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江苏省盐城中学2018届高三上册英语第一次阶段性考试试卷
It is now mandatory(强制) for drivers or passengers to wear seatbelts while in a car in all states. In addition, it is also mandatory for kids of be in some kind of specialized car seat. Given the strict requirements in other vehicles, why don't buses have seatbelts?
The main answer, at least for school buses, is that seatbelts do not make school buses safer. Overall, traveling on school buses is the safest way to travel—40 times safer than riding in a car—with only a handful of deaths occurring to passengers on school buses every year. The seats on the school bus are placed very close to each other and have high backs that are thickly padded. As a result, in an accident the students would be propelled forward a very short distance into a padded seatback that in a way is like an airbag. In addition, the fact that people sit high off the ground on school buses also makes it safer to travel on them.
While school buses feature high backed seats and elevated seating locations, the same cannot be said of city buses. However, from a practical angle, there's little need to require seatbelts on city buses. Although the design of the modern low—floor city bus is less safe than the design of school buses, the fact that city buses rarely travel at speeds greater than 35 miles per hour means that any collision is likely to be small, Also, given that most trips on city buses are short and that many trips have standing passengers, the presence of seatbelts will make even less of a difference.
Another answer why buses do not have seatbelts is cost. It is estimated that adding seatbelts to buses would add between $8,000 and $15,000 to the cost of each bus. In addition, seatbelts would take up room currently used as seats, meaning that each bus would have fewer seating places. The additional room in the bus taken up by seatbelts would mean that bus fleets would have to increase by as much as 15% just to carry the same number of people. Such an increase would be especially difficult in cities that experience overcrowding on their vehicles.
Regardless of whether their passengers have seatbelts, all buses provide seatbelts for drivers and most bus companies make their drivers wear seatbelts in order not to be influenced by a collision.
Why don't buses have seatbelts? | |
Topic | Everyone is to wear their seatbelts in a car while no seatbelts are provided for passengers on buses. |
School buses: ●Seatbelts make no．in improving the safety of the school bus. ●Traveling on school buses is safe thanks to their seats with high padded backs, which canthe students from danger because they are propelled forward into them in a collision. ●Sitting high off the ground on school buses also to the safety | |
City buses: ●Their low traveling speed reduces the risk of a collision ●City buses tend to travel a short ●Many passengers stand while on a city bus, making seatbelts | |
●Fixing seatbelts on buses can in an increase in cost. ●Seatbelts can also limit the number of seating places by room on a bus. ●As a result, an increasing number of bus fleets are required to carry the same number of people. | |
A rule | All buses provide seatbelts for drivers, who should wear seatbelts to the impact of a collision. |
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Anyone who has ever tried to stop smoking knows how difficult it is to quit. There is no lack of information about how unhealthy smoking is for you- not to mention the unpleasant smell. So why would teens ever begin to smoke?
{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Research shows that the majority of smokers lit up their first cigarette in their early or mid-teens, precisely at a time when children are beginning to establish their own identity apart from their parents. Smoking can be an act of rebellion(反抗) against parents or authority figures, as well as a way to fit in with others and feel accepted.
Here are some things that parents can do to help a child stay smoke-free.
Start talking to your teen about how bad smoking is for him early, well before his teens. Keep talking, too. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} For example, smoking makes your hair and clothing smell bad, stains the teeth, and reduces your lung power to play sports.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Talk about the addictive power of smoking and tell him while those few cigarettes are his choice, the addiction that occurs shortly afterwards makes him powerless to decide whether or not he wants to light up.
Work on self-esteem(自尊) and self-confident with your teen. Much of the attraction of smoking is to gain acceptance. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}
A.Young teens live in the moment, too. B.Play on your child's desire to make his own choices. C.The answer lies in the develop-mental stage of your teens. D.Give your child the facts, but focus on the things he can relate to. E.Help your teen to feel good about himself without having to smoke. F.One discussion will not be enough to help your child not to smoke. G.They won't be aware of how powerful addictive smoking is in a very short time. |
| Students in the US and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} | Students in China, Japan and Korean | |
| What do they value? | {#blank#}2{#/blank#} | {#blank#}3{#/blank#} goals and purposes |
| Ways of study | working individually | listen to the teachers |
| forming their own ideas and opinions | memorizing and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} | |
| a lot of discussion in the classroom | not much discussion | |
| {#blank#}5{#/blank#} | Learning to think for themselves | learning much more math and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} by the end of high {#blank#}7{#/blank#} |
| studying more hours each day and more days each year | ||
| good for a society that values {#blank#}8{#/blank#} ideas. | good for a society valuing {#blank#}9{#/blank#} and self-control | |
| disadvantages | students haven't memorized many basic rules and facts when before {#blank#}10{#/blank#} | Information is forgotten easily |
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