When my brother and I were young, my mom would take us on Transportation Days.
It goes like this: You can't take any means of transportation more than once. We would start from home, walking two blocks to the rail station. We'd take the train into the city center, then a bus, switching to the train, then maybe a taxi. We always considered taking a horse carriage in the historic district, but we didn't like the way the horses were treated, so we never did. At the end of the day, we took the subway to our closest station, where Mom's friend was waiting to give us a ride home—our first car ride of the day.
The good thing about Transportation Days is not only that Mom taught us how to get around. She was born to be multimodal (多方式的). She understood that depending on cars only was a  failure of imagination and, above all, a failure of confidence—the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels.
Once you learn the route map and step with certainty over the gap between the train and the platform, nothing is frightening anymore. New cities are just light­rail lines to be explored. And your personal car, if you have one, becomes just one more tool in the toolbox—and often an inadequate one, limiting both your mobility and your wallet.
On Transportation Days, we might stop for lunch on Chestrut Street or buy a new book or toy, but the transportation was the point. First, it was exciting enough to watch the world speed by from the train window. As I got older, my mom helped me unlock the mysteries that would otherwise have paralyzed my first attempts to do it myself: How do I know where to get off? How do I know how much it costs? How do I know when I need tickets, and where to get them? What track, what line, which direction, where's the stop, and will I get wet when we go under the river?
I'm writing this right now on an airplane, a means we didn't try on our Transportation Days and, we now know, the dirtiest and most polluting of them all. My flight routed me through Philadelphia. My multimodal mom met me for dinner in the airport. She took a train to meet me.
小題1: According to the writer, what was the greatest benefit of her Transportation Days?
A．Building confidence in herself.
B．Reducing her use of private cars.
C．Developing her sense of direction.
D．Giving her knowledge about vehicles.
小題2: The underlined word “paralyzed”(in Para.5) is closest in meaning to “________”．
A．displayedB．justifiedC．ignoredD．ruined
小題3: Which means of transportation does the writer probably disapprove of?
A．Airplane.B．Subway.C．Train.D．Car.

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:A

試題分析：本文介紹了作者對于人的價值觀的看法，人生的價值體現(xiàn)在給與我們有關(guān)的、我們所愛的人留下最美好，最珍貴的回憶。
小題1: 推理題：根據(jù)文章的第三段和第四段中的句子a failure of confidence—the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels和…, nothing is frightening anymore. 從而得出結(jié)論--- Building confidence in herself。選A
小題2:詞義猜測題：通過對上下文的理解，可知這里需要解釋為ruined。選D。
小題3:推理題：根據(jù)最后一段的句子：the dirtiest and most polluting of them all，可知作者對于飛機(jī)是這種交通工具并不喜歡。選A。
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