Is the west falling out of love with the car? For environmentalists it seems a(n) _________ dream, but it is happening. While those with young families may carry on using four wheels, a combination of our ageing societies and a new attitude among the young seems to be _________ our 20th-century car addiction. Somewhere along the road, we reached the high point of the car and are now moving down the other side.

That _________ takes several forms. Sales of new cars have almost halved in the US, down from nearly 11 million in 1985 to about 5.5 million now. We shouldn't _________ that to a great degree, though. Cars last longer these days, and sales go up and down with the economy. But we have hit peak car ownership, too. And, more to the point, peak per-capita travel (人均出行).

The phenomenon was first _________ in The Road ... Less Traveled, a 2008 report by the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, but had been going on largely unnoticed for years. Japan reached it in the 1990s. They talk there of "demotorisation". The west had its _________ point in 2004. That year the US, UK, Germany, France, Australia and Sweden all saw the start of a decline in the number of kilometres and average person travelled in a car that _________ today.

What could be driving us _________? Fuel costs and rising insurance premiums (保险费) may be a factor. And urban congestion, combined with an absence of parking places and congestion charging, makes an increasing number of us look on the car as a(n) _________ way to move around in cities where there are public transport alternatives.

Demographics (人口统计数据) are another possible __________. It is surely no __________ that "peak car" happened first in Japan, which has the world's oldest population. Pensioners do not drive to work, and many don't drive at all. There is also the rise of "virtual commuters" who work from home through the Internet.

Besides these new __________ pattern, leisure lifestyle are also changing. The biggest __________ in car use in the US is among people under 35. The number of American 17-year-olds with a drivers' licence has fallen from about three-quarters to about half since 1998. Twenty-somethings have recently gone from driving more than the average to driving less.

Social scientists detect a new "culture of urbanisms". The stylish way to live these days is in inner-city apartments, not the __________. Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist at the University of Toronto in Canada, points out that the young shop online, telecommute, live in walk-able city neighborhoods near public transport and rely more on social media and less on fact-to-face visiting. Given those changes, they can think of better ways to spend their money than buying a(n) __________.

Bike­sharing is a new _______ for short journeys in cities. It is good to the _______ development of the big cities.

A _______ by a company found that shared bikes started the nation’s _______ for bikes again. Now more and more Chinese people are _______ bikes instead of cars to make short journeys in cities.

An engineer of that company says that since the _______ of shared bikes, people have made fewer _______ by car. The love for shared bikes is not only among_______ people, who were born in the 1980s and 1990s, but also among people over sixty.

At weekends, the number of the riders in Shenzhen reaches the _______ of all cities. On ________, the number of people who use shared bikes to travel to work is ________ in Shanghai.

It is said that bike­sharing will help ________ the cities’ environment. It not only helps ________ the traffic problems, but also will help to make more use of space in cities. Take Beijing as an ________, if more people choose shared bikes, an area of five Bird’s Nest stadiums (体育场) will be ________.

Allan was worried.This was his first time to go traveling __.He didn't know how to find his seat，__ he went to the air hostess（空姐）and asked，-Could you help me？I can't find my seat.The air hostess showed __ the seat and told him___ and fasten the seat belt（系好安全带）.She told Allan not to move about when the plane was going up.And she also said that Allan's ears might feel ___ strange，but he didn't need to __ it because many people felt __that.When the plane was flying very high，Allan could stand up and walk around.He could __read books，newspapers or see films.The air hostess would ___food and drinks.Allan would enjoy the flight and ___soon.