A、Slow and safe. B、Safe and fast. C、Fast and dangerous. D、Environmentally friendly and slow. B

In the United States, a company is working on a project that could change the way we think about public transportation. Its planned system would move people around in steel tubes. Those passengers would be traveling at speeds of up to 1,200 kilometers per hour.
    The futuristic steel tube transportation system is called Hyperloop. Workers plan to test the system next year in a specially built community. The town will be powered entirely by energy from the sun. The Hyperloop transport system is the idea of businessman Elon Musk. The head of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies says his company has taken Mr. Musk’s idea and is developing a system that will be safe, environmentally friendly and fast. The system is 100 percent solar powered and they believe they can actually break the records that are existing right now.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1. What is the news report mainly about?
2. What are the characteristics of the Hyperloop transport system?