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How long does it take if you travel to Marseille from Paris in the regular TGV train?
How long does it take if you travel to Marseille from Paris in the regular TGV train?
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2019-04-15
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How long does it take if you travel to Marseille from Paris in the regular TGV train?
Rob: Hello Finn.
Finn: Hi Rob.
Rob: Today we’re talking about high-speed train travel. Many countries have very fast trains that whisk people from city to city in super-quick time.
Finn: Yes, we might think that air travel is the transport of the future but it seems high-speed train travel is becoming just as popular.
Rob: How about a question? Which country currently holds the Guinness record for the fastest train running on a national railway system?
Finn: I’m going to say China.
Rob: I’ll let you know the answer at the end of programme. Back to our discussion about highspeed rail travel. We know that it has many benefits—good things: it helps to take traffic off the road, it causes less pollution, it can transport or move lots of people and it’s quick.
Finn: Yes, speed is important. Now, the TGV train in France takes about three hours to travel over 750 kilometres from the capital, Paris, to Marseille in the south—very impressive.
Rob: And the AVE—Spain’s ultra-modern high-speed train—stole 20 percent of the national airlines’ customers when it started a service from Madrid to Barcelona.
Finn: But the UK has been slow to build such high-speed rail lines. It has one from London to Paris but the government wants to build another one—called HS2—connecting London to the middle and north of England.
Rob: The Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, thinks one line is not good enough. He used the word "essential" to mean a new line to connect British cities has to be built.
Finn: But plans to build HS2 are controversial—not everyone agrees and there is much discussion. Some say other areas of the country will miss out on the economic benefits.
Rob: And it will be very very expensive to build—although some experts say for every £ 1 spent, it will bring £ 2 into the economy.
Finn: There are also concerns that some of the countryside will be destroyed. So these are just some of the arguments and it could be a long time before a final decision is made.
Rob: So for now we’ll just have to accept that our trains in the UK will carry on at a sedate speed while we watch with envy as another country’s high-speed train passes us by!
Finn: Er, yes, bat which country’s train is the fastest?
Rob: The record actually belongs to France. It ran a modified version of its TGV train on its network at a speed of 574. 8 km/h.
Finn: That’s 357. 2 miles per hour.
Rob: That train ran on a railway track—but a train that uses magnets to float above the track is being developed in Japan that will run, at a slightly slower speed, at 500 km/h.
选项
A、Two hours.
B、Three hours.
C、Three and a half hours.
D、Four hours.
答案
C
解析
根据对话中Finn所说“Now,the TGV train in France takes about three hours to travel over750 kilometres from the capital,Paris,to Marseille in the south—very impressive”可知从Paris到Marseille一般会花费3个小时。因此答案选C。
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