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（促進，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（復雜的）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.

60. A future car will use electrical power, because it is           .

A. safer      B. cheaper      C. cleaner      D. faster

61. A future car will have all the following features EXCEPT               .

A. being three-wheeled       B. running without anyone in it

C. driving along special roads   D. with a versatile seating arrangement

62. The underlined sentence "with strips built.., passing along them" means that there will be             .

A. many traffic lights to control the speed of future cars

B. many street posts to indicate directions for drivers

C. many power sources along roads supplying power to cars

D. many stop marks along the street to stop cars

63. What is the main idea of the text?

A. Future cars will be completely different from the automobiles we know today.

B. The design of future cars will be more sophisticated.

C. Because of the new type of cars, our future environment will become cleaner.

D. The road system will become more sophisticated than it is today.

CHICAGO --Bill Clinton's eagerly awaited memoir(自傳), My Life, will be published this June, and is sure to ignite（點燃）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（副總統(tǒng)）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.

The amount of usable water has always been of great interest in the world． 36 springs and streams sometimes means control，particularly in the 37 areas like the desert．The control is possible even without possession of large areas of 38 land. In the early days of the American West，gun fights were not 39 for the water resources，and laws bad to be  40  to protect the water rights of the  41  and the use of the water resources accordingly.

42 is known to us all, there is not 43 water in all places for everyone to use as much as he likes. Deciding on the 44 of water that will be used in any particular period 45 careful planning, so that people can manage and use water more 46. Farmers have to change their use of or demand for water 47 the water supply forecast.

The 48 water supply forecast is based more on the water from the 49 than from the below. Interest is 50 in the ways to increase rainfall by man-made methods, and to get water from the winter snow on mountain 51. With special equipment, some scientists are studying the ways in which the mountain snow can be 52, and with the help of a repeater station, they send the 53 data(數(shù)據(jù))to the base station. The operator at the base station can get the data at any time by   54 a button. In the near future, the forecast and use of water 55 probably depend on the advance knowledge of snow on mountains, not of water underground.

36. A. Using          B. Holding             C. Owning           D. Finding

37. A. dry                 B. distant          C. deserted          D. wild

38. A. fine                    B. beautiful     C. rich                 D. farming

39. A. unlawful      B. unacceptable      C. unpopular   D. uncommon

40. A. made           B. designed            C. signed               D. written

41. A. winners              B. settlers                 C. fighters           D. supporters

42. A. That            B. It                      C. What                D. As

43. A. plentiful       B. enough                 C. any                        D. much

44. A. type                   B. quality           C. amount           D. level

45. A. requests              B. requires                C. means                 D. suggests

46. A. effectively           B. easily  C. conveniently      D. actively

47. A. leading to            B. due to        C. owing to    D. according to

48. A. correct               B. further                 C. average           D. early

49. A. clouds                B. sky                      C. air                  D. above

50. A. raising                B. rising                C. building             D. lasting

51. A. rocks        B. tips                  C. tops                       D. trees

52. A. taken care of   B. made use of   C. piled up  D. saved up

53. A. picked         B. produced          C. used                 D. gathered

54. A. touching    B. knocking         C. pressing            D. turning

55. A. might        B. can                  C. will                      D. should

Well, the lecture by our Chinese teacher is really _________. You see, he has usually not been on with his lesson for fifteen minutes when half of the students are so _______ that they fell asleep.

A. boring; bored     B. bored; bored  C. bored; boring   D. boring;boring

A satellite is a machine which goes around the earth to relay communication signals over long ________.

A. length       B. distance      C. way           D. space

 PE will be part of the high school graduation examinations. _________, you will have to be strong and healthy to graduate.

 A. After all   B. As a matter of fact     C. In other words   D. What’s more

These two signatures  are so _____that it’s very difficult to ______ them apart.
 A. the same…tell   B. different…say   C. similar…tell   D. similarly… say

We _______the job ________five parts, and each man did one part.

A. divided; into  B. separated ; into C. divided; from  D. separated ; from

We thought of selling this old furniture, but we’ve decided to______        it. It might be valuable.

A. hold on to                    B. keep up with             C. turn to              D. look after

The bank is equipped with new alarm ________. We can say it’s safe and reliable completely.
  A. system         B. way           C. order            D. method