Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the country would take actions to improve school bus safety on Sunday, a day after China saw its second terrible school bus accident in November, 2011.
“School buses should be safe mobile campuses(校園) for students,” the premier said at a national meeting on women and children, “Society(社會) should remember in mind that children should be the first to enjoy all kinds of social caring and the last ones to suffer from any disaster.”
School buses have become a hot topic in China since the deaths of 21 people, including 19 pre-school students, in a traffic accident between a truck and a school-owned minibus in Gansu province on Nov. 16, 2011. The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people at the time of the accident, according to the reports.
The second accident, in which a school bus in the northern province of Liaoning rolled over on Friday, left 35 people injured, according to China Daily.
“In recent days, a series of big accidents involving school buses has led to great anger among the people. These accidents have also made me uncomfortable,” said Mr Wang, an old teacher from Jiangsu. And he also thought that school bus safety must become a serious problem for schools and the government.
Premier Wen has already asked the government to develop new safety standard (標準) for school buses and made sure to help local government with safe buses for school-age children.
【小題1】How many seats did the minibus in Gansu province have before it was turned into a school bus?

A．64

B．21

C．9

D．19

【小題2】What does “roll over” mean in Paragraph 4?

A．倒車

B．翻車

C．撞車

D．飛車

【小題3】How did Mr Wang feel when such accidents happened?

A．nervous

B．a(chǎn)ngry

C．stressed

D．tired

【小題4】Which of the following sentences is Not True?

A．21 pre-school students died in the school bus traffic accident in Gansu.

B．35 people were hurt in the school bus accident in Liaoning.

C．Mr Wang thought school bus safety was a serious problem.

D．The government has been asked to develop new safety standard for school buses.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the country would take actions to improve school bus safety on Sunday, a day after China saw its second terrible school bus accident in November, 2011.

     “School buses should be safe mobile campuses(校園) for students,” the premier said at a national meeting on women and children, “Society(社會) should remember in mind that children should be the first to enjoy all kinds of social caring and the last ones to suffer from any disaster.”

School buses have become a hot topic in China since the deaths of 21 people, including 19 pre-school students, in a traffic accident between a truck and a school-owned minibus in Gansu province on Nov. 16, 2011. The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people at the time of the accident, according to the reports.

The second accident, in which a school bus in the northern province of Liaoning rolled over on Friday, left 35 people injured, according to China Daily.

     “In recent days, a series of big accidents involving school buses has led to great anger among the people. These accidents have also made me uncomfortable,” said Mr Wang, an old teacher from Jiangsu. And he also thought that school bus safety must become a serious problem for schools and the government.

Premier Wen has already asked the government to develop new safety standard (標準) for school buses and made sure to help local government with safe buses for school-age children.

1.How many seats did the minibus in Gansu province have before it was turned into a school bus?

A. 64           B. 21           C. 9            D. 19

2.What does “roll over” mean in Paragraph 4?

A. 倒車         B. 翻車         C. 撞車         D.飛車

3.How did Mr Wang feel when such accidents happened?

A. nervous      B. angry            C. stressed         D. tired

4.Which of the following sentences is Not True?

A. 21 pre-school students died in the school bus traffic accident in Gansu.

B. 35 people were hurt in the school bus accident in Liaoning.

C. Mr Wang thought school bus safety was a serious problem.

D. The government has been asked to develop new safety standard for school buses.

 

閱讀下列短文，根據(jù)短文中的信息完成文后表格。在答題卡標有題號的橫線上，寫出空缺處所填單詞的正確形式。(每空一詞)

Now we have comfortable buses in New York. I would like to tell you how comfortable they are. The number of the seats on a bus is from 44 to 19.

At first, they just changed the normal (正常的) seats to airplane seats and took off 10 seats on the bus. However, everyone wanted to have a more comfortable seat on the bus when they took long trips by bus. Also, the bus manager (經(jīng)理) wanted to get more money, so they changed the airplane seats to sofas, and the number of the seats becomes 19.

    The new buses are coming out, but the prices are going up too. The owners have many ideas. Maybe you never think about these before. Now they have bus waiters, they serve (提供) water, snacks, newspapers and toys.

    Also, you can change the direction of the sofas so that you can feel more comfortable, and they have a service (服務(wù)) bell on each sofa. Some managers even ask bus drivers to play some videos on the bus. When you take a long trip, they provide luxurious (豪華) buses that have an LCD（液晶彩色顯示器）on each seat. That is not the only surprising thing on the bus. They also have three different video channels（頻道）, and seventy TV games for killing time when you are on the bus.

In a word, we want to be more comfortable when we are on a trip. That is the reason why we have sofas on the buses. Maybe we will have beds on the buses in the future.

Questions	Answers
How many seats?	At the    1   , there were 44 seats on a bus. Now the number of the seats is    2   .
3   did they change the normal seats to airplane seats and then sofas?	Because the people wanted to have more    4   seats and the bus manager wanted to make more    5   .
How    6    the prices and service?	The prices are going up. They serve water, snacks, newspapers and toys. You can change the    7   of the sofas. Some managers even ask bus drivers to play some    8    on the bus.   9   you take a long trip, they   10   luxurious buses.