考点规范练3(必修1　Module 3)

　　.阅读理解

　　(2017天津六校高三上学期第一次联考)

　　Why does most of the world travel on the right side today? Theories differ,but there’s no doubt that Napoleon was a major influence.The French have used the right since at least the late 18th century.Some say that before the French Revolution,noblemen drove their carriages on the left,forcing the peasants to the right.Regardless of the origin,Napoleon brought right-hand traffic to the nations he conquered,including Russia,Switzerland and Germany.Hitler,in turn,ordered right-hand traffic in Czechoslovakia and Austria in the 1930s.Nations that escaped right-hand control,like Great Britain,followed their left-hand tradition.

　　The US has not always been a nation of right-hand drivers; earlier in its history,carriage and horse traffic travelled on the left,as it did in England.But by the late 1700s,people driving large wagons pulled by several pairs of horses began promoting a shift(改变)to the right.A driver would sit on the rear(后面的)left horse in order to wave his whip(鞭子)with his right hand; to see opposite traffic clearly,they travelled on the right.

　　One of the final moves to firmly standardize traffic directions in the US occurred in the 20th century,when Henry Ford decided to mass-produce his cars with controls on the left (one reason,stated in 1908: the convenience for passengers exiting directly onto the edge,especially if there is a lady to be considered).Once these rules were set,many countries eventually adjusted to the right-hand standard,including Canada in the 1920s,Sweden in 1967 and Burma in 1970.The UK and former colonies such as Australia and India are among the Western world’s few remaining holdouts(坚持不变者).Several Asian nations,including Japan,use the left as well—though many places use both right-hand-drive and left-hand-drive cars.

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