An Australian company, Smart Car Technologies, has developed a system that lets drivers know when they’re speeding．When the technology becomes commercially available, it could help lead-footed driversavoid tickets and also save lives．The company that developed the product hopes to convince Australian government agencies to put the technology into use in their automobile fleets.

The product, called Speed Alert, links real-time location data and speed obtained with the help of GPS to a database of posted speed limits stored in a driver’s PDA or programmable mobile phone．The setup of the product does not need to be hooked up to a

car’s speedometer．In fact, it is entirely portable．It will also work with newer phones and PDAs that have built-in GPS receivers．If a driver exceeds the speed limit, the speed is shown and an alert sounds.

Michael Paine, an Australian vehicle design engineer and traffic safety consultant, was hired to analyze the product．He told Live Science  that his colleagues in the road safety field are “very enthusiastic” about what they’re now calling “intelligent speed alert.” Other research, according to Paine, shows that 40 percent of all traffic deaths involve speeding．There is also a potentially controversial future use: “Since the system is so portable, it would be easy to make it a requirement for teenage drivers to always use a speed alert device when driving,” Paine said．“The system even has the capability to record speeding violations, so parents can monitor their teenage drivers.”

The product will soon go on sale in Sydney.

66．What’s the purpose of the new product?

A．To inform us of the new car system.

B．To introduce some improvement in cars.

C．To limit certain drivers to safe driving.

D．To popularize the built-in car system.

67．Lead-footed drivers refer to the ones        .

A．who drive too carelessly                                                                                     

B．that drive extremely fast

C．who are partly disabled                                                                                              

D．that drive too slowly

68．The second paragraph mainly talks about        .

A．the project of the built-in product

B．why the system becomes popular

C．the functions of GPS in cars

D．how the product is programmed

69．Which of the following is true of Speed Alert  according to Michael Paine?

A．Most of the traffic deaths can be avoided.

B．Speeding violations can be easily found out.

C．The system will excite some teenage drivers.

D．The product will not be available for adults.

70．What can be the best title of the passage?

A．Speed Alert and Its Future Use

B．Progress in Car-making Science

C．Warning for Adventurous Drivers

D．New In-Car Device Against Speeding

During the recent milk crisis in China, different related parts of the society have been put under the microscope, including stars.

An online survey asked if celebrity spokespersons should bear responsibility　for endorsing （代言） tainted milk products．Thirtyfour percent answered　“yes”．They said that the celebrities had betrayed the trust of the people and　should be more morally responsible.

They are right．But what’s more important is that we should train ourselves　to be wise enough not to blindly accept what is being sold, even by our favorite　stars.

No doubt television advertisements, together with other media products, inform and entertain us．But, too often, there are hidden messages in the information we receive．The songs we hear, the images we see, and the articles we read, are carefully selected to convey political, cultural, economic and moral messages．The mass media delivers us these messages in an attempt to persuade us into believing or buying whatever is being pushed.

The question is: should we always believe what the advertisement or mass media says? The answer is that we should use our minds to dig out the hidden meaning and rely on our own judgment to make a choice.

In some countries, students take a course called “media literacy”．They learn to analyze the mass media．They are encouraged to challenge everything they see or hear and to do research into missing views．They learn to ask questions and to be critical （批判性的） thinkers.

62．What does the underlined word “tainted” in the second paragraph probably mean?

A．Popular．                B．Healthy．        C．Tasteless．         D．Harmful.

63．The writer mentioned celebrity spokespersons to         .

A．point out the shortcomings of advertisements

B．call on us to think more about the product

C．warn us not to blindly copy popular stars

D．stress that they are to blame for misleading

64．What can we conclude from Paragraph 4?

A．The media products are created with a purpose.

B．We should take media products as entertainment.

C．Messages in products do no good to customers.

D．We seldom take some information for granted.

65．To think critically, we need to do the following except         .

A．making judgment about what we see and hear

B．analyzing the intention of messages presented

C．making a decision after asking for others’ opinion

D．digging out the missing views behind the information

2、During my last stay in France, I took to biking down a quiet road．Round a   36   , I found a woman sitting in front of a little shabby house．I don’t know why, but something about her attracted my   37   ．I waved at her as I went by, and she must have thought I was some   38

tourist because she didn’t wave back．The same thing happened the second day．But on the third day, the old woman returned a hesitated     39   , and the next day, she   40    got out of her chair as I called out, “Morning, madam!” It became a small ritual(仪式)   41    us．She had no idea who I was, nor   42    I was coming, but she seemed to be    43    for me.

On my last ride, I bought some flowers and    44    down to the house, only to find she wasn’t there．She had gone to hospital for surgeries．  45   , I tied the flowers to her gate as a    46    gift．Back at my place, I    47    Roger, the gardener, of my missed    48   ．“The old lady at the corner is suffering    49    injuries, through which walking has been troubling her,” he said,   50    “by the quiet road there used to be a station．Whenever a train passed, the couple would see the passengers waving    51   , especially the children―for them, such a ride was high adventure．  52   , everything is gone except for this couple.”

It seems that my bicycle ride    53    mind her past days．As Roger said, “she has    54    the trains and the waves．You brought them back to her.” By reaching out, in a way that cost me    55   , I’d given more than I had realized.

Not only      the college entrance examination，but he also got a chance to travel abroad．

A．he passed    B．has he passed    C．he did pass    D．did he pass