.

Today, air travel is far safer than driving a car on a busy motor-way. But still there is a danger that grows every year. Airliners get larger and larger. Some airplanes can carry over 300 passengers. And the air itself becomes more and more crowded. If one large airliner struck into another in midair, 600 lives could be lost.

From the moment an airliner takes off to the moment it lands, every movement is watched on radar screens. Air traffic controllers tell the pilot exactly when to turn, when to climb, and when to come down. The air traffic controllers around a busy airport like London-Heathrow may deal with 2,500 planes a day. Not all of them actually land at the airport. Any plane that flies near the airport comes under the orders of the controllers there. Even a small mistake on their part could cause a terrible accident.

Recently such a disaster almost happened. Two large jets were flying towards the airport. One was carrying 69 passengers from Toronto, the other 176 passengers from Chicago. An air traffic controller noticed on his radar screen that the two planes were too close to each other. He ordered one to turn to the right and to climb．But he made a mistake. He ordered the wrong plane to do this. So, instead of turning away from the second plane, the first plane turned towards it. Fifteen seconds later it flew directly in front of the second plane. They avoided (避免) each other by the smallest part of a second. The distance between them was less than that of a large swimming pool. This is an example of the danger that grows every year.

61. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Traveling by air is as safe as by car．

B. Traveling by air is not as safe as by car．

C. Traveling by car is as dangerous as by air．

D .Traveling by car is more dangerous than by air．

62. The air traffic controllers of an airport ____．

A. control all the planes flying near the airport

B. give orders to planes leaving the airport

C. only deal with the planes that want to land there

D. are allowed to handle 250 planes a day

63. The danger of air crashes grows every year because ____．

A. airliners are getting larger and air traffic is becoming heavier

B. a pilot does not always hear a controller’s order

C. a controller is likely to make more and more mistakes

D. airports can hardly serve the growing number of airplanes

64. The example in the passage is to show that ____．

A. air traffic controllers are often careless

B. air traffic controllers should pay much attention to avoiding accidents

C. it is difficult for airplanes to avoid terrible accidents

D. two planes should not fly too close to each other

He made a mistake, but he corrected the situation __________ it got worse.

He made a mistake, but then he corrected the situation    _  it got worse.

A．until             B．when             C．before            D．as

第二节：完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

As a saying goes, every bean has its black. It is impossible to make no mistakes all one’s life. My grandpa Nybakken, a carpenter, is no    36  . Several decades ago, he made a mistake — a(n)    37   mistake, though.

On a cold Saturday, Grandpa was building some wooden cases for the clothes his   38   was sending to an orphanage (孤儿院) in Congo. On his way home, he   39   into his shirt pocket to find his glasses, but they were gone. So he drove back to the church. His search proved   40  . When he   41   replayed his earlier actions, he realized what happened. The glasses had slipped out of his pocket unnoticed and fallen into one of the cases. His brand new glasses, having    42    him ＄20 that very morning, were heading for Congo! He had to drive home    43  .

Several months later, the director of the orphanage came to give a report on Sunday night at my grandfather’s church,    44   Grandpa and his family also attended.

“But most of all,” he said, “I must thank you for the   45   you sent last year. You see, the bandits(土匪) had just swept through the orphanage, destroying everything, including my glasses. I was desperate.”

“  46   I had the money, there was simply no way of    47   those glasses.   48   not being able to see well, I experienced headaches every day. Then your cases arrived. When my staff    49   the covers, they found a pair of glasses lying on top.”

Then, still gripped (吸引注意) with the  50   , he continued: “Folks, when I tried   51    the glasses, it was as thought they had been custom-made just for me! I want to thank you for being a part of that!”

The people listened,    52    for the miraculous glasses. But the director surely must have   53   their church with another, they thought. There were no glasses on their   54   of items to be sent overseas. But an ordinary carpenter was sitting   55   in the back, with tears streaming down his face.

36. A. expectation            B. success                  C. luck                D. exception

37. A. perfect            B. foolish           C. avoidable              D. common

38. A. factory            B. church          C. family            D. country

39. A. turned             B. reached                 C. filled              D. put

40. A. proper             B. reasonable           C. fruitless                 D. unnecessary

41. A. mentally                  B. physically              C. anxiously               D. directly

42. A. charged          B. spent            C. paid               D. cost

43. A. disappointed          B. pleased                  C. nonstop                 D. quick

44. A. which              B. what             C. where           D. when

45. A. cases               B. clothes                   C. glasses                  D. wishes

46. A. Unless             B. As long as             C. Until              D. Even though

47. A. replacing                 B. finding          C. wearing                 D. changing

48. A. Except             B. Along with            C. Rather than                   D. As for

49. A. opened           B. burnt             C. removed                D. took

50. A. preparation            B. pleasure                C. satisfaction                  D. wonder

51. A. out                   B. over               C. for                  D. on

52. A. pity                  B. happy            C. curious                   D. eager

53. A. confused                  B. associated            C. combined              D. compared

54. A. cases               B. order             C. list                 D. orphanage

55. A. happily           B. quietly          C. sadly           D. excitedly

The expression “keeping up with the Joneses” was first used in 1913 by a young American Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself: he began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. Young Momand was very proud of his riches. He got married and moved with his wife to Long Island, outside New York City.
But just moving there was not enough. For when Momand and his wife saw that their neighbors belonged to a country club they too joined a club. And when he saw that rich people were expected to ride horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave grand parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. Momand and his wife could not do that.
The race ended for them when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an inexpensive New York City apartment.
Momand later said that his experience had been a cruel awakening for him. However, he was able to see the funny side of it. He looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with their neighbors.
He decided that this would make good stories for many papers across the country. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses”, because “Jones” is a very common American name. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the people around you. Momand’s stories appeared in different newspapers for over 28 years.
People never seem to tire of keeping up with the Joneses. That is one reason why they read the “right” books, go to the “right” universities and eat in the “right” restaurants. But no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
【小题1】The writer of this passage means to tell us ___________.