阅读理解和五选四

根据下面短文内容，在短文的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。

Now students' English handwriting (书法) gets worse and worse. That makes their teachers feel worried.

Is your English handwriting beautiful? If not, here are four steps that really work!

◆Use paper with lines

Using paper with lines can keep you writing straight instead of up or down. Wwhen you write English words

or sentences .1.___________________. Be sure to fill the lined space completely. And make sure those capital letters (大写字母) are written properly.

◆Slow down

If your writing is hard to read, try slowing down a little .2______________________________. If you write too fast, it's hard for you to stop where you should, and even worse, you may make more mistakes .

◆3.________________.

When you hold your pencil the correct way, writing is much easier . Some kids press down really hard

when they write. That makes the handwriting not nice. Try to be relaxed and don't hold the pencil so hard.

Let your writing appear nice and clean. If you do so, people will guess you are a student with a good habit.

◆Draw more pictures

Drawing can improve your handwriting. You need to use the skills to control (控制) your pencil better

when you are drawing pictures. Even though you have no chance to draw at school, you can practice

by yourself at home.

4.________________ Imagine you are a world-famous movie star or a well-known sports player,

what do you do when your fans run up to you? Give them your autographs (亲笔签名), of course!

A.Hold your pencil right.

B.Sit on the seat straight.

C. Handwriting is very important

D. For some kids, going slower makes the handwriting clear.

E .Those lines on the paper can help you to write words in the right size.

1----------4 .E D A C

A science fiction flying car looks like a normal car, but it is an aircraft (飞行器) that anybody can fly directly from any place to another without using roads or runways. Science fiction writers have written about flying cars for a long time. But now flying cars will soon fly out of the world of science fiction into our real world. And the dream of the science fiction writers will soon come true.

The first-known sky car is the FSC-1. The FSC-1 looks like an expensive sports car. You can drive the FSC-1 on the road like a normal car. If you touch a button, its wings and propeller (螺旋桨) fold out and then it can take off, fly and land as an airplane. The owners of the FSC-1 can choose if they want to drive or fly.

Another flying car or sky car is the Moller Skycar M400. Although you can’t drive it on the roads, it is s mall and easy to fly and can take off and land like a helicopter (直升飞机). Urban Aeronautics’X-Hawk is another type of sky car. It is expected to be available for about $3 million.

Just like any new technology, flying cars have taken a long time to be developed. But some experts think the technology is far from what people imagine when they are sitting in traffic. It still needs to be improved.

1．______ kinds of flying cars are mentioned in the passage.

A. Two

B. Three

C. Four

D. Five

2．The writer thinks that flying cars will be no longer a dream because ______.

A. science fiction writers’ ideas are stupid

B. they are too expensive to make

C. they will soon be available

D. they are only in science fiction

3．The FSC-1 can ______.

A. change itself into a robot

B. move on water like a ship

C. be flown only like an airplane

D. be driven like a car and flown like an airplane

4．The Moller Skycar is different from the FSC-1 because ______. A. it can’t fly B. it can’t be driven like a car

C. it is difficult to land

D. it is much more expensive 5．Some experts think the technology of flying cars is ______.

A. normal

B. traditional

C. not good enough

D. strange 1-------5 BCDBC