A.A motorists speeding.B.Her running a stop sign.C.Her lack of driving
A.A motorists speeding.
B.Her running a stop sign.
C.Her lack of driving experience.
D.A motorists failure to concentrate.
A.A motorists speeding.
B.Her running a stop sign.
C.Her lack of driving experience.
D.A motorists failure to concentrate.
Road accidents, for example, happen frequently after a family quarrel and we all know people who are accident-prone, so often at odds with themselves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.
By definition, an accident is something you cannot predict or avoid, and the idea which used to be current, that the majority of road accidents are caused by a minority of criminally careless drivers, is not supported by insurance statistics. These show that most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness or thoughtlessness.
It is not always clear, either, what sort of conditions make people more likely to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety precautions and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are absent from work due to an accident. These accidents are largely the result of human error or misjudgment—noise and fatigue, boredom or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, run three times the normal risk of accidents at work.
This passage might be taken from
A.a text book
B.a science fiction
C.a popular magazine
D.a report of a manufacturer
A.There were no motorists coming and going.
B.The motorists drove too slowly.
C.Some two students played a trick.
D.The police placed a notice.
To discourage motorists from leaving their cars in the streets all day, parking meters are used. When you park at a meter, you will pay a coin. This pays for a certain amount of time. The meter re cords this and it shows when the time that you have paid for is finished. If the car is still there then, you have to pay a fine.
Traffic wardens look after the meters. They walk around the streets and check that every meter shows that money has been paid for the car parked there. If a meter registers" time expired", the motorist who has left his car there is fined. Of course, the traffic :warden cannot wait for the owner of car to return. He carries a block of printed forms, and on one of these he writes down all the details, such as the registration number of the car, where it is parked, how much the driver must pay and where he must send the money. He leaves this form. on the car where the driver will be able to see it easily; he usually pushes it under one of the windscreen wipers so that it will not blow away. And in case it rains before the motorist returns, the form. is put in a little plastic envelope to protect it. When the driver comes back, he gets an unpleasant surprise, but it is his own fault for leaving his car too long at a parking meter.
What is "rush hours"?
A.A period when cars are rushing on the roads.
B.A period when people are going to or from their work.
C.A period when cars are crowed on the roads.
D.A period when people are crowed in the buses.
On the road motorists should be aware of cyclists and be ______ towards them.[2008]
A.considerable
B.considering
C.considerate
D.considered
What does the author think is society's attitude toward motorists?
A.Society laughs at motorists.
B.Society tolerates their rode driving.
C.Society imposes a lot of restrictions on motorists.
D.Society encourages motorists to behave themselves.
A.considerable
B.considering
C.considerate
D.considered
Voices were ______ as the argument between the two motorists became more bad-tempered.
A.swollen
B.increased
C.developed
D.raised
What does the author think of society toward motorists?
A.Society smiles on the motorists.
B.Huge car parks are built in the cities and towns.
C.Victims of accidents are nothing.
D.Society condones their rude driving.
A.To help those people who are injured in traffic accidents.
B.To equip all kinds of vehicles with safety belts.
C.To remind motorists and passengers to buy safety belts.
D.To remind motorists and passengers to wear safety belts.
The sentence "You might tolerate the odd road-hog ... the rule." (Para. 1) implies that ______.
A.our society is unjust towards well-mannered motorists
B.rude drivers can be met only occasionally
C.the well-mannered motorist cannot tolerate the road-hog
D.nowadays impolite drivers constitute the majority of motorists