In 2023, Indonesia started Southeast Asia’s first-ever high-speed rail line that connects two of its biggest cities, Jakarta and Bandung. The $7.3 billion project, largely funded and built by Chinese firms, opened to the public on October 2nd. The builders planned     1     (complete) the project in 2019 but they had to face many operational difficulties and delayed.

Videos taken     2     board and shared on social media showed off the large air-conditioned cabin inside and clear window views of the Indonesian countryside as the train     3     (speed) off. The 142-kilometer high-speed rail line, officially named WHOOSH,     4     stands for “time saving, optimal (优化) operation, reliable system” in Indonesian, runs on electricity with no direct carbon emissions and travels at a speed of     5     (rough) 350 kilometers per hour,     6     (cut) travel time between Jakarta and Bandung from three hours to under     7     (little) than an hour.

The trains, modified for Indonesia’s tropical climate, are equipped with a safety system that can respond to earthquakes, floods and other emergency     8     (condition). The train has eight cars, all equipped with Wi-Fi and USB charging points, and     9     (seat) 601 passengers.

The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway will not only improve Indonesian infrastructure (基础设施)     10     promote the development of Indonesia’s railroad and manufacturing industries.

Riding a bike or a motorbike in cities can be dangerous. You must pay attention to your own     1     (safe) when you’re riding your way through city streets.

According to a report, 65% of car accidents m 2017     2     (relate) to bicycles and motorbikes in China. It was also worth     3     (mention) that these accidents mostly happened on the main roads rather than in other areas, such as sidewalks or bicycle paths. It showed that people lacked awareness especially     4     they were sharing roads with cars and trucks.

A large number of bicycles, motorbikes, and cars pour into the streets every day.       5     (reduce) those painful accidents, you should know the local traffic rules and stay on your path. Watch the traffic lights ahead     6     (close) and do remember to ride     7     the flow of traffic, not against it.

It’s also important for a rider to protect the head. Regardless of your age and your riding speed, you should always prepare     8     (you) for a safe ride. According to the experts, there is no     9     (good) choice to protect yourself than wearing a suitable helmet (头盔).

Keep the above     10     (suggest) in mind and wish you a pleasant trip on the road.

Monorails (单轨列车) have been around for more than a century and examples can be found all over the world,     1     they’ve never quite fulfilled the futuristic promises of their early promoters. That said, there are a few places where the unique     2     (quality) offered by monorails are ideally suited to their environment.

Chongqing, a megacity which     3     (locate) in southwestern China, is home to the world’s longest and one of its busiest monorail system, carrying millions of passengers a year on two high-capacity “straddle beam” lines     4     (total) 61 miles in length. At just over 34 miles, Line 3 is also the world's longest single monorail line     5     an annual ridership of around 250 million.     6     (put) into operation between 2005 and 2016, the two lines have 70 stations with a mix of underground and elevated sections.     7     (famous), one section of Line 2 passes through the heart of a high-rise apartment block.

Back in the 1990s, the city’s unique geography, with extreme differences in altitude between its densely populated mountain plateaus and the Yangtze and Jialing river valleys,     8     (force) Chongqing’s transport authorities to seek     9     alternative to conventional subway trains. Monorail’s capacity     10     (negotiate) steep climbs and tight curves made it the ideal solution when this megacity needed to transform its public transport system.

In China, more and more cities have their own “white bike” programmes. Both the locals and tourists like to use shared bikes because bike-sharing is a cheap and easy way     1    (save) energy, reduce air and noise pollution, and enjoy the benefits of exercise in cities. However, problems can also develop, like the theft of bikes and parking issues.     2    (fortunate) people are trying different ways of     3    (solve) those problems.     4     will bike-sharing go in China? You decide.

Thanks     1     the ideas and efforts of many people, like the cycling fans of the 1960s and those who enabled the return of “white bikes”, you can now enjoy clean air and easy transport in central Amsterdam. Nowadays, the idea of “white bikes”     2     (pedal) its way around the world and there has been a     3    (globe) increase in bike-sharing.

    1    (take) a bicycle, you had to put in a special card. The new “white bikes” were not     2    (actual) white but painted in bright colours. The bikes were parked at special parking places. Thus people     3     wanted to use them had to take them to another special parking place near their destination and leave them there.