if they were unable to get to them in their cars. When the first streets in Europe were closed to traffic，there were even noisy demonstrations, as many shopkeepers predicted they would lose customers.
However, research carried out afterwards in several European csties revealed some unexpected statistics. In Munich, Cologne and Hamburg, visitors to shopping areas increased by 50 percent. On Copenhagen's main shopping street, shopkeepers reported sales increases of 25 -40 percent. Shopkeepers in Minneapolis, the USA, were so impressed when they learnt this that they even offered to pay for the construction and maintenance costs of their own traffic-free streets.
With the arrival of the traffic-free shopping street, many shops，especially those selling things like clothes, food and smaller luxury items, prospered. Unfortunately, it wasrVt good news for everyone, as shops selling furniture and larger electrical appliances (电器)actuaiiy saw their saies drop. Many of these were forced to move elsewhere, away from the city centre.
23 Paragraph 1___________ 24 Paragraph 2___________ 25 Paragraph 3___________ 26 Paragraph 4___________
A Facing protest from shop owners B Increase in sales and customers C An idea from ancient history D A need for change
E An experiment that went wrong
A customers B pedestrians C furniture sellers
D Middle Eastern countries E a bad experience
F North America
答案与职业培训教育网名师解析：
27 D 第一段讲到，步行街首先出现在中东国家。
28 E 第二段讲到，汽车尾气和道路安全问题使得购物变成一项不愉快并且危险的行为。
29 A 从第三段中可以看出，店主害怕步行街的建立会使顾客减少。
30 C 最后一段讲到步行街的建立使得一些商店生意变好，同时，也使家具商店和大型电器商店的生意受到不利影响。
第4部分：阅读理解(第31-45 题，每题3分，共45分)
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。
第一篇
An Expensive Mistake
Is there water on the planet Mars? Is there life on Mars? Was there ever life on Mars? Scientists from NASA wanted to know the answers to these questions. They built a spacecraft to travel around Mars and get information. The spacecraft was called the Mars Climate Orbiter.
The Mars Climate Orbiter left for Mars in December 1998. The trip took nine and a half months. At first, everything was fine. However，when the Orbiter got near Mars, something terrible happened. The spacecraft didn’t go to the right place. It went too close to Mars. It was too hot for the Orbiter there. The spacecraft couldn’t function correctly. Suddenly, it stopped sending messages to NASA. The Orbiter was lost.
How could this terrible thing happen? How did the Orbiter get closer to Mars than the scientists planned? Finally, they found the answer. Two teams of scientists worked together on the Orbiter. One team was in England, and one team was in the United States, There were many similarities in the way they worked, but there was one important difference： The teams used different guidelines for measuring things. The United States team used the metric system (公制) The other team used the English system.
Because they used different systems, the scientists made a mathematical mistake. The Orbiter’s orbit (the shape and pattern of its path) around Mars was not correct. The scientists put the Orbiter on the wrong path. The Orbiter got too close and too hot, and it stopped functioning.
Why didn’t anybody see the mistake before it was too late? Many things contributed to the problem. One thing was that NASA scientists and mathematicians were working on two other spacecrafts at the same time. This was a challenge, and they were very tired from working long hours.
The Mars Climate Orbiter cost $94 million to build, it also cost a lot of money to try to find the lost Orbiter in space. In addition, NASA's research on the cause of the problem was very expensive. This wasn’t the first time that two different measurement systems caused mistakes in scientific projects. However, the Mars Climate Orbiter was definitely the most expensive mistake of all!
31 NASA built the Mars Climate Orbiter to get information about_______ A possible life on Mars B the size of Mars C the shape of Mars D the atmosphere of Mars 答案：A
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