59. It can be inferred from the passage that, compared to conventional X-ray techniques, computed tomography is more ______.
A) compact C) economical
B) rapid D) informative
60. What is the author’s attitude toward this new technique?
A) Cautions C) Enthusiastic
B) Tolerant D) Critical
61. According to the passage, computed tomography can be used for all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A) monitoring a patient’s disease C) locating tumors
B) diagnosing disorders D) reconstructing damaged tissues
Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
In late 1993, a handful of Toyota’s top engineers and designers were charged with a task: create a 62 new automobile for the 21st century. Even as U.S. consumers were falling in love 63 the gas-guzzling SUV, Toyota’s brain trust felt that growing environmental 64 would exert demand for low 65 automobiles. The team toyed with producing an improved conventional gasoline car, but 66 the idea as insufficientlyrevolutionary. Instead, they decided on a gasoline-electric 67 : what would become the Prius. “We had to 68 something completely original,” says Satoshi Ogiso, executive chief engineer for Toyota’s product-planning division. “We’d have to build it from 69 , blueprint and all.”
70 planned than done. Ogiso’s 10-person team ultimately 71 to thousands (five of them, including Ogiso, center, are pictured here). The biggest 72 was the battery — too small and it would lack power, too large and it would overheat. In 1995, the first prototype ran for 330 ft. (100 m) before going dead. But Toyota became the world’s No. 1 car company on the strength of its monozukuri, or manufacturing vision, and by October 1997 the first Prius was 73 in Japan. It went on to sell over 800,000 units worldwide, gilding Toyota’s corporate image and
74 as the foremost status symbolof the green consumer 75 . “There are people who want to do good, 76 people who want everyone else to know they do good,” says Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. “The genius of the Prius is that it 77 both.”
The Prius has been dismissed— 78 by its trailing American competitors — as a triumph of marketing rather than technology. But it would be a mistake to 79 its impact — or the skill of the engineers who built it. “Corporate engineers usually get 80 because we wonder if all the hard work is 81 ,” says Ogiso. “But this was a project worthy of the challenges and the difficulties.” It’s the Toyota way — and as the need for innovation grows, perhaps the way ahead for all of us.
62.A) completely C) contemporarily
B) furiously D) progressively
63.A) to C) with
B) in D) for
64.A) considerations C) configurations
B) consequences D) concerns
65.A) transmission C) transformation
B) emission D) admission
66.A) adopted C) created
B) dismissed D) ceased
67.A) concentration C) cooperation
B) collaboration D) combination
68.A) invent C) acknowledge
B) discovered D) sought
69.A) script C) scratch
B) subscription D) prescription
70.A) tougher C) happier
B) easier D) higher
71.A) decreased C) augmented
B) regressed D) diffused
72.A) challenge C) characteristic
B) highlight D) defiance
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