58. Which of the following is not included in his book?

　 A. Hand-free phones are safer than hand-held phones.

　 B. What drivers have to attend to while driving.

　 C. Whether older age and slower reaction is related.

　 D. Bad eyesight is one of the factors of causing an accident.

57. Dr Hole’s strong belief that mobile phones should be banned from cars lies in　　　 .

　 A. the inconvenience of having only one hand on the wheel caused by mobile phones

　 B. the correct message of getting rid of hand-held phones sent out by the government

　 C. the increase of chances of accidents

　 D. the advice given by some road safety experts

49．The operations centre will first ________ after receiving an alarm．

　　　　 A．start the tracking system　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．contact the car owner

　　　　 C．block the car engine　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．locate the missing car

答案：46-49 CBAB

Passage 10

(四川省绵阳中学2010届高三高考模拟E篇)

Mobile phones should be banned from cars altogether, according to Dr Hole, senior lecturer in psychology, Dr Hole has emphasized the worrying combination of mobile phones and cars in his new book, The Psychology of Driving.

Mobile phones, fatigue(疲劳), eyesight, drugs and age are among the issues considered by Dr Hole as he examines the factors that influence on driving. The book explores the role of each of these elements in increasing the chances of an accident and was inspired by the author’s conversations with road safety experts across the country.

He says: “The government should have banned mobile phones in cars altogether. It has sent out the wrong message by forbidding hand-held phones because this gives the impression that hands-free phones are safe. The problem with mobile phones is not vehicular(车辆的)control and only having one hand on the wheel, but rather it is taking away attention from what is happening outside the car.”

Myths(荒诞的说法)about older people making worse drivers and claims(说法)about an improved reaction time among younger people are explored in the book. Questions about how drivers decide what to attend to while driving, the role of a driver’s expectations in determining what they see and how they respond to the road are among the areas covered in the book. Satellite navigation systems and new design aimed at transforming cars into a mobile office, are among the modern developments which he says now compete for driver’s attention behind the wheel.

Dr Hole says: “We need to be very careful about how we go about handling modern technology in cars, because we are opening a Pandora’s Box. When anyone is driving there is a lot of information outside the car and if there is too much going on inside, then there is a danger of overloading the driver.”

48．________ is necessary in making a modern car tougher to steal．

　　　　 A．A coded ignition key　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．A unique ID card

　　　　 C．A special cellphone signal　　　 　　　　　　 D．A GPS satellite positioning receiver

47．By saying “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed”, Martyn Randall suggests that ________．

　　　　 A．it takes a longer time for the car thief to do the stealing

　　　　 B．self-prepared tools are no longer enough for car theft

　　　　 C．the thief has to make use of computer technology

　　　　 D．the thief has lost interest in stealing cars over 10 years old

46．The remote immobilizer is fitted to a car to ________．

　　　　 A．prevent car theft by sending a radio signal to the car owner

　　　　 B．help the police make a surprise attack on the car thief

　　　　 C．prevent the car thief from restarting it once it stops

　　　　 D．allow the car to lock automatically when stolen

71．Generally speaking, a digital camera’s price is ____.

　　　　 A．closely related to the quality of the CCD

　　　　 B．irrelevant to the quality of the CCD

　　　　 C．closely related to the lens

　　　　 D．irrelevant to the lens

答案：68-71 　CCDA

Passage 9

(陕西省2010届高三西安五校联考A篇)

Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch．But he is in for an unwelcome surprise．The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer, and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again．

The idea goes like this．A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro-processor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver．If the car is stolen, a coded (编码的) cellphone signal will tell the control centre to block the vehicle’s engine management system and prevent the engine being restarted．

In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves．“The_pattern_of_vehicle_crime_has_changed,” says Martyn Randall, a security expert．He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools．But only if the car is more than 10 years old．

Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won’t allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code sent out by the ignition (点火) key．In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997．

But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owner’s keys．And key theft is responsible for 40% of the thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system．

If the car travels 100 metres without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operations centre that it has been stolen．The hundred metres minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal．

Staff at the centre will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing, and keep police informed of the vehicle’s movements via the car’s GPS unit．

70．The main reason that sports photographers can get clear and big photos of players is that _ ___.

　　　　 A．they use digital cameras　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．the lens of their cameras is excellent

　　　　 C．their focus lenses are short　　　　　　　　　　　 D．their focus lenses are long

69．In the “Film cameras” part, you fail to take the picture of the dog because _____.

　　　　 A．light goes into the camera lens and hits the shutter

　　　　 B．you haven’t aimed the camera at the dog

　　　　 C．the image of the dog is not created

　　　　 D．the sensor fails to convert light and color into a digital information

68．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

　　　　 A．Both digital and film cameras focus light onto the film.

　　　　 B．All cameras have a sensor.

　　　　 C．Digital cameras and film cameras have something in common. .

　　　　 D．Small cameras usually have longer focal lengths.