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考研复习冲刺阶段，英语的阅读和写作为重中之重，阅读占比大，分值高，决定写作成败，大家要多练，掌握解题技巧，提高阅读的速度和准确率，下面是关于阅读新题型部分的练习，大家做做看看。
2016考研英语阅读新题型冲刺练习（2）
Directions:
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45,
you are required t reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by
choosing from the list A-E to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last
paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET
1. (10 points)
[A] Geography doesn't help; traffic has to be squeezed between mountains
and sea along a handful of narrow corridors. But the real bugbear is the
region's conflicting or overlapping transport plans. Each local authority wants
to control its own; each has its own administration, engineers and schedule
planners; and all compete for passengers and funds.
The monorail was approved by voters in 2002 as a populist alternative to
Sound Transit, at the time beset by cost overruns and questions over its
management. It seemed cool to vote for a train system no other big city is using
no such a large scale. To add to its anti-elitist luster, the monorail was
designed to serve middle-income districts that Sound Transit neglected.
[C] Now Seattle City Council must approve the monorail's financing plan
before letting building go ahead. Weeks ago, approval seemed certain, but not
any more. This, in a way, is unfair. For though the monorail scheme has flaws
aplenty, the real culprit is the political culture that allowed its creation in
the first place.
[D] In King County, where Seattle sits, Metro Transit's 1,300 buses work to
ferry people between suburbs and the big city. A system called Sound Transit is
building train and bus services throughout King County and next-door Pierce and
Snohomish Counties (which also have their own bus systems). The city of Seattle
operates a trolley line. Now construction may soon start on a monorail-an
elevated, single-track train-that would wend its way for 14 miles (23km) from
neighbourhoods in north Seattle to those in the city's south-west.
[E] That startling figure-nearly five times the cost-has caught the
public's attention, to say the least. Michael Murphy, Washington state's
treasurer remarked in mid-June that the monorail's financing plan was
"ludicrous" and threatened to damage the credit-rating of the entire state.
Monorail officials have fired back, insisting that the system's cost is in line
with what voters approved, and complaining that they are being unfairly maligned
for openly stating the full borrowing and operating costs. Maybe. But monorail
planners also over-estimated tax revenues, which have fallen about one-third
short of projections.
[F] The cost for the first stage was pegged at around $1.75 billion, paid
for with a now unloved car
tax. Since then-and this will shock no-one-the costs have increased to
about $1.9 billion. To
pay for it, the monorail's managers plan to borrow a whopping $9.3 billion,
to be paid off over
nearly 50 years.
[G] It is home to Boeing, Starbucks and Microsoft (as well as to Ichiro
Suzuki, the hippest baseball player in the world). But Seattle's other, lesser
boast is that it probably has the worst transport planning in North America.
Order
G 41. 42 43 44 45 C
Answer A D B F E
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