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【正文】 for fun. Then we called my dad, and they spoke for a while in Arabic and found out that they had several shared friends. After that, I called some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her. She was laughing a lot by then, patting my knee and answering questions. She pulled a bag of homemade cookies filled with nuts and topped with sugar from her bag and offered them to the women at the gate. To my amazement, no one refused. It was like a sacrament (圣餐 ). The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo —we were all smiling, covered with the same sugar. I looked around that gate and thought: This is the world I want to live in, one with no anxiety. This can still happen anywhere, I thought. Not everything is lost. 24. What can we learn about the author? A. She was highly skilled in speaking Arabic. B. Her grandmother saw her off at the airport. C. She took the same flight with the older woman. D. Her father was an acquaintance of the older woman. 25. Why did the older woman burst into tears at the boarding gate? A. Her flight ticket seemed to have got lost. B. She couldn’t make herself fully understood. C. Her flight was canceled because of bad weather. D. She thought she couldn’t make it for her treatment. 26. Which words can best describe the author? A. Brilliant. B. Considerate. C. Generous. D. Extraordinary. 27. What could be the best title for this passage? A. A Delayed Flight in Albuquerque B. A Strange Palestinian Woman C. Cookies at Gate A – 4 D. A Wonderful World C Standing in line for the latest iPhone at the Apple store, queueing for tickets to Wimbledon or even just waiting at the post office might just have got a lot easier. Japanese carmaker Nissan （尼桑） claims to have just the thing to relieve the sore(酸痛的 ) legs of tired queuers. The new system of ―selfdriving‖ chairs is designed to detect when someone at the front of the queue is called, and automatically move everyone else one step forward in line. The new invention is shown off in a pany video, which shows a busy restaurant with customers waiting outside. In the video, diners are sitting in a row of chairs, but will not have to stand when the next hungry diner is called to a table. Instead, the chairs, equipped with autonomous technology that detects the seat ahead, move along a path toward the front of the line. When the person at the front of the queue is called, the empty chair at the front can sense it is empty and so moves out of pole position. Cameras on the remaining chairs then sense the movement and follow automatically. The system, which is similar to the kind used in Nissan’s autonomous vehicle technology, will be tested at selected restaurants in Japan this year. Nissan said. ―It appeals to anyone who has queued for hours outside a crowded restaurant: it eliminates the boredom and physical pain of standing in line,‖ Nissan added. Although Tokyo has some 160,000 restaurants, long queues are not unmon. Chosen restaurants that meet the criteria will be able to show the chairs outside their restaurant next year. Nissan also released a short video showing the chairs being used in an art gallery, moving slowly in front of the various paintings to let viewers appreciate the art without the need to stand up. 28. What can we know about the ―selfdriving‖ chairs from the text? A. They are in hot demand like iPhone. B. They are intended for queueing diners. C. They are the invention of a car pany. D. They are pletely different from vehicle technology. 29. What enables the chairs to detect the seat ahead? A. Pole position. B. Autonomous technology. C. Cameras equipped on them. D. Sensors equipped along the path. 30. Which of the following can replace the underlined word ―eliminates‖ in Paragraph 4? A. Steals. B. Reduces. C. Removes. D. Hides. 31. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs? A. Queueing is a rare scene outside Japanese restaurants. B. ―Selfdriving‖ chairs are the most useful in art galleries. C. Japanese people prefer eating in restaurants to at home. D. ―Selfdriving‖ chairs haven’t been in official use in restaurants. D Encouraging pupils to keep noise to a minimum should be a valuab
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