Car sharing is another way to drive green that’s gaining in popularity, especial

Car sharing is another way to drive green that’s gaining inpopularity, especially in urban areas．People who may notdrive every day but still want a car to run errands （差事）or drive on weekends benefit most from car sharing．Carsharing is usually run by a service like Zipcar, though there are non-profit （非营利的）and informal car sharing services．Memberspay a monthly fee and have access to an entire fleet of cars when they need one．Thecars are parked in fixed spots around the city, so members only need to make areservation, and then go to the pickup spot．

         Carsharing has major environmental benefits because it reduces the number of carson the road．Members don’t drive just because they are in acar．They plan trips, and if they don’t need a car, they don’tuse one．Still, a car is available to them if they needto make a big trip to the grocery store, pick someone up at the airport or ifthey want to go to the beach for the day．Members also benefitby having access to a car without any of the headaches of ownership．Theyusually don’t have to pay for the gas, insurance or maintenance （保养）, and the monthly membership fee is less than a typical carpayment．So if you really want to go green but aren’tready to totally give up a car yet, car sharing may be the way to go．

         If youstill need to get around, but want to go even greener than sharing a car, sharea bus!

1.The authorintends to tell us that car sharing ________．

    A．has become the mostpopular way to go to work

    B．has become the bestway to cut living costs

    C．is becoming more andmore popular in cities

    D．is becoming popularboth in urban and rural （乡村的）areas

2.We canconclude from the passage that _________．

    A．Zipear can’t help youif you are running urgent errands

    B．Zipcar, differentfrom other services, aims green driving with no profit

    C．Zipcar is a companysupplying car sharing service for a monthly payment

    D．Zipcar is a companyproviding formal car sharing free

3.The secondparagraph mainly tells us _________．

    A．why people will sharea car          

         B．whycar sharing benefits the environment

    C．why car sharing ischeaper than owning a car

    D．why a car isavailable to members

4.Which of thefollowing is NOT mentioned in the passage?

    A．Car sharing hasbecome a new trend （趋势）．

    B．Car sharing can saveyou the headaches of ownership．

    C．Bus sharing is evengreener than car sharing．

         D．Zipcaris the largest company offering car sharing services．

试题答案

【答案】

1.C

2.C

3.A

4.D

【解析】略