[单项选择]Second-hand cars are ______ to buy than new ones.

[单项选择]It is much cheaper to buy a ______ car than a new one.
A. using
B. used
C. useful
D. use

[单项选择]Second-hand ears are ______ to buy than new ones.


A. cheap
B. cheaper
C. cheapest

[单项选择]Not only cars but also new-type trucks ______ with air conditioning.
A. equip
B. equipped
C. are equipped
D. was equipped

[单项选择]Rather than the new regulation of European Union, Lufthansa prefers to ______ as a more efficient way.
A. tie up resources and capital by bureaucracy
B. encourage important investments in environmentally friendly technologies
C. take action to streamline air traffic control and diminish flight detours and holding patterns
D. All of the above.

[单项选择]What they discovered was nothing less than a new source of energy（）
A. 他们所发现的并非不是新的能源。
B. 他们所发现的正是新的能源。
C. 他们所发现的不亚于新的能源。
D. 比起新的能源，他们什么也没发现。

[单项选择]French cars are more elegantly styled than their British ______.
A. counterparts
B. equals
C. ones
D. copies

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Passage One
There are more than 100 million cars in the United States. A normal car gets less than 15 miles from each gallon of gas. It travels about 10,000 miles each year. In that time, it uses about 650 gallons of gas. In all, autos use up some 70 billion gallons of gas a year. That comes out to be four-and-a-half million barrels a day.
The importance of saving gas, then, cannot be stressed too much. Let’s say, for instance, that the fuel used by each car could be cut back just 15 percent. This could be done by making fewer trips each day. It could be done through better driving habits. If it were done, our nation’s use of fuel would fall by close to two-thirds of a million barrels per day.
We can all help save gas. One way is to ride the buses. Some of us could walk to work. We could ride mopeds(机动脚踏两用车) or bikes. Another way is to share a ride. We could join carpools (合伙使用汽车). About one-third of all cars are used for going to and fr
A. 75 miles per hour
B. 65 miles per hour
C. 55 miles per hour
D. 10 miles per hour

[单项选择]Old cars are cheaper to buy, but they tend to use more petrol. ______, there is a greater risk of accident.
A. Also
B. However
C. Therefore
D. Hence

[单项选择] New environmental taxes on cars, gasoline, and wood products were__.
A. reposed
B. imposed
C. imported
D. exposed

[单项选择]The new Ford cars are cited as an example to show that ______.

[单项选择]Salesman: Good morning. Planning to buy a new car today
Customer: （）.
Salesman: What kind of car are you looking for
Customer: Something that has enough room for my family.
A. I'm just looking around
B. I'm just looking everywhere
C. I'm just looking here and there
D. I'm just looking all the cars