阅读理解。 Ten students have stopped complaining about gas prices.Instead,they"re
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nationwide contest to redesign the cars.Final competitors were chosen from a field of 60
applicants.
"The schools were selected to find technology that will help our country reach the needs
for energy sources,so we don"t have to depend on other countries to provide fuel," Pickering
said.He is vice chairman of the US House of Reprentatives Energy and Commerce Committee.
The teams received $10 000 and a Chevrolet Equinox which would be used as a starting place
for modifications.Each team can also get $25 000 in parts and software from GM and other
sponsors.The cars will be taken to the GM proving grounds for a national competition.It"s the
finale (结束曲)of a three-year competition.
In the first year,students designed and worked out their plans."At the end of the first year,our
plans for the hybrid (混合动力系统)were approved and we received our own Chevrolet Equinox
to begin construction," said Amanda McAlpin,leader of the outreach team.
In the second year,the students" goal is for their hybrid to exceed the factory Equinox"s fuel
efficiency by 50 percent."Our goal is to place in the top five but increase in the areas we lacked in,"
McAlpin said."If we can maintain this strategy,we should be able to obtain our goal."In the final
competition this year,GM technicians would examine the cars to approve the safety and make sure
they meet all contest rules."We would like to be in the top half of each event,but they are all different.
Every team has their own strategy to win," said a computer engineering major.
"By ho
sting the competition,GM really gets the cream of the crop (优秀毕业生)from the top engineering schools across the country," McAlpin said."Many of our recent graduates who have
worked on the car have received jobs with GM." And Pickering agreed,"Their brainpower will give
us firepower and horsepower for the future."
A.One year.
B.Two years.
C.Three years.
D.Four years
B.changes
C.approval
D.examination
B.To sell its Chevrolet Equinox.
C.To make advertisements.
D.To find excellent graduates and employ them.
wing can be the best title for this passage?B.A Competition for Redesigning Cars
C.An Energy-saving Competition
D.GM and the Redesigned Cars
答案
举一反三
When she looked ahead,Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog.Her body was
numb (麻木的).She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.Already she was the first woman
to swim the English Channel in both directions.Now,at age 34,her goal was to become the first
woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.
On that fourth morning of July in 1952,the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense
that she could hardly see her support boats.Sharks cruised (巡游)toward her lone figure,only to
be driven away by rifle shots.Against the frigid grip of the sea,she struggled on-hour after hour-while
millions watched on national television.
Alongside Florence in one of the boats,her mother and her trainer offered encouragement.They
told her it wasn"t much farther.But all she could see was fog.They urged her not to quit.She never
had...until then.With only a half mile to go,she asked to be pulled out.
Still thawing (使变暖和)her chilled body several hours later,she told a reporter,"Look,I"m not
excusing myself,but if I could have seen land I might have made it." It was not tiredness or even the
cold water that defeated her.It was the fog.She was unable to see her goal.
Two months later,she tried again.This time,despite the same dense fog,she swam with her faith
intact and her goal clearly pictured in her mind.She knew that somewher
e behind that fog was land
and this time she made it!Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel,
eclipsing the men"s record by two hours!
B.Because the fog was so thick that she lost heart at the sea.
C.Because she couldn"t see her goal:the land.
D.Because the sea water too cold to bear.
B.She had never thought of giving it up.
C.She had never seen such thick fog.
D.She had never swum across the strait before.
B.Florence Chadwick succeeded in swimming across the Catalina Channel in September,1952.
C.People had to use guns to drive away some flesh-eating fish in the sea.
D.No women but Florence Chadwick were able to swim across the English Channel in both directions.
B.Swim Across the Catalina Channel
C.The Fog Defeated Her
D.Set a Goal for Yourself
moment! She quickly picked up the wet phone and tried to turn it on, but nothing worked. Her first
reaction? She got dressed, drove to the nearest store, and bought a new model at full price.
A new study finds that fear of losing your phone is a common illness. About 66 percent of those
surveyed suffer from nomophobia or "no mobile phone phobia". Interestingly, more women worry about
losing their phone than men.
Fortunately, there"s a solution.
The first step is to figure out if you have nomophobia. Checking your phone too often is one thing, but
the true sign of a problem is that you can"t conduct business or go about your routine when the fear
becomes so severe.
Do you go to unusual lengths to make sure you have your phone? That"s another sign of a problem.
If you find you check your phone plenty of times per hour, or a total of an hour per day, there may be
a problem.
Some of the treatments are similar to those for treating anxiety attacks: Leaving the phone behind and
not checking e-mail or text messages, and then learning to tolerate the after anxiety. Even if this leads to
a high level of worry and stress, the solution is to push through the fear and learn to deal with not having
your phone.
Of course, there are also technological alternatives. Luis Levy, a co-founder at Novy PR, says he
uses an application called Cerberus that can automatically track the location of his phone. To find it, he
can just go to a Web site and see the phone"s location.
He also insures his phone through a service called Asurion. The company"s description of its product
reads like a prescription for anxiety: "60 million phones are lost, stolen or damaged each year. You"ll
have complete peace of mind knowing that your phone is protected and you can quickly reconnect with
family, friends and work, as soon as the very next day!"
B. To introduce the topic for discussion.
C. To tell us we should get phones ready for a trip.
D.To warn us that we should be careful.
B. Habits of using mobile phones
C. Independence of mobile phones.
D. Eagerness for new mobile phones.
B. Avoiding using phone for some time
C. Not using a mobile phone in one"s daily work.
D.Protecting one"s phone against any damage.
B. It lets you know other people also lose their phones.
C. It gives you a prescription to treat nomophobia.
D. It enables you to reconnect with your acquaintance.
B. Attitude toward mobile phone.
C. Solutions to nomophobia
D. Disadvantages of mobile phone
Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, says it plans to deliver its carplane, the Tr
ansition,to customers by the end of 2012.
"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 ta
kes 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 c
ompany has been working with FAA to meet aircraft regulations, and with the NationalHighway 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 of 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 carplane 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 i
nto 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 fullplane parachute.
"If you get into a very awful situation, it is the necessary safety option," Gersh said.
So far, the company has more th
an 70 orders with deposits. "We"re working very closely withthem, but there are still some remaining steps," Brown said.
B. people might drive a carplane in 2012
C. both Transition and Ferrari can take off and land
D. Richard Gersh is the vice president of Massachusetts
B. unfold wings for flying
C. land in the airport
D. meet flying safety regulations
ccording to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? B. To meet aircraft regulations, the company has been working with FAA.
C. The carplane may fly as high as normal planes.
D. People can park the carplane in the garage at their home.
B. the transponder
C. the GPS
D. the fullplane parachute
B. Which To Choose: A Ferrari Or A CarPlane?
C. A More Convenient And Cheaper Way
To FlyD. Cars With Wings Can Fly As Fast As Plane
want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood,
this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered the rightful property
of some one or other of their daughters.
"My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at
last?" Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
"But it is," returned she, "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it."
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
"Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
"You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."
This was invitation enough.
"Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large
fortune from the north of England; that he camedown on Monday in a chaise to see the place, and was
so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession
before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week."
"What is his name?"
"Bingley."
"Is he married or single?"
"Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What
a fine thing for our girls! "
"How so? How can it affect them?"
"My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am
thinking of his marrying one of them."
"Is that his design in settling here?"
"Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them,
and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes."
"I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which
perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the
best of the party."
that ____.
B. a single man without money needn"t a wife.
C. women want to get married to financial stable men.
D. once man becomes rich, he must want to get a wife.
B. wanted to get acquainted with their new neighbor.
C. wanted to persuade her husband to see the young man.
D. asked for her husband"s permission to visit the new neighbor.
B. ironic(讽刺的)
C. delighted
D. annoyed
troubles, viral infections, and higher death rates.What they didn"t know is how this feeling causes illness.
A study in the September issue of the online journal Genome Biology suggests that loneliness actually
affects the very core of our bodies-our genes.
In a small population of patients, researchers surveyed more than 20,000 genes using DNA skills to
compare how the genes of lonely
and nonlonely individuals express themselves in molecular (分子) processes and, ultimately, in personal health.They found that gene expression is different at 209 sites in
chronically lonely people and that many of those changes fit a pattern of elevated immune activation,
inflammation (炎症), and depressed response to infection."We now have a molecular framework for
understanding the relationship between social experience and physical health, "explains the study"s lead
author, Steve Cole.
The study found that loneline
ss decreases the response of some body receptors, cutting off the immune control and anti－inflammatory effects of the stress－related hormone that also helps regulate the
conversion of carbohydrates (碳水化合物) to energy.The depressed response of the stress－related
hormone concurs with the known effects of loneliness and provides a potential target for treatment.
"This study-the first to link feelings with gene changes-is in some sense groundbreaking, "says Emma
Adam, an associate professor at Northwestern University."It fills in the black box."
According to John Cacioppo, an author of the study and a psychologist from the University of
Chicago, the work suggests that loneliness is a warning sign, much like physical pain."This very process
of feeling bad because of disconnection contributes to what it means to be human, "he says."It makes us
care for other people and want to reconnect when we"re disconnected."
B. have bad and little genes
C. are full of energ
D. are quick to the responses of some body receptors
B. Researchers and doctors can deal with loneliness by regulating the stress－related hormone.
C. Loneliness is a warning sign of physical pain.
D. The study of loneliness is of little value at present.
B. the process of feeling bad
C. lon
eliness D. to be human
B. Take more social activities.
C. Take more physical exercises.
D. Ring your friends when you need their help.
B. A Survey on Loneliness
C. Why Loneliness Is Bad for You
D. Genes and Loneliness
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