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Flying cars may soon become a 1.    (real). The rideshare service Uber has asked 2. expert from NASA, the American space agency, 3.    (help) the company develop cars that can fly.

Uber plans to use flying vehicles 4. the future to avoid traffic in and around cities. The company wants to use small, totally electric aircraft, 5. could take off and land like a helicopter on top of parking garages. Uber said its flying vehicles would be much 6. (quiet), cost less to operate and produce less pollution than helicopters.

One person in San Francisco 7. (write) on Twitter, “I used to think that flying cars was a ridiculous idea. 8. I changed my mind this morning when I sat in a heavy traffic.” Another person added from Mumbai, India: “I’m reading about Uber 9. (hire) a NASA engineer to build flying cars, while Fm stuck in traffic. There is hope.”

The expert predicts there will be several early models of cars that can’t fly 10. (they) but with human pilots within one to three years.

 

1.reality 2.an 3.to help 4.in 5.which 6.quieter 7.wrote 8.But 9.hiring 10.themselves 【解析】本题主要考查词性转换以及单词拼写,同学们平时要夯实自身的基本功,加强词汇记忆以及学会灵活词性转换。 1.考察词性转换,句意:飞车也许很快便成为现实,冠词后要跟名词,故要将real转换成名词的形式reality.故填reality. 2.考察冠词,expert是可数名词单数,前面要用冠词,且此处表示泛指,故填an. 3.考察动词不定式,观察句子结构完整,所以将help变成to do不定式的形式做目的状语,故填to help. 4.考察介词固定搭配,in the future在未来,故填in. 5.考察非限制性定语从句,由观察可知,空格前是个完整的句子,空格后的句子缺少主语,且两句用逗号连接,可知后一句作从句;又根据句意:“此公司想用小型的完全自动化的飞行器,这种飞行器可以像直升飞机一样在停车库的顶端起飞和降落”,可知后一句是非限制性定语从句,修饰aircraft, 所以要用连接词which,故填which. 6.考察形容词比较级,观察句子结构可知,由and连接的三个并列结构应该都使用比较级,故填quiter. 7.考察时态,由于整个第三段描述的都是一个过去发生的事件,所以应使用write的过去时态,此外,也可根据此段中的added推断出应使用过去时态,故填wrote. 8.考察逻辑连接词,根据空格前的句意:我过去常常想飞车的想法很荒谬;以及空格后的句意:今天早上当我遭遇交通拥堵是我的想法改变了,由此可知前后两句是转折的关系,故填but. 9.考察非谓语动词,句子结构完整,需要将hire变成非谓语动词的形式,to do不定式表将来,-ing形式表现在,而根据句意可知Uber是正在雇用一名美国航天局的工程师,故填hiring. 10.考察反身代词,根据句意:专家预测,会会出现早期几种类型的小汽车,“它们自己”不会飞,但在一到三年内在飞行员的驾驶下,就可以飞了,故填themselves.
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