2022年广东成人高考专升本《英语》每日练习及答案(7)

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After Man has dreamed about flying for a long time.Michael Moshier is a dreamer.He invented the Solo Trek.

The Solo Trek had a 120 horsepower engine with twin fans.Only one person flies.As you fly above the roofs, you lean a little forward.You can see everything under you.You are flying like Superman.

Michael Moshier looked at the jet belt and the rocket belt that was developed 20-30 years ago Nothing ever came from them.People still can't fly.

Inventors have tried to make it easy for people to fly.Paul Moller has been working on his flying car for 30 years.He now says it is ready for tests.It would take off and land vertically, go600 miles an hour, and deliver 20 miles to the gallon.A computer would do the actual flying.He says it could be sold next year for about a million dollars.

NASA is working with Moshier to help develop his flying machine.The first users are likely to be military.

It's been 50-years since Robert Fulton invented his airphibian, a flying car.It flew, and is now in the Smithsonian Museum.

Getting dreams to fly is never easy.

第40题　The Solo Trek is able to lift off the ground by using __.

A. a solar powered engine

B. engine-powered twin fans

C. large flapping wings

D. rotating blades

答案：B

解析：参见第二段：这架单人小型飞车是由l20马力的发动机带动的，并有双螺旋桨。

第41题　An analogy was used to compare the way one could fly in the Solo Flyer to __.

A. how a helicopter flies

B. how the Jetsons fly

C. how the airphibian flies

D. how Superman flies

答案：D

解析： 参见第二段：当你驾驶着飞行器飞行在建筑物之上时，你会觉得自己的飞行如同超人一样。

第42题　Paul Moller's flying car is different than an airplane because __.

A. it has no wings

B. it uses solar power

C. it takes offand lands vertically

D. it can land on water

答案：C

解析： 参见第四段：他的飞机可以垂直起飞和降落。

第43题　Robert Fulton's invention, an airphibian, can best be described as__

A. a helicopter

B. a solo flying machine

C. a flying car

D. an airplane

答案：C

解析： 参见倒数第二段。