Amsterdam Gets Greener with New Electric Scooter Taxi|绿色电动出租车上路

Amsterdam Gets Greener with New Electric Scooter Taxi

by Brian Foden

Learn what the rest of the world is doing for the environment.

  Have you ever taken the bus, train, or subway to a certain point, disembarked, and then had to walk 10, 15, or even 20 minutes to get to your destination? Wouldn't it have been nice to have had a scooter pick you up and take you to where you wanted to go? For Amsterdam residents, this convenience is now a _(1)_ with Europe's first electric scooter taxi dubbed the Hopper.


  The scooter taxis, which are painted bright green, are not only _(2)_ friendly, but they are relatively cheap as well, costing less than NT$100 for each ride to anywhere in Amsterdam. Passengers can _(3)_ the scooters online or by phone, and there's even a smartphone app to let them know where the nearest scooter taxi is. The scooters travel _(4)_ a maximum speed of only 25 kilometers per hour, but that's pretty fast for short distances.


  The man who came up with the idea for the Hopper, Ruben Beugels, is _(5)_ that it will become a new form of public transportation. By the spring of 2013, Beugels intends to _(6)_ the electric scooter taxi service to other large cities in the Netherlands. He even hopes to introduce the idea to other European countries, such as Germany and England. In many ways, Hoppers make perfect sense as a transportation _(7)_ because they get passengers to areas they would otherwise have to walk to or pay high taxi fares to reach. The best part is that the more electric scooters are used, the more the environment benefits.


1.   (A) companion (B) promotion  (C) witness     (D) reality

2.   (A) potentially  (B) dramatically    (C) environmentally    (D) vertically

3.   (A) book    (B) dismiss     (C) scold   (D) mourn

4.   (A) on  (B) at   (C) for (D) with

5.   (A) sensitive   (B) deficient    (C) confident   (D) inevitable

6.   (A) retain   (B) expand (C) imitate (D) submit

7.   (A) diligence   (B) gratitude    (C) adaptation (D) solution


绿色电动出租车上路

看看世界其他地方为自然环境做了些什么。

  你曾经搭乘巴士、火车或地铁到某个特定地点,下了车,接着得走上 10 分钟、15 分钟或甚至 20 分钟才能抵达目的地吗?如果有人骑机车载你到你想去的地方,那不是很棒吗?对阿姆斯特丹的居民而言,这项便利如今已随着欧洲首部称为 Hopper 的电动机车出租车而成真。


  这种被漆成亮绿色的机车出租车不只很环保,而且也相当便宜,它在阿姆斯特丹市内前往任何地方的单程车资不到新台币 100 元。乘客可以透过网络或手机来叫车,甚至还有一种智能型手机应用程序会让乘客知道最近的电动机车出租车在哪里。机车一小时的最高时速只有 25 公里,但那对短程而言已经很快了。


  想出 Hopper 这个点子的 Ruben Beugels 有信心它将会成为一种新型态的大众交通工具。Beugels 有意在 2013 年春天之前将电动机车出租车服务扩展至荷兰的其他大城市。他甚至希望能将这个点子引进其他欧洲国家,像是德国和英国。在许多方面,Hopper 是完美的交通纾解方案,因为它们可以载乘客到那些他们原本得走路或者付高昂的出租车资才能抵达的地方。最棒的一点是,越多人使用电动机车,对环境就越有益。

答案: 1.   D   2.   C   3.   A   4.   B   5.   C

      6.   B   7.   D


 

  单车对荷兰人来说是日常生活的一部份,几乎人手 1 部,有的人还拥有 2 部。他们会骑单车去上班、上学、买东西等等。所以,你常常可以在一大清早看到许多西装笔挺的上班族骑着单车穿梭大街小巷。


  荷兰每年能卖出上百万台的单车。在单车人口这么多的国家,单车的基本交通设施及标志等做得完善一点也不令人讶异。你在任何地方都可以看得到单车专用道,全国单车专用道总长达 1 万 7 千公里。此外,荷兰是个道路平坦的国家,只有南部的林伯格省有点小丘陵,但只要你的单车是多段变速,这些起伏的地形对你而言也不过是轻而易举的小事。

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