备战天津2023年英语中考训练之任务型阅读50篇其四

备战天津2023年英语中考训练之任务型阅读50篇其四 任务型阅读(阅读下面短文，根据短文内容完成句子) 16. A new city will be built in New Mexico，United Sates and seems the same as any other city，except for one big difference. There won't be any people living in the city. It will work as a testing ground（试验田）for futuristic technology. The new city is going to cost 1 billion dollars to build. When people around the world think of the new technology for cities in the future，they will be able to test it in the new city. Driverless cars，drones（无人机）， robots and different power systems are all ideas for the new city. In fact，anybody with a new idea can ask to test it. There will be no danger if anything goes wrong，because no people will be in the new city. The new city is the idea of technology company Pegasus Global Holdings. (1) A new city which will be built in New Mexico seems ______ any other city，except for one big difference. (2) ______ will live in the new city，because it will work as a testing ground for futuristic technology. (3) The new city is going to cost ______ dollars to build. (4) Driverless cars，drones，robots and ______ are all ideas for the new city. (5) It will be ______ if anything goes wrong in the new city. 17. This morning we had a school trip to the Dashan Collection House, a building of two floors. It is open from 9: 00 am to 5: 00 pm. We took the school bus and arrived at 9: 00. When we entered the collection house, our eyes were caught by a collection of old photos of the town on the walls of the front hall. Those photos told us something about the history of the town. And then in the Art Room, we saw many pictures of the countryside. The colors of the flowers and trees are rich and bright. We all love the beauty of nature at once. Then we went upstairs. On the left, there were over one hundred different clocks. The oldest clock was already more than two hundred years old. To my surprise, the clocks all worked well and they could tell the right time. It was then ten o'clock, and some clo