As this is a very casual get-together, you can tell them to ______ however they feel like to.

1. A.
   dress
2. B.
   wear
3. C.
   put on
4. D.
   have on

As motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters traveling by “skycar”.

These could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. “When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that’s hard to use,” said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways-and prevent total pandemonium(吵杂狂乱的喧闹)-if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.

“The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,” said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing’s research and development arm. “But we’re trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy(散开) a fleet of these.”

Past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(??55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.

Although it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot’s functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the “hub-and-spoke(中心辐射型)” model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large “hub” airports and then on to secondary flights to “spoke” airports near their final destinations.

The best title for this text would be      .

A. Developing Skycars   B. The Traffic Jams in the Sky

C. How to Guide Flying Cars in the Sky  D. What Flying Cars Will Look Like

The underlined word “envision” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “     ”.

A. see  B. expect   C. think    D. announce

When engineers develop the skycars, they have to deal with the following difficulties except      .

A. how to fly out of regional airports

 B. how to prevent the disorder of the airways

C. how to reduce expenses and the vehicle’s weight

D. how to fly the skycars to enter skies

Now Nasa researchers’ aim is to      .

A. make big flying cars

B. work out the plan——how to transform small plane travel

C. develop a new kind of small plane different from the traditional one

D. build a new kind of small plane with road-driving abilities

28. As far as I know, this man ____ risk anything than lose the ring for his wife.

A. would rather   B. had better          C. preferred                D. would like to

As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: “I’m only a 1050. ”The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a higher education at all.  The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus at this time of their life.

It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number.  Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over. The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life’s doors will remain forever closed.

According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student’s future performance in most cases.  Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indicators——like a student’s high school grades. Even if standardized tests like the SAT could show a student’s academic proficiency（学业水平）,they will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student’s potentialities（潜力）. This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process.  The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students.  However, it should be only one of many methods used.

64. The purpose of the SAT is to test students’     .

A. strong will                                  B. academic ability

C. full potentialities                                 D. confidence in school work

65. Students’ self-respect is influenced by their     .

A. scores in the SAT                                 B. achievements in mathematic

C. job opportunities                                 D. money spent on education

66.“A prestigious university”is most probably   

A. a famous university                       B. a technical university

C. a traditional university                          D. an expensive university

67. This passage is mainly about    .

A. how to prepare for the SAT                   B. stress caused by the SAT

C. American higher education                    D. the SAT and its effects

Like most July days, it was hot．I stepped into a tiny ice-cream shop to cool off with a chocolate ice-cream．It was a very   21   store with little round tables and chairs．

       As I entered, I found a very old woman bent over a  22   near the door．Her back was so  23  twisted （扭曲） by some misfortune that her face nearly  24  the tabletop．1 sat down  25  her a couple of tables away．

       "Poor woman," I thought．"What does she  26  life? Why does God let people live so long past their prime （盛年）?"

       As I thought, another  27  lady entered the shop and sat down with her．Soon the two of them were  28   childhood days．They talked of how little the shop had changed in 70 years．In minutes, the two of them were shaking with  29  .

       I looked again at the first woman, then in the  30  on a nearby wall, catching a picture of myself．I was wearing a dirty shirt．She was  31   dressed in white, her face carefully made up and her hands  32   with gold rings．I was  33 ．She was laughing．I was putting the   34   of my life together．She had millions of   35  memories to recall．  36  I was worried about getting old．She was old, but it wasn't   37   her．As I left the shop, I thought of my  38   question about God letting people live past their prime．Why, that woman was more  39   to life than I was．Age has not  40  her spirit． 

A．expensive         B．large                C．splendid        D．old-time

A．window        B．pillow             C．table           D．bench

A．badly              B．nearly           C．actually         D．fully

A．broke            B．touched            C．hit             D．fixed

A．facing           B．greeting            C．following       D．serving

A．look out of         B．get out of           C．learn about    D．devote to

A．aged             B．dirty               C．pretty          D．poor

A．speaking out       B．talking about         C．thinking over  D．planning for

A．food             B．fear                C．cold           D．laughter

A．newspaper       B．window            C．mirror       D．picture

A．just             B．well                C．poorly         D．quickly

A．shining         B．shaking             C．waving        D．wiping

A．happy          B．wrong              C．right         D．sad

A．periods          B．pieces              C．points          D．goals

A．terrible          B．difficult            C．wonderful       D．fresh

A．As a result        B．Above all           C．In a word     D．In secret

A．pleasing          B．hurting             C．envying      D．punishing

A．good             B．simple             C．foolish              D．interesting

A．alive            B．changeable           C．hopeful         D．interesting

A．bent             B．left                C．cut            D．took