If you go to Finland, you’ll be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.
Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high class Benz with a fare (票价) of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then get off without paying your fare. And the driver would not show the least sign of worry.
The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends and dine free of charge.
With so many loopholes (漏洞) in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “pretty advantages”. But the strange things is, all the taxi-passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. As the Finns always act on good faith and always show an attitude of “which is which” and “what is what” in everything they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”. In a society of such high moral practice, what need is there for people to take precautions (预防措施) against others?
【小题1】The word “foolish” probably means _____________.

根据所掌握的文化或背景知识，选择正确答案。

1.The      is the fastest animal on earth.

2.In     , people are supposed to kiss when they meet for the first time.

3.Many fast food restaurant      to serve more people.

4.It’s not polite to use e-mail English       .

5.______ will hold the 30^th Olympic Games.

6._____ was born in Qufu. He is a great Chinese educator whose sayings has much influence on our life.

用括号内所给词的适当形式填空（每空不限一词）。

1.Mary has got a lovely dog. ________(It) name is Oliver.

2.The local people had to move away because of the serious ________.(pollute)

3.Climb up to the ________(twelve) floor, and you can enjoy a better view.

4.I didn’t want to be treated              (different) from anyone else.

5.As a volunteer, she              (experience) love and hate, sadness and happiness over the past ten years.

6.It is           (correct) for students to throw away the waste paper in the schoolyard.

7.Which team do you think ___________ (win) the final basketball match in the coming season?

8.__________(Work) hard, and you will be successful at last.

9.Comrade Lei Feng devoted all his life to             (serve) the people.

10.Last week we had a parents meeting. My father              (ask) to speak at the meeting.

Scientists believe in the near future a new kind of car that can not only drive on the road, but also fly in the sky will serve the people, it is called “flying-driving vehicle”.

Since the turn of the 20th century, there have been many hundreds of designs for flying-driving vehicles. And some of them have actually been built and flown. But “Transition” is the closest to people.

Transition was designed in 2006, and the first road and flight tests took place in 2009. Transition is designed to really be a general airplane, which can fold up（折叠）fully its wings, drive down the road and park in a single-car garage（车库）.

Transition can climb to more than 3000 meters high. It can carry two people at speeds over 160 kilometers an hour in the air. And on the ground it can drive at highway speeds, about 113 kilometers an hour.

Scientists expect Transition to reach market at the end of 2012, at a price of around 25, 0000 dollars. Mr. Carl Dietrich says nearly 100 people have already signed up as buyers. He hopes to sell as many as 1000 a year in the near future.

1.We learn from the passage that Transition is ________.

A. a flying car         B. a helicopter         C. a high-speed plane

2.________ shows us the way of Transition driving down the road.

A.                         B.                          C.

3.According to the passage, Transition ________.

A. takes up small room

B. can park over the water

C. flies in the sky only

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage?

    A. Transition can carry 2 people at speeds over 113 km/h in the air.

    B. Mr. Carl Dietrich has sold as many as 1000 Transition so far.

    C. Scientists expect Transition to serve the people at the end of 2012

5.The fourth paragraph(段落) mainly tells us about the __________ of Transition.

    A. price                        B. speed                    C. Design

用括号内所给词的适当形式填空（每空不限一词）。
【小题1】Mary has got a lovely dog. ________(It) name is Oliver.
【小题2】The local people had to move away because of the serious ________.(pollute)
【小题3】Climb up to the ________(twelve) floor, and you can enjoy a better view.
【小题4】I didn’t want to be treated              (different) from anyone else.
【小题5】As a volunteer, she              (experience) love and hate, sadness and happiness over the past ten years.
【小题6】It is           (correct) for students to throw away the waste paper in the schoolyard.
【小题7】Which team do you think ___________ (win) the final basketball match in the coming season?
【小题8】__________(Work) hard, and you will be successful at last.
【小题9】Comrade Lei Feng devoted all his life to             (serve) the people.
【小题10】Last week we had a parents meeting. My father              (ask) to speak at the meeting.