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The city finally won approval for a limited speed camera program in June after a long battle in Albany,and City Mayor Bloomberg announced on Monday that starting Sept.9,the city will _1_ 20 cameras in school zones around the city, despite _2_ from police unions to the pilot program.

Officials won’t _3_ where exactly the cameras will go—hoping to maximize the warning effect on speeding from the cameras—and plan to move them around _4_ between different schools. But they’ve _5_ 100 schools in all five boroughs where at least 75% of cars speed and plan to target the schools with the worst speeding problems.

The cameras, which will be _6_ to drivers, will catch motorists going at least 10 miles an hour over the speed limit. Drivers will be hit with $50 fines, though officials will give out warnings for the first few weeks of the program.

Statistics show a child hit by a car going 40 miles per hour faces a 70% chance of being killed, while a kid hit at 30 miles per hour has an 80% chance of _7_. “Speeding continues to be the _8_ killer on the streets of New York，” said Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. “It is _9_ that New York City’s speed limit is 30 miles an hour. Going even ten miles over the speed limit is the difference between life and death.”

Bloomberg said he’d prefer a less _10_ speed camera program and hope to expand it soon. “We’d like to have more than twenty, but we’re glad to start with what we have,” he said.

A) identified

B) install

C) disclose

D) mission

E) leading

F) objection

G) surviving

H) restricted

I) affiliate

J) invisible

K) simultaneously

L)frequently

M) stake

N) miserable

O) sensible

解题思路

1.[B]空格在助动词will之后，应为及物动词原形，20cameras为其宾语。此处应选install,表示市政府决定在学校区域“安装”20台超速摄像头。

2.[F]despite是介词，因此空格应为名次。despite表示让步，前后语义形成对比，空格应选用，意为“尽管警察工会反对”，市政府仍然获得了安装超速摄像头的许可。

3.[C]空格在助动词won’t后，应填入动词原形。破折号后提到的内容起到了提示的作用，要想超速摄像头起到最大的震慑作用,就不能“透露”摄像头安装的具体位置，因此选用disclose。

4.[L]move… around是动词词组，故空格应为副词，对动词词组起到修饰作用，frequently一次符合语境，表示摄像头会经常改变位置，这也是为了对超速驾驶行为起到最大的震慑作用。

5.[A]空格所在句主句缺少谓语，根据空格前的’ve可知，此处应填入动词的过去分词形式，空格后面提到，5个地 区至少有75%的汽车超速，可见先重点整治这些地段的100所学校，identified“确定”符合上下文语境。

6.[J]此处应为名词、形容词或动词的分词形式,作从句的表语。上一段提到官员们不会透露摄像头的位置，可见司机不会知道摄像头装在哪，invisible符合上下文语义。

7.[G]空格在介词of后面，故应填入名词。该句子对比了时速40英里和30英里所造成的伤亡率，车速越快造成 的伤亡率越高，词库中surviving可作名词，符合此处语义。
8.[E]空格应为定语修饰名词killer，可为名词、形容词或分词。此处选用leading,表示超速是城市街道的“主要” 杀手。invisible放人句中虽然语法正确,但不符合常识，超速引起的伤亡是显而易见的。

9.[O]空格所在句的结构为It is + a. + (that)从句。从句讲到纽约的速度限制是每小时30英里。再结合本段提到的30英里和40英里造成的伤亡率的区别，可知时速30英里是合乎情理的，因此选用sensible。

10.[H]空格在比较级标记less后，表明空格应该是形容词或分词。根据句末的hope to expand it以及Bloomberg说的话，可以推断他认为现在安装超速摄像头计划设计的范围“不够广”。结合词性和词义的要求，词库中restricted最符合要求。