阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。(请把【答案】填在答卷上)
What is red but green, open but closed and old but new? Answer: London’s new double-decker buses.
The traditional red double-deckers are    61   symbol of London. Their symbolic status was settled in 2008 when one bus made the longer-than-usual trip to Beijing    62   (collect) a very special passenger: the Olympic Flame.
Now a new bus design    63   (uncover) and it has been exciting Londoners.
The new bus uses more efficient green technology and has two staircases and an open platform,    64   (make) people able to hop on and hop off. It also has a unique design for the front end, which gives it an innovative(新颖的)look.
Despite(尽管)   65   innovations, the design is not all new. Its outward appearance takes after London’s faithful old double-decker, the Route master.
In July 2008 a    66   (compete) was launched by the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, to design a new Route master bus for the capital. There were over 700 entries,  67  several designers jointly winning the £25,000 (244,000 Yuan) prize.
The new double-deckers, ___68___ have three doors to speed up boarding, are expected to be in service in 2012.
Mr. Johnson said: “This iconic new part of our transport system is not only beautiful, but also has a green heart beating beneath its___69___ (attract) appearance.”
He expects cities around the globe to be “beside themselves with envy” for ___70__ he described as a "stunning red symbol" of 21st-century London.

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第三部分:阅读理解

What happens to old school buses when they can no longer safely carry kids to school? Most go to waste factories to be changed into pieces of metal. But a few of the old vehicles (车辆) find new lives in the center of Africa. Most of those buses end up on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Kinshasa buses are that yellow color, which makes them stand out (突出) in the city’s heavy traffic, but the buses don’t look at all as they did in the United States. In Kinshasa their taillights(尾灯) are almost all missing or broken. They don’t obey traffic rules and often race around the city very fast. The buses compete with motorcycles, cars, trucks, and other vehicles for space on the road. They make loud sounds when moving, and they are packed with people carrying loads of goods, such as fish, milk, beans and onions.

However, Kinshasa business people love the old, yellow buses, which they buy from American companies, because the vehicles are strong, reliable (可依靠的) and inexpensive. A used bus sells for about $2,000 in Congo. A new bus is more expensive. In the United States, a new school bus with all its lights working costs about $80,000.

The fare (票价) to travel across the city is usually about 30 US cents. “Transport is a big problem in Kinshasa,” says passenger Bruce Kingambo. “But the yellow buses help people here get around.”

56.The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means “In the center of Africa some old US     school buses can be_________.”

A.useful                     B.expensive                C.free                        D.new

57.Before the school buses leave America for Congo, they_________

A.have broken taillights

B.don’t obey the traffic rules and move at full speed

C.carry many people and goods

D.don’t compete with other vehicles

58.How many used buses can you buy in Congo for the price of a completely new school bus     in the USA?

A.10.                         B.20.                         C.30.                         D.40.

59.The passage mainly tells us _________

A.how to use old school buses

B.about new lives for old school buses

C.to try to take old school buses

D.how to drive old school buses

 

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