2017年雅思IELTS考試模擬試題
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READING TEST
You are advised to spend about 15 minutes on Questions 1-14 which refer to Reading Passage below.
The private car is assumed to have widened our horizons and increased our mobility. When we consider our children's mobility, they can be driven to more places (and more distant places) than they could visit without access to a motor vehicle. However, allowing our cities to be dominated by cars has progressively eroded children's independent mobility. Children have lost much of their freedom to explore their own neighborhood or city without adult supervision. In recent surveys, when parents in some cities were asked about their own childhood experiences, the majority remembered having more, or far more, opportunities for going out on their own, com/#pared with their own children today. They had more freedom to explore their own environment.
Children's independent access to their local streets may be important for their own personal, mental and psychological development. Allowing them to get to know their own neighborhood and com/#munity gives them a 'sense of place'. This depends on active exploration', which is not provided for when children are passengers in cars. (Such children may see more, but they learn less.) Not only is it important that children be able to get to local play areas by themselves, but walking and cycling journeys to school and to other destinations provide genuine play activities in themselves.
There are very significant time and money costs for parents associated with transporting their children to school, sport and to other locations. Research in the United Kingdom estimated that this cost, in 1990, was between 10 billion and 20 billion pounds.
The reduction in children's freedom may also contribute to a weakening of the sense of local com/#munity. As fewer children and adults use the streets as pedestrians, these streets becom/#e less sociable places. There is less opportunity for children and adults to have the spontaneous exchanges that help to engender a feeling of com/#munity. This in itself may exacerbate fear associated with assault and molestation of children, because there are fewer adults available who know their neighbors' children, and who can look out for their safety.
The extra traffic involved in transporting children results in increased traffic congestion, pollution and accident risk. As our roads becom/#e more dangerous, more parents drive their children to more places, thus contributing to increased levels of danger for the remaining pedestrians. Anyone who has experienced either the reduced volume of traffic jams near schools at the end of a school day, will not need convincing about these points. Thus, there are also important environmental implications of children's loss of freedom.
As individuals, parents strive to provide the best upbringing they can for their children. However, in doing so, (e.g. by driving their children to sport, school or recreation) parents may be contributing to a more dangerous environment for children generally. The idea that 'streets are for cars and back yards and playgrounds are for children' is a strongly held belief, and parents have little choice as individuals but to keep their children off the streets if they want to protect their safety.
In many parts of Dutch cities, and some traffic calmed precincts in Germany, residential streets are now places where cares must give way to pedestrians. In these areas, residents are accepting the view that the function of streets is not solely to provide mobility for cars. Streets may also be for social interaction, walking, cycling and playing. One of the most important aspects of these European cities, in terms of giving cities back to children, has been a range of 'traffic calming' initiatives, aimed at reducing the volume and speed of traffic. These initiatives have had com/#plex interactive effects, leading to a sense that children have been able to 'recapture' their local neighborhood, and more importantly, that they have been able to do this in safety. Recent research has demonstrated that children in many German cities have significantly higher levels of freedom to travel to places in their own neighborhood or city than children inn other cities in the world.
Modifying cities in order to enhance children's freedom will not only benefit children. Such cities will becom/#e more environmentally sustainable, as well as more sociable and more livable for all city residents. Perhaps it will be our concern for our children's welfare that convinces us that we need to challenge that we need to challenge the dominance of the car in our cities.
Questions 1-5. Read statements 1-5 which relate to Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of the reading passage. Answer T if the statement is true, F if the statement is false, or NI if there is no information given in the passage. One has been done for you as an example.
Example: The private car has made people more mobile.
Answer: T
private car has helped children have more opportunities to learn.
dren are more independent today than they used to be.
ing and cycling to school allows children to learn more.
dren usually walk or cycle to school.
nts save time and money by during children to school.
Questions 6-9. In Paragraphs 4 and 5, there are FOUR problems stated. These problems, numbered as questions 6-9, are listed below. Each of these problems has a cause, listed A-G. Find the correct cause for each of the problems and write the corresponding letter A-G, in the spaces numbered 6-9 on the answer sheet. One has been done for you as an e are more causes than problems so you will not use all of them and you any use any cause more than once.
Problems Causes
Example: Answer
Low sense of com/#munity feeling F
ets becom/#e less sociable ____
r chances for meeting friends ____
s of danger for children ____
er accident risk ____
A few adults know local children
B fewer people use the streets
C increased pollution
D streets are less friendly
E less traffic in school holidays
F reduced freedom for children
G more children driven to school
Questions 10-14. Questions 10-14 are statement beginnings which represent information given in Paragraphs 6, 7 and 8. In the box below, there are some statement endings numbered ⅰ-ⅹ. Choose the correct ending for each statement. One has been done for you as an example.
Example: By driving their children to school, parents help create…
Answer: ⅰ
dren should play…
some German towns, pedestrians have right of way…
ets should also be used for…
cing the amount of traffic and the speed is…
people who live in the city will benefit if cities are…
List of statement endings
ⅰ … a dangerous environment.
ⅱ … modified.
ⅲ … on residential streets.
ⅳ … modifying cities.
ⅴ … neighbourhoods.
ⅵ … socializing.
ⅶ … in backyards.
ⅷ … for cars.
ⅸ … traffic calming.
ⅹ … residential.
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