Many parents assume skill is pretty much determined by （7)

A、interesting event

B、disappointment

C、exhilarating event

D、sensational event

2. Until a hundred years ago, most journeys were in the 20 km range, the distance conveniently accessible by horse. Heavy freight could only be carried by water or rail. The invention of the motor vehicle brought personal mobility to the masses and made rapid freight delivery possible over a much wider area. Today 90 per cent of inland freight in the United Kingdom is carried by road. Clearly the world cannot revert to the horse-drawn wagon. Can it avoid being locked into congested and pollution ways of transporting people and goods？

3. In Europe most cities are still designed for the old modes of transport. Adaptation to the motor car has involved adding ring roads, one-way systems and parking lots. In the United States, more land is assigned to car use than to housing. Urban sprawl means that life without a car is nest to impossible. Mass use of motor vehicles has also killed or injured millions of people. Other social effects have been blamed on the car such as alienation and aggressive human behaviour.

4. A 1993 study by the European Federation for Transport and Environment found that car transport is seven times as costly as rail travel in terms of he external social costs it entails such as congestion, accidents, pollution, loss of cropland and natural habitats, depletion of oil resources, and so on. Yet cars easily surpass trains or buses as a flexible and convenient mode of personal transport. It is unrealistic to expect people to give up private cars in favour of mass transit.

5. Technical solutions can reduce the pollution problem and increase the fuel efficiency of engines. But fuel consumption and exhaust emissions depend on which cars are preferred by customers and how they are driven. Many people buy larger cars than they need for daily purposes or waste fuel by driving aggressively. Besides, global car use is increasing at a faster rate than the improvement in emissions and fuel efficiency which technology is now making possible.

6. A more likely scenario seems to be a combination of mass transit systems for travel into and around cities. With small "low emission" cars for urban use and larger hybrid or lean burn cars for use elsewhere. Electronically tolled highways might be used to ensure that drivers pay charges geared to actual road use. Better integration of transport systems is also highly desirable-and made more feasible by modern computers. But these are solutions for countries which can afford them. In most developing countries, old cars and old technologies continue to predominate.

Paragraph 3 ______

A. How Driving Habits Contribute to Road ProblemsB. The Increasing Use of Motor VehiclesC. The Impact of the Car on City DevelopmentD. The Relative Merits of Cars and Public TransportE. The Writer&39;s Own Prediction of Future SolutionsF. A Comparison of Past and Present Transportation Methods.

Paragraph 4 ______

A. How Driving Habits Contribute to Road ProblemsB. The Increasing Use of Motor VehiclesC. The Impact of the Car on City DevelopmentD. The Relative Merits of Cars and Public TransportE. The Writer&39;s Own Prediction of Future SolutionsF. A Comparison of Past and Present Transportation Methods.

Paragraph 5 ______

A. How Driving Habits Contribute to Road ProblemsB. The Increasing Use of Motor VehiclesC. The Impact of the Car on City DevelopmentD. The Relative Merits of Cars and Public TransportE. The Writer&39;s Own Prediction of Future SolutionsF. A Comparison of Past and Present Transportation Methods.

Paragraph 6 ______

A. How Driving Habits Contribute to Road ProblemsB. The Increasing Use of Motor VehiclesC. The Impact of the Car on City DevelopmentD. The Relative Merits of Cars and Public TransportE. The Writer&39;s Own Prediction of Future SolutionsF. A Comparison of Past and Present Transportation Methods.

Transport by horse would not be ______

A. for motor vehiclesB. a useful alternative to motor vehiclesC. a long-term solutionD. the problem of vehicle pollutionE. carrie by water in the United KingdomF. a factor in the pollution problem.

Most European cities were no designed ______

A. for motor vehiclesB. a useful alternative to motor vehiclesC. a long-term solutionD. the problem of vehicle pollutionE. carrie by water in the United KingdomF. a factor in the pollution problem.

Technology alone can not solve ______

A. for motor vehiclesB. a useful alternative to motor vehiclesC. a long-term solutionD. the problem of vehicle pollutionE. carrie by water in the United KingdomF. a factor in the pollution problem.

People&39;s choice of car and attitude to driving is ______

A. for motor vehiclesB. a useful alternative to motor vehiclesC. a long-term solutionD. the problem of vehicle pollutionE. carrie by water in the United KingdomF. a factor in the pollution problem.

A、racism

B、the differences between the New World and the Old

C、the differences between the rich and the poor

D、rejection and request