专题 12 新公共交通模式--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 - 副本

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (12) Travel after covid-19 疫情下的出行模式 主题语境：人与自我 主题语境内容：个人生活 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） In Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, public-transport fares have been cut in half. In London politicians leave  notes on civil servants’ desks telling them to turn up for work and beg people to start going back to the office. Eric Adams, the mayor（市长） of New York, has asked bank bosses to set an example by riding the subway. None of it seems to be working. The subway is only two-thirds as busy as it was before covid-19. Auckland’s bus system was half as busy in April as it was three years earlier. Despite fears of “carmageddon”, people have not swapped public transport for the private kind. They are simply moving around less. Although travel is likely to recover a little further, a return to the pre-pandemic pattern seems impossible. One reason is that not all journeys have declined. Parisians made more shopping trips last summer than they did befor