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
From the health point of view we are living in a marvelous age. We are immunized from birth against many of the most dangerous d
From the health point of view we are living in a marvelous age. We are immunized from birth against many of the most dangerous d
admin
2018-02-08
74
问题
From the health point of view we are living in a marvelous age. We are immunized from birth against many of the most dangerous diseases. A large number of once fatal illnesses can now be cured by modern drugs and surgery. It is almost certain that one day remedies will be found for the most stubborn remaining diseases. The expectation of life has increased enormously. But though the possibility of living a long and happy life is greater than ever before, every day we witness the incredible
slaughter
of men, women and children on the roads. Man vs the motor-car! It is a never-ending battle which man is losing. Thousands of people the world over are killed or horribly killed each year and we are quietly sitting back and letting it happen.
It has been rightly said that when a man is sitting behind a steering wheel, his car becomes the extension of his personality. There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man’ s very worst qualities. People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when they are behind a steering-wheel. They are ill-mannered and aggressive, willful as two-year-olds and utterly selfish. All their hidden frustrations, disappointments and jealousies seem to be brought to the surface by the act of driving.
The surprising thing is that society smiles so benignly on the motorist and seems to condone his behavior. Everything is done for his convenience. Cities are allowed to become almost uninhabitable because of heavy tragic: towns are made ugly by huge car parks: the countryside is desecrated by road networks: and the mass annual slaughter becomes nothing more than a statistic, to be conveniently forgotten.
It is high time a world code were created to reduce this senseless waste of human life. With regard to driving, the laws of some countries are notoriously lax and even the strictest are not strict enough. A code which was universally accepted could only have a dramatically beneficial effect on the accident rate. Here are a few examples of some the things that might be done. The driving test should be standardized and made far more difficult than it is: all the drivers should be made to take a test every three years or so: the age at which young people are allowed to drive any vehicle should be raised to at least 21: all vehicles should be put through stringent annual tests for safety. Even the smallest amount of alcohol in the blood can impair a person’ s driving ability. Present drinking and driving laws(where they exist)should be made much stricter. Maximum and minimum speed limits should be imposed on all roads. Governments should lay down safety specifications for manufacturers, as has been done in the USA. All advertising stressing power and performance should be banned. These measures may sound inordinately harsh. But surely nothing should be considered as to severe if it results in reducing the annual toll of human life. After all, the world is for human beings, not motor-cars.
What we can learn from the sentence "his car becomes the extension of his personality"?
选项
A、Driving can show his real self.
B、Driving can show the other part of his personality.
C、Driving can bring out his character.
D、His car embodies his temper.
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据题干信息,定位到第二段第二旬There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man’s very worst qualities…All their hidden frustrations,disappointments and jealousies seem to be brought to the surface by the act of driving.其是对第一句话内容的进一步阐述,“他的车就是他个性的外延”这句话体现了“开车表现他真正的自我,真实的个性”,所以选项A正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/nra7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
Theownershipofpetsbringsavarietyofbenefitsthattheuninitiatedwouldneverbelieve.Foreverytaleofshreddedcushion,
A、Allchildrenshouldhaveequalopportunities.B、Itisonlynaturalforchildrentomakeerrors.C、Childrencannotdetecttheir
A、French.B、Italian.C、Ranch.D、Germany.C侍者说,点炸鸡排送一份沙拉,并问女士用什么样的沙拉调料。女士从侍者给出的四种调料中选了Ranch,故C正确。
A、Theyenjoyloudmusic.B、Theyseldomlosetheirtemper.C、Theywanttohavechildren.D、Theyenjoymoderndances.B文中提到“我轻易不会生
A、Itisuseless.B、itmightcauseairpollution.C、Itistooexpensive.D、Itsfunctionisunknown.D新闻中提到,因为电子香烟是新产品,它的好处和坏处人们都不
A、Theeducationproblems.B、Thediscriminationproblems.C、Thepopulationproblems.D、Thedebtproblems.D
Infact,evenwithouthumans,theEarth’sclimatechanges.Someclimatechangeis【C1】______.But,asgreenhousegasesareadded
Thereseemsnevertohavebeenacivilizationwithouttoys,butwhenandhowtheydevelopedisunknown.Theyprobablycameabout
Ifyouhaveheartproblems,youmightwanttopluginthatiPodorpopinaCDofmellowsongs.Hospitalpatientswithcoronary
A、Youmayfeellonelyandunhappyatthebeginning.B、Youcan’tfindagoodjob.C、Youmaywastealotoftime.D、Youhavetol
随机试题
图像大小的KB.MB.GB分别表示?
通用过程有两种基本类型,其中能够返回具体值的过程是_______。
阅读下列文字,然后回答问题。臣闻地广者粟多,国大者人众,兵强则士勇。是以泰山不让土壤,故能成其大;河海不择细流,故能就其深;王者不却众庶,故能明其德。是以地无四方,民无异国,四时充美,鬼神降福,此五帝三王之所以无敌也。今乃弃黔首以资敌国,却宾客以
环托式矫治器是谁设计研制的
临床上急性心肌梗死患者发生左心衰竭的主要原因是
检查盐酸美他环素的吸收度控制的杂质有
英国人甲在北京驾车同时撞伤中国人乙和英国人丙,乙和丙在中国同一法院起诉,中国法院应适用哪国法律确定对乙、丙的损害赔偿?
简述遗产债务的清偿原则。
设(I)和(Ⅱ)是两个四元齐次线性方程组,(I)的系数矩阵为(Ⅱ)的一个基础解系为η1=(2,一1,a+2,1)T,η2=(一1,2,4,a+8)T.(1)求(I)的一个基础解系;(2)a为什么值时(I)和(Ⅱ)有公共非零解?此时求出全部公共非零解
A、Animportantpersoniscomingintohisoffice.B、Hehastoansweranotherphonecall.C、Heneedstoleavetheofficesoon.D、H
最新回复
(
0
)