Passage III.

　　As machines go, the car is not terribly noisy, nor terribly polluting, nor terribly dangerous; and on all those dimensions it has become better as the century has grown older. The main problem is its prevalence, and the social costs that ensue from the use by everyone of something that would be fairly harmless if, say, only the rich were to use it. It is a price we pay for equality.

　　Before becoming too gloomy, it is worth recalling why the car has been arguably the most successful and popular product of the whole of the past 100 years-and remains so. The story begins with the environmental improvement it brought in the 1900s. In New York city in 1900, according to the Car Culture, a 1975 book by J. Flink, a historian, horses deposited 2.5 million pounds of manure(糞)and 60,000 gallons of urine (尿) every day. Every year, the city authorities had to remove an average of 15,000 dead horses from the streets. It made cars smell of roses.

　　......省去三段。

　　26. As is given in the first paragraph, the reason why the car has become a problem is that　________. (定位后深入挖掘，難點為長句分析) 抓主干; 順藤摸瓜; 理清亂麻。

　　A) poor people can't afford it

　　B) it is too expensive to maintain

　　C) too many people are using it

　　D) it causes too many road accidents

　　27. According to the passage, the car started to gain popularity because ________. 段落歸納

　　A) it didn't break down as easily as a horse 無中生有，雖然符合邏輯常識，常識錯位

　　B) it had a comparatively pleasant odor 比喻用法的字面意思通常是干擾項

　　C) it caused less pollution than horses

　　D) it brightened up the gloomy streets 借用原文原詞考驗細心程度

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