【正文】 em is the (17)_________________ highway system. When the auto enters the highway system, a retractable (可伸縮的) arm will drop from the auto and make contact with a rail. It is quite similar to those powering (18)_________________ electrically. Once attached to the rail, the car will bee electrically powered from the system, and control of the vehicle will pass to a central puter. The puter will then monitor all of the car’s movements. The driver will use a telephone to (19)_________________ his destination into the system. The puter will calculate the best route, and (20)_________________ the car all the way to the correct exit from the highway. The driver will then be free to relax and wait for the buzzer that will warn him of his ing exit. Script: Some pessimistic experts feel that the automobile is bound to fall into disuse. They see a day in the nottoodistant future when all autos will be abandoned and allowed to rust. Other authorities, however, think the auto is here to stay. They hold that the car will remain a leading means of urban travel in the foreseeable future. The motorcar will undoubtedly change significantly over the next 30 years. It should bee smaller, safer, and more economical, and should not be powered by the gasoline engine. The car of the future should be far more pollutionfree than present types. Regardless of its power source, the auto in the future will still be the main problem in urban traffic jams. One proposed solution to this problem is the automated highway system. When the auto enters the highway system, a retractable (可伸縮的) arm will drop from the auto and make contact with a rail. It is quite similar to those powering subway trains electrically. Once attached to the rail, the car will bee electrically powered from the system, and control of the vehicle will pass to a central puter. The puter will then monitor all of the car’s movements. The driver will use a telephone to dial instructions about his destination into the system. The puter will calculate the best route, and reserve space for the car all the way to the correct exit from the highway. The driver will then be free to relax and wait for the buzzer that will warn him of his ing exit. 正確答案： abandoned 正確答案： leading 正確答案： undoubtedly 正確答案： economical 正確答案： pollutionfree 正確答案： Regardless 正確答案： automated 正確答案： subway trains 正確答案： dial instructions about 正確答案： reserve space for Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes ) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. On an eightmile stretch of Interstate 15 ten miles north of San Diego, traffic engineers are 21 an MITdesigned system which will introduce the “automated driver.” The plan calls for puters, aided by thousands of threeinch 22 spikes buried in the highway, to take plete control of the driving of cars on heavily trafficked roads. Cars will be 23 into groups of ten to twelve vehicles, only six feet 24 , traveling in unison, and controlled by puter. 25 of this puterized highway have great hopes for its future. By 2010, telematics may well be 26 one of the major highways in the United States. If successful, by 2020, as the price of 27 drops to below a penny a piece, telematics could be adopted in thousands of miles of highways in the United States. This could prove to be an 28 boon as well, saving fuel, reducing 29 , decreasing air pollution, and serving as an 30 to highway expansion. A) fatality B) Promoters C) Protesters D) magnetic E) apart F) installing G) alternative H) brings about I) inevitable J) microchips K) traffic jams L) cultivation M) incorporated into N) environmental O) bunched 21. ______________________ 正確答案： F 22. ______________________ 正確答案： D 23. ______________________ 正確答案： O 24. ______________________ 正確答案： E 25. ______________________ 正確答案： B 26. ______________________ 正確答案： M 27. ______________________ 正確答案： J 28. ______________________ 正確答案： N 29. ______________________ 正確答案： K 30. ______________________ 正確答案： G Section B Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice. Passage One Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. You slip the key into the ignition and crank the engine to life. But before you put the car into gear, you tap a key on the keyboard mounted by the steering wheel, and your newest flashes up on the windscreen. This seductive satyr is what you get when you cross a car and a puter. Dubbed the “network vehicle”, or netmobile, it may soon e to a driveway near you (probably the one belonging to your rich neighbor). In a netmobile, a motorist could tap into a regional road system but also to map out a route around rushhour traffic snags. Drivers and passengers will be able to send and receive , track the latest sports scores or stock quotes, surf the Web, and even play video games. Or so, at least, say a number of puterindustry firms such as Microsoft, Sun, IBM and Netscape. The modern car is already an electronic showcase on wheels. Onboard microputers improve fuel economy and reduce emissions. They operate antilock br