【推荐1】The world’s first urban airport specifically for flying cars and drones(无人机) will be developed under government-backed plans to cut road congestion(拥堵)and pollution. The zero-emission airport, to be called Air One, will be built in Coventry later this year to allow small electric passenger-carrying aircraft to operate in an urban area. It will initially open in November in a month-long demonstration a part of events to mark Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture.

Urban- Air Port, the London-based aerospace company which is behind the facility, said it planned to eventually build more than 200 airports in cities around the world, with rooftops and floating platforms being used to locate them as close to urban centres as possible. Flying cars-effectively large. passenger - carrying drones- are not currently permitted to operate in UK airspace. However, the European Aviation Safety Agency has started a consultation on the issue and hopes that permission will be given in a few years to allow" electric vertical lake -off and landing vehicles"to operate commercially.

The technology is seen as quieter, lighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than helicopters, allowing people to take short journeys between city centres rather than relying on the increasingly congested road network.

Ricky Sandhu, founder and executive chairman of Urban - Air Port, said the new facility would give flying cars a place to land, take-off and charge their batteries. "It will bring clean urban air transport of zero emission to the masses, " he added . " Most of our cities are crowded urban centres where space is limited and you may not find sufficient space on the ground so rooftops can be important. " The ultimate aim was to build the airports on rooftops and on offshore platforms.

1. Why will Air One be constructed?

A．To celebrate Coventry’s year.

B．To encourage people to buy flying cars.

C．To reduce air pollution and traffic jams.

D．To promote the development of urban areas.

2. What do we know about flying cars according to the text?

A．They are intended for distant journeys.

B．They are mainly produced by Urban-Air Port.

C．They are allowed to operate commercially now.

D．They are great options for future travellers.

3. What is Mr. Sandhu 's attitude towards Air One?

A．Optimistic.	B．Objective.
C．Worried.	D．Unconcerned.

4. From which is the text probably taken?

A．A research paper.	B．A news report.
C．A travel brochure.	D．An online advertisement.

【推荐2】International airline Emirates says it successfully flew a Boeing 777 on a test flight with one engine running on a mixture of “sustainable” fuel.

The test flight took place Monday and lasted about an hour. “The plane took off from Dubai International Airport and then headed out into the Persian Gulf before returning to the airport. It was powered by two General Electric engines. One ran on the sustainable mixture. The other was powered by traditional airplane fuel to ensure safety. Emirates’ chief operating officer, Adel al-Redha, called the flight “a milestone moment for Emirates and a positive step for our industry”. The flight demonstrated the airline’s desire to deal with one of the industry’s biggest problems, carbon pollution releases related to air travel.

The mixture included fuel provided by Neste, a Finnish company, and US-based fuel maker Virent. Virent says it uses plant-based sugars to make the compounds needed for sustainable jet fuel. Neste’s fuel is made from vegetable oils and animal fats. Those fuels cut the release of heat — trapping carbon dioxide burned off by engines in flight. Airline flights release only one-sixth the amount of carbon dioxide produced by cars and trucks, the Washington-based World Resources Institute reports. However, airplanes are used by far fewer people per day than road vehicles. This means flying has a higher per-capita (人均) release of carbon emissions. But experts have noted that fuels considered sustainable can be three times or more the cost of traditional jet fuel. This added cost is likely to be passed onto flyers if sustainable fuels became more commonly used across the industry.

Airplane and engine manufacturers have been designing more environmentally-friendly versions in recent years. The general goal is to produce less-polluting engines to reduce fuel emissions in an effort to help limit the effects of climate change.

1. What do we know about the test flight?

A．Both engines ran on sustainable fuel.	B．One engine was powered by electricity.
C．One engine ran on traditional fuel.	D．Both engines were powered by electricity.

2. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A．The price of “sustainable” fuel plane tickets will be higher.

B．Airline flights release more carbon dioxide than cars and trucks.

C．Flying has the same release of carbon emissions as cars and trucks.

D．Airplanes are used by much fewer people than road vehicles.

3. What is the purpose to produce less-polluting planes?

A．To reduce the cost of flights.	B．To deal with air pollution.
C．To help control climate change.	D．To create a milestone.

4. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Education.	B．Technology.
C．Entertainment.	D．Science.

【推荐3】Would you bully a driverless car or show it respect?

Say you’re driving down a two-way street and there’s a truck unloading a delivery in the opposite lane. The oncoming traffic needs to pull out into your lane to overtake.

What do you do?

    1     Eventually one of us feels charitable and slows down to allow the oncoming car to overtake and give permission with a quick flash of headlights or a beckoning wave.

But what if the car waiting patiently behind the parked truck is a driverless or autonomous vehicle (AV)? Will this robot car be able to understand what you mean when you flash your lights or wave your hands?

Its sensors could decide that it’s only safe to overtake when there’s no oncoming traffic at all. On a busy road at school home time, this may be never, leading to increasingly angry drivers queuing behind.       2     This is one of the conclusions to be drawn from research carried out by Dr Chris Tennant of the psychological and behavioural science department at the London School of Economics.

His Europe-wide survey finds that nearly two-thirds of drivers think machines won’t have enough common sense to interact with human drivers, and more than two-fifths think a robot car would remain stuck behind our assumed parked truck for a long time.

Driving isn’t just about technology and engineering; it’s about human interactions and psychology. The road is a social space.     3     “If you view the road as a social space, you will consciously negotiate your journey with other drivers. People who like that negotiation process appear to feel less comfortable engaging with AVs than with human drivers,” says Mr Tennant in his report.

    4     That skepticism usually diminishes with usage, however.

A．Many of us just drive on as we have right of way.

B．It is this social aspect that makes many people suspicious(怀疑的) about driverless cars.

C．The latest robot cars are able to make the necessary eye contact with a human driver.

D．Humans are always sceptical about new technologies of which they have little experience.

E．Even many people with skepticism accept that emotionless AVs could cause fewer accidents than we humans.

F．These safety-first robot cars could become victims of their own politeness and end up being bullied and ignored by aggressive, impatient humans.

【推荐2】Clark and Dale were staying in the same room in hospital. Clark was so sick that he could not even move his body. He had to spend all his time lying on his back. Dale could sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the room’s only window.

Over time, Clark and Dale became good friends. Every afternoon, Dale would look out of the room’s only window, describing the scenery outside for his friend. He told Clark about the flowers in a park outside the window, the people walking by, the green trees beside the roads-anything that might interest a man.

One morning, when a nurse came only to check the two men, she found that Dale had died in his sleep. As soon as the room seemed tidy again. Clark asked if he could move to the bed next to the window so that he could look out of the window himself. The nurse agreed. Slowly, he could take his first look at the world outside. To his surprise, he could see nothing but a blank wall of another building.

The nurse explained that Dale had been blind. He had never seen anything outside the window at all-but he described beautiful scenes to help his friend feel better.

1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph One mean?

A．Clark was too sick to move his body.

B．Although Clark was sick, he could move his body.

C．Clark was sick, so he didn’t want to move his body.

D．Although Clark was sick, he was asked to move his body.

2. Who described the scenery outside for Clark?

A．The doctor.

B．The nurse.

C．His family.

D．His friend Dale.

3. Why did Clark want to move to the bed next to the window?

A．Because he missed his friend very much.	B．The bed there was tidier than his.
C．He wanted to look at the world outside.	D．Because he felt worse and worse.

4. What did Clark find when he took his first look at the world outside?

A．The flowers in a park.	B．The green trees beside roads.
C．The people walking by.	D．A blank wall of another building.

5. According to the text, which is the right order of the story?
①Clark was so sick.
②Dale described the scenery outside for his friend.
③Clark and Dale became good friends.
④Dale had died in his sleep.

A．①②③④

B．①③②④

C．③②①④

D．③①②④

【推荐3】Year in year out, many high school graduates go to college to continue their education and pursue（追求）their lifelong dreams. College has many advantages for the later life. When I look back on the years I spent in college, I don't regret even a bit. As a matter of fact, I believe they were the most important years of my life. I came out of Saint Marin's College being a bright graduate, ready to take charge of my life and pursue all my dreams with a clear focus. Besides education, the kind of life I experienced in college teaches me a lot about life outside school.

There are many differences between my pre-college years and the post-college years. To start with, I grew up in the countryside, so I was not used to talking with strangers. I was comfortable with my small world and could not see its changing. However, all this changed the day I stepped into Saint Marin's college. Though shy at firs. I was amazed by my new surroundings; I met and communicated with people from all over the world. I made friends with students from other states and other countries. After four years in college, I was wiling o embrace the world. I didn't mind working in Asia or Africa for I was prepared.

College also prepared me well for employment, but I didn't even know what to pursue when in high school. Later I pursued a degree in business and I am working my way to being a CEO at the moment. The college really improved my chances of getting a job and my earning potential.

I want to encourage everyone out there to pursue education to the highest level. Anyway, higher education helps us increase knowledge about life, it provides us with an insight into various opportunities in life and thus makes one achieve his or her goals.

1. What does the author mainly want to tell us in the first paragraph?

A．He really wanted to go to college.

B．His college life was busy and happy.

C．The college education helped realize his dreams.

D．The college education benefited him a lot.

2. According to the text, which of the following is the advantage of college?

A．It makes one an expert in his field.

B．It helps reduce the unemployment rate.

C．It contributes to cone's success.

D．It lets one no longer fear the new surroundings.

3. What is the author's purpose in writing the text?

A．To introduce his college life.	B．To encourage people to go to college.
C．To explain how college changed his life.	D．To show what to expect from college life.

【推荐1】When I was in primary school, I was actually a little shy. One thing that really frightened me was speaking in front of many people, whether strangers or acquaintances (熟人). It was my sixth-grade teacher, Mr. Bamick, who helped me get past that. That year we had to make four oral (口头的) book reports in front of the class. Some of the kids were even glad to do it, but I was scared to death. Mr. Bamick recognized my fear, so be told me to do a report on a book that was about something that really interested me. So I did the first report on baseball.

When it came time for me to present it to the class, Mr. Bamick cut me some slack and let me read the report rather than give it from memory. Some of my classmates laughed at me, but Mr. Bamick defended (为……辩解) me. By the end of the year I had completed all four of the oral book reports. It wasn’t easy or comfortable for me, but I did it.

Years later I realized that Mr. Bamick did me a great favor in sixth grade. One of the chances I got when I won a tennis tournament (锦标赛) was to make comments to the fans who attended the match. Some of those were carried live on television and all of them were before thousands of people. It was still not one of my favorite things to do, but, with Mr. Bamick’s help, I got through it from time to time. Before long, I was asked to bring my favorite childhood teacher to a national event in Dallas. 1 was excited when Mr. Bamick joined me for the event. It meant a lot to me that he was there.

Mr. Bamick believed in me and helped me to believe in myself. It was he who helped me build the person I became.

1. In what aspect (方面) did Mr. Bamick help the writer?

A．Improving her learning skills.

B．Encouraging her to read more books.

C．Winning her classmates’ recognition.

D．Overcoming her fear of public speaking.

2. What does the underlined part “cut me some slack” mean in paragraph 2?

A．Played a funny joke on the writer.

B．Gave the writer a feeling of pride.

C．Made the task a little easier for the writer.

D．Asked the writer to take part in a competition.

3. What do we know about the writer?

A．She was a tennis player.

B．She wanted to be a teacher.

C．She liked public speaking best.

D．She enjoyed commenting on books.

4. In the writer’s mind, what kind of teacher is Mr. Bamick?

A．Strict.	B．Curious.
C．Encouraging.	D．Frightening.

【推荐3】During the years that passed from I was born until my siblings (兄弟姐妹) and myself moved away from home, my mother didn’t have a job. If she had been asked to fill out a questionnaire about her personal data, she would have left the question ‘Employment’ empty. She believed that her job was to be our mother- full time. That was the way she had chosen it to be.

There is an old yellowed photograph of my mother and father, taken in 1942, when they were on their honeymoon. They are sitting at a table in a restaurant. In the photo my mother looks very beautiful, I think. She was 23 years old then.

When I look at the photo, I see a woman who would have had an unlimited number of opportunities in life. She is more than just pretty; it is clear to see that she is both intelligent and vivid. I know that if she had put her mind to getting a career, the whole world would have been at her feet. The story of her youth confirms this. She got a brilliant exam in one of the finest schools in the country. In fact, she is the most intelligent person I know.

Yet she has always considered herself as house wife and mother. Everyone in the town admired her for the great effort she put into charity work, but if someone asked her what she did for a living or who she was, she answered that she was Robert Greene’s wife, and Robert’s, Deborah’s and Timothy’s mother.

Today there are probably many women who will see what she did as a waste of my mother’s good abilities. Why should an intelligent and determined woman be content with making soup and sandwiches?

We all go through our adult life with the conception that we have never been anything but fully developed grown-ups. But any of us have been small children once, who hurried home from school completely assured that someone was waiting for us at home. It meant something then and it means something today. And I am eternally (永恒地) grateful that the woman in the yellowed photograph was waiting for me.

1. Why did Mom leave the question “Employment” empty?

A．Because she couldn’t write.	B．Because she was a full time mother.
C．Because she couldn’t find a job.	D．Because she was angry at this question.

2. Which of the following can best describe Mom?

A．Diligent and stubborn.	B．Beautiful and strict.
C．Intelligent and selfless.	D．Ambitious and clever

3. What can we infer from the passage?

A．The author has two siblings.

B．The author thinks highly of Mom’s devotion.

C．Being a full time mother is a waste of ability.

D．An intelligent woman shouldn’t be content with cooking.

4. Which is the most suitable title for the text?

A．An Old Yellowed Photograph

B．The Memories of My Family

C．The Importance of Siblings’ love

D．The Standard of Being a Good Mother