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　　(1)Mr．Brown(the Motorist)

　　At about 9∶20 p. m. on October 14th, I was driving along Market Road in the direction of Midwick．I wanted to go to Sturham to collect my wife, who had been visiting some friends．I prepared to turn into Stutham Road．which was on the right, In the distance．I saw the lights of a car moving towards me but it was a long way from me．I put out my hand to show that I was going to turn right．Then I started to turn slowly towards Sturham Road．Suddenly there was a loud noise on the passenger’s(near)side of the car．I stopped the car and got out．A motorcycle had hit my car．The motorcyclist had been thrown over the car．He was injured, so I ran to a shop to phone for help．

　　(2)Mr．Smith(the injured motorcyclist)

　　On the evening of October 14th, I was going home along Market Road towards Newtown．I was riding my motorcycle．I was going slowly because some of the streetlights were out and the road was wet and slippery．Just before Sturham Road, a car suddenly drove tight across my path．The driver did not flash his lights to give a warning．I could not turn in time, so I hit the side of the car．When I woke up．1 was lying in a hospital in Market Road．

　　(3)Mr．Lee(another motorcyclist)

　　At about 9∶10 p. m．on October 14th．I left my home in Midwick．Ten minutes later I was riding my motorcycle along Market Road．I was going to Newtown．There was a motorcycle about 40 metres in front of me．It was not going very quickly．The man on it was riding near the curb(路边)but I was near the center of the road．The motorcyclist in front of me tried to turn to his right but there was no time．He hit the car and was injured．There was no car going along in front of us or put by the road．

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　　Some people don’t believe that driving more slowly can save lives．But the truth is that driving more slowly can help a person to avoid serious accidents．

　　The following chart shows the distance that it takes to stop a car at a given speed．The distance is measured in feet．The shaded area shows the driver's thinking distance．That's the distance it takes for the driver to react to a danger that he sees．The white area shows the car's braking distance．That's the distance it takes for the car to stop once the brakes are used．The number at the top of each bar shows the total number of feet that it takes to stop the car．

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　　WASHINGTON Mar 2,2005 – More people than ever are driving under the influence of their cell phones, according to a survey(调查)published Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Administration．

　　The survey showed 8 percent of drivers, or 1.2 million people, were using handheld or handsfree cell phones during daylight hours last year, a 50 percent increase since 2002 and a 100 percent rise in four years．

　　All that talking is a potential safety problem, said NHTSA spokesman Rae Tyson．“While we don’t have hard proof that there’s been an increase in the number of accidents, we know that talking on the phone can affect driver performance．”he said．

　　The District Columbia and New Hampshire no longer allow talking on hand-held cell phones while driving, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association．

　　Some communities, such as Brookline, Mass．and Santa Fe, require handsfree cell phones, but about a half-dozen states prevent local governments from limiting cell phone use in cars．

　　Young drivers, between 16 and 24, increased their talking on cell phones by 60 percent between 2002 and 2004．

　　The National Transportation Safety Board said it wants all 50 states to ban those with learner’s permits from using cell phones or other wireless devices while driving．New Jersey and Maine are the only two that have passed such laws．

　　The survey was carried out between June 7 and July 11,2004, at 1,200 road sites across the country and, in some areas, done by telephone．

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　　A device that stops drivers from falling asleep at fine wheel is about to undergo testing at Department of Transport laboratories and could go on sale within 12 months．

　　The system, called Driver Alert, aims to reduce deadly road accidents by 20％－40％ that are caused by tiredness．Airline pilots can also use it to reduce the 30％ of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue．

　　Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband．The device, worn by drivers or pilots, gives out a sound about every four minutes during a car journey．After each sound the driver must respond by．squeezing the steering wheel(方向盘)．A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time between the sound, and the driver’s response．

　　Tiredness is directly related to a driver’s response time．Usually, a watchful driver would take about 400 milliseconds to respond but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds, it suggests that the driver is getting sleepy．

　　In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds, showing that the driver should open a window or stop for a rest．If the driver’s response continues to slow down, the sounds become more frequent until a nonstop alarm warns that the driver must stop as soon as possible．

　　The device has been delivered to the department’s 1aboatories for testing．If these tests, scheduled for six months’ time, are successful, the makers will bring the product to market within about a year．

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　　Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native countries．“Toronto is truly multicultural(多元文化的),” he said in a newspaper interview．“It’s a city from many places, and a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city．”

　　Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the university of Toronto．He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents．“Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said．

　　Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years．This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive Committee, asking for their support．The proposal pointed out Toronto's rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping．”

　　Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market．They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly．“A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said．“At first it would be an experiment．But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction．”

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　　Jane Austen, a famous English writer, was born at Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16,1775,and died on July 18,1817．She began writing early in life, although the prejudices of her times forced her to have her books published anonymously(匿名)．

　　But Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous local people and visitors．She paid two long visits here during the last five years of the eighteenth century and from 1801 to 1806, Bath was her home．Her deep knowledge of the city is fully seen in two of her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which are largely set in Bath．The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, keeping in its streets and public buildings the well-ordered world that she described so well in her novels．Now the pleasure of learning Jane Austen’s Bath can be enhanced(增强)by visiting the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street．Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, you can find out more about Bath in Jane Austen’s time and the importance of Bath in her life and work．

　　The Centre has been set up with the help and guidance of members of the Jane Austen Society．After your visit to the Centre, you can look round the attractive shop, which offers a huge collection of Jane Austen related books, cards and many specially designed gifts．Jane Austen quizzes are offered to keep the children busy．

　　You can also have walking tours of Jane Austen’s Bath, which is a great way’ to find out more about Jane Austen and discover the wonderful Georgian city of Bath．The tour lasts about one and a half hours．The experienced guides will take you to the places where Jane lived, walked and shopped．

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　　It seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble．That’s more or less what happened the sight that Nashville police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty．

　　“I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville．As I got onto Highway 40, blue lights and sirens(警笛)going, l fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed to take off quickly down the highway．The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me．He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder．”

　　But Hyde couldn’t go after him．Taking care of injured people is always more important than worrying about speeders, so the officer had．In stay on his way to the accident．But he did try to keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and stop the speeding car．As it turned out, keeping the Firebird in sight was not that difficult．Every turn the Pontiac made was the very turn the officer needed to get to the accident scene．

　　Hyde followed the Pontiac all the way to his destination．At that point he found another unit had already arrived at the accident scene．His help wasn’t needed．Now he was free to try to stop the driver of the Firebird, who by this time had developed something new to panic about．

　　“Just about that time，”Hyde says,“I saw fire coming out from under that car, with blue smoke and oil going everywhere．He’s blown his engine．Now he had to stop．”

　　“After I arrested him, I asked him why he was running．He told me he didn't have a driver’s license(执照)．”

　　That accident cost the driver of the Firebird plenty –a thousand dollars for the new engine –not to mention the charges for driving without a license, attempting to run away, and dangerous driving．

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　　Before a new type of airplane goes into service, every part of it is tested again and again．But there are two tests that more important than all the others．

　　The first is called the “tank test”．A modern airplane must fly very high in the sky．Air must be pumped into the plane so that the passengers can breathe．The metal structure(结构)of the plane has to be very strong for this reason．When the plane is filled with air, the air presses against the skin of the plane inside．The pressure(压力)on a small window is like a huge foot that is trying to get out．If a small part of the plane were to fail, the plane would exploded in the sky．To test the structure of the plane, the plane is lowered into a huge tank or container of water．Then it is filled with air．The pressure inside the plane is greater than it ever will be when it is high up in the air．Finally, there is an explosion．This does not cause so much damage inside the water tank as it would anywhere else．Engineers can discover which part of the plane has broken．Then that part is made stronger．

　　The most dangerous test happens when the new plane is going through test flights in the air．The test pilot must find out exactly what happens when the engines(发动机)are all shut off at once The plane begins to fall like a stone．It is the pilot’s job to find out how he can get control of the plane again．These two tests are examples of how planes are made safe before they ever carry passengers．

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　　In l8l4 Thomas Raffles sent a group of his men to look for a “mountain of Buddhist sculpture(雕塑)in stone” that was said to be buried in the forests, Working from the tales of local people, Mr．Baffles sent his men to work digging at one of the many hills in central lava in southeastern Asia．Two mouths later, one of the men working on the hill found a great sculpture of Buddha carved in stone．The temple of Borobudur had been uncovered．

　　The temple was built around 800 A．D, The temple was planned to be a symbol of the universe and was built over a small bill．When seeing from above, a person can easily make out the overall design of the temple．Along the six-kilometer journey through all of the walkways of the temple leading up to the highest level, hundreds of carved images of the Buddha may be found．

　　After the temple was completed, it became the center of Buddhist worship in the Sailendra Kingdom until 930 A．D．In that year, the nearby volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted．Tons of ash and lava covered Borobudur．Overnight, the temple disappeared．It was totally covered under layers of ash from the volcano．

　　The temple remained hidden until Mr．Raffles and his men uncovered it again in the 1800s．However, after Mr．Raffles left Java, working on the temple was carried on without much interest．Collectors of ancient artifacts(史前古器物)stole priceless treasures from the temple, and soon, all work on the temple came to People living in the area began using stones from the temple to build and repair their homes．Nature also began to wear uncovered parts of the temple through wind and rain．

　　In 1900, with Java under Dutch control, an engineer Dr．Theodore Van Erp was given the job of saving and the temple．However, two world wars and a limited supply of made his work stop．In 1973 ,the United Nations Educational Scientific ,and cultural Organization(UNESCO)stepped in and began the Borobudur Restoration Project．

　　It was difficult to complete the full rebuilding of the temple．It took 700 men 10 years to rebuild the temple and it cost ＄25 million．When the thousand-year-old temple was finally respond, the President of Indonesia said through the use of modem technology, “Borobudur will a thousand years more．”

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　　Tokyo is one of those places that you can love and hate at the same time．

　　In Tokyo there are always too many people in the places where I want to be．Of course there are too many cars．The Japanese drive very fast, but in Tokyo they often spend a long time in traffic jams．Tokyo is not different from London, Paris and New York in that．It is different when one wants to walk．

　　At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in London Oxford Street．But the streets near the Ginze in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot, and sometimes it is really difficult to walk．People are very polite; there are just too many of them．

　　The worst time to be in the street is at 11∶30 at night．That is when the night-clubs are closing and everybody wants to go home．There are 35 000 night-clubs in Tokyo, and you do not often see one that is empty．

　　During the day, most people travel to and from work by train．Tokyo people buy six million train tickets every day．At most stations, trains arrive every two or three minutes, but at certain hours there do not seem to be enough trains．Although they are usually crowded, Japanese trains are very good．They always leave and arrive on time．On a London train you would see everybody reading a newspaper．In Tokyo trains everybody in a seat seems to be asleep, whether his journey is long or short．

　　In Tokyo, I stood outside the station for five minutes．Three fire-engines race past on the way to one of the many fires that Tokyo has every day．Tokyo has so many surprises that none of them can really surprise me now．

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