China is going green. In order to reduce air pollution and oil shortages, automobile manufacturers have announced their plans to develop hybrid vehicles (混合燃料汽车) for the Chinese market. Toyota's hybrid car Prius will be ready to drive in China this week. Let's have a look at the new car.

Any vehicle is a hybrid when it combines two or more sources of power. Hybrid cars run off a rechargeable battery and gasoline. Hybrid cars have special engines, which are smaller than traditional gasoline engines. They run at 99 percent of their power when the car is cruising (匀速行驶). A specially designed battery motor provides extra power for running up hills or when extra acceleration is needed.

Step into a Prius, and turn on the engine. The first thing you notice is how much quieter it is than a traditional car. At this point, the car's gasoline engine is dormant (休眠). The electric motor will provide power until the car reaches about 24 km/h. If you stay at a low speed, you are effectively driving an electric car, with no gasoline being used, and no waste gas gives off.

The onboard (车载的) computer makes the decision about when to use a gas engine, when to go electric, and when to use a combination of the two. If you go over 24 km/h, when you step on the gas pedal (油门), you are actually telling the computer how fast you want to go.

The electronic motor recharges automatically using a set of batteries. When driving at high speed, the gasoline engine not only powers the car, but also charges the batteries. Any time you use the brake, the electric motor in the wheels will work like a generator and produce electricity to recharge the batteries. As a consequence, the car's batteries will last for around 200,000 miles.

1.The author writes this passage mainly to________.

A. teach people how to drive a hybrid car

B. introduce a new kind of “green” car

C. show how to save their gasoline when driving a car

D. announce plans to develop hybrid vehicles for China

2.Which of the followings is NOT true?

A. The hybrid cars reduce air pollution and oil shortages.

B. The car's gasoline engine doesn't work until it reaches about 24 km/h.

C. This kind of car is completely controlled by an onboard computer.

D. A specially designed battery motor provides extra power when needed.

3.What is the most important feature of hybrid cars?

A. They are powered by both a rechargeable battery and gasoline.

B. They are much quieter than traditional cars.

C. They only use 99 percent of their power to run up hills.

D. They have smaller engines than traditional gasoline ones.

4.What can we conclude from the story?

A. The batteries can be recharged at any time you want.

B. Using the brake suggests that the gasoline engine should work.

C. The batteries will last for 200, 000 miles without being recharged.

D. The gasoline engine charges the batteries as well as powers the car.

 

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

A little child was playing one day with a very valuable vase.

He put his h      into it and could not draw it back out. His father too,    

                     1.________________

tried his best, but all _____vain. They were thinking of breaking the vase   

                     2._______________

____（这时）his father said.“Now, my son, try one more time. Open your       

                     3._______________

hand and hold your fingers out straight as you see me d        and  

                     4.______________

then pull.”To ________ astonishment, the little fellow said. “Oh no,          

                     5.________________

father, I couldn’t pull my fingers out like that because if I did I w                 

                     6._______________

drop my penny.”________（微笑）, if you will---- but thousands of us         

                     7._______________

     are like that little boy.We are _______busy holding on to the world’s      

                     8._________________

     ________（无价值的） penny that we can not accept liberation.         

                     9.______________

I beg you _____drop the little trifle （琐事）in your heart. Let go.    

                     10.________________-

 

单词拼写（本题共10题，1-5题每题空1分，6-10题每空0.5分，共10分）

根据句子所给单词的首字母或中文意思，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词正确的完全形式（每空限一词）。

1.Heavy rains have a_______ the life of about 680,000 people in Hunan province.  

2.We admire her for she has a g________ for singing and dancing. 

3.To live a long and healthy life,we must learn to have a b_________ diet.

4.As is known to all, smoking is h_________ to our health.

5.This hotel r________ me of the one we stayed in last year.

6.We should ______  ____ (依靠) our parents before we become grow-ups.

7.He _____  _____ on (瞧不起) anyone who hasn't had a college education.

8. When the fire _____  ____ (爆发)，I was reading an interesting book.

9.Super-parents Gil and Kelly Bates, from America, love babies so much that they already have ____  ______ (抚养)18 children.   

10.After they married, they ______ ______  (定居) in a small village, leading a quiet life.

 

Hi, Daisy,

I am wandering why you haven’t showed up online for such a long time. 

I’m sorry to know that your mother is ______（严重地）       1.___________

ill in hospital. ______________ is no doubt that this affects          2.___________

your life greatly. I understand ____________ you are feeling           3.________

at the moment and I truly wish that I could be _____ any help.         4._____

Life can be hard at times. We had no c______ but to meet it.            5.______

No matter what h_________, you need to remain optimistic               6.______

and t_______________ what you can to help your parents.            7.______

It is by meeting ___________(困难) and overcoming them         8._____

that one learns how to survive. Besides, be k_____ to yourself.            9._________

I believe your mother will be all right ___________ long.              10._____

Hope we can talk soon.

 

I love science and science fiction. Like many science fiction fans, I am fascinated by the possibility of time travel. However, one must combine romance with reasoning and look into the chances of time travel critically.
First of all, we must remember the whole universe is in motion. If we want to go back to yesterday, our "time machine" has to move back in time and space. If someone claimed he was at home when he suddenly travelled 200 years back in time, he either had an illusion or made the story up. Two hundred years ago, Earth was in a different place in space, so how can you travel back 200 years without moving in space? Don't get me wrong. I am not knocking the genius of science fiction writers. H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine" is a great work of fiction, but that’s all. I have read many other time travelling science fiction stories since reading H.G. Wells, but none address this problem of displacement.
My own argument for the impossibility of time travel is that physical states of the past no longer exist and those of the future are not here yet. To be able to move back and forth in time requires everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen everywhere in the whole universe at every single moment in time－past, present, and future－to be stored as a "reality" somewhere－like the save game file of a computer game that contains every single byte of information of the game at the point it was saved, but you would need an almost extremely large file and almost extremely many of them－so it can be re-entered and communicated with, and not just light signals for viewing. To me, I don’t buy it.
【小题1】Which of the following can be the best title?

A．How to make time travel possible?

B．Why am I fascinated by time travel?

C．Why do I think time travel is not possible?

D．How to explain the possibility of time travel?

【小题2】What’s the meaning of the underlined word “illusion”?

A．success

B．dream

C．switch

D．support

【小题3】 According to the author, which of the following is RIGHT?

A．We can go back to the past by time travel.

B．People can travel to the future by moving in space.

C．“The Time Machine” is nothing more than a science fiction.

D．Everything that happened, is happening and will happen can be stored somewhere.

【小题4】In the author’s opinion, time travel might be possible if                            .

A．people could combine romance with reasoning

B．people could stop the movement of the whole universe

C．people could use time machine under the instruction of H.G. Wells

D．people could “save” everything in the past, present and future in a certain space