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Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using
a simple optical illusion. But stripes, called chevrons(人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think
that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.
Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is
planning to repeat Japan"s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other
patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway
crashes.
Excessive (too great) speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all fatal traffic accidents,
according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas
where speed-related hazards (danger) are the greatest curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges.
Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average
speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used
to seeing the painted bars.
Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they
really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway
speed and the number of traffic accidents.
1. On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that ________.
A. they should avoid driving fast.
B. they are driving in the wrong lane
C. they should slow down their speed
D. they are coming near to the speed limit
2. The advantage of chevrons over straight, horizontal bars is that the former ________.
A. can keep drivers awake
B. can cut road accidents in half
C. will look more attractive
D. will have a longer effect on drivers
3. What does the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety do?
A. change the road signs across the country
B. try out the Japanese method in certain areas
C. replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons
D. repeat the Japanese road patterns
4. What of the following is true about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads?
A. They are suitable only on broad roads.
B. They are falling out of use in the United States.
C. They cannot be used successfully to traffic circles.
D. They are ignored in a long period of time.
5. What"s the best title of the passage?
A. a new pattern for painting highways
B. a new way of highway speed control
C. a new way of training drivers
D. a new type of optical illusion
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试题【阅读理解 Believe it or not, optical illusion(错觉) can cut highway crashes. Jap】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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As young people, we don"t always want to think about the past. 1 we often hear our grandfathers
and grandmothers talk about cultural relics. They say we 2 protect some of these relics because they
are important to our culture. 3 also say that these relics are important to us because they help us
remember the 4 of our ancestors and respect what they have done. I"m sure you will 5 . After all,
someday we will be 6 ourselves and will want our own children to protect them. So I have a plan for
7 the painting in the old temple, which is a fine cultural relic 8 in our hometown. It should be
protected because it was painted by a 9 artist of the early Qing Dynasty. My plan is to get students
to take a 10 to see it on a Saturday next month and then 11 some important people to join us. 12 ,
we can also write 13 about it for the town newspaper. Later, when others begin to 14 their help,
perhaps we can 15 enough money to help the museum buy it. If you like my plan, please give me a
note to your teacher. Thank you.
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