I really dislike cars, and driving in general. Now, the technology of the World Wide Web allows me to complain to the entire world. So bear with me as I detail my reasons…

   Driving is wasting time-I don’t learn anything. I won’t be a better person when I get in a car.

   Sitting in a car is bad for you. Human bodies need to move, and poorly designed car seats only make our bodies hurt more.

   Driving demands all your attention. Any small diversion (分散)of attention, like changing the radio station or yawning (打哈欠), can result in death. Who wants to die for a yawn?

   Cars pollute. They make walking down the street a terrible experience.

   Cars take away much of my freedom. I have to feed it gas and oil regularly, etc. It seems that I’m the slave of the car. Not to mention the thousands of dollars per year to keep it running.

   Have you ever noticed the huge part of society’s resources that goes to service the car industry? Look at the number of car commercials on TV and on the radio. Look at the vast amount of land space given to gas stations, repair shops, roads, parking lots, etc. Look at the huge amount of time people spend driving and serving their cars.

   __________________. Whenever someone dies in a plane crash, there’s a huge public outcry(大声疾呼) for the FAA (联邦航运局) to spend millions of dollars pouring over regulations, investigation, etc. Yet every year 40,000 people die in car crashes in the US alone! And no one seems to care. What’s going on here? How have we been so completely cheated?

1.What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

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2.Whom did the writer expect to be the first readers of this passage?( Please answer within 10 words.)

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3.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 8 with a proper sentence. (Within 10 words.)

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4.Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

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5.Why does the writer dislike cars and driving? (Please answer within 30 words.)

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阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

I really dislike cars, and driving in general. Now, the technology of the World Wide Web allows me to complain to the entire world. So bear with me as I detail my reasons. . .

Driving is wasting time—I don’t learn anything. I won’t be a better person when I get in a car.

Sitting in a car is bad for you. Human bodies need to move, and poorly designed car seats only make our bodies hurt more.

Driving demands all your attention. Any small diversion (分散)of attention, like changing the radio station or yawning (打哈欠), can result in death. Who wants to die for a yawn?

Cars pollute the air. They make walking down the street a terrible experience.

Cars take away much of my freedom. I have to feed it gas and oil regularly, etc. It seems that I’m the slave of the car. Not to mention the thousands of dollars per year to keep it running.

Have you ever noticed the huge part of society’s resources that goes to the car industry service? Look at the number of car commercials on TV and on the radio. Look at the vast amount of land space given to gas stations, repair shops, roads, parking lots, etc. Look at the huge amount of time people spend driving and serving their cars.

______________________. Whenever someone dies in a plane crash, there’s a huge public outcry(大声疾呼) for the FAA (联邦航运局) to spend millions of dollars pouring over regulations, investigation, etc. Yet every year 40, 000 people die in car crashes in the US alone!  And no one seems to care. What’s going on here? How have we been so completely cheated?

1. What is the best title of the passage? (No more than 10 words)

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2. Whom does the writer expect to be the first readers of this passage? ( No more than 10 words)

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3. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 8 with a proper sentence. (No more than 10 words)

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4. How many reasons are mentioned in the passage? （No more than 2 words）

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5. Why does the writer dislike cars and driving? (No more than 30 words)

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阅读理解

　　The sun was hot. A small crowd of staring children had gathered round the car. They were very small and rather charming, with their thick black hair and enormous dark eyes and thumb sucking curiosity. The place seemed dead, with an afternoon deadness. No one was working, if there was a cafe it was only some dark room in one of the cottages; and I saw no women. Apart from the children, the skinny hens scratching, and a miserable-looking donkey with rope sores, the only creature moving was an old man who sat in the sun smoking a pipe. He could, indeed, hardly be said to be moving. He seemed to be smoking almost in his sleep, and his eyes turned up slowly and half blind as Hamid greeted him and asked him who would sell us the fruit that hung still on the lovely trees.

　　The old man waited a full half minute while the question wound its way through his brain, then he removed the pipe from his mouth, turned his head round slightly, spat into the dust, and said something we could not understand. Then he went on staring at nothing and the pipe went back into his mouth.

　　Hamid smiled at me over his shoulder, said:“I won't be a moment,” and disappeared into a dark doorway.

　　I wandered across the street, the children following. At the edge of the road was a six-foot wall holding up, it seemed, the piece of flat land on which the village was built. Below this were the terraced fields where I had been the rider on the brown horse. The sunflowers were too tall and too thickly planted to allow many other flowers to grow, but there were a few blue flowers at the foot of the wall, and a red one like a small rose.

1．The second sentence in the first paragraph implies, but not directly says, that ________.

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A．the children were small and charming

B．the children had thick and black hair

C．the children's eyes were big and dark

D．the children were showing quiet interest to the car

2．In the village, the writer guessed that ________.

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A．there might be several cafes

B．there were no cafes in the main street

C．there might be a cafe in one of the cottages

D．there were no cafes at all

3．The old man was not very helpful, because he ________.

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A．was asleep

B．wanted to sell the fruit

C．did not answer clearly

D．would not stop smoking

4．The last paragraph tells us that ________.

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A．the village was enclosed by a wall

B．the village was on level ground

C．the village was on a small slope

D．the village was among the sunflowers

Dear Susan,

I'm very gladly to hear you are coming to visit me the next Friday. Unfortunate, I won't be able to meet you at the airport although I have classes in the afternoon. You won't find difficult to get to the city center. The airport bus leaves every 30 minute and will take you rightly to the Friendship Hotel. My classes will be over by then or I will pick you up there. I will take you to a hot pot restaurant for dinner and we'll talk with our plan for the weekend over dinner. Having a pleasant trip and see you Friday.

Yours,

Zhang Ming

On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the New York railway station, playing his violin. The music was so great that many people stopped to put some money into the hat of the young man.
The next day, the young artist came to the same place, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it under his hat. Then he began to play the violin. It sounded more pleasant than ever.
Soon he was surrounded with people who were attracted by the words on that paper. It said, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to claim(认领) it soon.”
After about half an hour, a middle-aged man rushed through the crowd to the violinist and said, “Yes, it’s you. I knew that you were an honest man and would certainly come here.” The young violinist asked calmly, “Are you Mr. George Sang?” The man nodded. The violinist asked, “Did you lose something?” “It’s a lottery ticket,” said the man. The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang’s name was seen. “Is it?” he asked. George nodded and took the lottery ticket and kissed it, then danced with the violinist.
The violinist was a student at an arts college and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. Later his classmate asked the violinist, “At that time you needed money to pay the tuition(学费) and you had to play the violin in the railway station every day to make money. Why didn’t you keep the lottery ticket for yourself?” The violinist said, “Although I don’t have much money, I live happily. But if I lose honesty I won’t be happy forever.”
Through our lives, we can gain a lot and lose so much. But being honest should always be with us.
【小题1】What did the young artist do at the railway station on Friday?