题目内容
【题目】[1] "The other day I was taking my daughter to school when a young woman suddenly walked straight off the pavement in front of my car, eyes glued to her phone as she was texting. I hit the brakes and slid to a stop, just in time not to run into her. What a near miss! Lady, I beg you to look where you're going ! " A man complained to a journalist yesterday.
[2] In fact, of more than 1,000 people crossing 20 different roads in Seattle,10% were listening to music,7% were texting and6% were having conversations on phone, the journal Injury Prevention reports and it estimates there was a 5% rise in the numbers of pedestrian deaths and injuries from June 2012.
[3] The texters were four times more likely to ignore red lights or fail to look both ways before crossing. And it took almost two seconds longer to cross the road. Listening to music seems to shorten the time taken to cross the road, but when they were doing it they were less likely to look both ways before crossing.
[4] Kevin Clinton, from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said," Looking properly when you are walking is as important as when you are driving, so take care not to be dangerously distracted, whether by mobile phones, listening to music or being caught up in conversations with other people. Road users need to be tuned in to what's happening around them and shouldn't do the wrong thing at the wrong time. We have
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【1】 Why does the writer introduce the man's experience in Paragraph1? (no more than 5 words)
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【2】 For what purpose does the author give so many figures in Para-graph 2? (no more than 12 words)
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【3】 Why is it not safe to listen to music while crossing road? (no more than 10 words)
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【4】 Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than5 words)
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【5】 List three kinds of pedestrian misbehavior according to the text,(no more than 10 words)
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【答案】见解析
【解析】【1】 For introducing a topic. /To bring in the topic.
【2】 To show the pedestrian misbehavior has caused increasing deaths and injuries.
【3】 Because people are less likely to look both ways.
【4】 look out for motorists
【5】 (1) listening to music (2) texting (3) having conversations on phone