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It’s 2:45 p.m. on a Wednesday, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is in the backseat of a black Chevy Tahoe that’s inching its

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问题     It’s 2:45 p.m. on a Wednesday, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is in the backseat of a black Chevy Tahoe that’s inching its way to city hall along the 101 freeway. This stretch of the often clogged road is eight lanes, but there are so many cars on it that everyone is moving at about 30 km/h, a single mass of steel and glass lurching toward downtown.
    Just a few hours earlier, Garcetti was traveling a lot faster. To get to an event in University City, about 16 km from his office, Garcetti took the city’s Red Line subway, which can reach speed of up to 110 km/h—a pace L.A.’s rush-hour drivers can only dream about. Persuading more Angelenos to take the train could go a long way toward solving one of L.A.’s most intractable problems. "We don’t need people to completely give up their cars," he says while holding onto a pole on the Red Line. "But right now, we average 1.1 people per car. If we could get that to 1.6, the traffic problem would go away."
    In L.A., cars are a source of smog, billions of dollars in lost productivity every year and endless frustration for residents. "Every working person plans their life around traffic in this town," say Zev Yaroslavsky, a Los Angeles County supervisor and longtime friend of Garcetti’s. "Building a transportation infrastructure is something that needs to be focused on, and Eric gets that." Should Garcetti, 43—who was elected in May as the youngest mayor of L.A. in more than a century—ever manage to get the freeways flowing, it would be a triumph. And it would only begin to cure what ails L.A.
    Los Angeles’ structural problems are daunting. The city has fewer jobs now than it did in 1990, with a regional unemployment rate that is more than 2 points higher than the national average. L.A. is also buckling under health care and pension costs and is scaling back public services to compensate. The 2014-2015 budget is projected to be $242 million in the red. As the Los Angeles 2020 Commission, a group of business, labor and public-sector leaders charged by the city council with diagnosing the region’s ills, put it in a December report, "Los Angeles is barely treading water while the rest of the world is moving forward."
We know from the third paragraph that ______.
选项 A、L.A. has to focus on manufacturing more cars
B、Garcetti is the youngest mayor in L.A. ’s history
C、traffic jam is one of the problems that L.A. faces
D、Garcetti has already made the highways flowing
答案C
解析 A项对应原文：Building a transportation infrastructure is something that needs to be focused on．原文说的是“建设交通基础设施是我们需要重视的事情”，而非“制造更多汽车”，故选项A错误。选项B对应原文：Should Garcetti，43—who was elected in May as the youngest mayor of L.A. in more than a century... 可见Garcetti是洛杉矶100多年以来最年轻的市长，而非历史上最年轻的市长，故排除B。选项C对应原文尾句：...ever manage to get the freeways flowing，it would be a triumph．And it would only begin to cure what ails L.A. 即使Garcetti使得交通顺畅起来，这也仅仅是一个开始，故我们可以得知除了交通问题以外，洛杉矶还面临许多问题，第四段的开头“Los Angeles’ structural problems are daunting”可以进一步证明。故选项C为答案。选项D对应原文：Should Garcetti，43—who was elected in May as the youngest mayor of L.A. in more than a century—ever manage to get the freeways flowing…原文用一个特殊的虚拟语气表达，强调的是“如果”，而非他已经使交通顺畅了，故该项错误。
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