福建省永春县2015_2016学年高一英语暑假作业.docVIP

高一英语暑假练习卷（二） 第二部分：阅读部分（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分） 第一节：共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分 A What steps can city officials, pedestrians (行人) and drivers take to reduce the number of accidents? The physics is easy: Slower speeds save lives. The culture is harder — but it’s changing. With more than 250 traffic deaths each year in New York City, “We at City Hall don’t accept this reality,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told New Yorkers on Tuesday. “So many people lost their lives that we could have saved.” The good news is that saving lives on the streets is not difficult. The better news is that people are starting to demand (要求) that the city save lives — even at the cost of drivers’ convenience. What, or rather who, kills New Yorkers — especially seniors and children — as they cross the street? Drivers who speed, and drivers who don’t pay attention. Five-year worth of New York crash data shows that “dangerous driver choices are the contributing factor in 70% of pedestrian deaths,” the city reported this week. And in 53 percent of pedestrian deaths, the pedestrians were following all the rules — crossing on a crosswalk with the light, for example, or sometimes just standing on the sidewalk. But a driver who was inattentive or speeding or who failed to yield (给……让路) hit and killed them anyway. The biggest step that the mayor correctly put forward on Tuesday, then, was to lower and enforce (实施) speed limits. The hard part, though, will be enforcement. Police officers can write speeding tickets, and have been doing so. But ticket-writing consumes officers’ attention. A speeder may face an officer in one block but not the next. That’s why the mayor also wants Albany to allow the city to put in place more speed cameras than the 20 New York already has. In this way police resources (警力) will be able to focus on other dangerous behaviors, including truck drivers who come into the city without enough mirrors and drivers who talk on cell phones or text. The most important factor in saving lives, though, is