Local police will begin pulling over drivers and cyclists tomorrow so they can fill out a survey to help the city better understand and improve its traffic situation.

The survey, which will run from tomorrow until the end of the year, is the biggest of its kind in the city's history. It will be used to gather information about traffic patterns to help future urban planning, particularly for the World Expo in 2010.

“The survey is to determine the city's daily and weekly traffic situations，” Zhang Yan, a senior engineer at the Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute, said yesterday. This is the third time the city has conducted a large－scale traffic survey. The other two surveys were conducted in 1986 and 1995.

Officials will send questionnaires to pedestrians and drivers, record traffic jams in major areas, and analyze the information from electronic traffic signs.

The Road Administrative Office will also survey traffic outside the Outer Ring Road, paying particular attention to vehicles entering or exiting the city.

“With more vehicles from neighboring provinces, we have to find it out how many, when and for what purposes those vehicles are coming to the city，” said Dong Hui, a spokeswoman for the Road Administrative Office.

Officials from her office will stop about half of the vehicles passing by 53 major venues (場(chǎng)所) tomorrow and ask drivers to fill out questionnaires about where they are coming from, where they are headed and whether their trip is for private or business purposes.

1. Who is likely to be stopped by the police for the questions?

A. A student returning home from school.

B. A dustman cleaning a parking lot.    

C. A customer shopping in a market.

D. A garage worker repairing a car.

2. Shanghai has decided to start such a survey because it wants to ________.

A. reduce traffic accidents

B. satisfy the future need

C. make the road users happy

D. make more money

3. Where are the 53 major venues mentioned in the last paragraph?

A. Outside the Outer Ring Road.         

B. We're not told about it in the passage.

C. Inside the Outer Ring Road.

D. Both outside and inside the Outer Ring Road.

4. It seems that Shanghai's large traffic survey is ________.

A. mainly about vehicles going in and out           

B. done by just collecting public opinions

C. done at the request of the World Expo

D. held quite regularly

5. We are NOT told about the ________ of the survey in the passage.

A. contents                     B. time

C. steps                          D. purpose 

1. 解析：選A。推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章可知道要做關(guān)于交通情況的調(diào)查，所以參與調(diào)查的人不可能是在商場(chǎng)的顧客、打掃停車場(chǎng)的工人以及修車的工人，而只能是在路上的人，故放學(xué)回家的學(xué)生正符合這一概念。

2. 解析：選B。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文章第二段的最后一句“...to help future urban planning, particularly for...”可知，選B。

3. 解析：選A。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第五段中“...also survey traffic outside the Outer Ring Road...”和最后一段可知，選A。

4. 解析：選D。推理判斷題。由文中第三段提到“This is the third time the city has conducted a large－scale traffic survey. The other two surveys were conducted in 1986 and 1995”可知，選D。

5. 解析：選C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文意可知，調(diào)查研究的步驟沒有被提及，但是目的，時(shí)間以及內(nèi)容都講到了。

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