12月20日六级复合式听写原文及答案_大学英语听力

12月20日六级复合式听写原文及答案

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　　One of the most common images of advanced Western-style culture is that of a busy traffic-filled city. Since their first appearance on American roadways, automobiles have become a symbol of progress, a source of thousands of jobs and almost an inalienable right for citizens personal freedom of movement. In recent decades, our love affair with the car is being exported directly to the developing world and it is increasingly apparent that this transfer is leading to disaster.

　　Americas almost complete dependence on automobiles has been a terrible mistake. As late as the 1950s, a large percentage of the American public used mass transit. A combination of public policy decisions and corporate scheming saw to it that countless convenient and efficient urban streetcar and intra-city rail systems were dismantled. Our air quality now suffers from the effects of the pollutants emitted directly from our cars. Our lives have been planned along a road grid--homes far from work, shopping far from everything, with ugly stretches of concrete and blacktop in between.