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常将有日思无日，莫待无时思有时。——《增广贤文》 2023 年雅思 IELTS 考试模拟试题 READING TEST You are advised to spend about 15 minutes on Questions 1-14 which refer to Reading Passage below. The private car is assumed to have widened our horizons and increased our mobility. When we consider our childrens mobility, they can be driven to more places (and more distant places) than they could visit without access to a motor vehicle. However, allowing our cities to be dominated by cars has progressively eroded childrens independent mobility. Children have lost much of their freedom to explore their own neighborhood or city without adult supervision. In recent surveys, when parents in some cities were asked about their own childhood experiences, the majority remembered having more, or far more, opportunities for going out on their own, com/#pared with their own children today. They had more freedom to explore their own environment. Childrens independent access to their local streets may be important for their own personal, mental and psychological 先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐。——范仲淹 云路鹏程九万里，雪窗萤火二十年。——《王实甫》 development. Allowing them to get to know their own neighborhood and com/#munity gives them a sense of place. This depends on active exploration, which is not provided for when children are passengers in cars. (Suchchildren may see more, but they learn less.) Not only is it important that children be able to get to local play areas by themselves, but walking and cycling journeys to school and to other destinations provide genuine play activities in themselves. There are very significant time and money costs for parents associated with transporting their children to school, sport and to other locations. Research in the United Kingdom estimated that this cost, in 199