题目内容
The initial tunnels were just ___________ the surface of the ground. People were transported in carriages, which were ___________ the narrow tunnels by steam engines.
A.under, broken through B.below, put through
C.of , gone through D.beneath, pulled through
D
【解析】
试题分析:考察介词辨析和动词短语辨析。Under在…正下面(不接触);below在水平下方;beneath在…下面(有接触面);break through突破;put through完成,经历;go through浏览;经历;pull through渡过;经过;句意:最初的隧道就在地面的下方。人们坐在车厢里被运输,使用蒸汽机经过狭窄的隧道。根据句意什么名字D正确。
考点:考察词汇辨析
点评:词汇是学习语言的重要环节。要掌握好英语,记忆相当数量的词汇是必不可少的。英语中的每一个单词,不仅表达一定的概念,具有一定的词汇意义,而且在语音、拼法、语法等方面都有自己的特点。在学生学习英语的过程中,单词、词组记忆是基础。解答这类题目,关键是理解题干意思以及各选项词组的意思。

Finding the right school for your child is a process. You will want to read about the school, talk to any friends who are involved in the school and, most important of all, visit the school.
The first step in finding out about Indian Creek is to request an information packet. We will be happy to send you a packet containing a brochure(小册子), the fee structure and an application. The packet should answer most of your general questions about the school.
In order to get a true sense of Indian Creek School, you should come for an Admission Tour, which includes a personal meeting focusing on your child, a tour of the building and the classrooms, and a discussion of the curriculum(课程).
This visit is no less important if the child for whom you are seeking admission is a teenager than if he or she is a three-year-old one. Every school has a different “school climate.” If you visit two or three schools, you will notice that each “feels” different. You know your child best and you will quickly develop a sense of whether a school is the right match or not.
●The initial point of entry for Indian Creek Students is at the pre-kindergarten level for three year olds.
●Children must be three years old by August 31st.
●We also have major points of entry from grade six to grade nine. At each of these levels, we open new sections and accept students in addition to those moving up from our own lower grades.
●There are scattered(零散的) openings available throughout the program due to attrition(学生流失). Once an opening occurs, students spend a day at ICS, part of which includes admission testing.
【小题1】 You can NOT get to know about ICS by ________.
A.getting an information packet |
B.taking an admission tour |
C.asking friends involved in ICS |
D.taking an admission test |
A.having a meeting with the children |
B.decide on the design of the classrooms |
C.talk with the school about the courses |
D.choose the weather suitable for study |
A.A boy who will be 3 years old by July. |
B.A fifth grader originally studying in ICS. |
C.An eighth grader from another school. |
D.A fourth grader from another school. |
A.teachers |
B.parents |
C.kindergarteners |
D.school kids |
As motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters traveling by “skycar”.
These could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. “When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that’s hard to use,” said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways-and prevent total pandemonium(吵杂狂乱的喧闹)-if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.
“The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,” said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing’s research and development arm. “But we’re trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy(散开) a fleet of these.”
Past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(£55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.
Although it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot’s functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the “hub-and-spoke(中心辐射型)” model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large “hub” airports and then on to secondary flights to “spoke” airports near their final destinations.
【小题1】The best title for this text would be .
A.Developing Skycars | B.The Traffic Jams in the Sky |
C.How to Guide Flying Cars in the Sky | D.What Flying Cars Will Look Like |
A.see | B.expect | C.think | D.announce |
A.how to fly out of regional airports |
B.how to prevent the disorder of the airways |
C.how to reduce expenses and the vehicle’s weight |
D.how to fly the skycars to enter skies |
A.make big flying cars |
B.work out the plan——how to transform small plane travel |
C.develop a new kind of small plane different from the traditional one |
D.build a new kind of small plane with road-driving abilities |