交通问题令人担忧!

When you think about it, life is a series of ongoing, connecting trips.

Many of us start the day by commuting, or traveling to work. We drop off our children at school. We may visit the doctor or go to the market to buy food. We rush home to see our families. 

Life is more pleasant when these trips are easy and direct. The easier commuting is, the higher your quality of life is.

People who live in big cities spend a lot of time talking about traffic. Too many people on the roads can be a big problem. Not all traffic is the same. There are some terms you need to know when talking about traffic.

One such term is gridlock. Gridlock is when nobody can go anywhere. The roads become one big parking lot. There is also stop-and-start traffic. This is when you move forward a little, but then stop. Move a little. Then stop. Both are equally stressful. Traffic can be bumper-to-bumper. This means there are so many cars on the road that their bumpers seem to be touching. To idle means the engine of your car is running, but you are not moving anywhere.

Another term to know is rush hour traffic. Rush hour traffic happens at about the same time every day— when people are commuting to and from work.

In China, Shanghai's traffic problems were found to be worse than Beijing's. Drivers in Shanghai spend 33 percent of their time on the road idling. People in Beijing spend 27 percent of their travel time idling, doing nothing but running their engines and wasting fuel.

So, what can cities do to reduce traffic problems? One thing cities can do is to supply more public transportation. Before cities with traffic problems find ways to get people from Point A to Point B more efficiently, they can only envy people in Tampere, Finland and Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The survey found that these two cities have the fastest moving traffic.

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1.Many people now live a life of_______.

A traveling

B dropping off children

C visiting doctors

D rushing home

解析：选A。A 。细节理解题。其它三个选项都只是traveling的一部分。

2.People spend a lot time talking about traffic, because______.

A there are many problems on the road

B not all traffic is the same

C easy and direct traffic means pleasant life

D their quality of life is connected to it

解析：选D。D 。推理判断题。文中提到交通的快捷便利与人们的生活质量息息相关。A选项不是本文所关注的。B和C选项都不是人们谈论交通的主要原因。

3.In paragraph 5, the author mentioned________terms of traffic problems.

A 5.

B 4.

C 3.

D 6.

解析：选B。B 。细节理解题。四个关于交通的术语分别是: gridlock, stop-and-start, bumper-to-bumper, idle。

4.Which of the following statements is correct?

A 33 percent of the people in Shanghai spend their time idling on the road.

B 27 percent of their fuel is wasted by people in Beijing on the road.

C Drivers in Shanghai spend more time on the road than those in Beijing.

D The percentage of idling on the road is larger in Shanghai than in Beijing.

解析：选D。D 。细节理解题。根据第七段的Drivers in Shanghai spend 33 percent of their time on the road idling. People in Beijing spend 27 percent of their travel time idling, doing nothing but running their engines and wasting fuel.可知上海司机在路上挂空挡的时间比例高于北京司机，即D项。

5.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_______.

A cities are supplying more public transportation

B the traffic problem is how to get people from Point A to Point B

C until now, the traffic in Tampere and Rotterdam is the most efficient

D people in Tampere and Rotterdam are envying people in other cities

解析：选C。C 。推理判断题。根据文中最后两句可推测出C项是正确的。提供更多公共交通方式是解决交通问题的方法，本文没说现在是否在这样做，所以A不正确。