【正文】 正確答案： keep an eye 正確答案： Mothers of victims 正確答案： encourage the government 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. The car, and the roads it travels on, will be 21 in the twentyfirst century. The key to tomorrow’s “smart cars” will be 22 . “We’ll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and 23 and talk and act,” predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation39。s ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future. 24 40,000 people are killed each year in the United States in traffic accidents. The number of people that are killed or badly injured in car accidents is so 25 that we don’t even bother to 26 them in the newspapers anymore. Fully half of these fatalities e from drunk drivers, and many others from 27 . A smart car could eliminate most of these car accidents. It can sense if a driver is drunk 28 electronic sensors that can pick up alcohol vapor in the air, and refuse to 29 the engine. The car could also alert the police and provide its precise 30 if it is stolen. A) vice versa B) location C) sensors D) vast E) mobility F) mention G) duplicate H) start up I) carelessness J) fill out K) revolutionized L) smell M) Adversely N) Approximately O) via 21. ______________________ 正確答案： K 22. ______________________ 正確答案： C 23. ______________________ 正確答案： L 24. ______________________ 正確答案： N 25. ______________________ 正確答案： D 26. ______________________ 正確答案： F 27. ______________________ 正確答案： I 28. ______________________ 正確答案： O 29. ______________________ 正確答案： H 30. ______________________ 正確答案： B 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. Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in for an unwele surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer (鎖止器), and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again. For now, such devices are only available for fleets of trucks and specialist vehicles used on construction sites. But remote immobilization technology could soon start to trickle down to ordinary cars, and should be available in the UK in two months. The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a minicellphone, a microprocessor and memory, and a GPS satellite positioning receiver. If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the control centre to block the vehicle’s engine management system and prevent the engine being restarted. In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves. “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed,” says Martyn Randall, a security expert. He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old. Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management puter won’t allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition (點(diǎn)火) key. In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehiclerelated crime since 1997. But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting bold of the owner’s keys. And key theft is responsible for 40% of the thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system. If the car travels 100 meters without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operations centre that it has been stolen. The hundred meters minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal. Staff at the centre will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing, and keep police informed of the vehicle’s movements via the car’s GPS unit. 31. What’s the function of the remote immobilizer fitted to a car? A) To help the police make a surprise attack on the car thief. B) To allow the car to lock automatically when stolen. C) To prevent the car thief from restarting it once it stops. D) To prevent car theft by sending a radio signal to the car owner. 正確答案： C 32. By saying “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed” (Lines 12. Para. 4), Martyn Randall suggests that ________. A) it takes a longer time for the car thief to do the stealing B) selfprepared tools are no longer enough for car theft C) the thief has to make use of puter technology D) the thief has lost interest in stealing cars over 10 years old 正確答案： B 33. _______________ is essential in making a modem car tougher to steal. A) A coded ignition key B) A unique ID card C) A special cellphone signal D) A GPS satellite positioning receiver 正確答案： A 34. Why does the tracking system set a 100metre minimum before sending an alarm to the operations centre? A) To leave time for the operations centre to