单选题
A new scheme for getting children to and from school is being started by the education authorities in part of Eastern England. This could end the worries of many parents fearful for their children's safety on the roads.
Until now the Country Council has only been prepared to provide bus services for children living more than three miles from their school, or sometimes less if special reasons existed. Now it has been decided that if a group of parents ask for help in organizing transport they will be prepared to go ahead, provided the arrangement will not lose money and that children taking part will be attending their nearest school.
The new scheme is to be tried out this term for children living at Milton who attend Impington school. The children live just within the three-mile limit and the Council has said in the past it will not undertake to provide free transport to the school. But now they have agreed to organize a bus service from Milton to Impington and back, a plan which has the support of the school's headmaster.
Between 50 and 60 parents have said they would like their children to take part in. Final calculations have still to be carried out, but a council official has said the cost of parents should be less than ￡6.50 a term.
They have been able to arrange the service at a low cost because there is already an agreement with the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington. The same bus would now just make an extra journey to pick up the Milton children. The official said they would get in touch with other groups of parents who in the past had asked if transport could be provided for their children, to see if they would like to take part in the new scheme.
单选题 The children the Council ran buses for in the past were those ______.
  • A. whose parents were worried about them
  • B. who would have had to walk otherwise
  • C. who could not walk
  • D. who had to travel a long way
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第二段第一句可知，到现在为止，Country Council只给住在3英里以外的学生提供巴士服务，这表示这些学生离家很远，因此答案选D。
单选题 Taking part in the Council's trial schemes are children who ______.
  • A. living in Milton and go to Impington school
  • B. living in Impington and go to Milton school
  • C. living in Milton and go to Milton school
  • D. living in Impington and go to Impington school
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第三段“The new scheme is to be tried out this term for children living at Milton who attend Impington school”可知答案为A。
单选题 The new bus service will run ______.
  • A. on morning journeys to school only
  • B. in connection with an existing service
  • C. only for children living more than three miles away
  • D. only in wet weather
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第三段“The children live just within the three-mile limit”和第五段“there is already an agreement with the, bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington”结合起来考虑，可以排除C、A，D项没有提及，故选B。
单选题 Agreement to pay for the new bus service has been obtained from ______.
  • A. the school's headmaster
  • B. the education department
  • C. the bus company
  • D. the parents
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 为新巴士计划付费的是家长，故选D。
单选题 The parents the Council is now going to contact are those ______.
  • A. who had not yet answered letters
  • B. who didn't want to pay
  • C. whose children stayed away from school
  • D. who had asked about transport before
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据最后一段最后一句“parents who in the past had asked if transport could be provided for their children”可知答案为D。