小編為大傢介紹的是新 SAT 閱讀題型解析中的中心題的第三道例題解析，包括題型詳細解析以及重點詞匯講解。
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材料：The Official SAT Study Guide
試卷：3
頁數：569
題號：14
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.
It doesn ’ t have to be like this. Done right, public transport can be faster, more comfortable, and cheaper than the private automobile. In Shanghai, German-made magnetic levitation trains skim over elevated tracks at 266 miles an hour, whisking people to the airport at a third of the speed of sound. In provincial French towns, electric-powered streetcars run silently on rubber tires, sliding through narrow streets along a single guide rail set into cobblestones. From Spain to Sweden, Wi-Fi equipped high-speed trains seamlessly connect with highly ramified metro networks, allowing commuters to work on laptops as they prepare for same-day meetings in once distant capital cities. In Latin America, China, and India, working people board fast-loading buses that move like subway trains along dedicated busways, leaving the sedans and SUVs of the rich mired in dawn-to-dusk traffic jams. And some cities have transformed their streets into cycle-path freeways, making giant strides in public health and safety and the sheer livability of their neighborhoods — in the process turning the workaday bicycle into a viable form of mass transit.
14. The central idea of the fourth paragraph ( lines 35-57 ) is that
A ) European countries excel at public transportation.
B ) some public transportation systems are superior to travel by private automobile.
C ) Americans should mimic foreign public transportation systems when possible.
D ) much international public transportation is engineered for passengers to work while on board.
答案：B
答案解析： 本題問的是第四段 ( lines 35-57 ) 的中心思想。根據中心題的解答技巧，我們要特別關註段落開頭和結尾。本段開頭提到 "It doesn ’ t have to be like this." 顯然是對上文內容的否定，然後 lines 35-37 開門見的指出 "Done right, public transport can be faster, more comfortable, and cheaper than the private automobile." 即：使用正確的話，公共交通比私傢汽車更快、更舒適、更便宜，後面給出瞭很多例子來支撐這個觀點。因此，答案為 B 選項。
A、B、C 選項的錯誤都在於僅提供瞭細節信息，並不能涵蓋本段的中心思想。
重點詞匯：
done right: 使用得當
magnetic levitation train: 磁懸浮列車
skim over: 掠過，滑過 ; 瀏覽
elevated track: 高架軌道
streetcar: [ 'stri ː tk ɑː ] n. 有軌電車
seamlessly: [ 'si:mlisli ] adv. 無縫地
commuter: [ k ə 'mju ː t ə ( r ) ] n. 通勤者，經常乘公共車輛往返者 ; 月季票乘客
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