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2014-06-18
第一节 (共15小题,每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题中所给的四个选项A B C D 中,选出最佳选项。
A
CHICAGO --Bill Clinton's eagerly awaited memoir(自传), My Life, will be published this June, and is sure to ignite(点燃)a firestorm of interest in an already politically charged election year. Bill Clinton said that most presidential memoirs are thought to be "dull and self-serving, but I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.”
My Life, which is being published by Knopf and will sell for $ 35, is expected by many industry watchers to rise to the top of the best-seller lists.
Clinton said the book tells the story of his life from his birth and childhood in Arkansas to his years in the White House. From the book readers can have a look at his successes and setbacks.
He tells the story “as it happens to me, so you see what it's like to be president ... to see how everything happens at once.”
Without offering specifics or mentioning Monica Lewinsky, Clinton said, "I don't spare myself" in the book.
"I have no idea if this is a great book," he said, "but it's a pretty good story. "
Clinton was reportedly paid an advance of $10 million for the book, which was supposed to be done a year ago.
"The minute that book goes on sale, people will be lined up buying the book," said Bob Wietrak, a vice-president(副总统)and chief merchant for Barnes & Noble.
Some predict the 957-page book will be one of the few presidential memoirs to fly off shelves.
Booksellers have already taken pre-orders. The 1.5 million-copy first printing is bigger than the first run for Hillary Clinton's memoir Living History, which sold 1.8 million copies.
56. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the book My Life?
A. It will come out in June. B. It has 957 pages in all.
C. It is priced at $ 35. D. It will be published by Barnes & Noble
57. Readers will not find much information about in the book.
A. Clinton's childhood B. Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky
C. Clinton's political life D. Clinton’s presidential election
58. The underlined word "setback" means .
A. a change from worse to better B. a change from better to worse
C. a change from worse to worst D. a change better to best
59. What can we learn about the sale of book?
A. The whole printing will be bigger than that of Hillary Clinton's Living History
B. Some booksellers have placed orders beforehand.
C. The book will be taken off the shelves after it meets failure.
D. People have to place an order for the book before it comes out.
B
Have you ever imagined what kind of car we will be driving in 2020? It will be rather different from the type we know today, with the next 20 years bringing greater change than the past 50. The people who will be designing the models of tomorrow believe that environmental problems may well accelerate(促进,加快)the pace of the car's development. Today they are students on the transport design course at London's Royal College of Art.
Their vision is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, electrically powered, environmentally clean, and able to drive itself along "intelligent" roads equipped with built-in power supplies. Future cars will pick up their fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road, or store it in small quantities for traveling in the city.
Instead of today's seating arrangements--two in front, two or three behind, all facing forward—the 2010 car will have a versatile interior with adults and children in a family circle.
This view of the future car is based on a much more sophisticated(复杂的)road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them. Cars will not need drivers, because computers will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is to say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become impossible for cars to crash into one another. The technology already exists for the car to become a true automobile.
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