Concorde’s Birthday
CONCORDE, the world’s fastest passenger plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first __1__ on 2 March 1969 in France. Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a _2__ of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to __3__ together on the project. The plane __4_ over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of _5__. This means that it _6_ only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7—8 hours in other passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is _7__ to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30a.m. _8__ from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour _9_! Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built so far. Air France and British Airway _10_ the most. They each have seven planes.
小題1:
A．inventedB．producedC．flewD．took off
小題2:
A．talkB．dreamC．meetingD．fight
小題3:
A．workB．doC．carryD．finish
小題4:
A．paidB．wantedC．neededD．cost
小題5:
A．voiceB．soundC．noiseD．shout
小題6:
A．spendsB．takesC．coversD．travels
小題7:
A．possibleB．impossibleC．realD．unreal
小題8:
A．planeB．passengerC．flightD．a(chǎn)irline
小題9:
A．laterB．lateC．earlierD．early
小題10:
A．buildB．makeC．sellD．own

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:D
小題5:B
小題6:A
小題7:C
小題8:C
小題9:A
小題10:D

試題分析：本文講解的是關(guān)于世界上最快的客機(jī)——協(xié)和式飛機(jī)（CONDORDE）的發(fā)展史。３３年的歷史、英法聯(lián)手打造、耗資十多個(gè)億、兩倍于聲速……
小題1:結(jié)合上文可知it指的是前文提到的協(xié)和飛機(jī)，本句如選invented或 produced，得用被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)，took off是“起飛”的意思，這里意指“它第一次飛行是在……”因此，用flew最為恰當(dāng)。句意為：他在1969年3月2日首飛。故選C。
小題2:聯(lián)系上下文可知句意為：從1956年開始這兩個(gè)國(guó)家就有一個(gè)關(guān)于超音速客機(jī)的夢(mèng)想，故選B。
小題3:work on 從事，致力于。句意：在1962年他們開始一起從事這個(gè)項(xiàng)目。故選A。
小題4:cost“耗資”。paid，wanted的主語(yǔ)應(yīng)是人，needed指根據(jù)計(jì)劃需要耗資等的數(shù)量，cost本身就表示花費(fèi)成本的數(shù)量。聯(lián)系下文15億英鎊，主語(yǔ)為物，故選D，研制這個(gè)飛機(jī)花費(fèi)了15億英鎊。
小題5:詞義辨析。Voice嗓音； sound指一般聲音；noise噪音；shout喊聲。聯(lián)系上文可知句意為協(xié)和客機(jī)以兩倍音速飛行。此處泛指普通聲音，speed of sound意為“聲速”故選 B。
小題6:考查take表示花費(fèi)的用法。主語(yǔ)是it可知選A。句式：it takes some time/money to do sth。
小題7:根據(jù)上下文之間的聯(lián)系，意為“你坐協(xié)和式飛機(jī)從London到New York，有可能已經(jīng)到了New York，而還沒離開London。（這是由于時(shí)差）。
故選A。
小題8:catch the flight 意為“趕上某次航班”。故選C。
小題9:根據(jù)上文可知句意為：一小時(shí)后在紐約開始工作，故選B，an hour later，一小時(shí)后。
小題10:通過上下文可知，這兩個(gè)機(jī)場(chǎng)所擁有的協(xié)和式飛機(jī)最多。故選D。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本題短文內(nèi)容不難理解，但是部分小題與上下文聯(lián)系不大，部分題型甚至可以獨(dú)立成題。因此在解答中有必要認(rèn)真分析，把他們當(dāng)成一個(gè)獨(dú)立的選擇題來對(duì)待。完成后多讀幾遍，看看上下文是否語(yǔ)句通順，符合邏輯關(guān)系。
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