Car crashes are the top killer of American teenagers.Most of the crashes result from distracted driving not paying attention to the road.
Ryan Didone was a fifteen-year-old passenger in a car that hit a tree.He was one of the nation's more than thirty thousand victims of traffic crashes in 2008.Nearly four thousand deaths, about twelve percent, involved drivers aged fifteen to twenty.Ryan's father, Thomas Didone, is a police captain in Montgomery County, Maryland.He said, "It was an inexperienced, immature driver who felt that he was invincible(不可戰(zhàn)勝的), driving at night with a carload of kids.He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it ended up causing one death and some upsetting experiences and tragedy for the rest of the community."
Jim Jennings from the Allstate Insurance Company said "The number one cause of distracted-driving accidents is the mobile phone.Talking on the phone or reaching for it is like drinking four beers and driving.If you're texting while driving, you are twenty-three times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isn't.
Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off, you're nine times more likely to get into an accident than normally driving," The insurance industry recently held a safety event near Washington for teen drivers.
At first, nineteen-year-old Kevin Schumann easily avoided large, inflatable dolls thrown in front of the car to represent children.He also avoided orange cones representing the edge of the road.Then, as part of the test, he started texting. He hit several cones and at least one doll.
Debbie Pickford from the Allstate Insurance Company said, "Teens are especially at risk from distracted driving—and not just because they lack experience on the roads.What we know from research on teen brain development, is that teens don't really have fully developed brains until they are twenty-five years old. You put those two things together and you get a much, much higher risk.”
小題1:According to the passage, _____is the most likely to lead to a traffic accident while you are driving.
A.texting on the mobile phoneB.reaching for a cell phone.
C.talking on the mobile phoneD.bringing along a cell phone
小題2:A safety event held by insurance industry was meant to _   _.
A.a(chǎn)ttract more teenagers to take part in it
B.draw enough attention to teenagers' distracted driving
C.make more teenagers practice avoiding large barriers
D.encourage more teenagers to pay for insurance protection
小題3:The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about ____.
A.much higher riskB.teen brain developmen
C.experience on the roadsD.measures to be taken t
小題4:Of all the following, which is the best title for the passage?
A.Car Crashes —the Top Killer.
B.Distracted Driving —Let's Avoid!
C.Drunken Driving — Dangerous Enough!
D.Tips on Driving While Calling

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:B

試題分析: 在美國車禍是青少年的頭號殺手,而且大多數(shù)的車禍都是由于開車時分心,沒有留意路況造成的。在本文中作者通過講述Ryan Didone的死亡以及保險公司所做的實驗說明了開車時打手機或發(fā)短信是造成車禍的主要原因,人們應該對此高度注意。
小題1:A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段可知手機是造成分心的頭號原因,再由后文中的If you're texting while driving, you are twenty-three times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isn't可知在四個選項中編輯短信是最可能導致交通意外的,故答案選A。
小題2:B推理判斷題。本文主要講的是開車時玩手機的危害,然后作者在文章倒數(shù)二、三段介紹了保險公司所做的安全測試,證明了開車時候用手機的危害,由此判斷他們的目的是讓人們對分心,注意力不集中的駕駛提起高度注意,故答案選B。
小題3:D推理判斷題。本文介紹了開車打手機,發(fā)短信的危害。開頭提出美國青少年的死亡多數(shù)是由于車禍,也就是提出問題;然后進一步分析,并且用做的實驗進行證明,即分析問題,由此判斷文章接下來要解決問題,也就是要提出解決的方法或者應采取的措施,故答案選D。
小題4:B主旨大意題。本文講述了絕大多數(shù)青少年所遭遇的車禍都是由于開車時打手機,發(fā)短信造成的。并且對此進行了詳細的介紹,由此判斷作者的目的是要提醒人們避免開車時候分神,故B選項內(nèi)容更能夠反應文章中心,答案選B。
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