Quite often we see people driving carelessly and paying no attention to anyone else on the road. In fact, 75 percent of the time, car accidents happened because of carelessness and drivers’ mistakes.

What about you? Are you a safe driver, or have you developed dangerous driving habits that put you and others in danger?

According to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, carelessness lead to one-fourth of all US accidents. And drivers who don’t pay attention to the road cause 10 percent of all the accidents. The following actions may lead to accidents every day:

◎ Eating, driving and smoking while driving.

◎ Picking something up off the floor.

◎ Reading a map or something else.

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Studies also show that using a phone while driving increase one’s danger of a car accident by 400 percent! However, texting(发短信) while driving can be even worse. It suggests that this common practice might be even more dangerous than drinking while driving. Our magazine last month has reported that texting drivers had slower reaction times than drinking drivers. When drivers are texting, their accident risk was 23 times higher than when they weren’t texting.

So, are you feeling sorry for any of these dangerous driving habits? If so, make some changes today!

1.Who is the passage mainly written to?

A. Teachers. B. Students. C. Drivers. D. Police.

2.Which of the following can’t be put in the blank(空白)?

A. Driving while tired B. Wearing your seat-belt

C. Turning to talk to someone D. Watching something on the road

3.The underlined phrase “this common practice” refers to .

A. texting while driving B. phoning while driving

C. drinking while driving D. careless driving

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. 10% of the accidents are caused by drivers who are phoning.

B. Texting while driving increase a car accident by 400 percent!

C. Texting drivers had slower reaction times than drinking drivers.

D. It tells us how to give up these dangerous driving habits.

综合填空

Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories

Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, of a Virginian family. He was 1. b______ up in Hannibal, Missouri. At the2. a_____ of 12,his father died ,he became a printer .To make a 3.l______, he wrote for his brother's newspaper. He later worked as a licensed Mississippi river-boat pilot though he was very 4.y______.

No one knew the 5.e_____ date when Twain left for California, and worked in San Francisco as a reporter. He visited Hawaii as a correspondent for The Sacramento Union, publishing letters on his trip and giving lectures. He set out on a world tour, traveling in France and Italy. His experiences were recorded in 1869 in The Innocents Abroad, which made him famous 6.a______ the world.

The success as a writer made him rich enough to 7.m_____ the beautiful girl Olivia Langdon in 1870. They moved next year to Hartford. Twain continued to lecture in the United States and England. Between 1876 and 1884 he published several masterpieces, Tom Sawyer (1881) and The Prince And The Pauper (1881).He became a 8.s______ writer.

In the 1890s Twain lost most of his earnings in financial speculations and in the failure of his own publishing firm. To recover from the bankruptcy, he started a world lecture tour. Twain toured New Zealand, Australia, India, and South Africa. He wrote many 9.w______ such as The Tragedy Of Pudd'head Wilson (1884), Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc (1885), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and the travel book Following The Equator (1897).They were translated into many 10.l______ later.

He died on April 21, 1910

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阅读下面的短文,并根据文章后的要求答题(请注意问题后的词数要求)。

[1]Do you want to know the life in the future? I read something in a book. (78)It says there will be many robots in our homes and factories in the future. They will do much work for people. They can cook meals, wash clothes and look after our pets. In factories, they will do boring and difficult jobs, so no one will do heavy work. But many workers will be out of work.

[2]And also, many people believe that in the future people will use computers in lots of everyday activities. They won't go shopping because they can buy most goods (商品) on the Internet. People will use the Internet to book rooms, order food and so on.

[3]There will be changes in our food, too. There will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead(代替), they will eat more fruits and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier. Most of them will live (79)_________ than people live now. Maybe people will live to be 200 years old.

1.What will happen to many workers according to the first paragraph? (no more than 6 words)

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2.Why won't people go shopping according to the passage? (no more than 9 words)

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3.Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 into Chinese. 将第一段中划线句子译成汉语。

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4.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper (恰当的) words. (no more than 3 words)

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5.请给短文拟一个适当的英文题目。

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