Read the passage and choose the best option to answer each of the following questions
IV. Read the passage and choose the best option to answer each of the following questions.
These days, if you want to travel from New York to Beijing, the flight takes about 16 hours. You also have to wait at the airport, and sometimes you have to transfer onto a different airplane. If you add all of that extra time, the trip takes at least 20 hours. But in the future, the trip from New York to Beijing might only take two hours.
Right now, a private company is developing something called ET3. ET3 stands for “evacuated tube transport technology”. The capsules use electricity instead of gasoline. For international travel, they can travel at about 6,500 kilometers per hour. That is much faster than airplane - most modern airplanes usually only fly at about 800 kilometers per hour.
So how is this possible? How can these capsules travel so fast? The answer is that there is no air inside the tube. When airplanes fly, they have to move through the air. The air slows the airplanes down. Because there is no air in the ET3 tubes, the capsules are able to move at a very high speed. Besides, the capsules are quite light. They only weigh 183 kilograms.
1. How long might it take from New York to Beijing in the future?
A. 16 B. 20 hours C. 2 hours D. 22 hours hours
2. What does ET3 run on?
A. Electricity B. Solar energy
C. Gasoline D. Wind energy
3. How far do most modern airplanes usually fly in one hour?
A. At about 800 meters per hour
B. At about 6,500 meters per hour
C. At about 800 kilometers per hour
D. At about 6,500 kilometers per hour
4. Which of the following sentences is NOT TRUE, according to the passage?
A. ET3 uses electricity. B. The capsules use gasoline instead of electricity.
C. ET3 is quite clean. D. ET3 is much faster than airplane.
5.What does the word “they” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. gasoline
B. Electricity
C. The capsules
D. Modern airplanes
These days, if you want to travel from New York to Beijing, the flight takes about 16 hours. You also have to wait at the airport, and sometimes you have to transfer onto a different airplane. If you add all of that extra time, the trip takes at least 20 hours. But in the future, the trip from New York to Beijing might only take two hours.
Right now, a private company is developing something called ET3. ET3 stands for “evacuated tube transport technology”. The capsules use electricity instead of gasoline. For international travel, they can travel at about 6,500 kilometers per hour. That is much faster than airplane - most modern airplanes usually only fly at about 800 kilometers per hour.
So how is this possible? How can these capsules travel so fast? The answer is that there is no air inside the tube. When airplanes fly, they have to move through the air. The air slows the airplanes down. Because there is no air in the ET3 tubes, the capsules are able to move at a very high speed. Besides, the capsules are quite light. They only weigh 183 kilograms.
1. How long might it take from New York to Beijing in the future?
A. 16 B. 20 hours C. 2 hours D. 22 hours hours
2. What does ET3 run on?
A. Electricity B. Solar energy
C. Gasoline D. Wind energy
3. How far do most modern airplanes usually fly in one hour?
A. At about 800 meters per hour
B. At about 6,500 meters per hour
C. At about 800 kilometers per hour
D. At about 6,500 kilometers per hour
4. Which of the following sentences is NOT TRUE, according to the passage?
A. ET3 uses electricity. B. The capsules use gasoline instead of electricity.
C. ET3 is quite clean. D. ET3 is much faster than airplane.
5.What does the word “they” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. gasoline
B. Electricity
C. The capsules
D. Modern airplanes