题目内容
In Britain you’re allowed to drive a car when you’re seventeen. You have to get a special two-year driving license before you can start. When you’re learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren’t allowed to drive the car on the road alone. You don’t have to go to a driving school --- a friend can teach you. The person with you isn’t allowed to take money for the lesson unless he’s got a teacher’s license.
Before you’re allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don’t pass the test, you’re allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her fortieth test after 212 driving lessons! When you’ve passed your test, you don’t have to take it again, and you’re allowed to go on driving as long as you like. Britain’s oldest driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.
Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn’t have to take a test until 1935. On the early days of car driving, before 1878, cars weren’t allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.
【小题1】 A person can’t take money for driving lessons unless he __________.
| A．has learnt to drive in a driving school |
| B．has a full driving license |
| C．has a full license and a teacher’s license |
| D．is given a special two-year driving license |
| A．mustn’t drive his car, even though the car is fit for the road |
| B．is usually asked to drive on roads for some time |
| C．has to be examined(考查) only in car driving skills |
| D．must drive around for more than an hour |
| A．a few years later | B．right after the first test |
| C．a few weeks later | D．never |
| A．There is no limit (限制)to the age of an old man who drives a car. |
| B．One can take a driving test again and again until he passes it. |
| C．There was a speed limit to cars before 1878. |
| D．A car driver didn’t have to get a limit license until 1935. |
| A．Driving Licenses in Britain | B．Tests for Britain People |
| C．Driving Cars | D．Young Men’s Driving Licenses |
【小题1】 C
【小题2】 B
【小题3】 C
【小题4】 D
【小题5】 A
解析试题分析：本文主要是关于在英国如何考取驾照的。在英语十七岁以才允许开车，开车前必须要有一个特殊的已经取得两年的驾照。可以不去驾校而是让朋友教你，但其必须有驾照。取得驾照要通过一个考试，对于考试次数和年龄都没有限制。1935年之后，开始考试取得驾照，之前是不用的，甚至小孩子也可以开车。1878年之前，汽车限速时速不得超过4里。
【小题1】细节理解题。从The person with you isn’t allowed to take money for the lesson unless he’s got a teacher’s license.不允许和你在一起的人带钱，除非他取得了教师证，可知答案，故选C。
【小题2】细节理解题。从in the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a
few questions.在考试中，你必须开车半个小时左右，然后回答几个问题，可知答案，故选B。
【小题3】细节理解题。从 If you don’t pass the test, you’re allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to.如果你没通过考试，只要你想再参加考试，几周后你就可以再次参加，可知答案，故选C。
【小题4】细节理解题。从In 1970 a woman passed her fortieth test after 212 driving lessons.1970年一个妇女在上了212次驾驶课后考完了她的第四十次考试。Britain’s oldest driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.英国年龄最大的司机是一个1974年100岁的男人。before 1878, cars weren’t allowed to go faster than four miles an hour,1978年前，不允许汽车时速超过4里。得知答案选D。
【小题5】标题归纳题。 Driving Licenses in Britain英国的驾驶证， Tests for Britain People 英国的考试， Driving Cars开汽车， Young Men’s Driving Licenses年轻人的驾驶证，根据全文可知是在讲英国的驾驶证，故选A.
考点：社会历史类短文阅读。
阅读快车系列答案If you plan to take your pet on a trip，prepare ahead of time. At least two weeks before you leave，take your pet to a vet. See if he or she is tit for travel and ask if he or she should have any medicine before leaving. The vet may suggest certain pills for sickness or for calming the pet.
Some states or foreign countries have health laws that say animals must have certain injections(注射)before they can be allowed to enter. Your vet may have this information. You can also get help on the United States and Canadian laws from a book published by the Department of Agriculture which some libraries have. For information on foreign countries， check with their consulates (领事馆).You can also ask the airlines on which you are travelling.
Find out if the places where you plan to stay allow pets because many do not.
If you are going by plane or train，ask if pets are allowed. If they are，ask where they will be kept and who will care for them. The big bus lines in this country do not allow pets.
Choose your pet’s box carefully. Plastic boxes are better than cardboard or wooden ones because they can' be chewed(嚼碎).
If going by plane or train during warm weather，try to go in the cooler early morning or evening hours. Also try to avoid (避免)very cold winter weather because pets often suffer from cold. Even in your own car， be careful. Do not leave the animal inside with the windows closed because the car may become too hot or too cold.
【小题1】The main idea of this passage is to_________
| A．warn people to leave their pets at home |
| B．give general information about pet travel |
| C．tell people how to choose their pet boxes |
| D．tell people about foreign pet laws |
| A．doesn’t need to make any special plans |
| B．should stay at friends' homes |
| C．should make plans before leaving home |
| D．should travel by bus instead of plane |
| A．it costs too much to take pets on trips |
| B．some pets may not be well enough to travel |
| C．all train lines treat pets exactly the same |
| D．pets are welcome everywhere |
| A．A vet. | B．A pet owner. |
| C．A bus driver. | D．A pet shop owner |
Street Ping Pong— Ping!
Do you like table tennis? If you had travelled to cities in the UK like London or Birmingham last summer, you might have seen one of the dozens of free tables that were there as part of a project （项目） called Ping!.
What is Ping!?
Ping！is a three-year table tennis project. It has been running since 2010 and this year, 2012, is the final year. The idea is to put free table tennis tables in eight different towns in the UK for four weeks during the summer. Each table comes with its own bats and balls and is free to play. You can find the tables outdoors.
What does Ping! hope to achieve?
It would be great if Ping！helped find a new Olympic table tennis star but what Ping! really hopes. to achieve is just to get people playing and having fun together."Putting a ping pong table on the street gives people a chance to connect with other people," said Meera Sodha, Ping! Project Manager.
One of the towns that took part in the project was Hull, a city in England. Forty-five tables were put into the city. Jakob Adamski, an ESOL student learning. English, said, "I really enjoyed playing table tennis in the park. It was also a good way for me to practise my English and meet people."
【小题1】When did the Ping! project start?
| A．Last summer. | B．Last winter. |
| C．In 2010. | D．In 2012. |
| A．Choosing table tennis stars. |
| B．Holding table tennis matches. |
| C．Teaching people how to .play table tennis. |
| D．Putting free table tennis tables in some towns. |
| A．to help people practise English |
| B．to invite people to visit the UK cities |
| C．to get people to play and have fun together. |
| D．to encourage people to take part in the 2012 0lympics |
In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers(乘客). Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food or drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.
The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.
At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was a hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.
【小题1】The underlined word “adventurous” means _____________.
| A．奇怪的 | B．平淡的 | C．有趣的 | D．冒险的 |
| A．her flying experience | B．her university education |
| C．her nursing experience | D．her life attitudes |
| A．be a nurse | B．be married | C．be a mother | D．be young |
| A．the background of early flying pilots |
| B．the experience of flying passengers |
| C．the history of early flight attendants |
| D．the development of airplanes |
Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now look at the top seven for a second. Can you remember them in order?
Players at the World Memory Championships can. In fact, the 2002 champion (冠军), Andi, memorized the order of 1196 cards after looking at them for only an hour! And a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes!
In 1987, a Japanese man, Mr. Tomoyori, wanted to prove that his memory was the best in the world by remembering by heart pi (π), a number in math which starts 3.14159…This number never repeats itself or ends. He recited pi to 40,000 decimal places (小数位). It took the fifty-five-year-old man more than twelve hours to say the numbers, but he did it without making a mistake!
To remember pi, Mr. Tomoyori connected each number with a sound. He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds. In an interview after his achievement, he said, “I decided to go ahead and memorize the value of pi up to one thousand places. But it wasn’t easy – in fact, it took me three years. To get to 40,000 decimal places it took me about ten years.”
Unluckily for Mr. Tomoyori, his record was broken in 1995, when another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places.
【小题1】Why was Lara’s success special?
| A．She was just a little girl. | B．She was the 2002 champion. |
| C．She was from Germany. | D．She remembered more words. |
| A．He found pi easy to remember. |
| B．His memory was the best in the world. |
| C．He used stories to help remember words. |
| D．He only made one mistake while saying pi. |
| A．Andi. | B．Lara. | C．Mr. Goto. | D．Mr. Tomoyori. |
In a small village in England about 150 years ago, a mail coach (邮车) was standing on the street. Around the coach many people were talking to one another about it. Mail coach did not come to that village so often in those days. People had to pay a lot of money to get a letter. The person who sent the letter did not have to pay. The person who got the letter had to pay the postage (邮资). “Here?s a letter for Miss Alice Brown,” said the mailman. Everyone turned to a girl of about eighteen who was standing by the coach. “I?m Alice Brown,” she said in a low voice. The mailman gave her the letter. Alice looked at the envelope for a minute, and then handed it back to the mailman. “I’m sorry I can?t take it,” she said. “I don?t have enough money to pay the postage. ” The people standing around were very sorry for the girl. They were silent for a while. Then a gentleman came up to the mailman and paid the postage for Alice’s letter. When the gentleman gave her the letter, she said with a smile, “Oh, thank you very much, sir. This letter is from the young man I’m going to marry. His name is Tom. He went to London to look for work. He has to get enough money for our marriage (结婚). I’ve waited a long time for this letter, but now don’t need it. I don’t have to open the envelope because there is nothing inside. ” “Really?” the gentleman said in surprise. “How do you know that?” “He told me that he would put some signs on the envelope. Look, sir, this cross in the corner means that he is well, and this circle means he has found work. That’s very good news. ” The gentleman was Sir Rowland Hill. He did not forget Alice and her letter. “The postage to be paid by the receiver has to be changed,” he said to himself. He thought and thought for many years. At last he had a good plan. “The postage has to be much lower,” he said. “What about a penny (便士) for a letter? And the person who sends the letter pays the postage. He has to buy a stamp and put it on the envelope. ” “A good idea!” people said when they heard of his plan. The Government decided to adopt (采纳) the plan. The first postage stamp was put out in 1840. It was called the “Penny Black”. It had a picture of the Queen on it.
【小题1】The first postage stamp was made ________.
| A．in England | B．in America | C．by Alice | D．in 1910 |
| A．she did not know whose letter it was |
| B．the letter had already told her what she wanted to know |
| C．she could not pay the postage |
| D．the gentleman promised to pay the postage for her |
| A．the people around her felt sorry for her |
| B．the people thought that the girl was too poor |
| C．none of them wanted to pay the postage for her |
| D．the people was angry with the girl |
| A．Tom had told her what the signs meant before leaving for London |
| B．Alice was clever and could guess the meaning of the signs |
| C．Alice had put the signs on the envelope herself |
| D．Tom had put the signs as Alice had told him to |
| A．the government | B．Sir Rowland Hill | C．Alice Brown | D．Tom |
For many years, no one could communicate with people who had been born without hearing. These deaf people were not able to use a spoken language.
But, beginning in the 1700s, the deaf were taught a special language. Using the language, they could share thoughts and ideas with others. The language they used was a language without sound. It was a sign language.
How did this sign language work? The deaf were taught to make certain movements using their hands, faces, and bodies. These movements stood for things and ideas. People might move their forefingers across their lips. This meant, “You are not telling the truth.” They might tap their chins with three fingers. This meant, “my uncle”.
The deaf were also taught to use a finger alphabet(字母表). They used their fingers to make the letters of the alphabet. In this way, they spelled out words. Some deaf people could spell out words at a speed of 130 words per minute.
Sign language and finger spelling are not used as much as they once were. Today the deaf are taught to understand others by watching their lips. They are taught how to speak.
【小题1】In the 1700s, the deaf were taught __________.
| A．to speak | B．to watch others |
| C．a sign language | D．a spoken language |
| A．the finger next to the thumb (拇指) | B．three fingers |
| C．a language | D．hands |
| A．how the deaf communicate | B．learning to spell |
| C．teaching the deaf to speak | D．writing sign languages |
| A．Deaf people draw signs |
| B．Deaf people can’t use their fingers. |
| C．Many deaf people now can speak |
| D．Deaf people speak with their fingers. |
下列字母中，都是两笔完成的是____.
| A．r , t | B．p , q | C．d , k | D．f , j |