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高级口译0303听力原文汇总合集（4）

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　　高级口译0303听力原文汇总合集（4）

　　Questions 11 to 15

　　【原文】
　　
　　M: Our guest on the program today is Neil Powell, whose book “Town and Around” has just been published. It’s a survey of 12 towns and cities in England and Wales, a survey which took place over 15 months. And Neil is here to discuss the conclusions that the researchers came to. Neil, welcome to the program.

　　W: Thank you.

　　M: Now we’ve had endless reports and surveys into the British towns over the last few years. What’s different about yours?

　　W: Well, I think the main difference is that our report was based on talking to local people. As you say, we’ve heard many opinions expressed over the last 20 years about the decline of the British town. But these have nearly been expert’s talking. We talked to ordinary people over 1012 towns. And we also spoke to more than 300 voluntary organizations. We talked to police officers, local business people, night club owners, church leaders and hundreds of individuals wee just encountered in the street or in the pub or by arrangement in their homes.

　　M: There’s a feeling, isn’t there….that things have somehow gone wrong with British towns? Is that what people told you?

　　W: Yes, broadly speaking, yes. I think we manage to identify three areas where our correspondents felt things have gone wrong or were going wrong. The first of these was the fact that British towns are now dominated by the private car.

　　M: Mmm, yes. I thought that was the most interesting part of the book because it was missed opportunity, wasn’t it?

　　W: Very much so. Our report came out all the way back in 1963 called Traffic and Towns, which anticipated a lot of the dangers which was threatened by the growth of car ownership and actually put down several very sensible recommendations, but only some of these were ever acted on. For example, the very simple one that working hour should be staggered to avoid the early morning and early evening traffic jams.

　　M: And of course, the infamous ring roads.

　　W: Yes, ring roads have created major psychological barriers to walking or cycling in and out of town centers, even from residential areas only 10 minutes’ walking distance from the center. In Preston, we talked to people living on housing estates, only a few minutes’ walk away from the center, who would never dream of walking. There were just too many barriers: the pedestrian underpasses, tunnels, steps, broken pavements…

　　M: Traffic lights where you have to run like a rabbit to get across in time?

　　W: Well, there’s a ring road in North Hampton where it’s physically impossible to get across it in less than 7 seconds. And yet the traffic is so busy that on average there’s only a five-second gap between the cars. And if you’re a mother with a push chair or disabled, it’s even worse. No wonder nobody walks. You get the mad situation where people who are going to the gym or the swimming pool to get fit, drive there even if it’s just around the corner. In Middlesbrough, a woman told us that people used car to travel to the next street.

　　M: In fact, if you go to the Continent, to France or Germany, you’ll find that city centers have been turned into pedestrian precincts and the cars been almost banned.

　　W: That’s right. And of course, the person who needs to go by car is often the very person who can’t, like old women and young children. And even though everybody regards shopping as one of the great pleasures…

　　M: Surely not.

　　W: Oh, in fact, if you don’t have a car, it’s a nightmare.

　　M: But most people do have a car, don’t they?

　　W: Absolutely not. In the survey, we found that three quarters of housewives in Miltonkeens do not have access to the family cars during the work days. But of course, the people who make decisions all drive cars. Hardly any of the planners and politicians we visited had recently walked anywhere.

　　11. What’s Nil Lepal’s book about?

　　12. How is this book different from other books previously published?

　　13. According to the interview, there are 3 areas where things have gone wrong or are going wrong. Which of the following is not one of these areas?

　　14. What did the report traffic and towns recommend in order to avoid the early morning and evening traffic jams?

　　15. According to Nil Lepal, what negative effects have ring roads produced?

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