2013年度全国职称英语等级考试综合类(C级)试题(二)

2013年度全国职称英语等级考试真题

第3部分：概括大意与完成句子（第23-30 题，每题1分，共8分）

下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23-26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第1-4段每段选择1个最佳标题；(2)第27-30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。

Pedestrians Only

The concept of traffic-free shopping areas goes back a long time. During the Middie Ages, traffic-free shopping areas were built in Middle Eastern countries to allow people to shop in comfort and, more importantly，safety. As far back as 2, 000 years ago, read traffic was banned from central Rome during the day to allow for the free movement of pedestrians (行人)，and was only allowed in at night when shops and markets had closed for the day. In most other cities, however，pedestrians were forced to share the streets with horses, coaches and, later, with cars and other motorised vehicles.

The modern，traffic-free shopping street was born in Europe in the 1960s, when both city populations and car ownership increased rapidly. Dirty gases from cars and the risks involved in crossing the road were beginning to make shopping an unpleasant and dangerous experience.Many believed the time was right for experimenting with car-free streets，and shopping areas seemed the best place to start.

At first, there was resistance from shopkeepers. They believed that such a move would be bad for business. They argued that people would avoid streets if they were unable to get to them in their cars. When the first streets in Europe were closed to traffic，there were even noisy demonstrations, as many shopkeepers predicted they would lose customers.

However, research carried out afterwards in several European csties revealed some unexpected statistics. In Munich, Cologne and Hamburg, visitors to shopping areas increased by 50 percent. On Copenhagen's main shopping street, shopkeepers reported sales increases of 25 -40 percent. Shopkeepers in Minneapolis, the USA, were so impressed when they learnt this that they even offered to pay for the construction and maintenance costs of their own traffic-free streets.

With the arrival of the traffic-free shopping street, many shops，especially those selling things like clothes, food and smaller luxury items, prospered. Unfortunately, it wasrVt good news for everyone, as shops selling furniture and larger electrical appliances (电器）actuaiiy saw their saies drop. Many of these were forced to move elsewhere, away from the city centre.

23 Paragraph 1___________

24 Paragraph 2___________

25 Paragraph 3___________

26 Paragraph 4___________

A Facing protest from shop owners

B Increase in sales and customers

C An idea from ancient history

D A need for change

E An experiment that went wrong

F Popularity of online shopping

27 Traffic-free shopping streets first developed in___________.

28 In the 1960s,dirty gases from cars made shopping___________.

29 Shopkeepers mistakenly believed that car-free streets would keep away_________.

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