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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 __2__ France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a 3__ of a supersonic(超声波)passenger plane. In 1962 they started to __4__ together on the project. The plane 5over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5,000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of 6. This means that it 7only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7-8 hours in other passenger jets. Because __8__ the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is __9to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30am 10from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour 11! Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. __12__ Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built so __13__. Air France and British Airway __14__ the most. They each __15__ seven planes.
1. A. invented B. produced C. flew D. took off
2. A. both B. among C. between D. of
3. A. talkB. dreamC. meetingD. fight
4. A. work B. doC. carryD. finish
5. A. paid B. wantedC. neededD. cost
6. A. voiceB. soundC. noiseD. shout
7. A. spendsB. takesC. coversD. travels
8. A. for B. at C. in D. of
9. A. possibleB. impossibleC. realD. unreal
10. A. planeB. passengerC. flight D. airline
11. A. laterB. lateC. earlier D. early
12.A. everyone B. each C. either D. any
13. A. far B. long C. easy D. fast
14. A. build B. makeC. sellD. own
15. A. had B. has C. have D. are having
名师点评
本文讲解的是关于世界上最快的客机——协和式飞机(CONDORDE)的发展史。33年的历史、英法联手打造、耗资十多个亿、两倍于声速„„无一不使人们叹为观止。
答案简析
1. C。本句如选invented或 produced，得用被动语态，took off是“起飞”的意思，这里意指“它第一次飞行是在......”因此，用flew最为恰当。
2. A。both…and …是固定短语，为“„„两者都”的意思。
3. B。根据文意，“两个国家都有造超声波飞机的梦想”，而不是“谈话”、“会议”、或“战斗”。
4. A。work on sth.意为“致力于......”。
5. D。cost“耗资”。paid，wanted的主语应是人，needed指根据计划需要耗资等的数量，cost本身就表示花费成本的数量。
6. B。voice意为“嗓音”;noise意为“噪音”;shout意为“大叫声”;speed of sound意为“声速”。
7. B。固定短语it takes sb. some time to do sth.
8. D。because 后面是一个名词性词组，所以用because of 意为“由于„„的原因”。本句意为“由于英、美之间的五个小时的时间差”。
9. A。根据上下文之间的联系，意为“你坐协和式飞机从London到New York，有可能已经到了New York，而还没离开London。(这是由于时差)。
10. C。catch the flight 意为“赶上某次航班”。
11. C。下文省略了“than in London”。
12. B。“每架飞机”，只有用each，其他都不对。
13. A。so far “到目前为止”，本句意为“到目前为止，已造出二十架飞机”
14. D。通过上下文可知，这两个机场所拥有的协和式飞机最多。
15. C。本句的主语是they，而each只是同位语，所以不可用has，have一般不用进行时态，所以不可选D。
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