When your school doesn’t have a bus, and you live too far away to walk? How do you go to school?  “Let’s carpool! ”most US middle school students will get that cool idea. Carpooling is a group of people sharing the responsibility(責(zé)任) of driving to school in the morning. There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns driving the kids in their cars.It might be the kids’ first experience with real teamwork. Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It’s a great lesson in resposibility.

Carpooling is coming into fashion everywhere now. You can find lots of informations of carpooling on the internet. Carpooling is cool! Why?
It’s good for the environment. In today’s culture of everyone needing to try their best to protect our environment, carpooling is one of the best ways. By taking 3 cars off the road, the pollution can be cut a little. Take that over a town, a city, a state, a country and think about how much less pollution is going to be in the air over the course of even one year.
Gas(汽油) now is much more expensive than it used to and if you need to watch the cents(美分), then it’s possible that carpooling could be the answer to your prayers. Even if you have to use your car once a week instead of two, that’s one round trip of gas you’re saving. So carpooling helps you save money.
Carpooling is a great way of getting to know people better. If you’re carpooling grade school kids, then you’ll find that slowly you’ll get to know your child’s peers(同齡人) and friends better. It's a great opportunity to meet people while saving the environment and your money. 
小題1:The word “carpool” means         .
A. 合伙用車                B. 共同租車             C. 讓人搭車
小題2:One of        drives the car in a carpool of middle school students.
A. their teachers              B. the students           C. their parents
小題3:If you carpool with two persons to work every day,      will be taken off the road every day.
A. no car                   B.one car               C. two cars
小題4:There are        advantages of carpooling mentioned in this passage.
A. three                    B. four                  C. five
小題5:We can know from the passage that carpooling          .
A. is much more convenient than taking the school bus.
B. can help you save the money because you use your car less.
C. isn’t a good means to understand people better.

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:C
小題4:B
小題5:B

試題分析：本文介紹了美國流行的合伙用車的方式。這種方式可以培養(yǎng)孩子的責(zé)任感，幫助我們保護(hù)環(huán)境，省錢，還能創(chuàng)造機(jī)會(huì)認(rèn)識新朋友。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)原文Carpooling is a group of people sharing the responsibility of driving to school in the morning.可知Carpoolling是一群人平攤開車去上學(xué)的責(zé)任。所以叫合伙用車。故選A。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)原文There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns driving the kids in their cars.四，五個(gè)孩子組成一組，讓他們的父母輪流開車送孩子們?nèi)ド蠈W(xué)。故選C。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。通過閱讀可知，如果你載兩個(gè)人一起用車，路上就會(huì)少兩輛車。故選C。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)原文It’s a great lesson in resposibility.及It's a great opportunity to meet people while saving the environment and your money.可知Carpool有培養(yǎng)孩子責(zé)任感，保護(hù)環(huán)境，省錢以及有機(jī)會(huì)認(rèn)識朋友的四個(gè)好處。 故選B。
小題5:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)原文So carpooling helps you save money.可知Carpooling可以讓你少用車，幫助你省錢。故選B。
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