第二节 (共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分)

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。其中有两项为多余选项。

In many parts of the world, cars play an important role in daily life and many societies would not exist without them. 36 But this is the prediction made by a team of transport researchers who are taken seriously, not only by government but also by car manufacturers(制造商).

The Human Science and Advanced Technology Institute at Loughborough in the UK is part of an international research program. 37 That will mean much saving, no accidents and better use of roads. The super-intelligent car of the 21st century will drive itself, 38. Instead，we will have a choice of cars and change them as frequently as we change our clothing.

According to Dr.David Davis，who leads the research team，these predictions are based on the rising cost of the car culture，which had blocked up our cities，polluted our air, and caused more deaths than both world wars put together.

Davis says，cars will be fitted with some intelligent devices(装置) to regulate(调节) the distance between one car and another. 39 Computers are much safer drivers than people，so cars in a road train will be able to drive much closer together than cars driven by people.

By 2010，Dr.David Davis believes，car technology will give motorists a clear view of the road，whatever the weather conditions，by projecting an image(影像)of the road ahead on to the car’s windscreen. 40 Cars will be connected by an electronic bar to the car in front to form “road-trains”. “The front vehicle in such a train burns the normal amount of fuel.” says Davis. “ But all the others in the train would burn about ten percent of the normal amount，and so produce about ten percent of the pollution.”

A.The team there believes that by 2030 all cars will be computerized.

B.They believe that cars will become more important in 20 years.

C.And it will not be owned by one individual.

D.And by 2030, cars will travel in line, linked to each other electronically.

E.So the idea that in 20 years’ time, no one will own cars may be hard to believe.

F.Every driver will use less fuel in the car he owns.

G.The car will automatically speed up, or slow down, to match the speed of the car in front.

第三部分 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、 C和D中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn’t longed to 41.____, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

“Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 42._ __, as I knew, but all the time 43.___ his foot against mine.

My 44.____ raced back more than thirty years to the 45.___ days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 46.____ was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

47.____ wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 48.____ each other very well. Frank West 49.____ me because he wasn’t 50.__ _, not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 51.____ of a mind than a baby has. His “52. ____” consisted of rough sounds-sounds of pleasure or anger and 53.____ more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she has to be, of course, because Frank 54.____ on her entirely. He needed all the 55.____ of a baby.

One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 56.____ nearly everything she owned.

When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 57.____ ones. So before we 58.____ that morning, I stood beside Frank and 59._____ my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 60.____ to me was always the same.

41. A. work B. stay C. live D. expect

42. A. answer B. speak C. smile D. laugh

43. A. covering B. moving C. fighting D. pressing

44. A. minds B. memories C. thoughts D. brains

45. A. better B. dark C. younger D. old

46. A. cave B. place C. sight D. scene

47. A. Discussing B. Solving C. Sharing D. Suffering

48. A. learn from B. talk to C. help D. know

49. A. needed B. recognized C. interested D. encouraged

50. A. normal B. common C. unusual D. quick

51. A. more B. worse C. fewer D. less

52. A. word B. speech C. sentence D. language

53. A. not B. no C. something D. nothing

54. A. fed B. kept C. lived D. depended

55. A. attention B. control C. treatment D. management

56. A. lost B. needed C. destroyed D. left

57. A. troublesome B. unlucky C. angry D. unpopular

58. A. separated B. went C. reunited D. returned

59. A. pushed B. tried C. showed D. measured

60. A. nodding B. greeting C. meeting D. acting