The number of accidents involving pedestrians (行人) wearing headphones is on the rise , a report suggests, causing fresh warning from road safety groups in Britain .
A US-based study found a total of 116 reports of death or injury to pedestrians wearing headphones between 2004 and 2011 , jumping from 16 in 2005 to 47 in 2011 .
Most victims were men (68%) and under the age of 30 (67%) , with around one in ten of all cases (9%) under the age of 18 .Some 89% of the cases occurred in urban areas and more than half (55%) of the victims were struck by trains .
Eighty-one of the 116 accidents (70%) resulted in the person’s death--- even though a warning was sounded in around a third of the cases .
The study concluded , “ The use of headphone may be a safety risk to pedestrians , especially in environments with moving vehicles（cars） . Further research is needed to determine if and how headphone use threatens pedestrian safety .” British road safety groups warned pedestrians to be careful.
Floor Lieshout , director of Youth For Road Safety , said, “ This study shows once more the importance of using all of our senses while we are near traffic . It is important that we find an attractive way to make youth learn about the risks of wearing headphones in traffic .”
Andrew Howard , who is the head of road safety at the Automobile Association , added that some pedestrians can be “so focused in their own little world they forget the world going on around them”.That can include headphone wearers , Howard said, but also people talking on phones.
However , Howard said that more researches needed to be done.
Earlier studies have shown that people wearing headphones or talking on phones can suffer “inattentional blindness” which makes them isolated (孤立) from the world around them .
Ian Harvey , at the charity Civic Voice , said that “ to defeat isolation and to help build a civic(文明的) society , people need to interact(交往) with each other .
He said , “ A basis for any civilized society is communication--- Surfing the web , listening to MP3s , reading blogs or sending e-mail is not interacting with a person; it’s interacting with a machine.
“If people feel socially isolated , they need to have more face-to-face interactions with other human beings and in time , will begin to feel happier and more connected to the world and place they live in .”
【小題1】What does the text mainly discuss ?

A．Recent research on the risks to pedestrians
B．Safety problems caused by wearing headphones.
C．The advantages and disadvantages of headphones
D．Traffic accidents in the United States
【小題2】We can learn from the Us-bases study that _________ .
A．most victims died in the accidents
B．most accidents were caused by cars
C．most accidents happened in the countryside
D．most victims are under eighteen
【小題3】Howard will probably agree that ____________ .
A．it is safe if you wear headphones in a proper way
B．people wearing headphones are more likely to go blind
C．most people wear headphones because of loneliness
D．it is dangerous to talk on phones while walking
【小題4】What Lan Harvey said shows the importance of ___________ .
A．beating isolation B．communication between people
C．building a civilized society D．new technologies


【小題1】B
【小題2】A
【小題3】D
【小題4】B

解析試題分析：通過調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)戴耳機(jī)的行人在路上發(fā)生意外的人數(shù)在逐年增加，在被調(diào)查的人群中約68%男士，約67%是30歲以下的人，因此專家呼吁人們?cè)诮煌ㄐ旭傊幸凶⒁饬�，以免造成意外。此外專家還提醒人們要走出虛擬的世界，多和現(xiàn)實(shí)中的人們交流。
【小題1】B主旨大意題。文章首段The number of accidents 。。。 causing fresh warning from road safety groups in Britain提出由于帶耳機(jī)而發(fā)生的車禍逐年增加，這引起了人們對(duì)安全問題的關(guān)注。而且下文
【小題2】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文中Eighty-one of the 116 accidents (70%) resulted in the person’s death可知發(fā)生意外的人們當(dāng)中大多數(shù)會(huì)死亡，所以A選項(xiàng)正確。
【小題3】D推理判斷題。根據(jù)文中Andrew Howard , who i。。。，added that some pedestrians can be “so focused in their own little world they forget the world going on around them”.可知Andrew Howard也認(rèn)為走路時(shí)戴耳機(jī)是危險(xiǎn)的。所以D選項(xiàng)正確。
【小題4】B推理判斷題。由文章倒數(shù)第三段Ian Harvey 的話 “ to defeat isolation and to help build a civic(文明的) society , people need to interact(交往) with each other .可知他認(rèn)為人們之間的交流很重要，所以B選項(xiàng)正確。
考點(diǎn)：考查社會(huì)生活類短文閱讀。

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