1．Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert.seeking a million in prize ——青夏教育精英家教网——

1．Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert，seeking a million in prize money．To win，they had to finish the 142-mile race in less than 10hours．Teams and watchers knew there might be no winner at all，because these vehicles were missing a key part-drivers．
DARPA，the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency，organized the race as part of a push to develop robotic vehicles for future battlefields．But the Grand Challenge，as it was called，just proved how difficult it is to get a car to speed across an unfamiliar desert without human guidance．One had its brake lock up in the starting area，Another began by throwing itself onto a wall．Another got tied up by bushes near the road after 1.9miles．
One turned upside down．One took off in entirely the wrong direction and had to be disabled by remote （远距离的） consol．One went a little more than a mile and rushed into a fence； another managed to go for six miles but stuck on a rock．The"winner，"if there was any，reached 7.8miles before it ran into a long，narrow hole，and the front wheels caught on fire．
"You get a lot of respect for natural abilities of the living things，"says Reinhold Behringer，who helped design two of the ear-size vehicles for a company called Sci-Autonics，"Even ants （蚂蚁） can do all these tasks effortlessly．It's very hard for us to put these abilities into our machines．"
The robotic vehicles，though with necessary modern equipment such as advanced computers and GPS guidance，had trouble figuring out fast enough the blocks ahead that a two-year-old human recognizes immediately．Sure，that very young child，who has just only learned to walk，may not think to wipe apple juice off her face，but she already knows that when there's a cookie in the kitchen she has to climb up the table，and that when she gets to the cookie it will taste good．She is more advanced，even months old，than any machine humans have designed．

68．DARPA organized the race in order toD．
A．raise money for producing more robotic vehicles
B．push the development of vehicle industry
C．train more people to drive in the desert
D．improve the vehicles for future wars
69．From the passage we know"robotic vehicles"are a kind of machines thatD．
A．can do effortlessly whatever tasks living things can
B．can take part in a race across 142miles with a time limit
C．can show off their ability to turn themselves upside down
D．can move from place to p1ace without being driven by human beings
70．In the race，the greatest distance one robotic vehicle covered wasA．
A．about eight miles B．six miles C．almost two miles D．about one mile
71．In the last paragraph，the writer implies that there is a long way to goC．
A．for a robotic vehicle to finish a 142-mile race without any difficulties
B．for a little child who has just learned to walk to reach the cookie on the table
C．for a robotic vehicle to deal with a simple problem that a little child can solve
D．for a little child to understand the importance of wiping apple juice off its face．

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A．busy sightseers                B．conference travelers
C．fresh trainees                 D．event consultants
61．Which of the following is true according to the text？B
A．It takes you 20minutes to walk here from Central London．
B．The Bedford Swan Hotel was built in the late 18th century．
C．The hotel is located sixty kilometres from Luton Airport．
D．Guests can get professional service by offering extra tips．
62．From the advertisement above we can learn that Bedford Swan HotelA．
A．can serve up to 250delegates        B．winds through Bedfordshire
C．can provide personalized billing    D．offers no car parking service
63．The special discount will be given ifD．
A．a delegate of 8apply for 24-hour-meeting rooms
B．guests pay£35.00per person for the rooms they live in
C．you book a purpose-built meeting room on a special day
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19．John H．Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas city in 1918．His father died in an accident when John was six．He was reaching the high school age，but his hometown offered no high school for blacks．
Fortunately he had a strong-willed （意志坚强的） caring mother．John remembered that his mother told him many times，"Son，you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe．"She told him not to depend on others，including his mother．"You have to earn success，"she said．"All the people who work hard don't succeed，but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard．"
These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education．She also knew that believing and hard work don't mean everything．So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son，who was then 15，to Chicago．
Chicago in 1933was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for．John's mother and stepfather could not find work．But here John could go to school，and here he learned the power of words-as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School．His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks．
While others discouraged him，John's mother offered him more words to live by．"Nothing beats a failure but a try．"She also let him pawn（典当）her furniture to get the﹩500 he needed to start the Negro magazine．It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful．He always keeps his mother's words in mind．"Son，failure is not in your vocabulary!"
Now John H．Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America-worth﹩150 million．

56．John's mother decided to move to Chicago becauseC．
A．his father died when John was very young
B．life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown
C．John needed more education badly
D．there were no schools for Negroes in their hometown
57．John's motherD
A．didn't believe in or depend on others
B．thought one could be whatever one wanted to be
C．believed one would succeed without working hard
D．thought no one could succeed without working hard
58．The underlined sentence"Nothing beats a failure but a try．"meansD．
A．if you try，you would succeed
B．a failure is difficult to beat，even if you try
C．a try is always followed by a failure
D．no failure can be beaten unless you try
59．The story mainly tells usB．
A．how John H．Johnson became successful
B．about the mental （心理的） support John's mother gave him
C．about the importance of a good education
D．about the key to success for blacks．

18．The farm grows various kinds of crops，_______ wheat，corn，cotton and rice．（　　）

17．什么时候你方便去那里？（convenient）When is it convenient for you to go there？．

16．-Congratulations!You've got a chance to go abroad!
-_________．（　　）

15．I will help you ________ I don't sleep for a night．（　　）

14．-Listen!It's raining．
--Oh，really？I ________ it at all．（　　）

	A．	didn't realize		B．	don't realize
	C．	haven't realized		D．	hadn't realized

13． these experiments were successfully completed would we think of going into humans．（　　）

12．You'd better not _______ these two sentences，otherwise the readers cannot fully understand you．（　　）

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