When one of your car tires goes flat, there are two things you can do, you can complain and change it or, if you don’t have a spare, stand helplessly beside the road and hope someone comes to your rescue. Now comes a third choice, called Quickwheel. It is designed to get disabled motorists rolling again as quickly as possible.
Quickwheel is basically a tiny emergency trailer---complete with three tough little wheels of its own-- that supports the flat tire and enables the motorists to drive to a service station without losing much time or expending much energy. The product is made in the US. Company, Quickwheel Inc. of Greenwich, Connecticut. According to the firm’s president, Robert Bockweg, the product meets each of the major worries that customers relate with flat tires: safe, lost time and physical labor.
To use it, motorists simply unfold the product to its fully extended position, set it in front of the disabled tire, drive the car onto the Quickwheel’s ramp (斜板) and fix a special safety strap over the tire. The tire is then locked in Quickwheel’s metal frame. Its three wheels do the rest of the work. According to Quickwheel Inc, its product can be driven “for miles” at the speed of up to 45 miles per hour “without any noticeable change in the vehicle’s braking or steering operation”. The company also says that it can be used on just about any type of car, jeep, mini-van or trailer. (拖车)
Bockweg says that Quickwheel will be sold first in the United States, at a price of 150 dollars. Sales agreements now being talked over should make the product ready for use in Japan, Canada and Western Europe in the near future.
4. What does the underlined phrase “disabled motorists’’ probably mean?
A.Motorists who can’t walk. |
B.Motorists who have disabilities. |
C.Drivers who can’t drive on because of a flat tire. |
D.Drivers who are hurt in an accident. |
5. According to the information m the passage, Quickwheel
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A.can be used to replace a flat tire. |
B.provides a kind of support to the flat tire for a short time. |
C.is able to move as quickly as a wheel. |
D.is as changeable and lasting as an ordinary wheel. |
6. The purpose of writing this text is to
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A.announce a business agreement. |
B.share information about flat tire changing. |
C.introduce the advantages of a new tire. |
D.introduce a new product---Quickwheel. |