The Taxi & Limousine Committee agreed Wednesday to carry out a 30-cent extra charge on every city taxi fare -- part of a historic plan to make half the city's yellow cabs wheelchair-accessible. The 30-cent extra charge will be assessed starting next January on all metered yellow and green cab fares. The money will be put in a fund to help yellow cab owners make their vehicles wheelchair-accessible. Only about 400 of the more than 13,000 yellow cabs now on city streets can accommodate wheelchairs. Hopefully, that number will rise to more than 7,500 by 2020. Mayor de Blasio in the city Washington proposed the 30-cent charge to support the upgrades. Consequently, disabled New Yorkers said the addition of more accessible cabs would be life-changing. "We can't go anywhere more conveniently," said Jean Ryan of Brooklyn, who uses a wheelchair. For the birth of her grandson, she had to wheel a mile and a half in a snowstorm to get to the hospital, she said. Ronnie Raymond of Manhattan wept as she described spending "hours trying to get somewhere that takes everybody else 20 minutes." Some supporters for the disabled said more was needed to be done. "I dream of a world where it's 100% accessible and we have cabs just like anyone else," said Jason DaSilva, a Brooklyn filmmaker who suffers from multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair. It's particularly important because the city's subway system is ly inaccessible to wheelchair riders. Some other cities, including London, with its famous black cabs, require that all its taxis be fully accessible. Some citizens expressed sympathy for the wheelchair-using riders, many of whom carried neon signs that read "Taxi" next to a wheelchair symbol. "The goal of this committee should be 100% accessibility -- and I hope sooner rather than later," said Frank Carone from the Taxi & Limousine Committee. It can be safely inferred from the passage that _ . A) The 30-cent extra charge on every city taxi fare is already quite popular. B) About 1300 yellow cabs now on city streets are accommodating wheelchairs. C) Wheelchair riders are ly content with the city's subway system. D) There is a long way to go before the plan can be applied successfully.
D
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To the Editor, I have been reading your newspaper, theHometown Gazette, for the past two years, ever since I moved to Smithville. We moved here from New York City, so I am accustomed to reading excellent newspapers such asThe New York Times. In fact, we still have theTimesdelivered on Sundays. The entire family enjoys reading the recipes in the newspaper, as well as the Styles section. TheTimesis great, but theGazetteis another story. I've never read an article that doesn't contain at least three or four spelling or grammatical errors. For instance, in last week's issue, you misspelled the word "secretary" used a singular verb with a plural noun, and used "it's" as a possessive . And that was just in the lead story! In case you never went to elementary school, "it's" means "it is". It's not a possessive adjective! It's a pity that this tiny little hick town has only one newspaper, because I' d like to have an alternative to the rag you publish. I find it hard to believe your news stories. If you can' t spell correctly, how can you get your facts right? I've been meaning to get this off my chest for some time. Please cancel my subscription . And buy yourself a dictionary. Sincerely, Jane Z. Jones Which statement from the passage is a fact? A) We still have the Timesdelivered on Sundays. B) It's a pity this town has only one newspaper. C) The Timesis great, but theGazetteis another story. D) You never went to elementary school.
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Ques: In the early 1990s,the word" Internet" was strange to most people. But today, Internet has become a useful tool for people all over the world. Maybe Internet has been the greatest invention in the field of communication in the history of mankind . Communicating with others on the Internet is much faster. We can chat with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. We can e-mail our friends and they can read the e-mails within a minute. Giving all kinds of information is probably the biggest advantage of the Internet. We can use search engines to find the information we need. Just type in a keyword or keywords and the search engine will give us a list of suitable websites to look at. We can enjoy a lot on the Internet by downloading games, visiting chat rooms or surfing websites. There are some games for free. We can meet new and interesting people in the chat now. We can also listen to music and see films. Now ,there is a lot of service on the Internet such as online banking ,job finding and ticket buying. We can also do shopping and find nearly all kinds of goods. Sometimes we can find something that is quite good but very cheap. Which title best gives the main idea of the passage? A) Online Shopping B) Exchanging Information on the Internet C) The Advantages of the Internet D) Surfing the Websites on the Internet
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Ques:We all enjoy the beautiful show of color1s as leaves change each autumn. But did you ever wonder how and why this happens? To answer the question, first you have to understand what leaves are and what they do. Leaves are nature's food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots. And they take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into glucose . Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for energy and as a building block for growing. The way plants turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar is called photosynthesis . That means, "putting together with light". A chemical called chlorophyll helps photosynthesis. Chlorophyll is what gives plants their green color1. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how trees "know" to begin getting ready for winter. During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. Trees rest during this time and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange leaves. Small amounts of these color1s have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll. The bright reds and yellows we see in leaves are made mostly in autumn. In some trees, like maples, glucose is caught in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn this glucose into a red color1. The brown color1 of trees like oaks is made from waste left in the leaves. It is the mixture of all these things that makes the beautiful color1s we enjoy during autumn. From the text we can see that photosynthesis _ . A) can produce glucose, which can provide energy for trees' growth B) can happen whenever there is light and water C) is the process of putting sunlight together with chlorophyll D) doesn't stop during the trees' lifetime even in winter

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A