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    During the last ten years，our cities were full of cars，buses and trucks．They are very important in our daily life．With them people call go to any place．But now the streets are  completely crowded and it is very difficult to drive a car along them．Drivers must stop at hundreds of traffic lights．

What are our cities going to be like in ten or twenty years? Will many motorways be built across them? With big motorways(高速公路)cutting across them，full of noisy，dirty cars and trucks，our cities are going to be awful places．How can we solve the problem?

People can leave their cars at home and take the bus to go to work．It is a good way to improve the traffic problems．

    There are some good ideas to reduce the use of private cars．In 1971，for example，the authorities(官方) in Rome began an interesting experiment：passengers on the city buses did not have to pay for their tickets．

    In Stockholm(斯德哥爾摩) there was another experiment：people paid very little for a season ticket to travel on any bus，trolley bus，train or tram all over the city．In many cities now some streets are closed to vehicles(機(jī)動(dòng)車(chē)) and pedestrians are safe there．In London there is another experiment：part of the street is for buses only．So the buses can travel fast．There are no cars or taxis in front of them．

    In China some roads are closed to the taxis in rush hours．Some people say it’s good for the transportation．but others say it’s not convenient for the passengers．

(    )1．What does the writer worry about in a big city?

           A．The number of traffic lights         B．The shortage of buses

           C．The traffic congestion (擁擠)

(    )2．What city once experimented on a completely free bus service?

           A．London         B．Stockholm      C．Rome

(    )3．What city once experimented on a very cheap bus service?

           A．London         B．Stockholm      C．Rome

(    )4．In many cities pedestrians arc much safer because ________ ．

A．no traffic is allowed in some streets

B．traffic is computer-controlled

           C．only one-way streets are open to traffic

(    )5．In Chinese，“pedestrian” means ________ ．

A．司機(jī)              B．行人             C．旅客

Answer 1

1C  2C  3B  4A  5B