【小题1】(take) a bicycle, you had to put in a special card. The new “white bikes” were not 【小题2】(actual) white but painted in bright colours. The bikes were parked at special parking places. Thus people 【小题3】 wanted to use them had to take them to another special parking place near their destination and leave them there.

Ten years ago, people bought electric vehicles (EVs) to reduce their carbon footprint. 【小题1】 the limited range and high price made EVs something of a rare sight on roads. A lot can change in a decade. Advances in battery technology 【小题2】 (mean) electric cars now travel much further on a single charge. Government grants (补贴) serve to draw buyers away from gasoline-powered cars. The change will have a huge impact 【小题3】 life. Roads will become far 【小题4】 (quiet) and pollution levels will be reduced quickly, potentially leading to improved quality of life.

Nowadays, millions of people get the news of air crash whenever it happens. Therefore, the fear of flying 【小题1】 (rise) in the past few years. This causes many Americans 【小题2】 (drive) rather than fly, but is driving really a 【小题3】 (safe)way to travel than flying?

As a matter of fact, 【小题4】 the media doesn’t show the world are other automobile accidents; research over the past several years has shown that flying is the safest method of transportation. In a Newsweek magazine study 【小题5】 (test) deaths per 100 million miles of transportation, cars have 0.94 deaths while trains 0.04 deaths and planes and buses came out 【小题6】 same with 0.01 deaths.

When you look at the data, perhaps you will be worried about the 【小题7】 (frequent) of air crashes,   【小题8】 actually only a small percent of these crashes involve deaths. On the other hand, when there is a crash, there is usually a fairly large loss of life 【小题9】 (involve). And nearly every air crash 【小题10】 (probable) makes the front page headline in nearly every newspaper across the world.