1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where did the man go after work?

A．To a restaurant.

B．To his house.

C．To a lock company.

2. Why is the man at the police station?

A．He had a car accident.

B．He was thought to be a thief.

C．He is reporting the loss of his car.

2 . Nolan Barry, 8, and Thomas MacKeen, 9, were on their way home from school in Atkinson, N.H., with three other students Tuesday when their ride took a ______ turn.   The driver _____a medical emergency and ______, but the bus was still moving.

Nolan usually sits at the front of the bus, where he can see the driver. Because of Nolan’s ____, he was somewhat familiar with the bus ______. Although he forgot which button to ____, he figured it out in time. Fortunately, Nolan ______ the emergency braking (刹车) system which also turns on the flashing red lights, putting the ______ sign and safety bar out.

But they weren’t out of the woods yet; and they couldn’t ______ how to open the doors. Thomas was the oldest student on the bus (in the fourth grade) and he was able to ______ the other students down and get them back into their seats.

Another student, 8-year-old David Silva, was also on the bus. Luckily, David’s father, Jesse Silva, was just down the road ______ for the school bus to deliver his child, and he noticed the kids ______ the windshield (挡风玻璃) and saying ‘help!’

The father ran over to the bus and ______ to get in. He saw the driver on the floor and the students were all ______ up. He tried unsuccessfully to ______ the driver — her eyes opened but she wasn’t communicating.

But that’s ______ the paramedics (护理人员) arrived. The bus driver was ______, but the cause of the collapse is still unclear. What is clear is that she was very ______ to have Nolan and Thomas on board when this all happened.

And they do feel like ______, “kind of,” Nolan said when interviewed. But they’re not letting it get to their ______. “Not like Superman. Not like that.”

1.

A．exciting

B．pleasant

C．splendid

D．scary

2.

A．received

B．suffered

C．discovered

D．broadcast

3.

A．passed out

B．lost temper

C．went mad

D．broke down

4.

A．talent

B．interactions

C．observations

D．anxiety

5.

A．structure

B．functions

C．controls

D．route

6.

A．change

B．press

C．protect

D．cover

7.

A．destroyed

B．fixed

C．checked

D．started

8.

A．danger

B．stop

C．road

D．position

9.

A．make out

B．explain

C．figure out

D．imagine

10.

A．pull

B．let

C．put

D．calm

11.

A．looking

B．answering

C．longing

D．waiting

12.

A．beating

B．wiping

C．painting

D．watching

13.

A．refused

B．hesitated

C．failed

D．managed

14.

A．tied

B．shaken

C．made

D．given

15.

A．wake

B．inform

C．feed

D．comfort

16.

A．how

B．why

C．when

D．where

17.

A．arrested

B．interviewed

C．treated

D．accused

18.

A．sorry

B．confused

C．clever

D．lucky

19.

A．fools

B．heroes

C．experts

D．drivers

20.

A．heads

B．eyes

C．hands

D．feet

3 . What are the speakers talking about?

A．A traffic accident.

B．Traffic rules.

C．A student’s fault.

4 . 补全对话：根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
（Policeman=P Lily=L）
P:What happened？.
L:My bike hit a car.
P：    1    ？
L:Luckily I am not.
P：    2    ？
L:It is not broken..
P:That's good.    3    ？
L:About ten minutes ago.
P:And where？
L:Around the corner near my school.
P：    4    ？
L:Perhaps I rode too fast when I saw a car coming to me.I tried to stop，but my bike still hit the car.
P:Well，    5    .
L:Thanks a lot.I will.
P:OK.Goodbye！
L:Bye！
A.Are you badly hurt
B.When did it happen
C.Be careful next time
D.What about your bike
E.How did it happen

5 . “Mayday! We got Mayday!”Frank Pisano screamed over the microphone to the air control tower at the airport．One of the two engines on his plane had failed，and he was now going down towards one of the busiest highways in America—Interstate 405，just south of Los Angeles—and there was no stopping it．

Driving south on the 405，near the airport’S runway，was John Meffert，a fire department captain．He was heading home from his shift when suddenly a low—flying plane caught his eye．After he took a second glance，a thought crossed his mind：“This plane’s going to hit me．”

He was right．The plane slammed into the road，popped up a few feet，and then clipped the front of Meffert’s car．It finally stopped after hitting the divider(隔栏)．Meffert pulled over．He was unhurt，and his car had received only a large scratch，so he turned his attention to the plane．He ran towards the smoke，and then he saw Frank’s wife，Janan Pisano，pop her head up on the passenger side．

By the time Meffert reached the aircraft，part of it was on fire and Janan，who was covered in blood，was on the wing trying to pull her husband from the wreck．Meffert，afraid the plane would explode，guided her to safety behind it．Then，he ran back for Frank，who had been knocked out by the initial crash，lying across both seats．

Meffert carefully positioned himself under the pilot’s arms and lifted him from the cockpit．Then he dragged the pilot off the wing and carried him to safety，where they could see the plane in flames．

The Pisanos spent three weeks in the hospital．Remarkably，Meffert’s car was the only one hit by the plane．Had Meffert been a second or two faster，Frank said，the left propeller(螺旋桨))would have ripped the top off his car and killed him．

“I play all the what-ifs—going slower，going faster．It could have been a very different result，”Meffert said．“We just had a lot of angels．”

1. What does the underlined word“Mayday”in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A．A special day in May．	B．The arrival time．
C．A message for help．	D．The local airport．

2. Why was the plane going down to the highway?

A．Only one engine was working．	B．Frank mistook 405 for the runway．
C．The plane caught fire．	D．The pilot was seriously hurt．

3. What prevented Meffert from being killed?

A．His good sense of direction．	B．His low driving speed．
C．His second glance at the plane．	D．His belief in God．

4. It can be inferred from the passage that__________．

A．Meffert and Frank were friends

B．Meffert’s car was not totally damaged

C．Janan Pisano was one of the crew of the airport

D．the plane would take off again when Frank recovered

6 . My uncle will never forget what happened to him yesterday. Towards the evening, he was     1    (邀请) to an inn. He enjoyed his dinner with his friends,     2    (喝) a lot of wine As a r    3    , he got drunk. He insisted on driving home after the meal, although his friends tried to     4    (说服)him not to.       A few minutes later, he was winding his w    5     on the street.   And then his car ran     6    a tall tree. Fortunately, he was still alive, though s    7     injured. The police came to the scene, and he was taken to hospital. Naturally, he had to     8     in hospital for several days. W    9     still, his driving license was cancelled. How he regretted     10     he had done without listening to his friends.

7 . Two deer jumped out in front of 16-year-old Amanda Floyd's car. She stepped on the brake, stopping the car just in time. But later, she started texting. Distracted (分心的)，Amanda turned left and right, then crashed into another car. Luckily, she wasn't in a real car--she was in a driving simulator (模拟器) at Roosevelt High School, Ohio, US. “I never really realized that cars make a turn that much," Amanda, a Junior, said. She added that she wouldn't text while driving anymore.

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and State Highway Patrol brought the simulator to the school. They said they wanted to help students learn about the danger of driving while drunk, while texting, or while talking on the phone.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, distracted driving claimed 3,4501ives in2016 alone. Experts believe the actual figure is probably higher.

The simulator is basically a computer program. Like many computer games, it was a hit with the students. They lined up and crowded around to watch each other take turns. The simulator has a steering wheel! (方向盘) ,brake and gas pedal (油门踏板) . It is made up of three large computer screens on a table.

Students choose a distraction, such as driving while drunk or texting. They always crash, of course. Then, they are pulled over by the police to be taught the bad results of their driving: how much damage they've caused, what their fine is, if anyone died in the accident, and if they're going to go to prison.

"It teaches how to drive without being on the road," said Shante Thompson, 16. She had just crashed into a deer.

ODOT spokesman Justin Chesnic said hundreds of kids have gone behind the wheel so far. He said even more have benefited from watching their classmates. "Driving is such a major responsibility, so take it seriously" he said.“Put away your cellphone. A lot of the accidents out there are because of distracted driving. It can not only change your life, but it can change someone else's life forever. The results are serious."

1. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph One?

A．Introduce the topic of the text.

B．Illustrate the author's point of view.

C．Provide some advice for the readers.

D．Offer some background information.

2. Why is the driving simulator project introduced to Roosevelt High School?

A．It tests the students' ability to stay focused.

B．It gets students to have fun between classes.

C．It teaches students how to deal with traffic accidents.

D．It makes students aware of the dangers of distracted driving.

3. What can we know about the driving simulator?

A．It is connected to the local police station.

B．It is a real car but has large computer screens.

C．It attracts the students' interest as a computer program.

D．It benefits the students who use it more than those who only watch.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Traffic rules in Ohio, US.

B．Danger of distracted driving.

C．Simulated driving for students.

D．Advantages of computer games.

8 . An Uber self-driving car hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona, U.S., police said on Monday, marking the first death caused by an autonomous vehicle and a potential blow to the technology expected to transform transportation.

The ride services company said it was delaying North American tests of its self-driving vehicles, which are currently going on in Arizona, Pittsburgh and Toronto.

So-called robot cars, when fully developed by companies including Uber, are expected to thoroughly cut down on motor vehicle deaths and create billion-dollar businesses. But Monday's accident highlighted (凸显) the possible challenges ahead for the promising technology as the cars face real-world situations involving real people.

"This catastrophic accident highlights why we need to be exceptionally cautious when testing and applying autonomous vehicle technologies to public roads," said Edward Markey, a member of the transportation committee, in a statement. "Elaine Herzberg, 49, was walking her bicycle outside the crosswalk on a four-lane road in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe at about 10 p.m. MST Sunday when she was struck by the Uber vehicle traveling at about 65 kilometers per hour," police said. The car was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel. U.S. federal safety officials were sending teams to investigate the crash. Canada's transportation ministry in Ontario, where Uber conducts are being tested, also said it was reviewing the accident.

"Uber and Waymo on Friday urged Congress to pass a law to speed the introduction of self-driving cars into the united states. However, some congressional (国会) representatives have blocked the legislation over safety concerns, and Monday's death could hamper passage of the bill, "congressional assistants said Monday.

1. According to the passage, which is the effect of the accident of the woman's being killed?

A．People will be cautious while crossing a road.

B．The woman's family will obtain a billion dollars.

C．The process of transforming transportation will be affected.

D．Self-driving vehicles will cut down on motor vehicles deaths.

2. The underlined word "hamper" in Paragraph 6 most probably mean _______.

A．make	B．prevent
C．start	D．accelerate

3. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A．Less than three places are doing tests of its self-driving vehicles now

B．The officials of the transportation ministry in Ontario were lookig into the crash

C．Elaine Herzberg was biking when she was hit by a self-driving car

D．We can't be too careful when introducing autonomous vehicle technologies to public roads

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

A．To arouse the public concerns over a self-driving safety.

B．To remind car producers to be more careful when testing vehicles technology.

C．To advise the Congress to pass a law to speed self-driving cars test in the US.

D．To urge the US federal safety regulators to take measures to look into the accident.

9 .

A．She threw something at a truck.	B．She threw herself out of window and broke her leg.
C．She moved a truck to save a little boy.	D．She rushed to a moving truck to save a kid.

10 . Time flies, but the tracks of time remain in books and museums. This is what made a recent tragedy in Brazil even more terrible.

On Sept.2, a big fire ripped through the National Museum of Brazil. “ Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge were lost, ” Brazilian President Michel Temer wrote on Twitter after the fire. “It's a sad day for all Brazilians.”

Most of the 20 million pieces of history are believed to have been destroyed. Only as little as 10 percent of the collection may have survived, Time reported. Among all the items, there were Egyptian mummies, the bones of uniquely Brazilian creatures such as the long－necked dinosaur Maxakalisaurus, and an 11,500－year－old skull called Luzia, which was considered one of South America's oldest human fossils.

Besides these, Brazil's indigenous(本土的，土著的) knowledge also suffered. The museum housed world－famous collections of indigenous objects, as well as many audio recordings of local languages from all over Brazil. Some of these recordings, now lost, were of languages that are no longer spoken.

“The tragedy this Sunday is a sort of national suicide, a crime against our past and future generations,” Bernard Mello Franco, one of Brazil's best－known columnists, wrote on the O Globo newspaper site.

The cause of the fire is still unknown, as BBC News reported on Sept. 3. After the fire burned out, crowds protested outside the museum to show their anger at the loss of the irreplaceable items of historical value.

According to Emilio Bruna, an ecologist at the University of Florida, museums are living, breathing stores of who we are and where we've come from, and the world around us.

Just as underwater grass floats on the surface if it loses its roots, a nation is lost without its memories. The fire at the National Museum of Brazil teaches the world an important lesson: We should never neglect history.

1. What can be summarized as the main idea of the 3rd and 4th paragraphs?

A．Long history of South America.	B．Remains from the fire.
C．Mysteries to be solved.	D．History and knowledge burned up.

2. What opinion may be shared by Bernard Mello Franco and the protesters?

A．The government is to blame for the tragedy.

B．The museum should be rebuilt

C．The loss can't be made up for.

D．The criminal should be sentenced to death.

3. What does Emilio Bruna compare museums to?

A．Living stores of our past.	B．Underwater grass.
C．The oldest fossils.	D．National suicide.

4. What may be the best title of the passage?

A．Death of a civilization	B．Functions of museums
C．Gone with the fire	D．Brazilians' memories