4. 六月的考试一结束，我父母就带我去大连度假。

       _________________________________________________the examination in June is over.

  3. 我们应该在恰当的时间赴约。不要太早，也不要太晚。

       We should come to the party just at the right time, ____________________________.

  2. 学会如何交友对于青少年来讲很重要。

       ____________________________ teenagers to learn how to make friends.

  1. 对不起，我的自行车出了点儿毛病，请再等我五分钟。

       I’m sorry, _____________________ my bike. Please wait for me five more minutes.

  58. Which would be the best title?

       A. Planes on the High Way                               B. Flying Cars Ready to Take off

       C. High Way in the Future                                D. Traffic Problem to be Solved

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  57. The underlined words cash in mean “_______”.

       A. invent                      B. sell                          C. make money             D. save money

  56. According to what mentioned in the passage, _______ can fly higher.

       A. A NASA invention                                      B. Norris’s invention

       C. The CarterCopter                                         D. The Springtail

  55. The future flying machine will be able to fly _______.

       A. without pilots                                              B. inside a box

       C. from a highway                                           D. like a helicopter

       Have you ever dreamt about the day you can buzz（嗡嗡作响）around in your very own flying machine? Well, that day may be sooner than you think.

       The people at NASA have built something called “The Highway in the Sky.” It’s a computer system（系统）designed（设计）to let millions of people fly whenever they please, and take off and land from wherever they please, in their very own vehicles（运载工具）. And here’s the good news ? a lot of people are building machines you’ll be able to buy.

       One of those people is Woody Norris, inventor of a new personal flying machine called the AirScooter. Norris asked one of his test pilots（飞行员）to show us the AirSoccter on a hilltop in California. It can fly for 2 hours at 55 miles per hour, and go up to 10,000 feet.

       A lot of inventors have tried to cash in on personal flying machines, but they failed to catch on because they were too expensive and hard to fly in bad weather. More important, there was no way to manage all the traffic from millions of them buzzing around ? that is, until now, thanks to “The Highway in the Sky.”

       Here’s how it works: You watch one main screen, almost like a videogame. Keep the plane inside the box, away from other vehicles, and the plane’s computers do the work of flying where you want to go. This $130-million program can also help pilots fly in bad weather. It’s a breakthrough that will some day allow more people to fly than ever before.

       All this new technology（技术）has given new life to the race to build the personal flying machine of tomorrow. What kind of inventions are people working on today? If you can imagine it, someone’s trying it, everything from machines that can fly straight up and down to ones that can go very fast.

       In Texas one inventor is testing the CarterCopter. It can fly straight up and down like a helicopter（直升机）, but can go as fast as an airplane, too. Even the cows are surprised when they see it!

      If you’re interested in something smaller, a strange-looking flying machine called the Springtail is a 21^st Century flying backpack. When it takes off, it’s loud and makes a lot of wind, but the inventors say it’s designed to fly for two hours, at 90 miles per hour, 400 feet above the ground.

       AirScooter inventor Woody Norris, like many of the inventors that we’ve met, believes today’s planes will soon become old and useless, and that “The Highway in the Sky” will be filled with flying machines that we can’t even begin to imagine.