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  Thanks to breakthroughs in the performance of engines for small jets,along with better airplane manufacturing techniques,companies such as Eclipse Aviation,the Albuquerque,N. M.，and Adam Aircraft of Denver are promising a new kind of aircraft for a new category of travel：jetspeed transportation between as many as 5 ,500 US airports,in planes that cost as little as $1. 5 million.

  That's a part of the price of today's private jets.

  Waiting for final certification by the Federal Aviation Administration,which is now expected in the second quarter of 2008,Eclipse's sixseat E500 could be in the hands of pilots this July.

  A private charter service based at Hanscom Field in Lexington,Mass., Linear Air LL C. already has ordered 30 of the Eclipse very light jets and plans to put them in service between August and late 2009. The planes can fly at more than 400 mph,twice the typical speed of private propellerdriven planes.

  "This is the absolute future,and everybody in the aviation business knows it," said Arthur Allen,chairman of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission,which oversees 38 smaller airports around the state.

  Because VLJs weigh as little as a minivan (微型車) ，they can land on runways as short as 3 ,000 feet―compared with the 4 ,000 or 5,000 feet required by the smallest private jets today. Allen envisions (預測) them opening up new markets for air taxi and charter services. 

  "It's like an executive car service,with wings," said Bill Herp,Linear Air's chief executive. " VLJs are going to revolutionize the way a large percentage of the traveling public gets around."

  Part of Linear's plan with scheduled charter service is to introduce passengers to the private plane experience and turn them to future customers for $1,500 or $3,000 charter flights,either for business or vacation travel for rich consumers.

  For Herp,the huge advantage of VLJs is they will cost a third as much to buy and half as much to operate per hour as traditional small jets,vastly broadening the market for air taxi and charter services.

(   ) 5. What is the best title of the passage?

   A. New Jets May Change Air Travel

   B. The Bright Future for New Jets

   C. The Advantage of the New Jets

   D. Fast and Cheaper Jets

(   ) 6. What is NOT the advantage of the new jets,compared with the private jets today?

   A. They can cost less both in buying and using.

   B. They can carry more people on the board.

   C. They can fly faster and can be more convenient.

   D. They need shorter runway.

(   ) 7. We may learn from the passage that         .

   A. they are beginning to sell the new jets at lower prices

   B. they will let some people experience the travel of the new jets

   C. they will make the course and the price of the tickets of the jets

   D. they are making contracts with taxi business

(   ) 8. What does the underlined phrase "charter services" mean in the passage?

   A. To hire the plane for a particular purpose.

   B. To make a chart while flying.

   C. The first flight.

   D. A pleasant flight.

(   ) 9. We can infer from the passage that         .

   A. the jets can be operated by an ordinary car driver in the future

   B. the new jets can only be used by the rich as their private planes

   C. the new jets will have a promising market

   D. all the companies will use them to take the place of the cars

5. A全文講述的是新型飛機可能改變航空運輸。

6. B文中未提及載人的數(shù)量。

7. B從倒數(shù)第2段可知。

8. A意為包機。

9. C從末段可知。

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