语法填空Like all big cities, Paris has a traffic problem: lots of cars, traffic jams and pollution from exhaust fumes (废气). So since 2007, the city 【小题1】 (begin) a plan to improve the situation.
Under the Velib scheme (公共自行车计划), people can take a bicycle, use it as long as they want, and then leave it at the same or another bicycle station. The first half hour is free, 【小题2】 if you don’t return it after 30 minutes, you have to pay. The bicycles are as heavy as 25 kilograms, and they’re all grey and have 【小题3】 (basket).
Paris isn’t the first city 【小题4】 (operate)a scheme like this. Not everybody thinks it’s a great idea. One Parisian (巴黎人) said, “These bicycles are only suitable 【小题5】 short journeys. ”
A city spokesman said, “The bicycle scheme won’t solve all our traffic problems, but it might work in 【小题6】 (reduce) air pollution. Traffic, together with factory fumes, 【小题7】(be) big problem. Global warming and dramatic climate changes are becoming more and more serious, 【小题8】 is partly because rain-forests are 【小题9】 (gradual) disappearing. And it’s also because there’s so much pollution. Unless we do something now, there will be more traffic jams and temperatures will continue to rise, so the problems in our environment will get even 【小题10】 (bad). ”
