Unit 8 【单元测试 · 提升卷】 一、完形填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分 10分) What will the world be like in 70 years Someone may ask this 1 . Here are my ideas. In 70 years, the world will be much “smaller” in my eyes. We can get somewhere more 2 . We can call anyone in a few seconds. China will be one of the richest and most beautiful countries in the world. We have already landed on the Moon. We have already 3 a space station too. Ten persons can 4 to the space station and live there for a month each time. There will be more factories and they 5 each other. For example, to build a plane, we will need thousands of companies, or even more. Nearly every accessory(配件) will come from 6 companies. However, the 7 will be even worse. The weather will be 8 and more ice on high mountains will disappear. There will be much more pollution. The water will be 9 in the river and sea. We have to live in special houses. Some countries will succeed in moving people to the Moon and other 10 . In a word, the world will be better in some ways and worse in other ways. We should keep our eye on the world and try our best to make our world more beautiful. 1．A．question B．address C．choice D．suggestion 2．A．lately B．impatiently C．slowly D．quickly 3．A．kept B．mixed C．built D．made 4．A．run B．drive C．walk D．fly 5．A．agree with B．depend on C．care for D．look after 6．A．different B．special C．famous D．usual 7．A．accident B．journey C．environment D．programme 8．A．hotter B．worse C．colder D．better 9．A．clean B．heavy C．dirty D．sweet 10．A．planets B．houses C．forests D．countries 阅读理解（每空1.5分，共22.5分） A Self-driving cars are believed to be the future of panies including Toyota, Uber and Google are all competing to be the first to bring them to market. However, car makers need to solve one problem first: How driverless cars communicate with passers-by, bikers and other drivers. Most drivers today use gestures to show their purposes. They wave a car into a lane(车道), or nod at passers-by and cyclists, to let them cross the street. But self-driving cars don’t have this ability. What can they do US carmaker Ford and its partner Virginia Tech think they have the answer, reported Business Insider. The team is testing a method that uses light signals to show what self-driving cars are doing. For example, if a driverless car is yielding, it could flash two white lights side to side. A solid white light tells there are no humans in the car. A slow blinking light shows the car is coming to a stop. A rapidly flashing light tells passers-by that the car is about to speed up. To test the method on real roads, the team designed a special suit that looks exactly like a car seat. When a driver wears it, it appears to people that the car is really driverless. The team then successfully got more than 1,500 hours of data after about 2,900 kilometres of “self-driving” through busy cities. The data recorded how people interacted with a driverless veh ... ...
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