1 . What does the woman want to do?

A．Mail a letter.

B．Use the restroom.

C．Find the police station.

2 . How will the speakers go there?

A．By bus.

B．On foot.

C．By bike.

3 . 假定你是李华，准备参加炎帝教育集团英语演讲比赛，主题为“用英语说未来”，你准备讲交通工具。请你写一篇演讲稿，内容如下：
1. 你平常是怎样去上学的；
2. 描述你最理想的交通工具：
3. 交通工具的改进给人们带来了什么。
注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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4 . Your next car might drive itself. After years of trials on city streets, driverless vehicles are now nearing the production phase. Last month, a driverless bus began carrying passengers through Lyon, France. Most in the automobile industry think self-driving vehicles will be on the road by 2020 or before.

Driverless cars will at first be huddled with human-driven cars. But the first places where they will become dominant（占支配地位的）are dense urban areas-precisely the spots most damaged by the automobile age. Many advanced cities are already reducing the role of human-driven cars. Driverless cars will quicken that process and will bring us great benefits.

Driverless cars will reduce accidents by around 90 percent. That's big-the annual death toll on the world's roads is about 1.2 million a year. Pollution and carbon emissions will drop, because urban driverless cars will be electric. The old, otherwise they would stay at home most of the time and the disabled and teenagers will suddenly gain mobility.

On the other hand, driverless cars will bring catastrophe（灾难）.The best thing about the automobile age is that it employs tens of millions of people to make, market, insure and drive vehicles. Over the next 20 years, most men who now drive trucks, taxis and buses will see their jobs reduced. Carmakers are especially scared. A few cars in the future might be made by tech companies such as Apple, Baidu and Google. Imaging the impact on Germany, where the automotive sector is the largest industry.

Dramatic change is coming, and driverless cars could arrive by 2020. But governments have hardly begun thinking about it. Only 6 percent of the biggest US cities have factored them into their long-term planning.

A decade ago anyone hardly saw the smartphone coming. It has brought an epidemic of mass addiction. Let's hope we do a better job of handling the driverless car.

1. The underlined words "be huddled with "in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by "________".

A．show up with	B．exist together with
C．get rid of	D．take the place of

2. Why can driverless cars reduce pollution and carbon emissions?

A．Driverless cars reduce the number of human-driven cars.

B．Driverless cars will be powered by electricity.

C．Driverless cars save fuel by driving themselves.

D．Driverless cars will reduce too many accidents.

3. What can we know about driverless cars？

A．They will not hit the road until 2020.

B．They will only be used in urban areas.

C．They will not cause any road accident.

D．They aren't still seriously taken by governments.

4. What's the author's attitude toward driverless cars？

A．Doubtful.	B．Negative.
C．Objective.	D．Worried.

5 . How does the woman go to work?

A．By car.

B．On foot.

C．By bike.

6 . When does the train leave?

A．At 6:30.

B．At 8:30.

C．At 10:30.

7 . Whether you use a GPS device（设备） in your car or Google Maps on your smartphone, few of us travel anymore without digital help.     1     For one thing, GPS isn’t as accurate as you might think. What’s more, science is beginning to discover that people who rely only on navigational technologies may have a poor sense of place during travel.

    2     They soon become outdated as cities change, requiring users to continually purchase updated versions. They’re also easily damaged from exposure to water, poor weather conditions and other physical forces.

However, paper maps still offer a few advantages that technologies can’t. For example, studying a map allows you to get a full view of where you’re going, including the roads, forests, towns, historic sites, rivers and mountains you’ll come across along the way. Many older maps are wonderful, offering a lovely feast for the eyes.     3    

Research by Toru Ishikawa and colleagues at the University of Tokyo found that GPS users spent 30％ more time looking at their device than those who used a paper map.     4     Instead they tended to stare at their screens and follow directions, never gaining a full view of where they were going.

Therefore, go ahead and use your GPS, but also carry a paper map as a handy backup.     5       Also it could even be a life-saver!

A．It will improve your travel experiences.

B．But don’t hurry to fold up your paper maps.

C．They also had a poorer recollection of surrounding scenery.

D．Compared with digital maps, paper maps do have disadvantages.

E．What’s more, paper maps tend to focus on smaller geographic areas.

F．They can also take you back in time to have a glimpse（瞥） of history.

G．In other words, they didn’t see or experience much during their travels.

8 . Bedtime on the Orient Express. We stood in the corridor while a woman pulled our bunk beds (双层铺) into place-- there wasn’t room in the carriage for all three of us. Barking the news that she would be waking us at 7 a.m. with a cup of instant coffee and a piece of cheese, the woman left and we retired for the night.

‘ Bunk beds?’ you may be thinking. Small carriage? Instant coffee? This can’t be the real Orient Express! Oh, but it is. This is a very real Orient Express indeed. In search of a long weekend in Vienna, there seemed no more attractive way for my friend and me to get there.

The original Orient Express service was started in 1863. Luxury carriages ran the route from Paris, France to Giugiu, Romania. In 1934, Agatha Christie sent Hercule Poirot on just such a journey in her novel Murder on the Orient Express. However, there was a rise in air travel which was quicker and cheaper and eventually the whole operation was brought to a halt in 1977. The name was reused in 1982, when the Venice Simplon-Orient-Expresss took its first voyage between London and Venice.

Admittedly I would have loved to take the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, with its on-board shop and piano in the bar, but at around £1,700 per person for a four-night one-way journey, it was too expensive for us. So we chose this excellent way of buying into the romance for a small amount of the cost.

But we loved it. Ours was no luxury bedroom, but it had its own rough charm-- not to mention the magic of travelling across international borders overnight. I haven’t slept in a bunk bed since I was seven, and climbing up into it took 25 years off me. For one night only, it was comfortably appealing. Naturally, I took a copy of Murder on the Orient Express to read on the train. I smiled at the descriptions of airy dining cars and fresh coffee.

My weekend in Vienna was wonderful and reunited with the cut-price Orient Express at the end of the holiday, we were rather delighted to see our little carriage again. Good old bunk beds. Terrifying old attendant. And best of all, nobody got murdered.

1. What does the underlined word “halt” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Change	B．Trouble
C．Return	D．Stop

2. What do we know about the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express?

A．It was first put to use in 1863.	B．It runs between Paris and Giugiu.
C．It referred to a railway line at first.	D．It is luxurious and its fare is expensive.

3. What made the author choose the ordinary train?

A．The low price.	B．The bunk beds.
C．The air of romance.	D．The shop and the bar.

4. Why did the author smile while reading Murder on the Orient Express on the train?

A．His experience was different from the book’s description.

B．He felt relieved that nobody got murdered on the train.

C．The book was very interesting and amusing.

D．He enjoyed his train journey very much.

9 . BA0059 to Cape Town
BRITISH AIRWAYS
27^th AUGUST
Dear customer,

I am sorry for the disruption(扰乱) to your journey today. When flying Morocco, your aircraft changed its course and flew to Barcelona due to a medical emergency. As a result, the cabin crew are legally out of flying hours to continue on to Cape Town. The service has therefore returned to Heathrow Airport, London to allow for a change of crew.

Your new departure time will be 18:00 on 28^th August, arriving in Cape Town at 06:40 on 29^th August.

We have arranged rooms for you to stay at the Renaissance Hotel. Breakfast, lunch and a three-minute telephone call will also be provided for you.

We suggest that you take your hold luggage with you when you go to the hotel. For your transport to the hotel, you will need to make your way to bus stop 15. This is located outside the main Terminal (航站楼) building.

Transport back to Heathrow Terminal 4 has been arranged at 14:15 on 28^th August. Check-in will be available at Zone A from 15:00. Passengers travelling in First or Club World may check in at Zone D.

I again apologize for the inconvenience and frustration you have been caused. I can assure you we are doing our best to make your wait as comfortable and brief as possible. Thank you very much for you understanding.

Yours faithfully,

Reg Harper

Customer Service Duty Manager

PO Box 10 Heathrow Airport

Hounslow Middlesex TW6 2JA

1. What will be offered to passengers?

A．Three meals.	B．Three telephone calls.
C．An overnight stay at a hotel.	D．Transport to and from their homes.

2. When will passengers come back to Heathrow Airport？

A．At 15:00 on 27th August.	B．At 14:15 on 28th August.
C．At 18:00 on 28th August.	D．At 06:40 on 29th August.

3. What’s the main purpose of the letter?

A．To give advice.	B．To issue an apology.
C．To show thankfulness.	D．To make an announcement

10 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man bring with him?

A．Two Large bags

B．A Large bag and a small bag

C．One large and two small bags

2. What kind of seat will the man take?

A．One in the middle

B．One in the left row

C．One next to a window.

3. When will the plane take off?

A．At10:00

B．At 10: 15

C．At10:50.