阅读理解

　　The first motor car was made in 1875 by an Austrian, Siegfried Marcus．He used the internal combustion(燃烧)engine, which was gradually being perfected．But Marcus did not make cars for sale, and it is a German, Carl Benz, who is recognized as the father of the motor car．Benz made motor cars for sale in 1885, and with another German, Gottlieb Daimler, became the pioneers of the motor industry．

　　Engineers in many countries designed engines and motor cars．the earliest ones were built like horse carriages, and an early British company was called The Great Horseless Carriage Company．Their cars looked like carriages, with large wheels and engines below the floor-boards．

　　Motor cars of all shapes and sizes were built and improvements were quickly made．The most famous was a British make．In 1906 a well-known sportsman, Charles Rolls, went into partnership with Henry Royce, an engineer．Together they built the Rolls-Royce motor car, which has long been known as the best car in the world．Few inventions have made such a tremendous difference to everyday life as the internal combustion engine．It has changed the way of life with motor cars and motor cycles, buses, lorries and aeroplanes．

1．Who first established the motor industry?

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A．A German　　　　 B．Two British

C．An Austrian　　　D．Two Germans

2．It was ______ after the very first motor car was made that the Rolls-Royce cars came into being．

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A．a century　　　B．twenty-one years

C．ten years　　　D．thirty-one years

3．Why was the early motor company called “The Great Horseless Carriage Company”? ______．

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A．Because people confused motor cars with horse carriages

B．Because the company carried on carriage business

C．Because people would have a better understanding of the motor cars

D．Because the company had nothing to do with motor cars

4．The Rolls-Royce motor car has been regarded as the best one in the world ______．

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A．since it was improved

B．up to the present day

C．after the twentieth century

D．from the time motor cars were made for sale

5．Which of the following makes the greatest contribution to the change of the people’s way of life? ______．

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A．The internal combustion engine

B．Daimler, the pioneer of the motor industry

C．The Great Horseless Carriage Company

D．Charles Rolls and Henry Royce

完形填空：

　　Motor cars were first made in England just before 1900. The parts for the bodies and engines (发动机) 1 hand-made, and the cars built from these were made at a time. This 2 a long time and the cars 3 a lot of money.

　　Some of these old cars are 4 running and every year take part in a race 5 London to Brighten.

　　The car makers had to find a quicker and 6 way of making cars so that people 7 buy them.

　　Instead of 8 all the parts at their own factory, some car makers 9 other factories to do this. Then parts were 10 fitted (组装)together by the car makers.

　　 11 American whose name was Henry Ford found a quick way of making cars. He had a 12 of men who fitted together each part of a car. Then the men 13 to another car. Other men 14 the parts to them. When the cars were finished, they were 15 away and another line of cars was 16 .

　　Today the cars are 17 away by a moving track (输送带). Modem car-making factories are 18 large that each one is 19 a lot of factories close together. 20 of men and women work in each factory and make the many different parts of cars.

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　　Life was pretty terrible for most people in London 100 years 1 . They had to put up with noise, smoke 2 dirt. The noise came from the railway, and the smoke and dirt came from the trains and 3 of chimneys (烟囱) all 4 them. The smoke often mixed with fog and hung in the air 5 . Diseases killed thousands of children. 6 were large but often five 7 seven children would die 8 they were five years old.

　　Is life 9 than it was 100 years ago? It is certainly 10 that people live longer than they used to, travel faster than they used to, and 11 more things than they did. But we still have to put up with noise, overcrowding and bad air. These things are 12 a basic part of modern 13 .

　　100 years ago, there was a 14 difference between 15 and country. But the motor cars have 16 all that. One motorway can take up a huge amount of land. Cars are also a basic part of modern life.

　　But industry and modern life do not have to be 17 of beauty. We can have both 18 and progress. We need clean rivers and open country just as much as people 19 100 years ago. But it's becoming more and more difficult 20 open land, clear water and clean air.

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语篇理解

　　A warm,dusty wind was blowing over the harbour(海港) from the south.Where it stopped,it left a thin layer of fine African sand,a bit of unwanted Africa,and also unwanted by France.

　　Clive stood with Dick,a racing driver,in the ship,watching the cars being taken from the land.Some of the cars were already in the ship.

　　‘I hope this wind will have changed by the time we get there,’the driver said,staring up at the cream-coloured sky.‘These conditions wouldn't be any good for racing’.

　　‘Don’t worry,’Clive said with a smile.‘It'll hardly trouble us,since Argentina is about 7,000 miles away.’

　　Surprise came over the driver’s face.‘Is that so? We should leave it behind then,shouldn’t we?’

　　They talked for a while about Argentina.Clive was going on business,but Dick was to take part in a motor-race.It was his first important event outside Europe.He mentioned the date of the race December 30,and added,‘I’ve never raced in cold winter before.’

　　Their conversation was then turned to the young driver.He was an engineer,twenty-six years old.Motor-racing was his great love,and he was recently driving a car made in France.He spoke well enough,so Clive thought he must have had a good education.However,something seemed to have gone wrong or was different these days.Here he was ,going to Argentina,but without much idea where the country was .When he spoke of a cousin of his who worked in South Africa ‘Is there any chance of this ship calling there?’ Clive realized that the young man had no map of the world in his mind.

　　He had plans to race in South Africa and in Japan.To him,they were places on the earth,and probably that was all.Clive was interested because the man seemed cheerfully unconscious of his lack of knowledge.What was worse,he even thought everyone else was as foolish as him.

　　Dust blew into their faces.“This wind from Africa…”but he did not go on .Was there any point of his saying so?To the young man,it might have been the same as a wind from China.Were there many people,he wondered,who did not know where they were going,or even where they were?

1．Clive and Dick were on the ship because they ______.

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A．were leaving for South America

B．wanted to see a French motor-race

C．tried to stay away from a dust storm

D．had gone there to get the motor-cars

2．Clive was puzzled when the driver spoke about the weather conditions because ______.

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A．the weather didn't look like changing

B．the driver couldn't race that day

C．the driver thought conditions would be the same in Argentina

D．the long distance to Argentina had surprised the man

3．______ made Clive try to find out more of the young driver.

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A．It was his interest in people with exciting jobs that

B．The young man's idea that the race would be run in winter

C．His wish to make a friend for the long trip

D．His wish to make the young driver feel less worried

4．What seemed to have gone wrong was that ______,

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A．an engineer should waste time racing

B．people started on long journeys without any maps

C．the young man's education was far from perfect

D．the young man was on the wrong ship for South America

5．Clive and Dick were not the same kind of people because ______.

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A．the driver was much younger than Clive

B．their jobs were different

C．Clive knew his way about the world,but the young man didn't

D．the wind worried Dick,but it didn't trouble Clive