阅读下面短文回答问题，将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（注意题后的字数要求）。
In the United States, train transportation is unpopular compared with cars and airplanes. Most people like traveling by car or by air.
Officials of the United States Department of Transportation made a study in 2001. The study is about how many miles Americans traveled by different means of transportation. They only studied trips longer than 50 miles. The study showed that fifty-six percent of all miles were traveled in personal vehicle. Forty-one percent were traveled in an airplane. Two percent were traveled in a bus. And less than one percent of miles were traveled in a train.
Amtrak is the national provider of train transportation in the United States. In the past ten years, the number of its passengers has increased by eighteen percent. Although the number of passengers has increased, it is still very small now. In countries such as France, Germany, or Japan, more people use trains.
There are several reasons why many people __________________________.
Firstly, Americans love to drive their own cars. On highways, cars can travel as fast as trains. These highways connect all major cities in America．Secondly, many travelers like to be independent. When they use their own cars they can decide when to travel. Thirdly, many buses travel between major cities. Bus travel is less costly than train travel.
In a huge country like the United States, cities are far away from each other. In some cases, travel from one city to another by train may take more than a day. Airplanes can carry passengers over long distances much faster. People who do not want to spend long time traveling by train decide to fly. For these people saving time is the most important thing.
【小题1】What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
【小题2】Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
It’s convenient for people to decide the start-off time when they travel in their own cars.
【小题3】Please fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.( Please answer within 10 words.)
【小题4】What means of transportation do you like best when traveling, trains, cars, or planes? Why? (Please answer within 30 words)
【小题5】Translate the underlined sentences in the last paragraph into Chinese.

Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.
Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."
Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They supported his early interest in electronics.
He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive.
Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）".
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.
"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning （令人惊奇的）.He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.

1. 1.

   Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?

   1. A.
      He was very courageous in the face of cancer.
   2. B.
      He became very rich though dropping out college.
   3. C.
      He released a new iPhone version before death.
   4. D.
      He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
2. 2.

   Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?

   1. A.
      After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer.
   2. B.
      He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
   3. C.
      He developed a series of Apple products.
   4. D.
      He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
3. 3.

   What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?

   1. A.
      Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation.
   2. B.
      Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
   3. C.
      Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
   4. D.
      American people are good at inventing things.
4. 4.

   Which of the following is true according to the text?

   1. A.
      Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
   2. B.
      Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
   3. C.
      Jobs started his career in his family garage.
   4. D.
      Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.

(2009福州市高中毕业班第一次单科质量检查)There are altogether fifty-six students in our class,      is a new comer from a faraway mountain village.

   A. the most hard-working of who      B. of whom the most hard-working

    C. the most hard-working of them      D. but the most hard-working of whom

The average college student in America spent an estimated seven hundred dollars on textbooks last year. The National Association of College Stores reported more than five billion dollars in sales of textbooks and course materials. Association spokesman Charles Schmidt says electronic textbooks now represent just two to three percent of sales. But he says that is expected to reach ten to fifteen percent by 2012. Online versions are now available for many of the most popular college textbooks. E-textbooks can cost half the price of a new print textbook. But students usually lose access after the end of the term. And the books cannot be placed on more than one device (装置) so they are not easy to share.
So what do students think of e-textbooks? Administrators at Northwest Missouri State University wanted to find out. Earlier this year they tested them with five hundred students in twenty classes. The university is unusual. It not only provides laptop computers to all seven thousand of its full-time students. It does not require students to buy their textbooks either. They rent them to save money. The school aims to save even more by moving to e-textbooks. The students in the survey reported that downloading the books from the Internet was easy. They liked the idea of carrying lighter backpacks. And fifty-six percent said they were better able to find information. But most found that using e-textbooks did not change their study habits. And sixty percent felt they read more when they were reading on paper. In all, almost half the students said they still liked physical textbooks better. But the survey found that cost could be a big influence. Fifty-five percent said they would choose e-textbooks if using them meant their textbook rental fee would not increase. Roger Von Holzen heads the Center for Information Technology in Education at Northwest Missouri State. He tells us that administrators are disappointed with the e-textbooks now available because the majority are not interactive. He thinks growth will come when more digital books include video, activities, games and other ways to interact with the information. The technology is improving. But for now, most of the books are just words on a screen.
【小题1】The passage mainly tells us about ________.

Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I 36 across some old love letters that my parents wrote to

each other. these letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and 37 with dust. 38 to read and sort them, I asked

them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.

   As I carefully opened each letter, all of them 39 with age, I discovered a new page 40 unknown to me in

this private chapter of my parents’ lives.

   My father used to   41 in the army. So his letters were full of frontline(前线) 42 of the things about the war.

Each of my mother’s letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick(口红) kiss. I was  43 to these letters

like a magnet(磁铁).

   Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very 44 and was hospitalized(住院). This time, he

was fighting a 45 kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the  46 . He told me how much receiving

those lipstick-kissed letters had 47 to him when he had been so far from home.

   It so happened that the next day would be February 14. From the  48 letters I chose the card my father had

sent mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside.

   At his bedside, I joked with him, saying  49  .“Today is Valentine’s Day, don’t you want to sent Mother a

present?” He became more 50 when I handed him the old 51 . He carefully opened it and took out the card,

and when he 52 it, his eyes were filled with tears.

   My father, in a voice tight with 53 read the loving 54 he’d sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And

this time, he could read it to her  55  .

1.A. drew           B. hit          C. came         D. fell

2.A. covered            B. hidden           C. buried           D. filled

3. A. Pretending        B. Deciding     C. Preferring       D. Suggesting

4.A. tender             B. tasty            C. useful           D. delicate

5.A. recently       B. previously       C. usually      D. occasionally

6. A. serve             B. study        C. work         D. report

7.A. documents      B. accounts     C. introductions   D. occupations

8.A. devoted        B. drawn            C. thrown       D. abandoned

9.A. depressed      B. dead         C. ill          D. dangerous

10.A. different         B. traditional      C. typical          D. familiar

11. A. wars         B. illnesses   C. prescriptions   D. letters

12.A. intended          B. meant        C. planned          D. said

13.A. divided           B. separated   C. sorted       D. updated

14.A. softly            B. angrily          C. sadly        D. loudly

15. A. fantastic        B. enthusiastic     C. curious          D. positive

16.A. Christmas card    B. lipstick    C. basket       D. envelope

17.A. found         B. wrote            C. missed           D. recognized

18.A. emotion           B. sorrow           C. sickness     D. astonishment

19.. A. story           B. speech           C. message      D. motto

20.A. in peace          B. in private       C. in danger   D. in person