安徽广播电视大学
“现代远程教育”英语专业
《英语阅读1》自测题（一）
Read the following passage and then choose the best answer .
I came to India a
year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many
months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community.
I wasted a lot of
time looking for the “typical” village. Yet no such thing exists. Conditions
vary too widely. But the villages I stayed in had much in common – poverty,
dirt, ignorance. Often the villagers themselves were puzzled and suspicious.
Why had I come? I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my
ideas had changed. I had come to believe that what was happening in the Third
World was more important than anything else. But to understand how three –
quarters of the world’s people live, and how their future might affect ours, I
felt that I try and share their way of life.
In the end I
chose a mountain village because it was a little cooler than those in the
plains. I took the bus from town along a bumpy road. Then came a rough walk
down a step path to the river. After this I began to climb into the hills.
Whenever I stopped to catch my breach, there was a magnificent view. After
several hours’ walk, the village came into view.
1. After the writer had arrived in India .
A) he spent a year writing
about the place he lived in
B) he took quite a
long time finding a suitable place to live
C) he spent years looking for a
certain village
D) he lived in a Himalayan
community for many months
2. While looking for a “typical” village the
writer found .
A) he was searching for the
impossible
B) all the villages
were exactly the same
C) the villagers made him feel
confused
D) the villagers asked him a
lot of questions
3. Before coming to India the writer .
A) had been a successful politician
C) had been dismissed from his
job
D) had written articles for
publication
4. The writer decided to change his way of
life because .
A) he no longer found his work
interesting
B) he wanted to live
a peaceful life in the countryside
C) he wanted to find out more
about the Third World
D) he thought living in a small
community would be rewarding
5. The village the writer finally chose to
live in .
A)
was situated at the end of a bumpy road
B)
had a better climate than those in the plains
C)
was a short walk from the river
D)
had a magnificent view of the river
Key
1. B
2. A
3. D
4. C
B
安徽广播电视大学
“现代远程教育”英语专业
《英语阅读2》自测题（三）
Read the following passage and then choose the best answer .
In
everyday usage “hot” means “having a lot of heat.” Many people think that
“cold” is something completely separated from heat. But this is not true. Cold
simply means “having very little heat.”
Your
life depends on heat. In fact, every living thing depends on it. Without heat,
every living thing would be frozen to death. All living things get their heat
from the sun, which provides the conditions in which life is possible.
Since
before the dawn of history, man has been able to make his own heat. He has been
able to release the sun’s heat that is trapped in things such as wood, coal and
oil. And he has been able to use this heat.
Heat
has made civilization possible. With heat, man could melt metals. As man
learned to use metals and fuels, industries grew. As a result, engines were
invented. These are machines that change heat energy into mechanical energy.
Engines can do the work of many men. Without engines industrial civilization is
impossible.
Yet
when the first engines were built in the 17th century, men were still wondering
about the nature of heat. “What is it?” they asked. Not until the early years
of the 19th century did they find the right answer.
1. In everyday usage, “hot” means .
A) the weather is
fine and it is summer
B) one has a
temperature
C) having a great
deal of heat
D) having very
little heat
2. Your life depends on heat. The sentence
means .
A) in the cold
season human beings will die
B) one usually
builds his life on fire
C) the more heat one
has, the better
D) it is impossible
for man to live without heat
3. He has been able to release the sun’s heat
that is trapped in things such as wood, coal and oil. From this sentence we
know .
A) man can get heat
from things like wood, coal and oil
B) man cannot get
the heat directly from the sun
C) only wood, coal
and oil have heat
4. Which of the following is true?
A) Without engines
civilization is impossible.
B) Without engines
we have no industrial civilization
C) Engine came
before civilization
D) Engines came
before man knew how to use heat.
5. From the last two sentences, we can see .
A) men have never
found the nature of heat.
B) men found the
nature of heat in the 17th century.
C) men found the
nature of heat in the 19the century.
D) men found the
nature of heat before the 19th century.
Key
1. C
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. C
安徽广播电视大学
“现代远程教育”英语专业
《英语阅读1》自测题（二）
Read passage below and then choose the best answer to each of the questions 1—5.
Editor:
The 10th World
Conference on Tobacco of Health was held recently in Beijing, and will bring
about a great advance in antismoking acts.
Statistics indicate that,
besides the 300 million cigarette – puffin population, there are about 400
million passive smokers in China. The figure is estimated to rise by 2 percent
each year.
To prevent the situation
from getting worse every day, a nationwide campaign against smoking has been
waged by the government. For example, municipal authorities of 72 cities have
announced prohibitions on smoking in public places.
With the damage caused by
smoking widely acknowledged, and the nonsmoking campaign further deepened, more
people will abandon smoking.
1. The passage is .
A.
a news report
B.
a diary entry
C.
a letter to the editor
D.
a speech
2. In China there are .
A.
more passive smokers than active smokers
B.
fewer passive smokers than active smokers
C.
as many passive smokers as active smokers
D.
active smokers but no passive smokers
3. To prevent the number of people, who smoke either
directly or indirectly, from increasing,
.
A.
the government has launched a nationwide campaign against smoking
B.
smoking is not allowed in public places
C.
centers have been founded to help people give up smoking
D.
people will be fined if they smoke in public places
4. The writer believes that .
A.
smoking can easily be given up
B.
the antismoking campaign is a difficult job
C.
there will be fewer and fewer smokers as time goes on
D.
only the government can prohibit smoking
5. Which of the following words can be used to
replace ‘acknowledged’ in the sentence ‘With the damage caused by smoking
widely acknowledged, and the
non-smoking campaign further deepened, more people will abandon smoking.’
A.
permitted
B.
promised
C.
accepted
D.
rejected
Key
1. C 2. A
3. A 4. C
5. C
安徽广播电视大学
“现代远程教育”英语专业
《英语阅读2》自测题（一）
Read the following passage and then choose the best answer .
Cancer is among the top
killer diseases in our society today and scientists have found out that stress
helps to bring it on. It is worthwhile to consider, therefore, what are the
causes of stress in our life, and whether we can do anything about them.
Are we under-employed, or
overburdened with too many responsibilities? Do we have a right balance of work
and leisure in our lives? Are our relationships with family, friends or fellow
workers all they should be?
All these things can be a
cause of stress, and it is best to face them honestly, and to bring our
frustrations into the open. People who have a good row and then forget
it are doing their health more good than those who bottle up their feelings.
If our self-examination has brought any causes of stress to light, let
us consider what we can do about them. It is possible to change jobs. We can
make more leisure and fill it more happily, if we will accept a different
living standard. We can improve our personal relationships by a different
attitude. It is we who allow other people to make ourselves unhappy. Often the
little things that disturb us are not worth an hour’s anger. The teaching in
the Bible “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath” is good advice from the
health point of view as well as the religious.
1. Which of the following statements is true?
A)
Freedom from responsibilities helps relieve stress.
B)
Stress is the direct cause of cancer.
C)
The causes of stress are worthy of serious study.
D)
Cancer is the number one killer in our society today.
2. According to the passage, which of the following types of people is
more likely to suffer from stress?
A)
People who have cancer.
B)
People who like to quarrel with others.
C)
People whose living standard is low.
D)
People who have more responsibilities than they can handle.
3. Judging from the context, the word “row” in the third paragraph most
probably means .
a
noisy quarrel
a
very loud noise
a
journey in a boat
4. Which of the following is not mentioned as a way to reduce our
stress?
A)
Changing our jobs.
B)
Changing our attitude about little things that make us unhappy.
C)
Speaking out about our frustrations.
D)
Reading the Bible
5. “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath” probably mean
A)
Don’t let your anger last long.
B)
Don’t get angry while the sun is going down.
C)
Don’t get angry easily about little things.
D)
Don’t watch the sun set while you are angry.
Key
1.
C
2.
D
3.
A
4.
D
5.
A
安徽广播电视大学
“现代远程教育”英语专业
《英语阅读2》自测题（二）
Read the following passage and then choose the best answer .
I was shown
into the waiting-room which as I had expected, was full. Any
waiting-room----especially a dentist’s, as this was----is not the best place in
the world to spend an afternoon. No matter how hard a dentist tries to make his
waiting-room look pleasant, it always has an atmosphere of its own. There is
that odd smell that reminds you of a hospital. A small table in the center is
covered with very old and torn magazine; the curtains are faded; and the
armchairs have a hollow, sunken look about them.
I took my
seat and decided to pass the time watching the people around me. A little man
beside me was turning over the pages of a magazine quickly and nervously. It
was hard to understand what he was looking at, for every three minutes or so he
would throw the magazine onto the table, seize another, and sink back into his
chair. Opposite me there was a young mother who was trying to restrain
her son from making a noise. The boy had obviously grown weary of waiting. He
had placed an ash-tray on the floor and was making aeroplane----noises as he
waved a pencil in his hand. Near him, an old man was fast asleep, and the boy’s
mother was afraid that sooner or later her son would wake the gentleman up.
Meanwhile, the little man next to me singing loudly.
At last, the
door opened and a nurse entered. The people looked up expectantly with a ray of
hope in their eyes, then settled down again as the next lucky patient was led
out of the room.
1. In line 5, paragraph 2, the word “restrain” means .
A)
ask
B) persuade
C)request
D)prevent
2. The writer was .
A)
one of the patients
B)
a dentist
C)
a nurse
D)
the boy’s father
3. While he was in the waiting-room, the writer passed the time .
A) by reading magazine
B) by drawing a picture of the room
C)
by watching the boy playing his model aeroplane
D)
by looking at the people in the room
4. The young mother was afraid her little boy .
A) might hurt
himself with the pencil
B) would fall asleep
C) would tear the magazine
5. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A) The waiting-room has a pleasant
atmosphere.
B) The little man was interested in
reading the magazine.
C) The people were patiently waiting for
their turn.
D) The lucky ones were those who were
led out of the room earlier than others.
Key
1.D
2.A
3.D
4.D
5.D
英语阅读（3） 考试样卷及参考答案
考试样卷
part 1
directions: read passage 1 carefully and then try to finish items 1-10
as required (20%)
passage 1
diversity in diet helps preserve species
Extinction is gaining speed.
One of the most demanding environment tasks is trying to preserve at least some
of the 10 million life forms on the planet. The World’s remaining rain forests
are being logged at a rate of 5000 acres an hour. Oceans are being emptied of
fish and filled with toxic waste. Wetlands are being dried out. Pastures are
being turned into dust bowls or concrete jungles. Species have nowhere to live
and so they die.
Direction: choose the word
to replace the underlined word
1.
oceans are being emptied of fish and filled with toxic waste.
a. dangerous b. poisonous c polluted
2.
the greater the delivery we maintain in our diet, the greater
the diversity we nurture in the fields and the oceans.
a. get b.
keep c. make
direction: true or false
6. it can be inferred from
the passage that fast food , though has many advantages, has brought great
damage to the environment.
7. according to the passage,
we should keep a regular diet every day.
Direction: read passage 2
carefully and then try to finish items 11-20 as required (20%)
Education for the 21st century
In the 19th century, people thought that
, with a little luck, education in the three R’s could keep them out of the
poor house. Today’s universities, however, pay little attention to the three
R’s. higher education in America is mostly about HML. Ironically, by following
this path the university may be putting themselves in the poor house.
In the 21st century, science and
technology will be taught by other means, and universities will have to
concentrate on an art that both young and old will require, and which can only
be taught and learned person-to-person: wisdom
Direction: true or false
11. it can be inferred from the first sentence of
paragraph 1 that people in the 19th century attached great
importance to reading, writing and arithmetic.
12. universities will benefit a great deal from HML
education.
Directions: find suitable words to match the
following meanings.
16. a change from one state of affairs to the
opposite one._________________
17. to cause something to be felt, expressed, or
recalled.___________________
part3
directions: read passage 3 carefully and then try to
finish items 21-30 as required.(20%)
fish cheeks
I fell in love with the minister’s son the winter I
turned 14. he was not Chinese, but as white as may in the manger. For Christmas
I prayed for this blond-haired boy, Robert, and a slim new American nose.
When I found out that my parents had invited the
minister’s family over for Christmas eve dinner, I cried. What would Robert
think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese
relatives who lacked proper American manners. What terrible disappointment
would he feel upon seeing not a roast turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese
food?
After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, “ you
want to be the same as American girls on the outside.” She handed me an early
gift. It was a miniskirt in beige tweed. ‘ but inside you must always be
Chinese, you must be proud to be different. Your only shame is to have shame”
Directions: choose the word from the list and
complete the sentences below
21. he____ with disgust.
22. we would very much ____ guidance from an expert.
23. both you and your father ______ him very much
physically.
( shabby, lacked, outdone, littered,-----)
part 4 true or false
directions: read passage 4 and then decide whether
the statements after it are true or false. (20%)
In its vast area the US contains most of the
physical conditions known to men: heat and cold, forest and desert, tropical
swamp and arctic waste, mountains and endless plains. Empty spaces and crowded
cities, and the World’s largest river system. Yet the most remarkable contrast
of all is the contrast between the variety found in different parts of the
U.S., and the similarity of the people in all these different parts.
The different parts and communications of the united
states are like one another in the same way as big airports all over the world
are like one another—and after all mass air travel developed in America before
it did anywhere else.
31. the passage contrasts sharply the vast
differences of the physical conditions in the U.S. with the similarities of the
people in all its different parts.
32. the American people have vastly different
backgrounds, which explains their different ways of life.
33. American English lacks real regional or class
variety in speech or usage.
Directions: read passage 5 and then give a short
answer to each of the questions 41-45 on your answer sheet.(20%)
December 25 is celebrated as the birthday of Christ.
No one is certain why this day was chosen. It was probably because, according
to the calendar then in use, December 25 was the time of the year when winter
days begin to grow longer in the northern hemisphere, the sunworshippers had
celebrated this day as the promise of spring.
Over the years, a number of special associated with
christmas have grown up. Many of these have been introduced from Europe, while
others have their origin in America.
Today greeting cards have become a big industry and
billions of cards are sent all over the world every Christmas. Whatever
language the greetings are written in, the message is the same—a wish for peace
and goodwill among all people.
41. where are most of the Christmas customs from?
42. from when were trees used at Christmas time in
English homes?
参考答案
VOCABULARY
1.B
2.B 3.C ----
TRUE OR FALSE
6.T
7.F 8.T ------
TRUE OR FALSE
11. T
12.F 13.
T 14. F -----
VOCABULARY
16. PENDULUM 17. EVOKE 18. SEEKING ------
21 GRIMACED 22. APPRECIATE 23. RESEMBLE -------
31. T 32. F 33. T 34. F -------
41. FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA
42. FROM THE TIME WHEN A GERMAN PRINCE MARRIED queen
Victoria.
43. 1933
英语阅读（3）自测题
part 1
read passage 1 carefully and complete items 1-10 as required. (20
points, 2 points each)
passage 1
disappearing
smiles
nearly all the popular
magazines in japan have beautiful faces on the covers –but few of them are
smiling any more. it seems that carefree smiling any more. Nor are the
readers.for most of its 45-year history, the Japanese teen’s magazine (myojo)
used smiling beauties for the monthly cover. After about 1990, though, the
smiles—have changed to a closed –mouth sullenness. The stars themselves say
they cannot smile. And the readers don’t relate to the smiling-face message
anymore. Young Japanese smiles are disappearing.
Read passage 1 and then decide which of the following statements are
true and which are false. On your answer sheet, indicate t for true and f for
false against the number for items 1-5 for the answer you choose.
1.”myojo” has been published for over 54 years.
2.”myojo” is a seasonly magazine.
3. it mainly tells us the reason why smiles are disappearing in japan.
Part 2
Read passage 2 carefully and complete items as required.(20 points, 2 points each)
Passage 2 the value of biodiversity
It is now generally agreed that biodiversity, the rich variety of
species on our planet, should be preserved wherever possible. Losss of
biodiversity is one of the greatest environmental problems facing us today. In
November 1995, representatives of over 100 countries met in the Indonesian
capital, to reaffirm their support for the united nation’s convention on
biological diversity, an international agreement to preserve biodiversity. What
exactly is the value of biodiversity.
Directions:
Read passage 2 and then decide which of the following statements are
true and which are false.
1.
it is not wise to select only the highly-yielding crops because there
is the possibility that they may be wiped out by disease or pests
2.
a larger plant cover,a better use of available nutrients and agreater sustainability are the three
necessary conditions for biodiversity.
Part 3read passage 3 and complete items as required
Passage 3
A new consensus on
population
An old joke: a population official is addressing an auduence of
bigwigs. Somewhere in this country, he tells them, a woman is giving birth to a
baby every 13 seconds. Do you realize what that means? I do, shouts another
woman, leaping to his feet. It means we must find that woman and stop her.
Well, maybe the joke isn’t all that funny, but the sentiment expressed in it
pretty well sums up much of the top-level thinking about population in the
world before the international conference on population and development that
was hold in cairo I 1994. basiclly, the overpopulation problem was perceived as
the fault of woman who were conceiving and delivering so many babies—especially
in the traditional-based societies og the developing world, where women often
had no career open to them expect motherhood.
Use the context of the sentence to determine the meaning of the
underlined world. Then choose the word or phrase which best expresses the
word’s meaning and write your answers on your answer sheet.
1.
the words of the population official actually mean that in this world,
a baby is born every 13 seconds.
2.
it is implied by the first paragraph that the lack of career chances for
woman is one of the reasons of the high birth rate in the developing countries.
阅读补充材料 （ 1）
To Be or Not to
Be
The Internet isn’t dead — its evolving,
writes Adam Lashinsky. And how
companies, Old and New Economy, position themselves to capitalize on that
evolution will speak volumes about who will survive, thrive or disappear.
The Internet
changes everything. That’s what we were told ad nauseam. Think back one year, when the nation
was in the grips of dot-com mania — turning longstanding titans
of U.S. industries into ossified fossils, profit-challenged concept stocks
into
must-own issues, tech-whiz college dropouts into paper zillionaires and “widows and
orphans” investors into rapid-fire day-traders. Times have changed. And to pick
up on the one platitude from the Internet Age that remains dead-on accurate:
They change quickly.
Today, simply put, everything about the Internet
experience generally and the dot-com phenomenon in particular is in doubt.
Traditional “old-line” companies are
counting their blessings for not having squandered precious resources on the
so-called New Economy. We now identify those companies, by the way, in
laudatory tones rather than pejorative ones: They tend to have meaningful revenues, positive cash
flows and profits that don’t require footnotes to discern their value.
If the
phenomenon were dead, we’d just say so and get on with more important issues. But the Internet
isn’t dead — even though
parts of it may be dying. It’s evolving, rapidly. How
companies, Old and New Economy, position themselves in the coming months
to capitalize on that evolution will speak volumes about who will survive,
thrive or disappear.
But like any revolution, the Internet era has been tumultuous. Even as
Amazon.com struggles with never-ending losses, its bricks-and-mortar
competitors fare no better on the Web. Wal-Mart Stores recently launched its
walmart.com Web site —for the third time. Sears, Roebuck says that 10 percent of its in-store
purchasers of home appliances researched their buys first on the sears.com Web
site, according to customer
surveys. But its Sears Online unit refuses to break out sales or costs,
referring instead to industry statistics on visits to its Web site, an
irrelevant statistic for anyone trying to figure out if Sears’ online effort is
a success. For example, numerous
B2B companies quoted industry statistics that the business-to-business economy
would hit $1.3 trillion by 2003. That those same companies would see but a tiny
sliver of that kitty was easy to overlook when the market was more forgiving.
Similarly, the long-gone days when companies were valued for
the earnings they would generate may well be returning. Boom times are a
perfect setting for shenanigans — and other ways of making
things appear to be better than they are. But at the end of the day, the Web
won’t die because it’s such a good
tool for doing our jobs. Dot-com is dead; long live dot-com! There’s still money to
be made on the phenomenon — and plenty to be lost.
1.
ad nauseam : to a disgusting or ridiculous degree; to the point of
nausea 令人作呕地至令人讨厌或可笑的程度；至令人作呕的地步
2.
grip [v] 紧握，抓住
3. ossify [v] 骨化, 硬化, 变得无情
4. zillionaire [n] 亿万富翁
5.squander [v] 浪费
6. laudatory [adj] 赞赏的
7. pejorative [n] 变坏的
8.tumultuous [adj] 喧嚣的
9.shenanigan [n] 诡计
10. dead-on adj.完全正确的
11. kitty: A pool of money, especially one to which a number of people
have contributed for a designated purpose.零星共同凑集的一笔钱一笔钱，尤其指很多人为了既定的目的捐献的钱
阅读补充材料 （ 2）
协和客机终于重返蓝天
2001年11月12日 中午12时34分52秒
More than 15 months
after a Concorde crashed in a ball of flames, the world's only supersonic
jetliner completed its first passenger flight to New York today, making a
long-awaited commercial comeback during one of the worst slumps in aviation
history.
Revamped to address
safety concerns, an Air France Concorde
with 92 passengers aboard took off from Charles de Gaulle airport near
Paris this morning for the three hour, 55 minute-flight to New York. It landed
shortly before 8:30 a.m. ET.
To show their confidence, French Transport Minister
Jean-Claude Gayssot and Air France chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta were aboard the passenger
flight — the first since the July 25, 2000, crash that killed 113 people
outside Paris.
"This is the greatest tribute we can pay to the 113
people who lost their lives, and to whom I dedicate this flight," Spinetta
said before the takeoff.
Plastic Replaces Silver Cutlery.
About
an hour later, a British Airways Concorde took off from London, with rock star
Sting among the passengers on an
invitation-only flight. British Airways commercial flights to New York
resume Friday.
In a
third Concorde flight today, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was taking a
special charter to Washington to meet with President Bush.
Engineers say
they have fixed the flaws that led to the crash — the first in the Concorde's
25-year history. There also was a nod to safety concerns following the Sept. 11
terror attacks: fine silver has been replaced with plastic cutlery.
Security was tight today as passengers checked in for the
Paris-New York flight. Armed police patrolled the check-in area and fire trucks
stood by on the runway.The flight path had been changed to avoid the town of
Gonesse, where the supersonic jet crashed just after takeoff more than 15
months ago.‘Double Tribute’
Among
the Concorde regulars lining up for the flight was
perfume company founder Jean-Paul Guerlain, who said he'd flown the
Concorde more than 200 times.
"I swore after the crash that I would fly again on the first
flight," he said. "It's the most wonderful plane. I never lost
confidence, and I have no fear." Another passenger, Yvonne Rollim, 67,
called the flight "a double
tribute" — to the Concorde and to New York, following the World Trade Center
attack.
"We're paying homage
to those who died on Sept. 11," she said.
Engineering Changes
The new Concorde has been
fitted with fuel-tank liners of bulletproof Kevlar, a flameproof reinforced
undercarriage and extra-resistant radial tires
The tires, designed by
French firm Michelin, passed rigorous tests, including one that revved the wheel
faster than 250 mph — the Concorde's speed at takeoff — and injected it with a
titanium blade. The July 2000 crash has been widely blamed on a ruptured tire that sent debris flying
into a fuel tank, though officials have not yet named a cause. "We have
never been able to make this tire blow up, under any circumstance," Pierre Desmarets, chief executive of
Michelin Aircraft Tire Division,
told Associated Press Television News.
An Icon Returns
But equally
important to the engineering changes, aviation analysts say, is the symbolism
of the Concorde reclaiming the skies.
"One of the icons of the civil aviation industry is
returning," said Chris Yates, aviation safety editor at Jane's Transport
in London. "It's the shot in the arm that the industry needs at this moment."
Despite a 30-percent drop in trans-Atlantic travel
since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the airlines say they are confident of
filling the 100-seat planes. British Airways says it has already sold 7,000
seats. Flying above turbulence at twice the speed of sound, the Concorde
crosses the Atlantic in about half the flying time of conventional jets. A
roundtrip Paris-New York ticket costs about $7,300, while a London-New York
roundtrip is about $10,000.
Service
is being scaled back — British Airways and Air France have each modified three Concordes,
allowing for leeway to determine customer demand.
Investigators are expected to make their report on the cause
of the crash public by early next year. Officials have theorized that as the
plane raced down the runway, it hit a metal strip that ruptured a tire and sent
debris hurtling toward a fuel tank, triggering a fire and a fuel leak. The
metal strip is believed to have come from another jet.
Along
with the safety improvements, the Concordes have a fresh look inside. British
Airways invested $20 million to redecorate cabin interiors and Concorde
lounges. On Air France, fresh lobster and petits fours will be served.
Sting, who has been taking the supersonic jet for
two decades, said he was "still excited about going on Concorde after all
these years.
"Flying at twice the speed of sound gives you a
buzz," he said.
1.
patrol [v] 出巡, 巡逻
2. homage
[n] 敬意
3. bulletproof [adj] 防弹的
4. flameproof [adj] 防火的
5. undercarriage [n] (飞机的)起落架, 车盘, 着陆装置
6. tire
[n] 轮胎
7. rigorous [adj] 严格的, 严厉的, 严酷的, 严峻的
8. rev [v] 旋转
9. rupture [v] 破裂, 裂开, 断绝(关系等), 割裂
10. debris [n] 碎片, 残骸
11. circumstance
[n] 环境, 详情, 境况
18.
turbulence [n] 骚乱, 动荡
19. leeway [n] 可允许的误差, 退路, <喻>落后, <口语>回旋余地
20.lobster [n] 龙虾
21.
petits [adj] 次要的