For several years, a computer game “Happy Farm” has been popular among Chinese people.

Today, many Chinese have their own real Happy Farms.

A Farm of Her Own

It is Saturday. Yan Zhen is leaving for her grounds at edge of Beijing. She rents a piece of farmland for eight hundred yuan per year in the happy farm in the west of Beijing, an area of fifteen square meters.

If you're not good at farming, you can pay a farmer to care for the land, and you just pick the vegetables and visit the countryside with your friends or family on weekends. However, on some other farms, you just bring your basket and pick the fruits and vegetables you want before paying money.

Concern about Food Safety

“I think we Chinese have been troubled by problems of food safety. When you have planted your own vegetables, and you know what fertilizers(肥料) you have used. Pick them with your own hands, this is very safe.” Yan Zhen said.

The Happy Farm

Older people often remember that many years ago, farm products were untreated and food was clean, but now they are worrying about the poor food quality. Some of them find on these farms a means to help the community and to better feed the family. Some of them start gardening for their pregnant(怀孕)daughters to protect the health of the mother and child. On the other hand, some parents want to teach their children the value of work and healthy foods on a farm.

1.If you aren't good at farming, you can________.

A.Pay a farmer to take care of the Land. B.Pick the vegetables for free.

C.Ask a friend to help you. D.Rent the land to others.

2.We can learn from the 4th paragraph that________.

A.We must know how to use fertilizers. B.We must plant vegetables with our own hands.

C.Chinese are worried about food safety. D.Picking vegetables can make us safe.

3.The underlined word “untreated” probably means ________ in Chinese.

A.未种植的 B.未治疗的 C.未实现的 D.未处理的

4.Some parents want to teach children________.

A.The importance of food. B.The quality of food.

C.The advantages of farm. D.The value of work.

5.The writer write the second paragraph mainly to tell us that Yan Zhen________.

A.wants to be a foreigner. B.rents a piece of farm.

C.lives in the west of Beijing. D.builds a house of fifteen square meters.

The year is 2025, and it’s 7:45 on a rainy Monday morning, and you are in your car and on your way to work. You turn left, and then you turn right. ______ When the light turns green and there are no other cars in the crossing, you continue on your way. Ten minutes later, you arrive at work and you stop reading the morning paper. Then, you get out of your car and you say, “Thank you!” ______ This possible future may sound unreal, but in fact many car companies are already testing robotic cars, or “driverless cars”, on the roads today.

______ By 2025 companies such as VOLVO, GM, Nissan and WMW plan to sell driverless cars. Driverless cars are not really “driverless” - the “drivers” are the computers that use radar, computer maps and other modern technology. They offer many advantages. ______ For example, in 1968 more than 53,000 people lost their lives in car accidents in the USA. In addition, people will spend less time stuck in traffic jams and there will be no need for people to have a driving license. ______ The technology is not free. US $ 5,000 to US $ 10,000 may be added to the price of a new car. At sometime in your life, you will probably be sitting in a driver-less car on your way to work or on your way to school. The future is almost here. Are you ready for it?

根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项,使短文意思通顺、内容完整。

A. Your car replies, “You’re welcome!”

B. A few minutes later, you stop at a traffic light.

C. In the 1980s, Germany and the United States tested the first driverless cars.

D. One of the major disadvantages of the new technology , however , is the cost.

E. Perhaps the most important of these is fewer deaths caused by road accidents.

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3.____________

4.____________

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