If cars had wings，they could fly and that just might happen, beginning in 2011.The company Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, says it plans to deliver its car-plane, the Transition, to customers by the end of 2011.

“It’s the next ‘wow’ vehicle，”said Terrafugia vice president Richard Gersh .“Anybody can buy a Ferrari, but as we say, Ferraris don’t fly.”

The car plane has wings that unfold for flying—a process the company says takes one minute—and fold back up for driving. A runway is still required to take off and land.

The Transition is being marketed more as a plane that drives than a car that flies, although it is both. The company has been working with FAA to meet aircraft regulations, and with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to meet vehicle safety regulations.

The company is aiming to sell the Transition to private pilots as a more convenient and cheaper way to fly. They say it saves you the trouble from trying to find another mode of transportation to get to and from airports: You drive the car to the airport and then you’re good to go. When you land, you fold up the wings and hit the road. There are no expensive parking fees because you don’t have to store it at an airport—you park it in the garage at home.

The car-plane is designed to fly primarily under 10,000 feet. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,430 pounds, including fuel and passengers. Terrafugia says the Transition reduces the potential for an accident by allowing pilots to drive under bad weather instead of flying into marginal(临界)conditions.

The Transition’s price tag: $194,000, But there may be additional charges for options like a radio, transponder or GPS. Another option is a full-plane parachute.

“If you get into a very awful situation, it is the necessary safety option,” Gersh said.

So far, the company has more than 70 orders with deposits.“We’re working very closely with them, but there are still some remaining steps,” Brown said.

1.

We can learn from the first paragraph that     .

A．car-planes will be popular in 2011

B．people might drive a car-plane in 2011

C．both Transition and Ferrari can take off and land

D．Richard Gersh is the vice president of Massachusetts

2.

lt takes the car-plane one minute to     .

A．fold and unfold its wings	B．unfold wings for flying
C．land in the airport	D．meet flying safety regulations

3.

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. The car-plane needs a runway to take off and land.

B. To meet aircraft regulations, the company has been working with FAA.

C. The car-plane may fly as high as normal planes.

D. People can park the car-plane in the garage at their home.

4.

The underlined word “it” in the last but one paragraph refers to     .

A．the radio

B．the transponder

C．the GPS

D．the full-plane parachute

5.

What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Cars With Wings May Be Just Around The Corner

B．Which to Choose: A Ferrari or a Car Plane?

C．A more Convenient and Cheaper Way to Fly

D．Cars With Wings Can Fly as Fast as Planes

 

第二节：短文写作 (共1题，满分25分)

假设你是李华，是武汉某中学的高三学生。你的英国网友Jim发来电子邮件，告诉你他将于今年暑假来中国旅游，并决定来武汉和你呆一周。但他对有些情况不清楚。请你用英文给他回一封电子邮件。

注意：1．词数为100左右；

2．电子邮件应包括方框内包有的提示内容，可以适当发挥；

3．电子邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好（不计入你所写词数，不得抄入答题卡）。

附 (Jim的邮件及你应该作出的应答) :

Subject: a visit to China from Jim Dear Li Hua, I feel very excited about my visit to China and meeting you for the first time! But I’m still not sure about the following: 1.  When will you be free? 从6月18日你就有时间陪他了。 2.  How can I get to your place? 乘飞机到武汉，到天河机场去接。 3.  What’s the weather like there? 武汉夏天气温较高，不用带太多衣服。 4.  What shall we do together? 参观当地的风景名胜。 Please let me know! Your friend, Jim

 

Dear Jim,

__________________________________________________________________

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__________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

 

1.He said he would________(推荐) me to Professor Wang as his student. 

2.I don’t understand why he refused to________(承认) that he had been defeated. 

3.Our country is ________(丰富的；充裕的) in natural resources.

4.We           (用... 代替)a red ball for the blue one to see if the baby would notice.

5.You must not be          (支配) by what other people say.

6.Between 1942 and 1945 more immigrants came to California to work in the ship and a____(飞机) industries.

7.Most _____________(申请者) know that they have very little chance of getting a visa to California.

8.It became a____________(显而易见的) to everyone that they made a wrong decision.

9.The m___________ of the first Spanish were religious men who came to teach the Catholic religion to the natives.

10.I think you should make an ________(道歉) to her at once.

 

My husband and son took a New York-to-Milwaukee flight that was supposed to leave Friday at 11:29 am. The flight boarded after 4 pm and didn’t leave the gate until 4:40, and half an hour later the pilot announced it would be another hour until takeoff. At that point a Jewish family, worried about violating the Sabbath （安息日）, asked to get off. Going back to the gate cost the plane its place in line for takeoff, and the flight was eventually cancelled. Was the airline right to grant that request?

M. W, Norwalk, CONN.

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Situations like that can bring out the worst in people. But despite the increasing resentment（怨恨） of a plane full of people, the pilot tried to do the right thing. He went out of his way to satisfy one family’s urgent need. He should not have done so.

Passengers bought tickets in the belief that the airline’s primary goal was to get them to their destination as close to the schedule as possible. Once they got on the plane and the doors are locked, it’s not correct to announce that the rules have changed and that a personal (as opposed to medical) emergency —no matter how urgent — might take precedence（优先）.

That would be just as true if turning back to the gate had merely cost a few minutes rather than doomed the flight entirely, since on a plane, even a slight delay can spread outward, from the people in the cabin to those meeting them to the passengers waiting to board the plane for the next leg of its journey and so on. It would also be true if the personal emergency were not religious — if someone suddenly realized she’d made a professional mistake that might cost her millions, and she had to race back to the office to fix it.

If a religious practice does nothing to harm others, then airlines should make a reasonable effort to accommodate it. Though that family has every right to observe the Sabbath, it has no right to enlist an airplane full of captive bystanders to help them do so. By boarding a flight on a Friday afternoon, the family knowingly risked running into trouble. The risk was theirs alone to bear.

1.M. W. wrote the letter to ask whether ______.

A．Any religious passenger has the right to ask the pilot to take off

B．The airline has the right to cancel the flight without any reason

C．A flight should meet any passenger’s need despite others’ benefit

D．A plane which has left the gate should give up taking off

2.What do we know from the reply letter?

A．The pilot did the right thing in spite of the fierce resentment.

B．The plane should turn back if anyone aboard is seriously ill.

C．Anybody who has boarded has no chance to get off the plane.

D．Any flight shouldn’t change its schedule no matter what has happened.

3.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Turning back to the gate usually takes a plane quite a long time.

B．Nobody should take precedence to require the plane to turn back to the gate.

C．Even if it had taken a few minutes it was not right to turn back to the gate.

D．It was OK if turning back to the gate hadn’t caused the flight to be cancelled.

4.The author of the reply letter thinks that _________.

A．It’s right for the plane to turn back to the gate to save a passenger’s treasure

B．The Jewish family should give up observing the Sabbath after boarding

C．The biggest problem of turning back is to bring trouble to the pilot

D．The Jewish family had better avoid boarding on Friday afternoon

 

假设你是李华，是哈尔滨友谊中学高三的学生。你的英国网友Smith 发来电子邮件，告诉你他将于今年暑假来中国旅游，并决定来哈尔滨和你逗留一周。但有些情况他不清楚，请你给他回封电子邮件向他说明情况。

 

Subject: visit to China        From Smith Dear Li Hua， I feel very excited about my visit to China and meeting you for the first time! But I’m still not sure about the following: 1. When will you be free? 2. How can I get to your place? 3. What shall we do together?   Please let me know!                                                         Your friend,                                                          Smith

 

●6月10日高考结束后你就有时间陪他。

●乘飞机到哈尔滨，你会到机场去接他。然后一块乘汽车到市区。

●哈尔滨夏天气温高，不用带太多衣物。

●参观当地著名风景名胜并一起游泳。

 

 

 

Dear Smith,

I’m so excited that you’ll come to China and stay with me in Harbin for a week during the summer vacation. ________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________________________

 

                                                               Yours, Li Hua