【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 urged to save natural resources B Foreign drivers will have to pay onthespot fines of up to 163。 900 for breaking the traffic law to be carried out next month. If they do not have enough cash or a working credit card, their vehicles will be clamped (扣留) until they pay—and they will face an additional fee of 163。 80 for getting back their vehicles. The law will also apply to British citizen. The fines will be described officially as “deposits” when the traffic law takes effect, because the money would be returned if the driver went to court and was found not guilty. In practice, very few foreign drivers are likely to return to Britain to deal with their cases. Foreign drivers are rarely charged because police cannot take action against them if they fail to appear in court. Instead, officers often merely give warnings. Three million foreignregistered vehicles enter Britain each year. Polish vehicles make up 36 percent, French vehicles 10 percent and German vehicles 9 percent. Foreign vehicles are 30 percent more likely to be in a crash than Britishregistered vehicles. The number of crashes caused by foreign vehicles rose by 47 percent between 2003 and 2008. There were almost 400 deaths and serious injuries and 3,000 slight injuries from accidents caused by foreign vehicles in 2008. The new law is partly intended to settle the problem of foreign lorry drivers ignoring limits on weight and hours at the wheel. Foreign lorries are three times more likely to be in a crash than British lorries. Recent spot checks found that three quarters of lorries that failed safety tests were registered overseas. The standard deposit for a careless driving offence—such as driving too close to the vehicle in front or reading a map at the wheel—will be 163。 300. Deposits for speeding offences and using mobile phones will be 163。 60. Foreign drivers will not get points as punishment added to their licenses, while British drivers will.45. The first paragraph serves as a(n) . A. explanation B. introduction C. ment D. background46. The foreign drivers who break the traffic law and do not pay on the spot are likely to be fined up to . A. 163。 60 B. 163。 300 C. 163。 900 D. 163。 98047. We can learn from the passage that . A. many foreign drivers have been fined by British policeB. 300,000 German vehicles enter Britain every yearC. 25 percent of foreign vehicles entering Britain have failed safety testsD. British drivers will be punished with points and fines for breaking the traffic law48. The new traffic law is mainly intended to . A. limit the number of foreign vehicles entering BritainB. increase the British government39。s additional ineC. lower the rate of traffic accidents and injuriesD. get foreign drivers to appear in courtC As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our parttime address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend39。s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods,” with a tone(語(yǔ)氣)of airy acceptance. It’s similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I39。m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even away from his desk. For us tenyearolds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while. We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring (探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Indian burial mound. Often we got “l(fā)ost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If