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伦敦启动自行车出租计划。（带练习|新闻听力）

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“共享单车”之风已经吹到了伦敦——伦敦启动了一项自行车出租计划，其目的在于鼓励市民在伦敦市中心绿色出行，以缓解伦敦的交通拥堵状况。尽管在计划实行的初期遇到了一些问题，但伦敦市长对这一项目的前景依然抱以积极的态度。一起来看看伦敦的“共享单车”有什么不同之处吧！

BBC: A New Bike Hire Scheme in London
伦敦启动自行车出租计划

燕山大学刘立军宋葳编写

◇TRANSCRIPT

London has become a cycle friendly zone after the launch of a new bike hire scheme. It has been designed to encourage more people to cycle in and around central London.

So how does it work? First you have to sign up to the scheme to be sent a key. The key will unlock one of the bikes, which are kept at docking stations in and around central London. You have to pay an access fee for the key and then you pay as you go, for the length of time you use the bike.

Transport for London, which runs the scheme, are hoping to have 6,000 bikes and 400 docking stations in place by the end of the year.

The new hire system is hoping to ease congestion in London and is expected to generate up to 40,000 extra cycle trips a day into the city centre.

London Mayor Boris Johnston launched the scheme and said London had been "filled with thousands of gleaming machines that will transform the look and feel of our streets and become as commonplace on our roads as black cabs and red buses".

However, there have been a few glitches since the scheme was launched last Friday. On the first day some people found they couldn't dock their bike properly and their usage of the bike had not registered. Transport for London did admit they had been expecting a few "teething problems" and have said they would waive the charges for the first day as a "gesture of goodwill". Some other people have criticised the lack of docking stations and locks for the bikes as well as the price it costs to hire the bicycles.

Despite the comments, the green-thinking London Mayor still seems very positive about things, saying, "My crusade for the capital to become the greatest big cycling city in the world has taken a gigantic pedal-powered push forwards."

Adapted from 伦敦启动自行车出租计划

◇VOCABULARY

1. cab n. a taxi 出租汽车；计程车；的士

2. glitch n. (informal) a small problem or fault that stops sth. working successfully 小故障；小毛病；小差错

3. waive v. to choose not to demand sth. in a particular case, even though you have a legal or official right to do so 放弃（权利、要求等）

4. crusade n. crusade (for/against sth.) | crusade (to do sth.) a long and determined effort to achieve sth. that you believe to be right or to stop sth. that you believe to be wrong （长期坚定不移的）斗争，运动。例如：
○to lead a crusade against crime领导长期打击犯罪活动的运动
○a moral crusade提倡道德的运动

◇QUESTIONS

Read the passage. Then listen to the news and fill in the blanks with the words you hear.

London has become a cycle friendly zone after the launch of ________________________. It has been designed to __________________________________in and around central London.

So how does it work? First you have to ________________________________________. The key will unlock one of the bikes, which are kept at __________________________ in and around central London. You have to ______________________________________ and then you ________________________, for the length of time you use the bike.

Transport for London, which runs the scheme, are hoping to have 6,000 bikes and 400 docking stations in place by the end of the year.

The new hire system is hoping to ____________________________ in London and is expected to generate up to ___________________________ a day into the city centre.

London Mayor Boris Johnston launched the scheme and said London had been "filled with thousands of gleaming machines that will transform the look and feel of our streets and become as commonplace on our roads as black cabs and red buses".

However, there have been a few glitches since the scheme was launched last Friday. On the first day some people found _______________________________________________ and _______________________________________. Transport for London did admit they had been expecting a few "teething problems" and have said they would waive the charges for the first day as a "gesture of goodwill". Some other people have criticised the lack of _________________ and ___________________________ as well as the price it costs to ________________.

_____________________________ the comments, the green-thinking London Mayor still seems very ________________________________ about things, saying, "My crusade for the capital to become the greatest big cycling city in the world has taken a gigantic pedal-powered push forwards."

◇KEY

1. a new bike hire scheme
2. encourage more people to cycle
3. sign up to the scheme to be sent a key
4. docking stations
5. pay an access fee for the key
6. pay as you go
7. ease congestion
8. 40,000 extra cycle trips
9. they couldn't dock their bike properly
10. their usage of the bike had not registered
11. docking stations
12. locks for the bikes
13. hire the bicycles
14. Despite
15. positive

时长：2.1分钟

语速：162wpm

来源：刘立军、宋葳 2017-09-14

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