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例题三:

材料：The Official SAT Study Guide

试卷：3

页数：569

题号：14

Questions

11-20 are based on the following

passage

and supplementary material.

This

passage is adapted from Taras Grescoe, Straphanger:

Saving

Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile.

©2012

by

Taras Grescoe.

35

40

45

50

55

It

doesn’t have to be like this. Done right,

public

transport

can be faster, more comfortable, and

cheaper

than the private automobile. In Shanghai,

German-made

magnetic levitation trains skim over

elevated

tracks at 266 miles an hour, whisking people

to

the airport at a third of the speed of sound.

In

provincial

French towns, electric-powered streetcars

run

silently on rubber tires, sliding through

narrow

streets

along a single guide rail set into

cobblestones.

From

Spain to Sweden, Wi-Fi equipped high-speed

trains

seamlessly connect with highly ramified

metro

networks,

allowing commuters to work on laptops as

they

prepare for same-day meetings in once

distant

capital

cities. In Latin America, China, and India,

working

people board fast-loading buses that move

like

subway trains along dedicated busways,

leaving

the

sedans and SUVs of the rich mired in

dawn-to-dusk

traffic jams. And some cities have

transformed

their streets into cycle-path freeways,

making

giant strides in public health and safety

and

the

sheer livability of their neighborhoods—in

the

process

turning the workaday bicycle into a viable

form

of mass transit.

14. The central idea of the fourth paragraph (lines 35-57) is that

A) European countries excel at public transportation.

B) some public transportation systems are superior to travel by private

automobile.

C) Americans should mimic foreign public transportation systems when

possible.

D) much international public transportation is engineered for passengers to

work while on board.

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