【正文】 s a whole. D) It usually draws different reactions from different age groups. 47. What does the author say about the driverless car? A) It does not seem to create a generational divide. B) It will not necessarily reduce road accidents. C) It may start a revolution in the car industry. D) It has given rise to unrealistic expectations. 48. Why does the driverless car appeal to some old people? A) It saves their energy. B) It helps with their mobility. C) It adds to the safety of their travel. D) It stirs up their interest in life. 59. What is likely to affect one39。s attitude toward the driverless car? A) The location of their residence. B) The amount of their special interest C) The amount of training they received. D) The length of their driving experience. 50. Who are likely to be the first to buy the driverless car? A) The senior. B) The educated. C) The wealthy. D) The tech fans. Passage Two Question 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. In agrarian(農(nóng)業(yè)的),preindustrial Europe, you39。d want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you39。d go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific, Later, at 5 or 6, you39。d have a smaller supper. This fortable cycle, in which the rhythms of the day helped shape the rhythms of the meals, gave rise to the custom of the large midday meal, eaten with the extended family, Meal are the foundation of the family,39。 says Carole Couniban. a professor at Millersville University in Peensylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengtheating family ties. Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder. With the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand. Certainly, there were benefits. Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous, increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestors. Yet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat. Take Italy. It39。s no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and cat. Italians, says Counihan, traditionally began the day with a small meal. The big meal came at around 1 . In between the midday meal and a late, smaller dinner came a small snack. Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices39。 closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can39。t make it home and back fast enough anyway. So the formerly small supper after sundown bees the big meal of the day. the only one at which the family has a chance to get together. The evening meal carries the full burden that used to be spread over two meals says Counihan. 51. What do we learn from the passage about people in preindustrial Europe? A) They had to work from early morning till late at night. B) They were so busy working that they only ate simple meals. C) Their daily routine followed the rhythm of the natural cycle. D) Their life was much more fortable than that of today. 52. What does Professor Carole Counihan say about preindustrial European families eating meals together? A) It was helpful to maintaining a nation39。s tradition. C) It was characteristic of the agrarian culture.B) It brought family members closers to each other. D) It enabled families to save a lot of money. 53. What does cultural metabolism(Line 1, Para. 3) refer to? A) Evolutionary adaptation. B) Changes in lifestyle. C) Social progress. D) Pace of life. 54. What does the author think of the food people eat today? A) Its quality is usually guaranteed. B) It is varied, abundant and nutritious. C) It is more costly than what our ancestors ate. D) Its production depends too much on technology. 55. What does the author say about Italians of the old days. A) They enjoyed cooking as well as eating. B) They ate a big dinner late in the evening. C) They ate three meals regularly every day. D) They were expert at cooking meals. Part Ⅳ Translation (30minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2. 在山東省濰坊市，風(fēng)箏不僅僅是玩具，而且還是這座城市文化的標(biāo)志。濰坊以“風(fēng)箏之都”而聞名，已有將近2400年放飛風(fēng)箏的歷史。傳說中國古代哲學(xué)家墨子用了三年時間在濰坊制作了世界上首個風(fēng)箏，但放一飛的第一天風(fēng)箏就墜落并摔壞了。也有人相信風(fēng)箏是中國古代木匠魯班發(fā)明的。據(jù)說他的風(fēng)箏用木頭和竹子制作，飛了三天后才落地。