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2013.5.18雅思阅读考题回顾

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2013年5月18日雅思阅读考题回顾

考试日期:

2013518

Reading Passage 1

Title:

Mobile Phones and Driving 开车接电话的危害

Question types:

简答题;

TRUE/ FALSE/ NOT GIVEN7题)

文章内容回顾

有四个实验,个实验好像是说都以为开车接电话不好,但到底有多不好还不知道,所以就有开始做实验,发现确实有212毫秒的误差;第二个实验是说,让实验者repeat听到的东西,发现确实情况更加糟糕;第三个实验是说如果有人跟司机交谈,会不会也造成这种情况,然后实验结果发现如果讨论的是相关话题,司机反而会全神贯注;第四个实验不太清楚。然后较后两段讲这样做了之后的社会效应,和对开车打电话的惩罚。

英文原文阅读

The scientific literature on the dangers of driving while sending a text message from a mobile phone, or texting while driving, is limited. A simulation study at the Monash University Accident Research Centre has provided strong evidence that both retrieving and, in particular, sending text messages has a detrimental effect on a number of critical driving tasks. Specifically, negative effects were seen in detecting and responding correctly to road signs, detecting hazards, time spent with eyes off the road, and (only for sending text messages) lateral position. Surprisingly, mean speed, speed variability, lateral position when receiving text messages, and following distance showed no difference. A separate, yet unreleased simulation study at the University of Utah found a sixfold increase in distraction-related accidents when texting.

The low number of scientific studies may be indicative of a general assumption that if talking on a mobile phone increases risk, then texting also increases risk, and probably more so. Market research by Pinger, a company selling a voice-based alternative to texting reported that 89% of U.S. adults think that text messaging while driving is "distracting, dangerous and should be outlawed." The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released polling data that show that 87% of people consider texting and e-mailing while driving a "very serious" safety threat, almost equivalent to the 90% of those polled who consider drunk driving a threat. Despite the acknowledgement of the dangers of texting behind the wheel, about half of drivers 16 to 24 say they have texted while driving, compared with 22 percent of drivers 35 to 44.

Texting while driving received greater attention in the late 2000s, corresponding to a rise in the number of text messages being sent. Over a year approximately 2,000 teens die from texting while driving. Texting while driving attracted interest in the media after several highly publicized car crashes were caused by texting drivers, including a May 2009 incident involving a Boston trolley car driver who crashed while texting his girlfriend. Texting was blamed

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