完形填空（20 分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從下列各題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。

Many people of my generation(代，一代) say that there is no hope for the future because of the way that  11   people behave today.

Their first argument（論點） is that when we were young we used to look after the   12   people in our community and help them. They also say that young people today don’t   13   about anything or anyone. However, I think the reason why we looked after older people was that we had no  14   . People had to live with their   15   and grandparents because they had no money. Young people today earn more and have more   16   to live where they want.

  Their second argument is that in our day we didn’t expect （盼望，期待）to be given jobs -----and that young people now don’t look for jobs, but just complain（抱怨） about   17   . On the other hand, things were easier in the past and it was always easy to get a job if you had friends and contacts（關(guān)系）. It is really   18  today.

  In conclusion I think there is hope for the  19   . This generation, like generations before them, has new  20   as well as old problems. If they learn from our mistakes the world will be a better place in future.

A. young          B. old          C. other            D. our

A. old         B. older            C. elder            D. eldest

A. know            B. care         C. complain     D. look

A. money      B. freedom     C. choice      D. help

A. friends     B. children        C. grandchildren    D. parents

A. freedom     B. money       C. reasons    D. hope

A. future      B. wages       C. work   D. unemployment（失業(yè)）

A. easier     B. harder      C. impossible   D. possible

A. young      B. old        C. future    D. generation

A.opportunities B. hopes   C. future      D. world

— Excuse me, could you tell me where I could make a call?

　      — Sorry, I’m a stranger here.

　      — ________.

    A. Thanks a lot                     B. That’s a pity

C. Thanks anyway                D. I’m sorry to hear it

As motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters traveling by “skycar”.

These could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. “When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that’s hard to use,” said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways-and prevent total pandemonium(吵雜狂亂的喧鬧)-if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.

“The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,” said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing’s research and development arm. “But we’re trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy(散開) a fleet of these.”

Past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(??55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.

Although it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot’s functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the “hub-and-spoke(中心輻射型)” model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large “hub” airports and then on to secondary flights to “spoke” airports near their final destinations.

The best title for this text would be      .

A. Developing Skycars   B. The Traffic Jams in the Sky

C. How to Guide Flying Cars in the Sky  D. What Flying Cars Will Look Like

The underlined word “envision” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “     ”.

A. see  B. expect   C. think    D. announce

When engineers develop the skycars, they have to deal with the following difficulties except      .

A. how to fly out of regional airports

 B. how to prevent the disorder of the airways

C. how to reduce expenses and the vehicle’s weight

D. how to fly the skycars to enter skies

Now Nasa researchers’ aim is to      .

A. make big flying cars

B. work out the plan——how to transform small plane travel

C. develop a new kind of small plane different from the traditional one

D. build a new kind of small plane with road-driving abilities

Up till now, full use of this theory has been ________ in building large ocean-going ships.

A. done             B. made          C. laid             D. taken

______ that the way people spend their holidays has changed a great deal in the past ten years.

A. What is reported              B. It is reported

C. It reports                       D. As is reported

—How about this kind of fruit?

   —Oh, this kind of fruit _______  lots of VitaminＣ and B.

   A. contains          B. includes     C. remains      D. holds

It’s quite impossible that it will rain tomorrow. But if it _______, I would still go to the park.

A. should rain        B. would rain         C. rains        D. had rained

Who do you think is the greatest man _______?

   A. lively             B. alive          C. live             D. living

Have you ever _____ playing in front of thousands of people at a concert?

A. dreamed     B. imagined      C. pretended       D. wanted

The reason ______ he gave for being late was ______ he overslept this morning.

A. why; that    B. which; that      C. why; because D. which; because