单选题
For reasons of safety and ease of maintenance, Washington and dozens of other communities are building rubber sidewalks made
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ground-up tires of cars and bikes. The rubber squares are up to three times more expensive than concrete squares but
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longer, because tree roots and freezing weather won"t crack them. That,
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, could reduce the number of slip-and-fall complaints made
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uneven pavements. The shock-absorbing surface also happens to be easier on the joints of slow runners and more forgiving when someone slips or falls. And the rubber sidewalks are considered more environmentally friendly. They
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a way to recycle some of the estimated 290 million tires
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out each year in the United States, and they do not restrict tree roots the way concrete squares
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. Since 2001, a company, Rubber Sidewalks, has been grinding thousands of old tires into small pieces,
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sticky substances and baking the material into sidewalk sections that weigh less than eleven pounds a square foot, or a quarter of the weight of concrete. The rubber squares are now
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in two colors of gray and orange. The District of Columbia has spent about $60,000 to replace broken concrete with the rubber squares here and there in a residential
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northeast of the capital.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查固定搭配。make of意为“由…制成”，尤指看得出原材料；make on意为“从…获利”；make by意为“被…制成的”；make for意为“有助于，朝着…前进”。类似搭配还有be made up of意为“由…构成”；make from意为“由…制造而成”，尤指看不出原材料。故选A。
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查短语的词义辨析。make for意为“导致，有助于，朝着…前进”；make with意为“产生，提供”；没有make to的搭配，常见的搭配是make sb. do sth.；make complaints against是个固定搭配短语，意为“控告，对…进行投诉”。根据句意，和make前面的complaints不难判断选D。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词的词义辨析。furnish意为“提供某种有特殊用途的东西”，常用短语为furnish sth. to sb./furnish sb. sth.；offer意为“给别人东西，让别人来选择要不要”；give有“直接给予”的意思；refer常搭配介词to，意为“提到”。根据句意可知，橡胶人行道提供了一种回收利用废弃轮胎的方法。