While drunken driving may be on the decline, traffic safety experts remain puzzled over how to deal with another alcohol?related danger: drunken pedestrains.

Pedestrians struck and killed by cars often are extremely drunk. In fact, they are intoxicated more frequently-and with higher blood?alcohol levels-than drunken drivers who are killed in accidents, various studies have shown. Forty percent of adult pedestrians involved in fatal crashes have a blood?alcohol level of at least 0.10-which by law in most states signifies intoxication-compared to only 25 percent of drivers in deadly accidents, according to recent federal data.

Some types of pedestrain accidents have been declining nationally, especially those involving children, but the number of adult pedestrians who are drunk when killed in traffic has remained relatively steady at 2500 a year. The total number of pedestrians killed annually in U.S. traffic accidents is at least 7000, or one of every seven highway accidents resulting in death.

“We’re dealing here, we think, with a very severe drinking problem that leads to a severe highway safety problem,” said Richard Blomberg, president of Dunlap and Associates Inc, in Norwalk, Coon.

Blomberg, whose consulting company found a very high rate of alcohol involvement in a controlled study of pedestrian accidents in New Orleans, was among several researchers who spoke on the topic at the annual meeting of the Research council’s Transportation Research Board(TRB)  in Washington in January.

Pedestrian accidents have not received enough attention in the past, according to Kay Colpitts, who chairs the board’s committee on pedestrians. Few methods exist to monitor walking habits, she said, and researchers have been mystified about how to prevent disasters.

5.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.Traffic Safety.                   B.Drunken Drivers.

C.Drunken Pedestrian Accidents.     D.A Severe Highway Safety problem.

6.Among the causes of walkers’ accidents, the most serious problem is .       

A.long delays in traffic signals that may make people cross streets without paying attention to traffic rules

B.alcohol

C.a lack of adult keeping eyes on many children involved in accidents

D.former drunken drivers whose licenses are not allowed to use for a time

7.According to recent federal data, drunken drivers with an over 0.10 blood?alcohol level in deadly accidents .      

A.are 15 percent less than drunken adult walkers with the same level

B.are 2500 a year

C.are at least 7000 in US traffic accidents

D.make up one?seventh of highway accidents

8.According to the passage, what is Blomberg?

A.A researcher.                        B.A specialist in traffic safety.

C.A clerk of a consulting company.        D.A government official

5-8 CBAA


解析:

5.C  本文主題是講解醉酒行人出交通事故的問(wèn)題,所以答案為C。A為交通安全,雖然文章有所涉及,但涉及面太廣;B為喝醉的司機(jī),文章雖提到.但是并非文章講述對(duì)象;D為嚴(yán)重的公路安全問(wèn)題,也犯了涉及面大廣的錯(cuò)誤。

6.B  見(jiàn)文章第二段第一句:Pedestrians struck and killed by cars often are extremely drunken. 說(shuō)明醉酒是主要原因,故答案為B。

7.A  第二段中第三句提到在致命車(chē)禍中成年行人喝醉的占40%,而司機(jī)酒醉的只有25%,40%-25%=15%。與A的意思一致。

8.A  此題可從文中第五段找到答案。每年1月,調(diào)查委員會(huì)在華盛頓召開(kāi)交通研究會(huì)議,Blombery是在會(huì)上發(fā)言的研究人員之一。他的咨詢(xún)公司在新奧爾良地區(qū)行人事故的對(duì)比研究中發(fā)現(xiàn),酒精肇事在行人交通事故中的比率非常高所以Blomberg是一位研究人員。

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