1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Booking clerk: Hello, can I help you ?
Customer : Yes, you know, I’d like to fly to Berlin, Germany,    1    the 13th of this month.
Booking clerk : Well, a moment please. I’ll check the    2    (flight). And What time will you come    3    ?
Customer: Let me see. I will attend a book fair    4    (hold) in Berlin, and the next two days a conference about education. Well, I haven’t decided when I’m going to return. Oh, I hope I will have the     5    (cheap) flight. By the way, how much does it cost to go there ?
Booking clerk: Oh, it’s only $870. This is the cheapest.
Customer : It’s fine. Would you like to tell me    6    the flight leaves and arrives?
Booking clerk: No problem. That’s Flight BA975. It    7    (leave) Los Angeles at 11:00 in the morning, and arrives in Boston at 2:35 in the afternoon. Then, you’ll have to change     8    Flight 301 at 4:10, and arrive in Berlin at 7:14 a.m. the next day.
Customer: I think I’ll take    9    . One more thing, I prefer to have a seat in the front and by the window, because I suffer from    10    (airsick) sometimes.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the purpose of the announcement?

A．To tell passengers the rules.

B．To help passengers stay safe.

C．To make sure people don't lose things.

2. What is the weather like today?

A．Rainy.

B．Snowy.

C．Sunny.

3. Where should passengers go if they have problems?

A．To the top of the stairs.

B．To the end of the waiting area.

C．To the middle of the waiting area.

4. How will the staff deal with the luggage left behind in the waiting area?

A．They may remove it.

B．They'll take pictures of it.

C．They'll try to find the owner.

3 . In Spain, children and their families are riding bikes to school together in large groups. The program is called “bicibús” or bike bus. In Barcelona, the program started recently with only five children and grew quickly to hundreds of riders.

The Eixample bike bus begins around 8:25 every Friday morning. The path it will follow is always posted ahead of time, so everyone knows where to join. The bicibús starts off with just a few students and parents, with more and more joining as it travels along.

Most kids ride their bikes, but others ride motor bikes or use skates. Instead of riding in bike lanes (车道) or on sidewalks, the bicibús takes over the entire street. With music playing and bike bells ringing, the bicibús feels like a party.

Being able to ride with a crowd of kids is a big part of the fun. Nine-year-old Maria Pitarch says, “The best part of the bicibús is that we ride along and pick up my friends and we ride together. ”

The Eixample bicibús goes to several schools. When students reach their school, they leave the bus and park their bikes. Some parents have made the bicibús the way they get to work on Friday.

It was possible to bike to school in Eixample before, but it wasn’t really safe for kids. There are a few bike lanes, but there are also lots of cars.

Because one of the main roads used by the Eixample bicibús is busy, having about 20,000 cars and motorcycles every day, the local police are helping stop traffic by riding in front of the bicibús and behind it.

Parents are hoping that the bicibús will help change ideas about how people can get around in the city. They want the city to create wider, kid-friendly bike lanes that are separate from car traffic. They point out that the bicibús also helps cut down on pollution.

Already some other areas in Barcelona are also organizing bike buses. Some bike buses have even been organized in other countries.

1. What can we learn about the bicibús?

A．It is really a party.	B．It has a long history.
C．It is becoming popular.	D．It is simply made up of kids.

2. What’s the main fun that the “bicibús” has for kids?

A．Learning skating on the way.	B．Riding with their friends.
C．Getting to know more kids.	D．Having a free time every day.

3. What has been done to keep the bicibús safe?

A．The bike lanes have been widened.

B．The police come to help with traffic.

C．Bike bells have been fixed to the bikes.

D．The number of bike lanes has been doubled.

4. In which part of a newspaper might this passage appear?

A．Sports.	B．Travel.
C．Science.	D．Culture.

4 . Accessible Adventures Near Global Airports

Adventure doesn’t have to mean inaccessible destinations. You may try one of these outdoor experiences. They’re all reasonably close to an airport, so your destinations are easy to reach.

Camp by Boat on California’s Anacapa Island

Airport: Los Angeles International Airport

Trips to Anacapa Island can be arranged year-round, and the rocky shores are popular places for camping and bird watching. This is truly remote, though—there are no goods, services, or accommodations on the island, so be prepared to be fully self-sufficient when you take a boat at the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, just north of Los Angeles. From Los Angeles International Airport, you can take a bus for the scenic trip to the harbor.

Ski Snowy Slopes（斜坡）Just Outside Tokyo

Airport: Tokyo International Airport or Narita International Airport

It’s easy to find adventure just minutes after arriving in Japan, a country known for its bullet trains and efficient transportation. Make your way from either airport to Tokyo Station, and you’ll be just an hour and a half away from the snow-packed slopes of Gala Yuzawa.

Getting to the popular ski slopes is simple. It’s served by the bullet-train station, and you can buy tickets and rent equipment only a few steps from the stop. Gala Yuzawa can be crowded, but it also has everything you need for a winter adventure.

Ride the Great Southern Rail from Adelaide to Darwin

Airports: Adelaide Airport and Darwin International Airport

See the red soil of Australia on The Ghan, a train line that stretches from Adelaide to Darwin. This interstate passenger train follows the route of ancient camel drivers and provides out-of-this-world views. The train trip takes three or four days without any stops.

Both the initial and final train stations on this route are close to airports—Adelaide Parklands Terminal is just about 5 kilometers from Adelaide Airport and Darwin Railway Station is about 16 kilometers from Darwin International Airport.

1. How can you get to the Channel Islands Harbor from the airport?

A．By bus.

B．By boat.

C．By air.

D．By train.

2. When is the best time to go to Gala Yuzawa?

A．Winter.

B．Spring.

C．Summer.

D．Autumn.

3. What can be learned about the distance between Adelaide Airport and Darwin International Airport?

A．Dozens of kilometers.	B．Thousands of kilometers.
C．About five kilometers.	D．About sixteen kilometers.

5 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Many drivers dream of the day     1     they can sit back while their car drives itself.     2     several companies are working hard to make it a reality, self-driving cars still face many problems.

Google was one of the first     3     (get) into this industry. It     4     (develop) self-driving cars since 2009, and its new driverless car is called Firely.

But the driverless car is only a “fair weather friend”, the Daily Mail     5     (comment).

According to the MIT Technology Review, the current driverless cars can’t react like a human driver. They can’t drive in heavy rain or snow.

Chris Urmson, director of the Google car team, said that this is because the detection technology is not yet good enough to separate certain objects from weather conditions. In the cars’eyes, raindrops and snowflakes are the same     6     rocks, and cars stop for them. But if the manhole (下水道入口) ahead is uncovered, they drive over it without hesitation.

    7     all these problems, Urmson said driverless cars will happen more quickly than people think.

But even at that time, driverless cars won’t be truly “driverless”.

In the US, only     8     someone sits in the driver’s seat are driverless cars allowed on roads in certain states.

European countries, Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Russian follow the United Nations Convention on Road Traffic. The convention used to say: “Every driver     9     at all times be able to control his vehicle.” A change was agreed in May,     10     (allow) a car to drive itself as long as a driver is in the car and able to take the wheel at any time.

6 . The state of Michigan, which is home to the first paved road in the country, may also become home to the first wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging road in the country. Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced the new project of developing the country's first wireless charging infrastructure on a public road.

An electrified road would save electric vehicle owners and public transportation agencies the need to stop vehicles to charge them constantly, and would support transportation in parts of the country with few to no electric vehicle charging stations.

According to government news outlet Route-Fifty, electrified charging roads use three types of technology. The first is an inductive power transfer (感应电力传输) from the road, which then sends power between a set of coils (线圈) in the roadway and a set of coils in the car. A second consideration is charging through a power transfer from the road to the car through a rail. Another option is overhead conductive (传导性的) charging that transfers power for charging through a connection to overhead lines which is often used for buses and trains.

“The needs for the vehicles will depend on the solution provided；however, the goal is to have the roadway used by all electric vehicle types,” a spokesperson from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation said. “If it's a success, the state of Michigan will review other locations to determine where they best fit the need.”

Michigan officials hope the charging road will provide an improvement to public transportation by charging electric buses and increased access to transportation in or near rural communities, and even potentially help to develop tourism in the area.

“The field of transportation is in the process of a transformation not experienced since the invention of the automobile,” Nadia Gkritza, a professor of Purdue University, said. "Through this project, we foresee opportunities to reduce emissions and near-road exposures to pollutants, coupled with other transportation innovations in shared mobility and automation that will shape data-driven policies encouraging advances."

1. What is a problem with driving electric vehicles according to the text?

A．There are no reliable safety measures for it.	B．EV drivers have to stop frequently to charge EVs.
C．EV charging stations are inaccessible in any place.	D．Most public transportation agencies are against it.

2. What do three types of technology mentioned in paragraph 3 focus on?

A．What technology is used to reform old buses and trains.

B．What construction is needed to improve electrified roads.

C．How electrified charging roads save electricity on vehicles.

D．How charging vehicles on electrified roads can be realized.

3. What do Michigan officials expect of the wireless charging road?

A．It can save much money on public transportation.	B．It can be the inspiration for new electric vehicles.
C．It can promote the development of local economy.	D．It can make public transportation free in the future.

4. What is Nadia Gkritza trying to do in the last paragraph?

A．Provide evidence.

B．Explain a concept.

C．Make evaluations.

D．Offer suggestions.

7 . No one will ever know for sure what happened in those minutes before the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his l3-year-old daughter. and seven other people fell into a hillside, killing everyone on board. It will take months for safety investigators to figure out what probably went wrong here. In the meantime, what this horrific crash should do is make safety investigators and national regulators take a step back and look at helicopter safety in general.

One piece of equipment lacking in this otherwise well-equipped helicopter was a terrain awareness warning system, which gives pilots visual and audible warnings when they are flying near obstacles. After a helicopter carrying eight passengers crashed into the Gulf of Mexico in 2004, the National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB) repeatedly urged the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to require terrain awareness systems on all commercial helicopters. But the FAA has never accepted that recommendation.

The NTSB also called for all emergency medical service helicopters and airplanes to have these safety systems on board. The FAA accepted the safety board's recommendation for air ambulances, noting that emergency missions are often flown in places not well known to the pilots. But an FAA spokesperson says the circumstances are different for non-emergency flights. as commercial helicopter pilots generally fly in populated places with numerous paths and landing points. According to the spokesperson, the FAA has cooperated with the industry on improving safety through new technology and policy changes. And the number of fatal accidents has declined dramatically over the last two. decades. That's great, but' it's nevertheless troubling that the NTSB's recommendation has gone largely ignored by the FAA.

After the recent crash renewed talk of terrain awareness systems, there's been massive resistance from old helicopter pilots who believe it to be a dangerous distraction when they are flying low—as helicopters often do—with good visibility. Constant audible warnings of obstacles that the pilots can see and are aware of are nothing but an annoyance, they claim.

Nevertheless, the FAA should reconsider its decision because it would give commercial pilots and their passengers another tool to enhance their safety. In fact, terrain awareness systems have been standard equipment in every Sikorsky S-76 made since 2005. The safety of everyone flying in dated commercial helicopters should be just as important.

1. Why did the author mention Kobe Bryant's case?

A．To show the value of safety equipment.	B．To express his sorrows for the incident.
C．To indicate that flights are dangerous.	D．To introduce the readers to helicopters.

2. According to FAA, what makes service and commercial helicopters different?

A．They require pilots with varying skills	B．Service helicopters carry more people.
C．They cover different routes and areas.	D．Service helicopters often fly at night.

3. What are old pilots' attitudes towards the terrain awareness system?

A．Frightened.

B．Interested.

C．Optimistic.

D．Distrustful.

4. What is the main idea of the article?

A．Pilots should be trained for emergencies.	B．We should be concerned about air safety.
C．The terrain awareness system is useful.	D．FAA is to be blamed for plane accidents

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man say about electric energy?

A．It’s cheaper.

B．It’s more convenient.

C．It pollutes less.

2. Which country uses the most electric cars according to the man?

A．China.

B．Germany.

C．Japan.

3. What does the man think will happen by 2050?

A．Everyone will use public transport.

B．There will be bicycles everywhere.

C．Electric cars will replace gas cars.

9 .

A．They were packing up their stuff.

B．They were watching a car race.

C．They narrowly escaped a car crash.

D．They got lost in the heavy traffic.

10 . Why HS2 should go ahead

For the country that invented railways, Britain has shown remarkably little interest in them lately. New networks have been built around Europe in the past few decades, but the only significant stretch of ________ laid in Britain in a century is the 67-mile HS1 railway that links London to the Channel Tunnel. ________ , the country has half as much track as it had in 1963.Yet while Britain has an almost American ________ to invest in railways, its commuting(通勤) patterns are European: l0% of journeys are by rail, compared with 9% in Germany and less than 1% in America.

Britain's big ________ is that, because it has built no new high-speed lines, it runs fast intercity trains on the same track as slow commuter ones. Long ________ have to be left between slow and express trains. The need to make way for high-speed trains thus ________ the number of commuter services,and vice versa. Eight years ago,the government decided to change this by building a new 345-mile railway from London to the north of England. Though branded as High Speed 2, its principal job was to improve capacity(运输量) rather than ________ .

Rail is an increasingly significant part of the transport mix. Climate change is making carbon-efficiency even more important. At the same time, passenger numbers have gone beyond ________ . The government had expected passenger volumes to increase by 17-21% in the decade from 2011; actually, they were up by 24% within just seven years and are expected to go on ________ at a similar rate.

The benefit-to-cost ratio(效益成本比率) calculated for HS2, at around one, is hardly acknowledged. But just as the costs of big transport projects are often ________ , so are their long-term benefits. The extension to London's Jubilee tube line, ________ ,was approved with a BCR of less than one, but recent analysis suggests that it has been more like 1.75. And that includes only the profits that go directly to the railway, not the ________ consequences of the recovery of London's Docklands area, which the tube line made possible.

The main point of HS2, similarly, is its impact on the cities and towns along its ________ and beyond. Boris Johnson, the prime minister, is on a mission to promote growth in northern and western areas ________ by the country's London-centered pattern of growth. On its own HS2 won't make that happen, but doing so without a new railway would be ________ . The success of the "Northern Powerhouse" rail scheme, to link the north's big towns, depends on it.

1.

A．land

B．track

C．highway

D．water

2.

A．Besides

B．Indeed

C．Fortunately

D．Likewise

3.

A．qualification

B．eagerness

C．reluctance

D．potential

4.

A．theory

B．ambition

C．problem

D．solution

5.

A．gaps

B．lists

C．lines

D．periods

6.

A．highlights

B．increases

C．counts

D．limits

7.

A．speed

B．length

C．quantity

D．quality

8.

A．records

B．forecasts

C．averages

D．scopes

9.

A．varying

B．declining

C．growing

D．remaining

10.

A．shared

B．underestimated

C．overlooked

D．controlled

11.

A．for instance

B．as a result

C．in addition

D．out of problem

12.

A．political

B．cultural

C．economic

D．historic

13.

A．extension

B．border

C．surface

D．route

14.

A．settled down

B．put forward

C．taken over

D．left behind

15.

A．tough

B．flexible

C．innovative

D．vacant