About five years ago, an American electrical engineer named Scott Brusaw and his wife Julie came up with the idea of putting solar panels (控制板) on the ground rather than the roof. Then they began to develop the Solar Roadway. The Solar Roadway is an intelligent road that provides clean renewable energy using power from the sun while providing safer driving conditions, along with power and data delivery. They predict that the Solar Roadway will pay for itself through the generation of electricity along with other forms of income and that the same money that is being used to build and resurface current roads can be used to build the Solar Roadways.

Each Solar Road Panel measures roughly 4 meters by 4 meters and contains a microprocessor (微处理器) that monitors and controls the panel, while communicating with neighboring panels and the vehicles traveling overhead. The inventors suggest that this provides a communications device every 4 meters on every road which could be used for example to warn drivers of cars which are moving across a centre line and various other speed control problems. The top of the Solar Road panels is made of super-strong glass that would offer vehicles the tractions (抓地力) they need.

According to the inventors, the Solar Roadway creates and carries clean renewable electricity and therefore electric vehicles can be recharged at any conveniently located rest stop, or at any business that has paved Solar Road Panels in their parking lots.

The inventors say their Solar Roadway has many functions and advantages from main roads to driveways, parking lots, bike paths, sidewalks and runways. The Federal Highway Administration has given Brusaw $100,000 to develop the invention and Brusaw hopes to build a smart-road parking lot in the coming spring .

1.In the inventors’ opinion, the Solar Roadway ___________________________ .

A. is too expensive to build at present

B. costs no more money than current roads

C. can provide as many data as present computers

D. will bring them a large sum of money

2.The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refers to .

A. the panels B. the inventors

C. the researchers D. the vehicles

3.It can be inferred from the text that ____________________________.

A. the Solar Roadway has already been put into use

B. $100,000 is only enough to build a smart-road parking lot

C. the Solar Roadway is not available for gas-powered cars

D. future electric vehicles can be charged anytime and anywhere

4.What can be the best title for the text?

A. Solar-powered smart road of the future

B. The great changes on the roadway

C. The influence the Solar Roadway has on people

D. The Solar Road—a much faster road

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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A, B, C, D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Long ago, there were a mother and a son living a hard life in a small house. The mother worked ______ every day, but the family was always ______.

One day, her son ______ his friend's bag. "Mom, what do you ______ of this bag?" His mother praised her son rather than _____ him. "It looks ______!"

The next time, he stole a(an) ______. She praised him again and she put it on.

His desire got ______ each day. He stole ______ and brought them to his mother. "How beautiful!" This time, she ______ and kissed her son.

Then, because he was ______ by his mother, he started to steal even more ______ things. One day, the police ______ him. Before putting him in ______, he ______ the police to meet his mother.

"You should not have done that. What's the matter with you? " The woman cried as soon as she saw her son. Her son ______. "If you had given me a(an) ______ like that when I stole the first bag, I could not have become a thief."

She felt ______ as she looked at her son heading to prison. "If I only could turn back time, I would have punished him ______." She ______ that she always praised him, whatever he did.

1.A. carelesslyB. diligentlyC. happilyD. sadly

2.A. weakB. wealthyC. healthyD. poor

3.A. broughtB. gotC. stoleD. saw

4.A. thinkB. hearC. dreamD. inform

5.A. lovingB. punishingC. calmingD. aiding

6.A. terribleB. uglyC. greatD. old

7.A. umbrellaB. horseC. overcoatD. oil lamp

8.A. smallerB. biggerC. louderD. brighter

9.A. shoesB. glassesC. vasesD. jewels

10.A. kickedB. huggedC. staredD. stood

11.A. encouragedB. educatedC. hatedD. forced

12.A. expensiveB. beautifulC. usefulD. colorful

13.A. searchedB. suspectedC. caughtD. ignored

14.A. dangerB. hospitalC. prisonD. shelter

15.A. advisedB. requiredC. demandedD. begged

16.A. repliedB. requestedC. doubtedD.remembered

17.A. lessonB. admirationC. feelingD.determination

18.A. shockedB. hopelessC. satisfiedD. homeless

19.A. slightlyB. dailyC. regularlyD. severely

20.A. remindedB. repeatedC. recalledD. regretted

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