Terrafugia Company has said that its flying car, named Transition, has successfully finished a 37- second test flight
On March 5, 2009, at Plattsburgh International Airport in New York. It was piloted by Phil Meteer, the company's chief pilot.
Transition is a two-seat airplane that can take off and land at airports as well as drive on roads.
The company said that the flying car can travel at speeds up to 115 mph for 450 miles in the air, drive at highway speeds on the ground, and fold up(折叠) to fit in a garage (车库) 81 inches wide, and 80 inches high.
This could be used in hospitals to transport patients so as to avoid road traffic. It may start running on wheels, and when it gets to traffic lights it can fly overhead the lights and keeps its way forward. So it’s good news to avoid traffic problem and the traffic accidents.
But some people say this is a going airplane rather than a flying car, at least on the appearance. Anyway, we are happy for scientific-technical progress, what a fantastical world in the near future!
小题1: This kind of new machine is made by ______.
A．Phil Meteer
B．Terrafugia Company
C．Plattsburgh International Airport
D．both A and B小题2: ___ people can sit in Transition.
A．3
B．5
C．4
D．2小题3: Transition can travel ____ miles every hour in the air .
A．115
B．120
C．450
D．480小题4: Which of the following sentences about Transition is not true? __________.
A．It can be folded up.
B．It can both run on the ground and fly in the sky.
C．It is used in hospital now.
D．It looks like a plane .
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C
题目分析：本文介绍了Terrafugia公司的一种新型的飞行汽车，它的构造和特点，以及会给我们的生活带来什么样的变化。
小题1:细节题：根据第一段的第一句话Terrafugia Company has said that its flying car, named Transition, has successfully finished a 37- second test flight可知选B。
小题2:细节题：第三段Transition is a two-seat airplane 说只有两个位子，所以只可以做两个人，选D
小题1:细节题：第四段The company said that the flying car can travel at speeds up to 115 mph for 450 miles in the air, 选A
小题1:推理题：从最后一句话;what a fantastical world in the near future!可知现在还没有投入使用，更别说这种发明现在被用在医院里 选C。
点评：本文介绍了Terrafugia公司的一种新型的飞行汽车，它的构造和特点。本文要求考生理解文章的主旨，通过题目筛选答案，读者应当知道如何去做或按照某种方式传递思考问题。推理判断题的答案不可能在文章中直接找到，因此推理时我们务必要忠于原文，在文章中寻找并确定可推论的依据。