英语四级阅读200篇: Unit 44 passage 3

　　Motorways are, no doubt, the safest roads in the country. Mile for mile, vehicle for vehicle, you are much less likely or seriously injured than on an ordinary road. On the other hand, if you do have a serious accident on motorway, fatalities are much more likely to occur than in a comparable accident elsewhere on the roads.

　　Motorways have no sharp bends, no roundabouts or traffic lights and thus speeds are much greater than on other roads. Though the 70m. p. h. limit is still in force, it is often treated with the contempt that most drivers have for the 30 m. p. h. limit applying in built-up areas in Britain. Added to this is the fact that motorway drivers seem to like traveling with perhaps barely ten meters between each vehicle. The resulting horrific pileups when one vehicle stops for some reason mechanical failure, driver error and so on have become all too familiar through pictures in newspapers or on television. How many of these drivers realize that it takes a car about one hundred meters to brake to a stop from 70 m. p. h. ? Drivers also seem to think that motorway driving frees them from sudden change of the weather. However wet the road, whatever the visibility in mist or fog, they plough at very high speeds oblivious of police warnings or speed restrictions until their journey comes to a premature conclusion.

　　Perhaps one remedy for this motorway madness would be better driver education. At present, learner drivers are barred from motorways and are thus, as far as this kind of driving is concerned, thrown in at the deep end. However, much more efficient policing is required, for it is the duty of the police not only to enforce the law but also to protect the general public from its own folly.

　　21. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

　　A. Motorways have no sharp bends. B. Motorways have no roundabouts.

　　C. Motorways have no traffic lights. D. Motorways have no speed restriction.

　　22. This passage may lead us to infer that______.

　　A. there are much more accidents on ordinary roads

　　B. motorways are not the safest roads

　　C. in an accident, people are much more unlikely to be killed on motorways

　　D. people are more likely to be killed on motorways

　　23. Which of the following was not a reason for road accident?

　　A. Drivers realize that it takes a car about a hundred meters to brake to a stop from 70 m. p. h. .

　　B. Drivers drive very fast in mist or fog.

　　C. Drivers like traveling with short distance in between.

　　D. Drivers drive at mad speeds.

　　24. The drivers attitude toward the weather is______.

　　A. pessimistic B. optimistic

　　C. careless D. serious

　　25. The ways to deal with motorway madness may be______.

　　A. better driver education

　　B. that learner drivers are barred from motorways

　　C. that more efficient policing is required

　　D. all of them

　　答案：21. D 22. A 23. A 24. C 25. D