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周日 12月12日 （高频前20）

The following appeared in an editorial in a Prunty County newspaper.

"In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County recently lowered its speed limit from 55 miles per hour to 45 on all major county roads. But the 55 mph limit should be restored, because this safety effort has failed. Most drivers are exceeding the new speed limit and the accident rate throughout Prunty County has decreased only slightly. If we want to improve the safety of our roads, we should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths and resurfacing rough roads. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago."

高频前二十注意。

zhangwanyingUID: 2775533

The following appeared in an editorial in a Prunty County newspaper.

"In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County recently lowered its speed limit from 55 miles per hour to 45 on all major county roads. But the 55 mph limit should be restored, because this safety effort has failed. Most drivers are exceeding the new speed limit and the accident rate throughout Prunty County has decreased only slightly. If we want to improve the safety of our roads, we should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths and resurfacing rough roads. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago."

(1)首先不能这个措施是无效的，most drivers are exceeding the new speed limit 说明不是限速对于改善交通无用，而是因为很多司机没有遵守限速，并且监督和处罚的力度不够。
(2) The author recommended that we should undertake the same kind of road improvemnt project as Butler Country did five years ago. But it is quite questionable that whether the situation of Butler Country and the one of Prunty are similar enough. 我们需要考察Prunty的道路是否坑洼，是否过窄。并且非常需要对交通事故进行统计，分析原因analyze the cause。多少是因为超速引起的，多少是因为道路问题引起的，或者both of them。分析了具体原因后，才能有针对性地采取相应措施。well targeted
(3)并且Butler的交通事故的数据是基于改善道路后长达5年的统计，但是Prunty只是刚刚开始限速，这样的比较是不公平的。并且，Prunty没有lowered the speed limit from 55mph to 45mph,并不代表限速没有用，很有可能在Prunty进行限速的话，会有更剧烈的交通事故的下降比例（虚拟语气）。