1. What are passengers for Flight 582 doing?
| A．Getting on the plane. |
| B．Waiting for an arrival. |
| C．Checking in their luggage. |
| A．E-3. | B．E-4. | C．G-3. |
| A．Wear their seat belts. |
| B．Eat dinner in the food court. |
| C．Have their boarding passes ready. |
| A．They’d be removed. |
| B．They’d be left where they are. |
| C．They’d be put in the area between the A and B gates. |
| A．In the street. | B．In the chemist’s. | C．In the tourist office. |
1. What is the man doing?
| A．Conducting a survey. | B．Asking for directions. | C．Planning a trip. |
| A．Its space. | B．Its Internet. | C．Its speed. |
| A．It was too crowded. | B．It broke down halfway. | C．It ran behind schedule. |
| A．The information display facilities. |
| B．Bigger boards for train times. |
| C．More seats on the platforms. |
| A．Room 118. | B．Room 120. | C．Room 119. |
| A．Work overtime. | B．Have a walk. | C．Take a ride. |
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These days, breaking traffic rules and littering is not uncommon, what causes serious harm to life and the environment. Changing this situation requires everyone effort. As for me, it should start on the way school. If I ride a bicycle, I’ll always keep ridden along the right and never cross a road until the traffic light turns green. If I walk, I’ll never forget to get use the zebra crossing. Meanwhile, I’ll regard them as my duty to help keep our environment clean and healthily.
Not only will I keep from littering but spitting anywhere, but I’ll help clean up the roadside litter whenever possible. I hoped my behaviour will make a difference.
7 . Recently, a company called SkyDrive gave a test of its new flying car, the SD-03. The small car flew at an altitude of around 6 feet around up to four minutes. The SD-03 is powered by batteries and has 8 motors, which lift it straight off the ground. Since flying cars don’t use runways, they need to be able to take off and land by going straight up or down. Its breakthrough was that a pilot was on board. Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who leads SkyDrive, said, “Of the world’s more than 100 flying car projects, only a handful has succeeded with a person on board.”
The world’s leading companies are investing (投资) heavily to work on more advanced flying cars of their own. That includes airplane makers like Airbus and Boeing, car makers like Toyota, Hyundai, and Porsche, and ride services like Uber. Some governments, including Japan’s, are supporting the idea, hoping that in the future, flying cars will be useful for short trips like taxi rides in cities. Flying cars could also save time in emergencies, and help reach places that can’t be reached by road.
However, controlling a flying car is so complex that most people won’t be able to do it. Even SkyDrive’s test flight was kept stable by an automatic computer system, and a backup team stood ready to control the car from the ground. Besides, safety is a major problem. What happens when a motor fails? That’s one reason the SD-03 has eight motors — as backups. All realities have led many companies to take a wait-and-see approach to developing flying cars. But people who believe in flying cars point out that cars and airplanes faced lots of challenges at first, too and that with time, many of the big problems were settled eventually.
Mr. Fukuzawa wants SkyDrive to be able to fly two passengers on trips of up to 3 miles by 2023. By 2050, he hopes people will be able to fly anywhere inside Tokyo in just 10 minutes. “I think flying cars will become normal in the near future,” he says.
1. What made the SD-03’s test flight by SkyDrive special?| A．It was its first manned flying car. | B．It landed without using a runway. |
| C．It flew much longer than expected. | D．It was powered by batteries. |
| A．Developing it independently. | B．Uniting to design it together. |
| C．Promoting it all over the world. | D．Persuading governments to invest it. |
| A．The designs. | B．Future tendencies. |
| C．Different comments. | D．The challenges. |
| A．Skeptical. | B．Confident. | C．Objective. | D．Conservative. |
8 . Since the 1920s, a little-known policy called parking minimums has shaped many Americans’ life. In major cities, this meant that any type of building needed to reserve a certain number of parking spaces to accommodate anyone who might visit.
But as the country attempts to cut carbon emissions (排放), we should rethink what transportation and public space look like, especially in cities. Earlier this month, the city of Austin, Texas, became the latest community to undo parking minimums.
“If we want half of all trips to be in something other than a car, then we can’t, as a city, in my opinion, demand that every home or business have at least one parking space for each resident or customer,” said Zohaib Qadri, the Austin city council member who introduced the measure. Reducing dependency on cars was a huge push for the initiative in Austin. Qadri hopes the measure also will lead to a more sustainable city.
The undoing of this law could pave the way for cities to build denser (密集的) housing, increase public transit options, and reduce their carbon emissions, according to Donald Shoup, an engineer and professor. “It isn’t just the housing crisis and climate change; it’s a traffic jam; it’s local air pollution; it’s the high price of everything—except parking,” said Shoup.
Climate change and air pollution are particularly costly outcomes, with both estimated to cost the US billions of dollars every year. Parking spots, meanwhile, can run in the tens of thousands of dollars to construct, with one estimate putting that figure at almost $30, 000 per spot.
But undoing parking minimums does not mean that all parking will disappear overnight. It means that any off-street parking built will not need to meet any minimum standard.
“Austin is the same city that it was two weeks ago,” said Shoup. “It’s going to take quite a while for that city to really get the benefits of their parking space reforms. And so it just removes a roadblock and a barrier to other reforms.”
1. Why was parking minimums policy deserted in Austin?| A．To make room for green belts. | B．To help tackle climate problems. |
| C．To respond to residents’ demand. | D．To ease the heavy traffic. |
| A．Parking space provides convenience. |
| B．Cars are used for half of people’s trips. |
| C．Each home needs more than one parking space. |
| D．Reducing parking space can reduce dependency on cars. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Concerned. | C．Doubtful. | D．Disappointed. |
| A．The Harm of Climate Change | B．The Origin of Parking Minimums |
| C．The Reason for Too Many Emissions | D．A Possible Way to Fight Climate Change |
| A．By bike. | B．By car. | C．By bus. |
1. Where is the Pink Flamingo?
| A．On Pine Street. | B．On 2nd Street. | C．On 3rd Street. |
| A．At 10:30 p.m. | B．At 11:30 p.m. | C．At 12:00 p.m. |
