[单项选择]Pedestrian zones reduce city center pollution.
A. Traffic reductions have improved city center air quality.
B. Larger roads have reduced city center traffic jams.
C. Cycle areas have improved the flow of city center traffi

[单项选择]Pedestrian zones reduce city center pollution.（　）
A. Traffic reductions have improved city center air quality.
B. Larger roads have reduced city center traffic jams.
C. Cycle areas have improved the flow of city center traffic.

[单项选择]（）they reached the center of the city, they stopped the car at a bar.
A. Before a mile or so when
B. Further than a mile or so
C. For a mile or so after
D. A mile or so before

[单项选择]What is good about living close to the city center（）
A. Traveling by bus or car.
B. Living in an expensive way.
C. Enjoying city life.
D. Finding places to live in.

[单项选择]For many years the city has been a business center with hotel accomodation mainly for businessmen together with other ______ travellers and completely inadequate for the swarms of short-stay tourists landing in the city.
A. affluent
B. agonistic
C. afferent
D. amicable

[单项选择]The scheme for rebuilding the city center（）owing to the refusal of a Council to sanction the expenditure of the money it would have required．
A. fell down
B. fell off
C. fell out
D. fell flat

[单项选择]The scheme for rebuilding the city center （）, owing to the refusal of a Council to sanction the expenditure of the money it would have required.
A. fell down
B. fell out
C. fell off
D. fell flat

[单项选择]
Cell phones are a danger on the road in more ways than one. Two new studies show that talking on the phone while traveling, whether you’re driving or on foot is increasing both pedestrian deaths and those of drivers and passengers, and recommend crackdowns on cell use by both pedestrians and drivers.
The new studies, lead-authored by Rutgers University, Newark, Economics Professor Peter D Loeb, relate the impact of cell phones on accident fatalities to the number of cell phones in use, showing that the current increase in deaths resulting from cell phone use follows a period when cell phones actually helped to reduce pedestrian and traffic fatalities. However, this reduction in fatalities disappeared once the numbers of phones in use reached a "critical mass" of 100 million, the study found.
These studies looked at cell phone use and motor vehicle accidents from 1975 through 20
A. show that talking on the phone while driving or walking in the street increases deaths of drivers and pedestrians
B. show that talking on the phone while driving increases pedestrian deaths
C. recommend that strict measures be taken to restrain cell phone use
D. both A and C

[单项选择]Mr. Simpson stopped at the pedestrian crossing because
A. the lighting was very good along the stretch.
B. he was riding with two ladies at the moment.
C. he wanted to ensure the safety of two passers-by.
D. he was a new driver who tends to be cautious.

[单项选择]It is reported that the worst pedestrian jam in this city occurs around this crossroads.（　）
A. confession
B. congestion
C. digestion
D. exhaustion

[填空题]Broadleaved plants in the temperate zones begin to shed their leaves before winter because they cannot______.