At present, air pollution may be the greatest problem and people all over the world pay attention to it. The Chinese government has done a lot to deal with it. One of them is to produce electric vehicles（机动车）,especially electric cars. China plans to put at least half a million electric cars on the road by 2015.

  Electric cars are hard to sell. Even with the help of the government, there are still many problems. So it isn’t easy to get more people to use electric cars. One reason is that the electric car is very expensive. A Shenzhen driver said that an electric car cost 80 percent more than the Santana(桑塔纳). Another reason is that we haven’t built enough charging stations(充电站). Sometimes when an electric car uses up its electricity, it can not work at all. Finally, when ther is something wrong with electric cars, drivers can not find shops to repair them easily.

  Besides China, the United States, Japan and Germany also do their best to create electric vehicles. But China has done more than them.

 52. Why does the Chinese government want to u se electric cars?

A. Because they are good for the environment.

B. Because they are very safe.

C. Because they are very expensive.

D. Because they can carry more people.

 53. People prefer to more money

A. it can make more money

B. it is more beautiful

C. it is can run faster

D. it is cheaper

 54. According to the passage, if a Santana is 70,000 yuan, what is the price of an electric car?

A. 56,000 yuan     B. 126,000 yuan     C. 80,000 yuan      D. 50,000 yuan

 55. There are        reasons why electric cars are difficult to sell in the passage.

A. two      B. three      C. four      D. five

 56. Which country is not mentioned in the passage? It’s       .

A. Germany     B. the USA     C. France      D. Japan

　　Terry Fox had cancer(癌). It left him with only one leg. Yet he became famous for running. He ran with an artificial (人造的) leg to raise(集资) money to fight cancer. His plan was to run all the way across Canada, from St. John's to Vancouver. He would cross the water by boat. Terry started out in St. John's in April, 1981, and made it to the halfway point.

　　Terry had to give up the run at Thunder Bay when doctors found cancer in his lungs. He died on June 28, when he was 22 years old. He raised more money for the Canadian Cancer Society than he dreamed possible－over $24 million.

　　This map shows the route that Terry Fox planned to run and the part of the route he was able to cover.

　　To follow Terry's run on a map, you must be able to find directions (方向) . The four main directions on a map are north, south, east, and west. Between the four main directions are four “halfway” directions. They are northeast (NE), northwest (NW), southeast (SE) , southwest (SW) . These directions appear on the map's compass rose. Find the compass rose at the bottom of the map .

　　Some maps use only an arrow pointing north. When you know which direction is north, you can figure out that south is below. West is to the left. East is to the right.

1．Terry started his run in St. John's on Canada's ________ coast.

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2．Terry planned to run from ________ .

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3．Montreal is ________ of St. John's.

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4．The city that is west of Thunder Bay is ________ .

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5．From Winnipeg, the direction to Toronto is ________ .

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