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9．The house rent is expensive．I've got about half the space I had at home and I'm paying_____here．（　　）

	A．	as much three times		B．	much as three times
	C．	twice times much		D．	three times as much

分析这房租贵了，面积大约只有我家的一半，我却要付三倍的租金．

解答答案：D
倍数表示法：倍数+as+形容词+as+比较对象；题干中表示的是三倍，要用three times as much，后面省略了比较对象as at home．故选D．

点评倍数表示方法有三种：倍数+as+形容词+as+比较对象；倍数+比较级+than+比较对象；倍数+the size/length/weight/height of+比较对象．

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7．Everyone was inspired to hear the account by an elderly gentleman ________ he passed the
college entrance examination in his 70s．（　　）

17．---Did Linda see the traffic accident？
---No，no sooner ________ than it happened．（　　）

4．It was not until the couple arrived at the cinema ____ they found they had left the tickets in the office．（　　）

14．The electric revolution
The main reasons why electric cars are not more popular at present are their price and their relatively small range．
Existing battery systems only allow electric cars （33）to travel （travel） a distance of between 100and 160km．However，this distance may not be a problem for urban drivers．A recent Sydney study reported that 70 percent of journeys were 30 km or less，and recent data from the US suggests that 77 percent of trips （34）taken （take） there are 48 km or less．
An innovative company called Better Place is aiming to make electric cars an option for all drivers．It wants to see existing vehicles replaced by electric vehicles which，it says，offer a number of benefits．Firstly，they can be powered by renewable energy which produces zero emissions．（35）What is more important is that electric motors are more efficient and can convert more than 90 percent of power into movement．（36）To achieve （achieve） its aim，Better Place plans to use technology already available．
The plan is simple but revolutionary．It starts with the installation of a home charge point，and through this，the vehicle will be plugged into the electricity charge point whenever it is in the garage，typically at night．In the morning，with a fully charged battery，the car is capable of as much as 160 km in urban motoring conditions．（37）With the home charge point，the battery can be topped up by charge points at work and at supermarkets．
（38）The battery is linked to a control centre by smart technology inside the vehicle．Better Place can then ensure that the car is charged with electricity from renewable sources at the cheapest price．For （39）longer （long） trips，a navigation system directs the driver to the nearest switch station，（40）where the battery can be replaced with a charged one by a robot within a couple of minutes．

4．Teenagers at one German school are learning how to achieve happiness alongside subjects like maths and languages．
The class sit in a circle with their eyes shut and count from one to ten：one begins，the next voice comes from the far right，a third from the other side．The aim is to listen for an opportunity to shout the number without clashing（冲突） with another voice or leaving a pause．On the first try，most of the young Germans try to be first，while a few are too shy to join in．But by the fifth round，they develop a rhythm．
The message：giving other people space but also confidently claiming your own space is a requirement for social well-being．
While the game suggests a soft course for the less bright，the school says it is trying to make it affect even clever pupils．The Willy Hellpach School is the first in the nation to develop a happiness course，intended for 17-19-year-olds preparing for university-entrance exams．"The course isn't there to make you happy，"Ernst Fritz-Schubert，the school principal，warned the pupils who were taking the course，"but rather to help you discover the ways to become happy．"Cooking a meal together will be one of the class exercises，along with improving body language under the guidance of two professional actresses．
"In the first period，we had to each say something positive about another member of the class and about ourselves．No laughing at people or teasing，"said Fanny，17．
The message：self-esteem（自尊） improves happiness too．
The course is taught for three periods a week and will be graded as a part of overall assessment．Despite the happy subject，the pupils themselves insist it is no laughing matter．Max，18，says he is happy when he finds people who share his interests．Janina，18，says she needs to be fit to feel happy．
"We want to show how proper food or exercise can help in becoming happy，"the principal said．He hopes other schools in Germany will copy the idea．The school has attracted national interest since it announced its new course．

44．What would be the best title of this passageC？
A．Basic Things for Happiness． B．Tips to Be Happy．
C．Learning How to Be Happy． D．Laughing a Lot at School．
45．Why is the happiness course compared with maths and languagesA？
A．It has been developed as a school subject．
B．It is more important than traditional courses．
C．It is part of the research．
D．It arouses the students'interest．
46．Who are expected to take the course at the schoolD？
A．First year students．
B．All the students．
C．Students with mental problems．
D．Students who are going to graduate．
47．Which of the following is NOT true about the happiness classesC？
A．Students learn through playing games．
B．Cooking a meal together is a class activity．
C．Students are only made to be happy．
D．Students say positive things about each other．

1．遇到困难时，寻求帮助不代表你愚蠢．（mean）When（you are）in trouble/having problems/you meet with difficulties，asking for help doesn't mean you are dumb or stupid．．

8．Robots make me nervous-especially the ones which seem to think for themselves．I was embarrassed to admit this till I heard that Bill Gates，the founder of Microsoft，felt the same way．
Gates said in an interview with the social networking and news website Reddit："I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence．First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent．That should be positive if we manage well．A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern．"
Well，maybe I don't have to worry about my computer and kitchen equipment yet．After I use them I can always pull the plug．But in the future，machines might find a way to prevent us from switching them off．There's a terrible thought!
Maybe the problem with computers too clever for us is not that they are evil like some we've seen in sci-fi movies．What could put us in danger is that they might be too efficient．That's what philosopher Nick Bostrom from Oxford University believes．He says that machines are indifferent（漠然）to humans and in pursuit of their own goals，the destruction of people might be just additional damage．Bostrom gives us an example：A machine which might have as its only goal to produce as many paperclips as possible might look at human bodies as extra material for paperclips and go after you．Because it is，well，a machine，it would not take pity on you．
It's a good thing that American writer Isaac Asimov thought about how far robots can go and left us his three rules of robotics．They state that a robot may not hurt a human being or allow the human being to come to harm．
I'm glad my machines at home are"dumb"．All my cleaner wants to take over is the carpet in my living room．Let's hope they don't create an appliance which wants to take over the world!．

28．The author quoted Bill Gates'words in Paragraph 2in order to make the textB．
A．better-known B．more persuasive C．better-organized D．more interesting
29．An intelligent paperclip machine would harm us becauseC．
A．it is much cleverer than us
B．it would take over the world
C．it would see us just as material
D．it has the strong feeling of destroying us
30．How does the author feel about Isaac Asimov's rules of robotics？A
A．Optimistic． B．Sympathy． C．Disappointed．D．Regretful．
31．What does the text mainly focus on？C
A．The benefits of future robots．
B．The new applications of robots．
C．The concern for super intelligence．
D．The popularity of robots in the future．

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