C篇标题选什么？
LearnAndRecord约 9 分钟昨天，新高考I卷英语阅读D篇最后一道题，选B还是D，讨论很激烈。今天再来看一题吧。
以下材料选自新高考I卷英语 阅读C篇（较真题内容有所改编）。
· 高考试卷选用全国新高考I卷的省份有广东、福建、江苏、湖南、湖北、河北、山东、浙江、安徽、江西、河南等。
🤔️小作业：
1. What phenomenon does the author point out in Paragraph 1?
A. Cars often get stuck on the road.
B. Traffic accidents occur frequently.
C. People walk less and drive more.
D. Pedestrians fail to follow the rules.
2. What were the Canadian journalist and other campaigners trying to do?
A. Keep their cities livable.
B. Promote cultural diversity.
C. Help the needy families.
D. Make expressways accessible.
3. What can be inferred about the campaigns in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s?
A. They boosted the sales of cars.
B. They turned out largely ineffective.
C. They won government support.
D. They advocated building new parks.
4. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Why the Rush? B. What's Next?
C. Where to Stay? D. Who to Blame?
Title: _____
From: Inside Story
While safety improvements might have been made to your street in recent years, many transport studies also show declines in pedestrian mobility, especially among young children. Many parents say there's too much traffic on the roads for their children to walk safely to school in the morning. Many parents of small children will bundle them into the car instead — much safer.
Dutch authors Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet are bothered by facts like these. In their new book Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives they call for a radical rethink of our streets and the role they play in our lives.
Life on city streets started to change decades ago. Whole neighbourhoods were demolished to make way for new road networks. Kids learned to play elsewhere. Some communities fought back. Most famously, a Canadian journalist who had moved her family to Manhattan in the early 1950s led a campaign to stop the demolition of her local park. Describing her alarm at its proposed replacement with a sunken expressway, Jane Jacobs called on her mayor to champion “New York as a decent place to live, and not just rush through.” Similar campaigns occurred in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s as well.
Although these campaigns were widespread, the reality is that the majority of the western cities were completely redesigned around the needs of the motor car. The number of cars on roads has been increasing rapidly. In Australia we now have over twenty million cars for just over twenty-six million people, among the highest rate of car ownership in the world.
We invest a lot in roads that help us rush through, but we fail to account for the true costs. Do we really recognise what it costs us as a society when children can't move safely around our communities? The authors of Movement have it right: it's time to think differently about that street outside your front door. Hey, you might even like to stop and linger awhile.
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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为机器翻译并非一一对应，仅供参考
含注释全文：
Why the rush?
From: Inside Story, 21 January 2023
While safety improvements might have been made to your street in recent years, many transport studies also show declines in pedestrian mobility, especially among young children. Many parents say there's too much traffic on the roads for their children to walk safely to school in the morning. Many parents of small children will bundle them into the car instead — much safer.
虽然有些街道近年来有所改善，但不少交通研究仍指出，步行的便利性，尤其是对小孩子而言，正在下降。不少家长担心早高峰期间道路车流过大，孩子难以安全步行去上学，因而更多人选择驾车接送，图个安心。
pedestrian
pedestrian /pəˈdes.tri.ən/ 表示“行人，步行者”，英文解释为“a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go”举个🌰：A few pedestrians sheltered from the rain in doorways. 几个行人站在门口躲雨。
mobility
mobility /məʊˈbɪl.ə.ti/ 表示“活动性；流动性”，英文解释为“the ability to move freely or be easily moved”举个🌰：Some neck injuries cause total loss of mobility below the point of injury. 一些颈部损伤会导致受伤部位以下肢体完全丧失活动能力。
bundle
bundle /ˈbʌn.dəl/ 表示“推搡；匆匆送走；乱堆；乱塞”，英文解释为“to push or put someone or something somewhere quickly and roughly”举个🌰：He bundled his clothes into the washing machine. 他把衣服塞进洗衣机里。
Dutch authors Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet are bothered by facts like these. In their new book Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives they call for a radical rethink of our streets and the role they play in our lives.
面对这些问题，荷兰作家塔莉娅·费尔卡德（Thalia Verkade）和马尔科·特·布勒默尔斯特（Marco te Brömmelstroet）深感忧虑。在新书《通行：夺回街道，重塑生活》中，两位作者呼吁人们从根本上重新审视街道的意义及其在日常生活中的地位。
radical
1）表示“激进的；过激的；极端的”，英文解释为“believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change”举个🌰：He was known as a radical thinker. 他是个著名的激进思想家。
2）表示“根本的；彻底的，完全的”，英文解释为“relating to the most important parts of something or someone; complete or extreme”举个🌰：We need to make some radical changes to our operating procedures. 我们需要对操作规程进行一些根本性的变革。
Life on city streets started to change decades ago. Whole neighbourhoods were demolished to make way for new road networks. Kids learned to play elsewhere. Some communities fought back. Most famously, a Canadian journalist who had moved her family to Manhattan in the early 1950s led a campaign to stop the demolition of her local park. Describing her alarm at its proposed replacement with a sunken expressway, Jane Jacobs called on her mayor to champion “New York as a decent place to live, and not just rush through.” Similar campaigns occurred in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s as well.
城市街道的面貌早在数十年前便开始剧变。整片街区被夷为平地，只为铺设道路网络。孩子们不得不另觅嬉戏之地。然而，并非所有人都默然接受。其中最著名的例子是，上世纪50年代初迁居曼哈顿的加拿大记者率先发声，抵制拆除自家附近公园的计划——该地拟改造成一条下沉式高速公路。她疾呼市长应守护“宜居的纽约，而非仅供穿行的通道”。类似的保卫街区行动也曾在20世纪60年代末至70年代的澳大利亚上演。
demolish
demolish /dɪˈmɒl.ɪʃ/ 表示“（尤指为利用土地而）拆除，拆毁”，英文解释为“to completely destroy a building, especially in order to use the land for something else”举个🌰：A number of houses were demolished so that the supermarket could be built. 为了修建超级市场，很多房屋被拆除了。
sunken
sunken /ˈsʌŋ.kən/ 1）表示“沉没的，沉入海底的”，英文解释为“having fallen to the bottom of the sea”举个🌰：They're diving for sunken treasure. 他们潜入海中寻找沉没的宝藏。
2）表示“低洼的，下陷的”，英文解释为“at a lower level than the surrounding area”举个🌰：It was a luxurious bathroom, with a sunken bath. 那是一个豪华的浴室，里面有一个下沉式浴缸。
expressway
expressway /ɪkˈspres.weɪ/ 表示“快速干道；高速公路”，英文解释为“a wide road for fast-moving traffic, especially one in the US that goes through a city, with a limited number of places at which drivers can enter and leave it”
区分：
📍highway /ˈhaɪ.weɪ/ 表示“公路（尤指连接城镇的重要公路）”，英文解释为“a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or towns together”如：a coastal/interstate highway 滨海/州际公路。
📍freeway /ˈfriː.weɪ/ 表示“高速公路”，英文解释为“a wide road for fast-moving traffic, especially in the US, with a limited number of places at which drivers can enter and leave it”
Although these campaigns were widespread, the reality is that the majority of the western cities were completely redesigned around the needs of the motor car. The number of cars on roads has been increasing rapidly. In Australia we now have over twenty million cars for just over twenty-six million people, among the highest rate of car ownership in the world.
尽管各类反对声音此起彼伏，但现实是，多数西方城市最终还是围绕汽车需求进行了重新规划。道路上汽车数量日益剧增。澳大利亚目前拥有超过两千万辆汽车，仅比全国2600多万人口略少，成为全球人均汽车保有量最高的国家之一。
We invest a lot in roads that help us rush through, but we fail to account for the true costs. Do we really recognise what it costs us as a society when children can't move safely around our communities? The authors of Movement have it right: it's time to think differently about that street outside your front door. Hey, you might even like to stop and linger awhile.
我们为修建高效通行的道路投入巨资，却很少审视其真正代价。当孩子在街区中都难以自由、安全地行走时，我们是否认真思考过这背后的代价？《通行》一书的作者指出，是时候重新审视家门外的那条街了。或许，你会愿意慢下脚步，在街头多停留片刻。
linger
1）表示“（想法、感觉、疾病）继续存留，逗留；徘徊”，英文解释为“When something such as an idea, feeling, or illness lingers, it continues to exist for a long time, often much longer than expected.”举个🌰：The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room. 她的香水味在房间里久久不散。
2）表示“继续逗留”，英文解释为“If you linger somewhere, you stay there for a longer time than is necessary, for example, because you are enjoying yourself.”举个🌰：Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight. 顾客们可以慢慢品味咖啡到午夜。
📍《经济学人》（The Economist）一篇讲述疫情下的生活成本的文章中提到：For as long as fears of viral contagion linger, many businesses could struggle to attract new custom, 只要对病毒蔓延的恐惧未消，许多企业可能很难吸引到新客户。
awhile
awhile /əˈwaɪl/ 表示“片刻；暂时”，英文解释为“for a short time”举个🌰：Stay awhile and rest. 稍停片刻，休息一下。
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