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"Welcome to Beijing".
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Concorde’s Birthday
CONCORDE, the world’s fastest passenger plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first __1__ on 2 March 1969 in France. Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a _2__ of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to __3__ together on the project. The plane __4_ over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of _5__. This means that it _6_ only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7—8 hours in other passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is _7__ to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30a.m. _8__ from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour _9_! Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built so far. Air France and British Airway _10_ the most. They each have seven planes.
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A student was going to spend his holiday in a cool mountain village. That evening he stayed at an inn (小旅馆) near the railway station (火车站). Before going to bed, he went to the boss of the inn and said, "Excuse me, sir. Will you please wake me up at a quarter to five tomorrow morning? I’ll take the five o’clock train."
"Oh, sorry, sir," the boss said in a hurry, "I’m afraid I can’t. I won’t be able to get up so early."
The student was disappointed (失望). When he began to return to his room, be stopped and asked, "Have you got an alarm-clock (闹钟)? Maybe it can help me."
"Wait a minute, then." The boss said and brought out an alarm-clock. "Here you are, sir."
"Thank you very much." The student said happily. But he found it was rusty (锈的) when he had a look at it. And it sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. He asked, "Will it ring in time?"
"I don’t know, either." said the boss, "But it doesn’t matter. You just give it a good shake at a quarter to five. And it will ring on time."
【小题1】 The student stayed at the inn because ____.
A.it was in the cool mountain village he was going to |
B.the boss of the inn was kind to him |
C.the boss could wake him up at the right time |
D.it was near the railway station |
A.the boss had the habit (习惯) of getting up early |
B.the boss had promised (答应) to help him in every possible way (千方百计地) |
C.he was afraid he would not wake up in time to catch the train |
D.it would take him a long time to walk to the railway station |
A.five o’clock | B.a quarter to five |
C.half past four | D.a quarter to six |
A.he had to buy an alarm-clock |
B.the boss refused to wake him up |
C.he would take another train |
D.he had to go to the village on foot |
A.clock would wake the student up in time |
B.student certainly missed his train the next morning |
C.alarm-clock was no use for the student |
D.student had the alarm-clock repaired (修理) |