首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、It is similar to housing problem. B、It gets better when one city develops. C、It is caused by money or technology. D、It relates
A、It is similar to housing problem. B、It gets better when one city develops. C、It is caused by money or technology. D、It relates
admin
2021-07-23
40
问题
Mobility in developing world cities is a very peculiar challenge, because different from health or education or housing, it tends to get worse as societies become richer. Clearly, an unsustainable model. Mobility, as most other developing country problems, more than a matter of money or technology, is a matter of equality. The great inequality in developing countries makes it difficult to see, for example, that in terms of transport, an advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport There is a conflict for space between those with cars and those without them.
We fought not just for space for buses, but we fought for space for people, and that was even more difficult. Cities are human habitats, and we humans are pedestrians. Just as fish need to swim or birds need to fly or deer need to run, we need to walk. I would like to focus on the really enormous conflict between pedestrians and cars in developing country cities. In terms of transport infrastructure, what really makes a difference between advanced and backward cities is not highways or subways but quality sidewalks.
I will propose to you a couple of ingredients which I think would make cities much better, and it would be very simple to implement them in the new cities which are only being created. Hundreds of kilometers of greenways criss-crossing cities in all directions. People will walk out of homes into safe spaces. They could go for dozens of kilometers safely in wonderful greenways, sort of bicycle highways.
And the second ingredient, which would solve mobility, that very difficult challenge in developing countries, in a very low-cost and simple way, would be to have hundreds of kilometers of streets only for buses, bicycles and pedestrians. This would be, again, a very low-cost solution if implemented from the start, low cost, pleasant transit with natural sunlight.
But unfortunately, reality is not as good as my dreams. All developing country cities have a large problem of slums, which means illegal housing. And of course it’s very difficult to have mass transit or to use bicycles in such environments. But even legal housing developments have also been located in the wrong places, very far from the city centers where it’s impossible to provide low-cost, high-frequency public transport. As a Latin American, I would recommend, respectfully, passionately, to Asian and African countries which are yet to urbanize, that governments should acquire all land around cities. In this way, their cities could grow in the right places with the right spaces, with the parks, with the greenways, with the busways.
16. What do we learn about the problem of mobility in developing countries?
17. What is the focus of this speech?
18. What is the low-cost solution for mobility challenge in developing countries?
19. What is the speaker’s suggestion to Asian and African countries yet to urbanize?
选项
A、It is similar to housing problem.
B、It gets better when one city develops.
C、It is caused by money or technology.
D、It relates to a matter of equality.
答案
D
解析
录音提到,流动性是许多发展中国家遇到的问题,不仅仅是钱或科技的问题,更是有关平等的问题(a matter of equality),D项复现录音关键词,为正确答案。主讲人提到,流动性与健康、教育和住房问题不同,社会发展程度与流动性成反比,故A项“与住房问题类似”和B项“随着城市发展变得更好”与录音相反。C项“由金钱或科技引起”,录音没有提及产生流动性问题的原因是钱或科技。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/DqJ7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Incidentsofworkerscausedglobalanger.B、Kafalasystemleavesworkersopentoabuse.C、AnIndonesianworkerwasstarvedto
A、Itwascreatedmainlyforscientificresearch.B、Itworksbetterinfineweatherconditions.C、Itmustbelocatedonatleast
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteanessayonrelationshipbetweentechnologyandenvironment.Youressayshoul
Wearelockedinagenerationalwar,whichwillgetworsebeforeitgetsbetter.Noonewantstoadmitthis,becauseit’sugly
A、Theywereexpensive.B、Noonebelievedthem.C、Theywereunsuccessful.D、Theywereoftennotwelcomed.C
Inlastyear’sSciencestudy,researchersatJohnsHopkinsUniversityexaminedtherelationshipbetweenstem-celldivisionsand
TrustMe,I’maRobot[A]Withrobotsnowemergingfromtheirindustrialcagesandmovingintohomesandworkplaces,roboticists
TrustMe,I’maRobot[A]Withrobotsnowemergingfromtheirindustrialcagesandmovingintohomesandworkplaces,roboticists
A、Sittingstill.B、Contactingpeople.C、Trainingimagination.D、Improvingskills.A说话人认为在现代社会中,人们最需要的是放慢步伐,集中注意力和静坐,A“静坐”与对话相符,为
A、Havinglesscontactwiththemselves.B、Havinglesscontactwithothers.C、Workingmorehoursthanbefore.D、Pushingthemselves
随机试题
女性,35岁。患甲状旁腺功能亢进症合并急性胰腺炎,发病原因可能与高血钙有关。关于钙离子与急性胰腺炎关系,下列哪项说法是不正确的
阑尾周围脓肿消退后作阑尾切除的最佳时间是
根据《建设工程安全生产条例》,建设单位应当在拆除工程施工15日前,将下列哪些资料报送建设工程所在地建设行政主管部门?()
会计的核算职能与监督职能之间的关系,正确的说法有()。
资产负债表日至财务报告批准报出日之间发生的报告年度售出的商品因质量问题被退回,该事项属于资产负债表日后非调整事项。()
私人物品与公共物品的主要区别在于()。
根据《劳动法》的规定,劳动者享有的权利有( )。
2020年5月23日,习近平总书记在看望参加全国政协十三届三次会议的经济界委员时强调,落实“六稳”“六保”任务,确保各项决策部署落地生根,确保完成决胜全面建成小康社会、决战脱贫攻坚目标任务,推动我国经济乘风破浪、行稳致远。我国总体上已基本实现了全面建成小康
若某计算机系统由两个部件串联构成,其中一个部件的失效率为7×10-6/小时。若不考虑其他因素的影响,并要求计算机系统的平均故障间隔时间为105小时,则另一个部件的失效率应为(1)小时。
打开考生文件夹下的演示文稿yswg.pptx,按照下列要求完成对此文稿的修饰并保存。在第一张幻灯片前插入版式为“标题和内容”的新幻灯片,标题为“公共交通工具逃生指南”,内容区插入3行2列表格,第1列的1、2、3行内容依次为“交通工具”“地铁”和“公交车
最新回复
(
0
)