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【題目】 “Smombies”, people walking while staring at their mobile phone are getting attention of the public. To make them pay more attention to things around them in order to avoid serious accidents, the government of a small German town has come up with a solution，that is，fixing traffic lights in the pavement to make them noticed by people who keep looking down at their phones.

The safety measure was decided after two people in the town of Augsburg were recently hit by buses as they crossed the street without looking up from their phones. Officials in Augsburg decided to act，fixing ground-level traffic lights at two bus stops last Tuesday. The lights flash red whenever a bus is coming.

“We realized that many people don’t pay attention to traffic lights,”said Tobias Hermes，a city official. “So we decided to have unusual traffic lights. The more we have，the more probably people will notice them.”

Some Augsburg people seem to be quite happy with the idea. “I think it does have a point,” Jack Smith said，“We always see young people these days running over red lights，which makes it clear that we have to take action to stop this.”

Others，however，don’t think it necessary or helpful and they are against this idea. “I find it scary that mobile phone users are so lost in their phones that they can hardly find the lights on the pavement.” One person told the local paper.

But do these pavement lights really work? “To be honest,I didn’t even notice it,” one teenager who was interviewed said ,“Maybe it’s useful at night，but I didn’t realize it was there until just now.”

Arguments like that are still going on. Whether more such traffic lights will be fixed is till under discussion. Whatever the result is，something must be done to cut down the number of“Smombies” as long as we don’t want to see accidents caused by them again.

【1】What can we learn about “Smombies” from the article？

A.They look away from their mobile phones to keep safe when necessary.

B.They fix their eyes on their mobile phones even while crossing the streets.

C.Most of them get hit by buses.

D.They are mostly teenagers.

【2】What does the underlined word in Paragraph One mean？

A.人行道B.盲道C.護(hù)欄D.地下通道

【3】Which of the following will Tobias Hermes support？

A.Buses are the main cause of traffic accidents.

B.Bus lights should flash red while buses are running.

C.The pavement-fixed lights will save people’s lives.

D.The increasing number of traffic lights will get more people’s attention.

【4】What’s the best title for this text？

A.Ground Traffic Lights for people looking at Mobile Phones

B.A Good Way to Educate People to Obey Traffic Rules

C.Ground Traffic Lights Are Very Useful

D.The Serious Problem of Traffic Safety

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】D

【4】A

【解析】

主要講述了德國的奧格斯堡政府決定在人行橫道下安裝紅綠燈，以提醒邊走路邊玩手機(jī)的人注意交通安全。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)上文“Smombies”, people walking while staring at their mobile phone are getting attention of the public. “Smombies”，一邊看手機(jī)一邊走路的人們，引起了公眾的關(guān)注。可以看出“Smombies”這些人過馬路時都盯著手機(jī)看。故選B。

【2】詞句猜測題。To make them pay more attention to things around them in order to avoid serious accidents, the government of a small German town has come up with a solution，that is，fixing traffic lights in the pavement to make them noticed by people who keep looking down at their phones.為了讓他們更多地注意周圍的事情，以避免發(fā)生嚴(yán)重的事故，德國一個小鎮(zhèn)的政府想出了一個解決辦法，就是在人行道上安裝交通燈，讓那些一直低頭看手機(jī)的人注意到�？梢钥闯�，這個裝置是為行人安裝，應(yīng)該是在人行道上。故選A。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)上文“We realized that many people don’t pay attention to traffic lights,” said Tobias Hermes，a city official. “So we decided to have unusual traffic lights. The more we have，the more probably people will notice them.”“我們意識到很多人不注意紅綠燈，”市官員Tobias Hermes說。“所以我們決定開不尋常的紅綠燈。我們擁有的越多，人們就越有可能注意到他們。可見Tobias Hermes認(rèn)為越來越多的交通燈會引起更多的人的注意。故選D。

【4】主旨大意題。文章主要是說安裝地下交通燈來提醒走路玩手機(jī)的人，以減少他們發(fā)生交通事故的風(fēng)險，故選A。