While drunken driving may be on the decline, traffic safety experts remain puzzled over how to deal with another alcohol related danger: drunken pedestrians(行人).

Pedestrians struck and killed by cars often are extremely drunk. In fact, they are intoxicated(喝醉的) more frequently and with higher blood alcohol levels than drunken drivers who are killed in accidents, various studies have shown. Forty percent of adult pedestrians involved in fatal crashes have a blood alcohol level of at least 0.10 which by law in most states signifies intoxication compared to only 25 percent of drivers in deadly accidents, according to recent federal data.

Some types of pedestrain accidents have been declining nationally, especially those involving children, but the number of adult pedestrians who are drunk when killed in traffic has remained relatively steady at 2500 a year. The total number of pedestrians killed annually in U.S. traffic accidents is at least 7000, or one of every seven highway accidents resulting in death.

“We’re dealing here, we think, with a very severe drinking problem that leads to a severe highway safety problem,” said Richard Blomberg, president of Dunlap and Associates Inc, in Norwalk, Coon.

Blomberg, whose consulting company found a very high rate of alcohol involvement in a controlled study of pedestrian accidents in New Orleans, was among several researchers who spoke on the topic at the annual meeting of the Research council’s Transportation Research Board(TRB) in Washington in January.

Pedestrian accidents have not received enough attention in the past, according to Kay Colpitts, who chairs the board’s committee on pedestrians. Few methods exist to monitor walking habits, she said, and researchers have been mystified(迷惑不解) about how to prevent disasters.

1.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Traffic Safety.

B. Drunken Drivers.

C. Drunken Pedestrian Accidents.

D. A Severe Highway Safety Problem.

2.Among the causes of walkers’ accidents, the most serious problem is ________.

A. long delays in traffic signals that may make people cross streets ignoring traffic rules

B. the alcohol level in their blood which is too high.

C. a lack of adult keeping eyes on many children involved in accidents

D. former drunken drivers whose licenses are not allowed to use for a time

3.According to recent federal data, drunken drivers with an over 0.10 blood alcohol level in deadly accidents ____.

A. are 15 percent less than drunken adult walkers with the same level

B. are 2500 a year in US traffic accidents

C. are at least 7000 in US traffic accidents

D. make up one seventh of highway accidents

4.According to the passage, what is Blomberg?

A. A researcher.

B. A specialist in traffic safety.

C. A clerk of a consulting company.

D. A government official

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A 16-year-old in foster care has finally found a home. His adoption caseworker (社会工作者), who has known him since he was 7, will become his adoptive mother this month.

In October 2013, Davion Only spoke in front of a church congregation (会众) in St. Petersburg, Florida, and made an ____ for adoption. He had recently learned that his ____ mother, who’d been in jail since Only was born, had died. He had spent years bouncing between foster homes. “My name is Davion and I’ve been in foster care since I was born,” he said. “I know God hasn’t given up on me, so I’m not giving up either.”

The ____ plea (恳求) went viral, and Only’s foster agency ____ calls from more than 10,000 people, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Only ____ traveling to Ohio to live with a minister’s family. But after Only got into a physical ____ with one of his older would-be siblings (兄弟姐妹), the minister and his wife changed their minds.

Back in Florida, Only passed through four different ____ homes over the next year, until he called Connie Going, his adoption caseworker, to make a special ____ .

Only had known Going for nearly ten years, and had asked every year if she would adopt him but she always ____. “I always believed there was a better family than us out there,” Going tells Yahoo Parenting. “He ____ so much in this world.”

But this past July, when Only called and asked again if she might adopt him, Going says something felt ____ . “In adoption there is a ‘claiming moment,’ when you know someone is your child. When he called me to ask, in that moment, I just knew,” she says. “When he asked me, my heart felt this ____ and I just knew he was my son.”

So Going, 52, invited Only to start spending time ____ the rest of her family — the other four children who she also adopted out of foster care. ____ , Going managed to rent a bigger home, got a lawyer, and started adoption ____ .

Only will officially join Going’s family on April 22, when the adoption ____ . “Today, I am feeling blessed and honored by being chosen to be the parent to all my children,” she says. “I work every day on being the best parent I can to them, to be patient and creative so that I can ____ all their needs.”

A spokesperson for Eckerd, Only’s foster agency, told the Tampa Bay Times they were ____ with the new development. “We are truly thrilled that Davion has been united with his forever family.“

While Going is waiting for the newest ____ to her family to become official in the eyes of the law, she says Only is already her child. “I want him to know he is ____ loved for who he is, the way he is,” she says. “The changes he chooses to make in his life, and the choices, are his to make. As a family we will be there through it all, the good and the bad for our lifetime. He is home.”

1.A. apology B.compensation C.appeal D.call

2.A. biological B.botanic C.adoptive D.adaptive

3.A. delighting B.satisfying C. annoying D.heartbreaking

4.A. received B.accepted C.made D.answered

5.A. avoided B.started C.gave up D.ended up

6.A. quarrel B.experiment C.examination D.fight

7.A. permanent B.full-time C.rich D.temporary

8.A. question B.request C.order D.resolution

9.A. determined B.hesitated C.involved D.devoted

10.A. declares B.develops C.discovers D. deserves

11.A. different B.the same C.surprising D.disappointing

12.A. force B.courage C.ache D.energy

13.A. on B.with C.in D.to

14.A. Particularly B.Constantly C.Previously D.Eventually

15.A. performances B.procedures C.persuasion D.production

16.A. goes across B.goes about C.goes through D.goes down

17.A. refuse B.ignore C.meet D.neglect

18.A. pleased B.angry C.disappointed D.enthusiastic

19.A. burden B.brother C.addition D.trouble

20.A. unconditionally B.conditionally C.partly D.amazingly

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