Car racing is not only for the rich people with racing cars! With an old car, enough courage, and a little luck, you can go stockcar racing.
In a stockcar race, cars start and then hit one another. A stock - car drive doesn’t want to be faster than the other cars, he wants to hit them and stop them! Here he needs courage.
A race is thirty minutes, with a five - minute break in the middle. Many car stop working after five or ten minutes; sometimes all of them stop working. Then the drivers have work to do. During the break friends can come and help, but they must repair the car in these five minutes. Time is very important.
The break ends. How many cars can restart? Here a driver sometimes needs a little luck to help him. But that is stock - car racing: a driver, and old car, courage and a little luck!
1. You win at stock- car racing if your car ________.
A．runs faster than all the other cars
B．heavily hits all the other cars
C．passes all the other cars in 30 minutes
D．still runs at the end of the race
2. The purpose of the break in the middle of the race is to let ________.
A．the audience takes a rest
B．friends cheer for the driver
C．the drivers fix their cars
D．the judges examine the cars
3. Stock- car racers need courage because ________.
A．they have to drive very fast
B．they have to hit other cars
C．their cars might stop working
D．their cars might get damaged
4. The purpose of the stock- car race is ________.
A．to have fun
B．to sell old cars
C．to see who is the luckiest
D．to give the poor people a chance
习题精选系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：江西省上高二中2011-2012学年高二第三次月考英语试题 题型：051
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[1]Sending text messages from your mobile phone while driving is more dangerous than driving after drinking, which is found by the Transport Research Laboratory(TRL)．
[2]The reaction time of people who sent text messages as they drove slowed by 35％, while the reaction time of those who had drunk alcohol slowed by 12％．“This research shows how dangerous it is to text while driving,” researcher Nick Reed said in a statement．He said drivers who texted were distracted by trying to read small texts on the phone and by thinking about how to write their messages．And using the phone requires them to put their hands off the wheel．The combination of factors caused the slowness of reaction and the impairment(减弱)of vehicle control．
[3]One conclusion researchers made about why texting while driving is so dangerous is the length of time it takes to write a message．The TRL said that writing a text message behind the wheel took 63 seconds, in which a car travels nearly a mile within town centre speed limits and over a mile within motorway speed limits．
[4]Nearly half of the 18-to 24-year-olds admitted texting as they drove, another survey discovered．
[5]The TRL study selected 17 people from the 18-to 24-year-old age group to take part in a simulated(模拟的)road test, in which they were ________ on a variety of roads．“The participants in this study were almost unanimous(一致同意的)in their view that texting while driving was the most dangerous action on the road,” RAC Director Stephen Glaister said．
[6]“We need to ensure that drivers who love texting understand that texting is one of the most dangerous things that can be done while in charge of a car,” Glaister said in a statement．
1．What’s the main idea of the passage?(no more than 10 words)
2．Give two factors which caused the slowness of reaction of a driver while texting．(no more than 20 words)
①________．
②________．
3．Complete the following statement with proper words．(no more than 4 words)
The researchers inferred it’s the time a driver spends reading and writing a message that ________．
4．What does the underlined word “which” in Paragraph 3 probably refer to?(no more than 2 words)
5．Fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper words．(no more than 8 words)
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