新SAT阅读官方例题解析-Textual Evidence循证题

Questions 11-20 are based on the following

passage and supplementary material.

This passage is adapted from Taras Grescoe, Straphanger:

Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile. ©2012

by Taras Grescoe.

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If you credit the demographers, this transit trend

has legs. The “Millenials,” who reached adulthood

around the turn of the century and now outnumber

baby boomers, tend to favor cities over suburbs, and

are far more willing than their parents to ride buses

and subways. Part of the reason is their ease with

iPads, MP3 players, Kindles, and smartphones: you

can get some serious texting done when you’re not

driving, and earbuds offer effective insulation from

all but the most extreme commuting annoyances.

Even though there are more teenagers in the country

than ever, only ten million have a driver’s license

(versus twelve million a generation ago). Baby

boomers may have been raised in Leave It to Beaver

suburbs, but as they retire, a significant contingent is

favoring older cities and compact towns where they

have the option of walking and riding bikes. Seniors,

too, are more likely to use transit, and by 2025, there

will be 64 million Americans over the age of

sixty-five. Already, dwellings in older neighborhoods

in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Denver, especially

those near light-rail or subway stations, are

commanding enormous price premiums over

suburban homes. The experience of European and

Asian cities shows that if you make buses, subways,

and trains convenient, comfortable, fast, and safe, a

surprisingly large percentage of citizens will opt to

ride rather than drive.