1. What was the man doing when he saw the accident?
| A．On his way to the museum. |
| B．On his way to the library. |
| C．On his way home. |
| A．Driving from the opposite direction. |
| B．Parking by the side of the street. |
| C．Making a phone call in the truck. |
| A．The woman. | B．The man. | C．A man nearby. |
| A．Be careful when walking. |
| B．Try to forget the experience. |
| C．Don’t ride a motorbike. |
2 . A self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in a late-night accident in Tempe, Arizona, police said on Monday. The accident is believed to be the first pedestrian death involving the technology of autonomous vehicles.
The gray SUV had an operator in the driver’s seat and was traveling at about 40 miles per hour in autonomous mode when it struck a woman who was walking across the street late Sunday night, Tempe police said. The pedestrian was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead from her injuries.
“The City of Tempe has been supportive of autonomous vehicle testing because of the innovation and promise that the technology may offer in many areas, including transportation options for disabled residents and seniors,” Tempe Mayor, Mitchell said in the statement. “Testing must occur safely. All indications we have had in the past show that traffic laws are being obeyed by the companies testing here. Our city leadership and Tempe police will pursue any and all answers to what happened in order to ensure safety moving forward.”
Self-driving cars have been praised by technology companies as the wave of the future. Autonomous cars are already being in more than 30 cities around the world, with companies investing more than $80 billion into research and development.
“Everyone recognized that someone was going to die in a crash involving an autonomous vehicle eventually,” Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies risks in automated driving systems, told NBC News. “As good as that technology tries to be, mistakes can happen, or it may be one of the small fraction of crashes. I just think everybody kind of hoped that one wouldn’t come this soon.”
Smith added that because federal and state agencies don’t have the resources to monitor individual vehicles, the responsibility for safety falls on the individual companies running the technology.
The National Transportation Safety Board announced that a four-person team has been sent to Tempe to investigate the crash.
1. Which of the following is true about the accident?| A．The woman was dead on the spot. |
| B．The accident is under investigation. |
| C．The driver was arrested for speeding. |
| D．It is the first accident caused by autonomous vehicles. |
| A．The autonomous vehicle can make transportation safer. |
| B．A large profit will be brought by the autonomous vehicles. |
| C．The autonomous vehicles will help disabled residents and seniors. |
| D．Companies invest more than $80 billion into research and development. |
| A．The driver. | B．The pedestrian. |
| C．The individual companies. | D．The federal and state agency. |
| A．Tempe is in favor of autonomous vehicle testing. |
| B．Autonomous vehicles have a lot of disadvantages. |
| C．Companies should take action to improve self-driving cars. |
| D．A self-driving Uber car caused a pedestrian’s death in Arizona. |
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This morning I was late for school because I became caught in a serious traffic jam in my way to school. The traffic jam was causing by an accident. A girl was hit by a bus while she was crossing the road. She was in so a hurry that she ran a red light. Just as she was crossing, a bus knocked into my bike. It was too late for her stop her bike so she was knocked over, that made her unable to move. She hurt her leg very bad. I think this accident is not a good lesson for all of us. It tell us the importance of obeyed the traffic rules.
Flash floods hit Longcaogou of Pengzhou, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday. Seven people
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5 . As 17-year-old Norwood drove through St. Peters-burg, Florida, last February, the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to screams. As they approached a crossing, another car T-boned them, sending their car sailing into the yard of a nearby home, coming to a stop only when it crashed into a tree.
As smoke rose from the other car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to blow up! Get out!” Shaken, but otherwise OK, she crawled (爬行) out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to free themselves, she ran for her life.
But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran back to the car and found Simmons passed out in the back seat. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, avoiding the broken glass as best she could. She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground. “I checked her pulse.” Nothing.“I put my head against her chest.” No sign of life. “That’s when I started CPR (心肺复苏术).”
Had the accident happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do. But Norwood, who wants to pursue a career in medicine, had earned her CPR certificate just the day before. Kneeling on the lawn and looking down at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had precious little time to practice what she’d learned. She started pumping Simmons’s chest and breathing into her friend’s mouth in hopes of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. No response. And then, after the 30th try, Simmons began coughing and gasping for air. The CPR had worked! Soon, the ambulance arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital, where she received treatment for a cut in her forehead. And then she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t shocked,” Simmons told CNN. “She will always help any way she can.”
1. What happened to Norwood’s car in Florida last February?| A．It lost its way at a crossing. |
| B．It crashed into a nearby building. |
| C．It was hit by another car from the side. |
| D．It stopped in St. Peters- burg as planned. |
| A．To call for help. | B．To check the car. |
| C．To put out the fire. | D．To rescue her friend. |
| A．Norwood was a certificated on- the- job doctor. |
| B．Simmons didn’t come to herself after the CPR. |
| C．Norwood learned how to perform CPR recently. |
| D．Simmons was surprised to be saved by Norwood. |
| A．Calm and dependable. | B．Friendly and selfless. |
| C．Honest and responsible. | D．Helpful and sympathetic. |
1. Where is the woman right now?
| A．In a concert hall. | B．On a freeway. | C．At a gas station. |
| A．Pick up the woman. | B．Fix a car. | C．See a late show. |
| A．Jack. | B．Bill. | C．Sam. |
8 . In the fall of 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance (耐力号) sank off the coast of Antarctica. While all of the expedition’s 28 crew eventually were rescued, the ship’s final resting place has remained a much-discussed maritime mystery. That is, until today. A team of researchers has announced they’ve located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, almost the northernmost part of Antarctica.
Endurance was backed by the British government and private donors and supported by Winston Churchill to deliver a group of explorers to the coast of Antarctica and then travel overland across the continent via the South Pole.
It set out from South Georgia on December 5, 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. But the enemy that Shackleton and his men faced was of a different sort. The Weddell Sea, covering an area of more than a million square miles, is one of the most remote and unforgiving environments in the world, littered with icebergs and roiled by strong surface winds. Shackleton called it “the worst sea in the world.”
The expedition made good progress at first, but as the Antarctic winter of 1915 closed in, the men found themselves trapped in the sea ice on Tuesday, October 26. The next day, the men removed tools, instruments, and provisions and set up camp on the ice floe. Endurance finally sank on November 27. Shackleton famously said, “What the ice gets, the ice keeps.” . But Endurance’s story did not end with the ship’s sinking.
In 2019, the Falklands Heritage Maritime Trust began its first expedition to find the ship but had been unable to locate the wreck. This winter, they tried again, organizing and funding Endurance22.
One of the toughest problems, besides the sea ice, was establishing the ship’s location. After Endurance was initially trapped in the ice, it continued to drift as the floes moved with the current. Due to poor visibility on the day the men abandoned the ship, however, the captain had been unable to take proper measurements that would help calculate the direction and speed of the floes.
1. Which can show the positions of Weddell Sea and Antarctica?A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．Endurance hasn’t been found since the fall of 1915. |
| B．Endurance was only supported by Winston Churchill. |
| C．Ernest Shackleton died and sank off the coast of Antarctica in the fall of 1915. |
| D．Ernest Shackleton’s goal was to travel across the Antarctica via the South Pole. |
| A．The sea ice. |
| B．The Antarctic winter. |
| C．The things they carried. |
| D．The captain’s unreasonable command. |
| A．The way how to establish the ship’s location. |
| B．The reason why locating the ship is difficult. |
| C．The measurements that the captain took to locate the ship. |
| D．The time when Endurance22 was organized and funded. |
9 . It was one day in June 2018. After soccer practice that day, 12 members of a Thai soccer team and their coach decided to
The boys, aged 11 to 16 and their coach, 25, walked in the waters and then
The flood
The journey to the surface required each boy to
| A．protect | B．measure | C．decorate | D．explore |
| A．dug | B．destroyed | C．left | D．entered |
| A．Moreover | B．Therefore | C．However | D．Instead |
| A．storm | B．ship | C．snowfall | D．cloud |
| A．farther | B．longer | C．deeper | D．wider |
| A．new | B．familiar | C．real | D．high |
| A．supplied | B．filled | C．provided | D．covered |
| A．shoes | B．food | C．water | D．clothes |
| A．discuss | B．cry | C．wait | D．think |
| A．forgotten | B．abandoned | C．injured | D．trapped |
| A．agreeing | B．hoping | C．fearing | D．begging |
| A．avoided | B．regretted | C．kept | D．advised |
| A．recognized | B．scared | C．saved | D．found |
| A．took over | B．turned to | C．cared about | D．looked for |
| A．rescuers | B．planners | C．officials | D．coaches |
| A．safely | B．easily | C．regularly | D．suddenly |
| A．check | B．demand | C．wear | D．create |
| A．hide | B．run | C．swim | D．work |
| A．performances | B．efforts | C．suggestions | D．tools |
| A．survived | B．escaped | C．appeared | D．succeeded |
10 . Searchers announced the recovery of one of the two black boxes, and human tissue (组织) debris from the crash site of China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 on Wednesday night, three days after the Boeing 737-800 nosedived from cruising altitude and crashed into a forested hillside.
One of the black boxes found on Wednesday has been identified as the cockpit voice recorder (驾驶舱话音记录器). The black box’s recorder looks badly damaged from the outside, but its storage unit looks relatively intact. It has been sent to a professional civil aviation agency in Beijing for decoding, and hopefully the data stored inside will provide evidence for the accident investigation and help produce a credible accident analysis report. The search teams are going all out to find the other black box with professional tools.
Officials also released more information concerning the crash. The weather on the route of MU5735 was suitable for flying and there was no hazardous weather when the plane crashed. The communication connection between the plane and the ground was normal from the plane’s departure until its sudden fall in altitude. The plane started service in June 2015 and it had been maintained under strict standards of technical plans and in normal conditions. Before departure, the aircraft met the requirements for flying. Pilots on board were all in good health and their flying certificates were within the validity period.
Beijing EAPs Consulting, a firm which provided a free psychological services hotline immediately after the crash, told Global Times that it has answered many phone calls asking for assistance. The phone calls are from families, friends and colleagues of people on board, who are in a difficult time. Some pilots and flight attendants called in because they feel unsafe and uncertain about their careers. There are also people who want to know how to comfort their acquaintances that had loved ones on the plane. Mental support and psychological services in the first 24 to 72 hours after a tragedy is crucial for people involved to recover from the tragedy and minimize the trauma. For more information related to the plane crash, please click here to follow the latest news.
1. The underlined word in paragraph 1 can be replaced by________.| A．separated | B．fell | C．recovered | D．drove |
| A．The search for the other black box is still underway. |
| B．Pilots on board were not in good condition before departure. |
| C．The plane crashed into the city center. |
| D．The black box found appears intact outside. |
| A．Psychological support is of little use after the tragedy. |
| B．A company sends volunteers to the crash site. |
| C．Many crew members will quit their jobs immediately. |
| D．A company offers free psychological support to people related. |
| A．an online newspaper |
| B．a search report |
| C．a research paper |
| D．a book on psychology |
