宜昌一中，龙泉中学2016届期中考试英语试题及答案(2)

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21.This advertisement aims at calling on people to _____        
   A. attend full-time universities.
   B. work part time to further their education.
   C. earn their degrees in different ways that suit them.  
   D. improve their education at home to get better jobs.
22. Which of the following is NOT clearly mentioned in this advertisement?
   A. The way how you will get your degree.
   B. The tuition price you will pay for the course.
   C. The hot fields you will be preparing yourself for.
   D. The length of time it will take you to get a degree.
23. It seems to the writer that the greatest attraction for people to take their training is _____.
   A. the convenience it will offer
   B. the degree’s nation-wide recognition
   C. the economic benefit it will bring about
   D .the lowest tuition price people will pay
B
    About five years ago, an American electrical engineer named Scott Brusaw and his wife Julie came up with the idea of putting solar panels on the ground rather than the roof. Then they began to develop the Solar Roadway. The Solar Roadway is an intelligent road that provides clean renewable energy using power from the sun while providing safer driving conditions, along with power and data delivery. They predict that the Solar Roadway will pay for itself through the generation of electricity along with other forms of income and that the same money that is being used to build and resurface current roads can be used to build the Solar Roadways.
    Each Solar Road Panel measures roughly 4 meters by 4 meters and contains a microprocessor (微处理器) that monitors and controls the panel, while communicating with neighboring panels and the vehicles traveling overhead. The inventors suggest that this provides a communications device every 4 meters on every road which could be used for example to warn drivers of cars which are moving across a centre line and various other speed control problems. The top of the Solar Road panels is made of super-strong glass that would offer vehicles the tractions (抓地力) they need.
    According to the inventors, the Solar Roadway creates and carries clean renewable electricity and therefore electric vehicles can be recharged at any conveniently located rest stop, or at any business that has paved Solar Road Panels in their parking lots.
    The inventors say their Solar Roadway has many functions and advantages from main roads to driveways, parking lots, bike paths, sidewalks and runways. The Federal Highway Administration has given Brusaw $100,000 to develop the invention and Brusaw hopes to build a smart-road parking lot in the coming spring .
24. In the inventors’ opinion, the Solar Roadway _____.
   A. is too expensive to build at present
   B. will bring them a large sum of money
   C. can provide as many data as present computers
   D. costs no more money than current roads
25. The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.
   A. the panels B. the vehicles C. the researchers D. the inventors
26. It can be inferred from the text that _____.
   A. the Solar Roadway is not available for gas-powered cars
   B. $100,000 is only enough to build a smart-road parking lot
   C. the Solar Roadway has already been put into use
   D. future electric vehicles can be charged anytime and anywhere
27. What can be the best title for the text?
   A. The influence the Solar Roadway has on people
   B. The great changes on the roadway
   C. Solar-powered smart road of the future
   D. The Solar Road — a much faster road
C
    Ask most people how they define the American Dream and chances are they’ll say, “Success.” The dream of individual opportunity has been home in American since Europeans discovered a “new world” in the Western Hemisphere. Early immigrants like Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur praised highly the freedom and opportunity to be found in this new land. His glowing descriptions of a classless society where anyone could attain success through honesty and hard work fired the imaginations of many European readers: in Letters from an American Farmer (1782) he wrote. “We are all excited at the spirit of an industry which is unfettered (无拘无束的) and unlimited, because each person works for himself … We have no princes, for whom we toil (干苦力活)，starve, and bleed: we are the most perfect society now existing in the world.” The promise of a land where “the rewards of a man’s industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor” drew poor immigrants from Europe and fueled national expansion into the western territories.
    We Americans have heard many illustrations of the American success stories. There’s Benjamin Franklin, the very model of the self-educated, self-made man, who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman. In the nineteenth century, Horatio Alger, a writer of fiction for young boys, became American’s best-selling author with rags-to-riches tales. The conception of success haunts us: we spend million every year reading about the rich and famous, learning how to “make a fortune in real estate with no money down,” and “dressing for success.” The myth of success has even affected our personal relationships: today it’s as important to be “successful” in marriage or parenthoods as it is to come out on top in business.