【题目】阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的适当形式。

By 2050,Futurologists(未来学家) predict that life will probably be very different 【1】_____ 2050.

TV channels will have disappeared. 【2】________, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program【3】______(direct) to the television.Today, we can use the World Wide Web 【4】_______read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away.By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, 【5】______ books will come to us by computer.

Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast.Cars will have computers to control the speed and there won’t【6】_____any accidents.Today, many cars have computers 【7】_______tell drivers exactly where they are.By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination.Space planes will take people halfway around the world 【8】_____ 2 hours.Today, 【9】_______United States Space Shuttle can go into space and 【10】_____ on Earth again.By 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just 2 hours.

Robots will have 【11】______(place) people in factories.Many factories already use robots.Big companies prefer robots—they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a 【12】______.By 2050, we will see robots everywhere—in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes.

Medical technology will have conquered many 【13】________.Today, there is equipment that connects directly to the brain【14】___ (help) people hear.By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear【15】______

【题目】I woke up late and had breakfast in a hurry. I had never been late and didn’t want my boss to be unsatisfied. However, it seemed that day wasn’t a lucky one for me from the very second I left my flat. The moment I wanted to rush downstairs one of my stiletto heels (细高跟) broke. I had to return to change my red shoes. I also had to change my purse and other little things that I had tried to match with the shoes. I was sure I would be late for work.

On my way to work I had to wait for over half an hour because of an accident. I had no choice but to wait. I phoned my boss and he told me that it was no problem, but he needed me for the meeting with the Japanese clients (客户) that morning.

Finally, I arrived at the office one hour later. I had to keep calm and be fresh for the meeting to make the clients sure that our plan was the best for their future commercial (商业的) project. However, I left the plan I had made the night before at home and was going to present (介绍) it to the clients. I was about to get angry when I realized that I had a draft (草稿) of it in my office. At last, the presentation came to an end and it turned out to be a success. But I have to say that I had a terrible day, full of incidents (事件).

【1】Which of the following is NOT the reason of the writer being late for her work?

A. She got up late in the morning.

B. She changed her purse and other little things.

C. One of her shoe heels broke.

D. She had a traffic accident on the way to work.

【2】According to the passage, what could we learn about the writer?

A. Her boss was very angry with her.

B. She left her plan on the bus.

C. She often arrived at her office on time.

D. She was nervous at the meeting.

【3】According to the passage, which is the correct order of the following events?

a. She presented the plan to the clients.

b. One of her stiletto heels broke.

c. She arrived at the office.

d. She phoned her boss.

e. She tried to match her purse with her red shoes.

A. beacd B. bedca C. dceab D. edcba

【4】Which old saying could be used to describe the writer’s incidents?

A. Failure is the mother of success.

B. A good beginning makes a good ending.

C. Where there is a will, there is a way.

D. One trouble never comes alone.

【题目】阅读填空(共2小题)

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

You’re probably most familiar with college dictionaries, often called abridged dictionaries.Although abridged means ―shortened, these dictionaries contain more than 150,000 entries and provide detailed definitions that are sufficient for most college students and general users.

【1】_________.Webster’s New Riverside University Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language are college dictionaries.

Unabridged dictionaries contain as many as 500,000 entries and provide detailed definitions and extensive word histories (etymologies词源).【2】_________.Unabridged dictionaries include the Oxford English Dictionary and the Random House Dictionary of the English Language.

【3】_________.Some entries also include plurals and capitalized forms, synonyms,antonyms, and derivatives.Americanisms and etymologies may be provided along with usage notes, cross-references, and idioms. If you prefer using the dictionary on a computer, you can obtain CD-ROM versions of many major dictionaries.In addition, you can access numerous dictionaries, such as WWWebster’s Dictionary, on the Internet.【4】__________.Online dictionaries also offer additional features, such as word games, language tips, and amusing facts about words.Some online dictionary services allow you to access numerous dictionaries, both general and specialized, in on search.

【5】_________.For example, there are dictionaries for the specialized vocabularies of law, computer technology, and medicine.In addition, there are dictionaries of synonyms, cliche’s, slang, and even regional expressions, such as the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE).There are also dictionaries of foreign languages, famous people’s names, literary characters’ names and place names.

A.Specialized dictionaries provide in-depth information about a certain field.

B.These dictionaries, possibly in several volumes and mostly found in libraries, are excellent sources for scholarly inquiries.

C.But dictionaries these days do not judge how a word should be used.They simply describe how people use them, and Random House, for example, have free online services.

D.Online dictionaries allow you to enter a search word to see a definition, and sometimes even an illustration.

E.College dictionaries also contain separate lists of abbreviations, biographical and

geographical names, foreign words and phrases, and tables of measures.

F.A dictionary entry has many elements: multiple definitions, syllabication, preferred spelling and pronunciation, and part-of-speech labels.

G.Many of the 10,000 new words in the Eleventh Edition of the Collegiate Dictionary involve computers.

【题目】阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项。

According to the US government, wind farms off the Pacific coast could produce 900 gigawatts of electricity every year.Unfortunately, the water there is far too deep for even the tallest windmills to touch bottom.An experiment under way off the coast of Norway, however, could help put them anywhere.

The project, called Hywind, is the world’s first large-scale deepwater wind turbine (涡轮发电机).Although it uses a fairly standard 152-ton, 2.3-megawatt turbine, Hywind represents totally new technology.The turbine will be fixed 213 feet above the water on a floating spar, a technology Hywind’s creator, the Norwegian company StatoilHydro, has developed recently.The steel spar, which is filled with stones and goes 328 feet below the sea surface, will be tied to the ocean floor by three cables ; these will keep the spar stable and prevent the turbine from moving up and down in the waves.Hywind’s stability in the cold and rough sea would prove that even the deepest corners of the ocean are suitable for wind power.If all goes according to the plan, the turbine will start producing electricity six miles off the coast of southwestern Norway as early as September.

To produce electricity on a large scale, a commercial wind farm will have to use bigger turbines than Hywind does, but it’s difficult enough to balance such a large turbine so high on a floating spar in the middle of the ocean.To make that turbine heavier, the whole spar’s center of gravity must be moved much closer to the ocean’s surface.To do that, the company plans to design a new kind of wind turbine, one whose gearbox (变速箱) sits at sea level rather than behind the blades.

Hywind is a test run, but the benefits for perfecting floating wind-farm technology could be extremely large.Out at sea, the wind is often stronger and steadier than close to shore, where all existing offshore windmills are planted.Deep-sea farms are invisible from land, which helps overcome the windmill-as-eyesore objection.If the technology catches on, it will open up vast areas of the planet’s surface to one of the best low-carbon power sources available.

【1】The Hywind project uses totally new technology to ensure the stability of_________.

A.the cables which tie the spar to the ocean floor

B.the spar which is floating in deep-sea water

C.the blades driven by strong and steady sea wind

D.the stones filled in the spar below the sea surface

【2】To balance a bigger turbine high on a floating spar, a new type of turbine is to be designed with its gearbox sitting_________.

A.on the sea floor

B.on the spar top

C.at sea level

D.behind the blades

【3】Wide applications of deepwater wind power technology can_________.

A.solve the technical problems of deepwater windmills

B.make financial profits by producing more turbines

C.settle the arguments about environmental problems

D.explore low-carbon power resources available at sea

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