高考英语一轮统考复习 Book 4 Module 2 Traffic Jam课时作业(含解析)外研版

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Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

(2020·湖北省孝感市第一中学高三月考)Last week, two companies, Kitty Hawk and

Uber, announced their plans to bring flying cars to reality very soon.

Kitty Hawk president, Sebastian Thrun, announced Kitty Hawk's flying car plans

last Monday. According to its website, the car is electricpowered and will be able

to travel at a speed up to 40 kilometers an hour. It says such a machine “does not

require registration or a pilot's license and may be flown in uncrowded areas for

recreational purposes.〞 As of now, the car can only be flown over fresh water.

Kitty Hawk is making a list of people interested in buying the flying car. They

must pay a deposit of $100.Those who get their names on the list early will receive

$2,000 off the final cost of the car. However, Kitty Hawk has not yet announced the

price. Its first flying cars are expected to go on sale by the end of this year.

Unlike the Kitty Hawk company, Uber does not plan to build its flying cars. Uber

expects to launch flying taxis in DallasFt. Worth, Texas, US by 2020.Like the Kitty

Hawk car, Uber flying taxis will use electric power. Uber says its flying taxis could

travel up to 241 kilometers an hour. The company says that could reduce the travel

time between San Francisco and San Jose, California from 2 hours on the road to 15

minutes in the air.

Riders could use the Uber app to book a flying taxi to take them to their

destinations. The company has not yet said how costly air taxi travel would be compared

to road taxi travel.

Sooner than you think, flying cars may appear in the sky. Much convenience as

they will bring, just imagine having to avoid other flying cars. Also, what if your

battery dies when you are in the air? And, how will you know where to land?

篇章导读：本文是一篇说明文。上周，Kitty Hawk和 Uber两家公司宣布他们很快就会使飞行汽车成为现实。文章具体介绍了两家公司研制的飞行汽车的一些特点。

1．What may Kitty Hawk's flying car be used for at present?

A．Accelerating the speed.

B．Having fun. word

- 2 - / 8 C．Advertising the company.

D．Fetching water.

答案：B 细节理解题。由第二段第三句“It says such a machine‘... may be flown

in uncrowded areas for recreational purposes.’〞可知，目前该飞行汽车主要用于消遣娱乐。故B项正确。

2．What do we know about Kitty Hawk's flying car from the third paragraph?

A．It costs two thousand dollars each.

B．It can travel over water.

C．It offers $100 to its potential buyers.

D．It hasn't gone to market.

答案：D 推理判断题。由第三段中的最后两句“However, Kitty Hawk has not yet

announced the price. Its first flying cars are expected to go on sale by the end of

this year.〞可知，Kitty Hawk的飞行汽车还没有定价，预计到今年年底进展销售。由此可以推知，该飞行汽车还没有上市。故D项正确。

3．In what way is Uber's flying taxi similar to Kitty Hawk's flying car?

A．They travel at the same speed.

B．They are electricpowered.

C．They are supported by the Uber app.

D．They require a flying license.

答案：B 细节理解题。由第二段中的“... the car is electricpowered〞和第四段中的“Like the Kitty Hawk car, Uber flying taxis will use electric power.〞可知，它们都是电动的。故B项正确。

4．What is the purpose of the last paragraph of the text?

A．To call for public donations.

B．To introduce some advantages.

C．To promote interest in science.

D．To talk about possible problems.

答案：D 推理判断题。由最后一段最后三句话，尤其是最后的两个问句可知，该段提出了飞行汽车可能出现的问题。故D项正确。

B

(2019·河北省邢台市高三第一次月考)I have a neighbor who is a capable, word

- 3 - / 8 fashionable, seventyyearold, single woman. Her name is Grace. Grace was laid off from

her job a little over two years ago and has been living off her savings ever since

but not officially “retired〞. Grace called me up one day about this time last year

and asked if I had a ladder. She needed to clean out her gutters (水槽) on the roof

and wanted me to hold the ladder.

She didn't want me to climb up and clean the gutters. She just wanted me to hold

the ladder. As it happened I did have a ladder. I said, “The leaves are going to

fall off the trees in a month, why don't we wait till they finish and do it then？〞

She agreed and naturally we didn't talk about it again until spring. Spring in

Tennessee is wild and we talked about it over the course of three weeks in which it

rained nearly every day, then I got busy and Grace went into seclusion (隐居)．

A couple of weeks ago, she told me she'd been spending too much money and decided

to apply for a bar tending job at a local hotel. “Now I don't know about you all

but I'd never considered what it would be like to apply for and begin a new job at

the age of seventy. I'm fiftythree and the older I get, the more I think about how

great it'll be if I can just get out of bed when I'm seventy.〞 Anyway, she got the

job, serving the bar and tending banquets at the hotel.

The day when she left for her training at 6 am, I walked across the street with