单选题
Some people think the railways are unnecessary because
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】根据文章第一段第二句话‘We can do without railways,people say,as if motorcars and planes have made the railways unnecessary.(“我们不需要火车,”有人说,好像汽车和飞机已经使火车的存在变得没有必要了。)因此选A)。 [避错指导] B)“现在油太贵”,C)“火车是超高速的”,这两个选项恰恰是火车之所以存在的理由;D)“铁路交通可以赚很多钱”,根据文章第一段第二至五行We all keep hearing that trains are slow,that they lose money,and that they are dying,But this is far from tile truth.h those days of expensive oil,the railways have become highly competitive with motorcars and planes.(我们都经常听人说,火车很慢、赔钱、正在消亡。但这远非事实真相。鉴于现在油价过高,火车与汽车和飞机相比有很强的竞争力。)因此,作者否认火车是赔钱的这—观点,但并未暗示火车赚钱与否是其存在的理由,因此D)也错误。