the shopping mall. |
| B．They are lucky to take the umbrella. |
| C．They find the shopping mall easily. |
| A．Learn Spanish. | B．Do some shopping. | C．Go to the museum. |
| A．By car. | B．On foot. | C．By bike. |
6 . It seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble. That’s more or less what happened the night when Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty.
“I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40, blue lights and sirens (警笛) going, I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder (路肩).”
But Hyde couldn’t go after him. Taking care of injured people is always more important than worrying about speeders, so the officer had to stay on his way to the accident. But he did try to keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and stop the speeding car. As it turned out, keeping the Firebird in sight was not that difficult. Every turn the Pontiac made was the very turn the officer needed to get to the accident scene.
Hyde followed the Pontiac all the way to his destination (目的地). At that point he found another unit had already arrived at the accident scene. His help wasn’t needed. Now he was free to try to stop the driver of the Firebird, who by this time had developed something new to panic about.
“Just about that time,” Hyde says, “I saw fire coming out from under that car, with blue smoke and oil going everywhere. He’d blown his engine. Now he had to stop.”
“After I arrested him, I asked him why he was running. He told me he didn’t have a driver’s license.”
That accident cost the driver of the Firebird plenty -- a thousand dollars for the new engine --not to mention the charges for driving without a license, attempting to run away, and dangerous driving.
1. Why did the driver of the Firebird suddenly speed down the highway?| A．Because he was racing with another driver on the road. |
| B．Because he realized he had to hurry to the accident scene. |
| C．Because he thought the police officer wanted to stop him. |
| D．Because he wanted to overtake other cars on the shoulder. |
| A．Someone else was taking care of the injured person when Hyde arrive. |
| B．The Pontiac reached its destination at the accident scene. |
| C．Hyde knew where he was going by following the right car. |
| D．The policeman was running after a speeder on Highway 40. |
| A．took a wrong turn on the way |
| B．had some trouble with his car |
| C．was stopped by the police officer |
| D．paid for the expenses of the accident |
| A．Losing His Way? | B．Going My Way? |
| C．Fun All the Way? | D．Help on the Way? |
要点提示如下：
（1）事情的经过：李明过马路时被撞，从车子上摔下来，左腿受伤严重，不得不住院一个月。
（2）事故原因：1）李明没注意来往车辆；2）司机酒后驾驶；3）司机在学校附近没减速。
（3）如何避免事故：1）我们都应提高安全意识，遵守交通规则；2）你的想法……（至少一条)。
参考词汇：喝酒 drink 减速 slow down 提高安全意识 raise the sense of traffic safety
要求：（1）词数：80~100个。（2）开头已给出，不计入总词数。（3）要点齐全，行文连贯，可适当发挥。
With the increase of the traffic, more and more accidents happen every day. Last week,
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Today you could get a ticket if you don’t drive on your side of the road. Worse yet, you could have a head-on collision(正面碰撞). But in 1917, Dr. June McCarroll could not get drivers to understand what seems so obvious today.
June McCarroll was born in New York in 1867. Unlike most young women of her age, she attended medical college in Chicago. After her husband became ill, the couple moved to Southern California in 1904.
In 1917, while driving down a familiar road near Indio, California Dr. McCarroll had a driving accident. In order to avoid a head-on collision with a truck going in the opposite direction, her car was driven off the road and into a ditch (沟). This gave Dr. McCarrolla new idea—paint lines on the road, separating lanes(车道) with a center line.
“My car and I found ourselves face-to-face with a truck on the highway. It did not take me long to choose between a sandy ditch to the right and a ten-ton truck to the left! Then an idea struck me.”
McCarroll wrote to the local government. However, the government didn’t take McCarroll seriously. After receiving no response to her letters, McCarroll took her idea and matters into her own hands. She painted a white line down the center of the street to make two separate lanes of traffic as a way to prevent future collisions.
Dr. McCarroll then asked women’s groups through the state of California to organize letter writing campaigns to state and local politicians and in 1924 California approved of the practice of painting traffic lines on highway roads. The safety practice quickly spread to other states, then other countries. By virtue of the lines, thousands of accidents are prevented and an untold number of lives are saved each year.
1. What is the text mainly about?(no more than 10 words)2. What encouraged the idea of painting lines on the highway
3. How did the local government treat McCarroll’s suggestion at the beginning? (no more than 10 words)
4. What do the underlined words “By virtue of” in Paragraph 6 probably mean? (no more than 5 words)
5. According to the last two paragraphs, what do you think of McCarroll?(no more than 20 words)
9 . The World’s Most Impressive Subways
The Tokyo Metro And Toei Lines
The Tokyo Metro and Toei lines that compose Tokyo’s massive subway system carry almost 8 million people each day, making it the busiest system in the world. The system is famous for its oshiya—literally, “pusher”—who pushes passengers into crowded subway cars so the doors can. close. And you think your ride is hell.
The Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro has some of the most beautiful stations in the world. The best of them were built during the Stalinist era and feature beautiful lamps, marble moldings (大理石装饰) and fantastic wall paintings. With more than 7 million riders a day, keeping all that marble clean has got to be a burden.
The Hong Kong MTR
The Hong Kong MTR has the distinction of being one of the few subway systems in the world that actually turns a profit. It’s privately owned and uses real estate (房地产) development along its tracks to increase income and ridership. It also introduced “Octopus cards” that allow people to not only pay their fares electronically, but buy things at convenience stores, supermarkets, restaurants and even parking meters. It’s estimated that 95% of all adults in Hong Kong own an Octopus card.
Shanghai Metro
Shanghai is the third city in China to build a metro system, and it has become the country’s largest in the 12 years since it opened. Shanghai Metro has 142 miles of track and plans to add another 180 miles within five years. By that point, it would be three times larger than Chicago “L”. The system carries about 2. 18 million people a day.
The London Metro
Londoners call their subway the Underground, even though 55 percent of it lies above ground. No matter when you access the oldest public transportation system in the world, you can call it anything you like. Trains started in 1863 and they’ve been running ever since. Some 3 million people ride each day, every one of them remembering to “Mind the gap”.
1. Which of the following can provide the riders with some wonderful decorations at the stations?| A．The Moscow Metro. | B．The Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines |
| C．The London Metro. | D．The Hong Kong MTR. |
| A．the Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines | B．the Moscow Metro |
| C．the Hong Kong MTR | D．the London Metro |
| A．carries the most people each day | B．is the world’s largest |
| C．is the busiest in the world | D．may be larger than the Chicago Subway in the future |
| A．It has become the country’s largest subway since it opened. |
| B．It is not owned by the government |
| C．It carries the most people every day. |
| D．It is the busiest system in the world. |
| A．development | B．features | C．background | D．system |
Cars are the most important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.
Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably doesn’t know how much the car was going to affect American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped to make the United States what it is today.
There are many reasons that the car became so popular in the United States. First of all, the country was a large one and Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.
The second reason that cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed an efficient and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long distance trains have never been as common in the United States as they are in the other parts of the world. Nowadays there is good system of air service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently.
The third reason is the most important one. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don’t like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to follow an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to plan their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.
The gas shortage has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real solution will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much gas.
1. What do you think is the main idea of this article? (no more than 10 words)2. Why is the air service not well received by Americans? (no more than 10 words)
3. What is the most important reason for American people’s preference for cars? (no more than 10 words)
4. Can you explain the underlined word “shortage” in English? (no more than 5 words)
5. What is the real solution of gas shortage according to the author? (no more than 15 words)
