【文章內容簡介】 rimary goal in life shouldn’t be financial success C． parents should not always tell their children what to do D． not everyone can have a successful career in business B A team of British engineers will announce a plan for the world’s first 1,000 mph car, a pencil – shaped vehicle designed to break the world land speed record. The ￡ 12,000,000 car, known as Bloodhound SSC, is to be announced today by Paul Drayson, the science minister for the UK government. It would be able to reach traveling faster than a speeding bullet. The Bloodhound team plans to have the car but year, with the record attempt expected in three years. The project brings together fighter pilot Andy Green, who set the current land speed record of 763 mph with Trust SSC in 1997 and Richard Noble, who directed that attempt. The car will be the first to bine a jet engine for a Euro fighter Typhoon with a rocket booster (助推器 ). The task of driving the vehicle will fall on Andy Green, 46. He will use an accelerator (加速器 ) to power the jet engine up to speeds of around 350 mph and tussled rocket booster. At that point, a V – 12 racing Car engine will start pumping more, of hydrogen peroxide (過氧化氫 ) into the booster, forcing the car to 1,000 mph in 20 seconds. Team members are now visiting sites where the record attempt will be made. The current record was set at Black Rock Desert in Nevada, US. But that is impossible now as ground conditions there have bee worse since 1997. in the next week or two, Green will visit a site in South Africa. Other possible places are the salt flats of the US and Australia. John Piper, the lead engineer on the project, said the team would get started next month. The plan was put forward by Drayson, a racing car enthusiast, as a project to inspire a new generation o f scientisits and engineers, who are in desperately short supply in the UK. ―We dodn’t have enough young people taking science and maths. These are difficult subjects and we have to give they young a clear reason for study them,‖ said Drayson. 55． Which of the following is true ob Bloodhound SSC? A． It will be put on the market in three years. B． It can accelerate from 350 mph to 1,050 mph in 12 seconds. C． It is powered only by a solid rocket booster. D． It will beat the current record by more than 250 mph. 56． Where did Andy Green set the current world land speed record? A． In South Africa. B． In the United States. C． In the United Kingdom. D． In Australia. 57． Who will be the driver of Bloodhound SSC? A． Paul Drayson. B． Richard Noble. C． Andy Green. D． John Piper. 58． Paul Drayson hopes that Bloodhound SSC will . A． inspire more young people to study science and technology B． attract more attention from other scientists and engineers C． break the world land speed record as soon as possible D． bring more job opportunities to they young generation C ―I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.‖ – Hery David Thoreau. When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden. Pond he knew as a boy. Woodchoppers(伐木者 ) and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drfiting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him. Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days‖ when idleness was the most attractive and productive business.‖ I too was a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days. Sun and summer are still what the always were, but the boy and the pond changed. The boy, who is now a man, no longer finds much time for idle drifting. The pond has been annexed by a great city. The swamps (沼澤地 )where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with hourses. The bay where water lilies（睡蓮） quietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats. In short, everything that the boy loved no longer exists—except in the man’s memory of it. Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon fotten. So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens. The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives. Those who truly treasure the past will not regret the passing of the good old days, because days protected in memory are never lost. Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun. 59． The underlined phrase Iron Horse (in Paragraph 3) probably refers to . A． a means of transport B． a type of animal C． a kind of factory D． a mudrock flow 60． In what way was the author similar to Thoreau? A． Both of them tried to stop woodchoppers from cutting the trees. B． Both of them enjoyed playing at a pond in summer. C． Both of them were good at rowing boats. D． Both of them were from rich families. 61． he author thinks that it is wrong to . A． fet the past. B． damage the forests C． ruin natural beauty D． have hope for the future 62． Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A． Neither Today nor Tomorrow Matters B． Memories of the Past to Be Treasured C． Sunny Hours and Summer Days D． In Love with A Pond D Real Christmas trees on farms would not exist if people stopped buying them. Just one acre of growing Christmas trees produces the daily oxygen requirements for at least eighteen people. Christmas tree farms protect water supplies, stabilize soil, and help protect wildlife. The forests of North America spread over roughly the same area of