2024年新课标II卷
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Do you ever get to the train station and realize you forgot to bring something to read?
Yes, we all have our phones, but many of us still like to go old school and read something printed.
Well, there's a kiosk (小亭) for that. In the San Francisco Bay Area, at least.
“You enter the fare gates(检票口)and you'll see a kiosk that is lit up and it tells you can get a one-minute, a three-minute, or a five-minute story,” says Alicia Trost, the chief communications officer for the San Francisco Bay Area rapid Transit — known as BART. “You choose which length you want and it gives you a receipt-like short story.”
It's that simple.Riders have printed nearly 20,000 short stories and poems since the program was launched last March.Some are classic short stories, and some are new original works.
Trost also wants to introduce local writers to local riders.“We wanted to do something where we do a call to artists in the Bay Area to submit stories for a contest,” Trost says.“And as of right now, we've received about 120 submissions.The winning stories would go into our kiosk and then you would be a published artist.”
Ridership on transit(交通) systems across the country has been down the past half century, so could short stories save transit?
Trost thinks so.
“At the end of the day all transit agencies right now are doing everything they can to improve the rider experience.So I absolutely think we will get more riders just because of short stories,”she says.
And you'll never be without something to read.
24. Why did BART start the kiosk program?
A. To promote the local culture. B. To discourage phone use.
C. To meet passengers' needs. D. To reduce its running costs.
25. How are the stories categorized in the kiosk?
A. By popularity. B. By length. C. By theme. D. By language.
26. What has Trost been doing recently?
A. Organizing a story contest. B. Doing a survey of customers.
C. Choosing a print publisher. D. Conducting interviews with artists.
27. What is Trost's opinion about BART's future?
A. It will close down. B. Its profits will decline.
C. It will expand nationwide. D. Its ridership will increase.
答案解析：
24. C. To meet passengers' needs.
解析：根据文章中的描述，乘客在进入检票口后可以看到一个提供短故事的亭子，这表明BART启动这个项目的目的是为了满足乘客的需求，即在他们忘记带阅读材料时提供阅读内容。
25. B. By length.
解析：文章中提到亭子会提供“a one-minute, a three-minute, or a five-minute story”，这说明故事是按照长度来分类的。
26. A. Organizing a story contest.
解析：文章中提到Trost想要通过比赛的方式介绍当地作家给当地乘客，并且已经收到了大约120份投稿，这表明她最近在组织一个故事比赛。
27. D. Its ridership will increase.
解析：Trost认为提供短故事能够改善乘客体验，并且她认为这将会吸引更多的乘客，因此她的观点是BART的乘客数量将会增加。
