2 . The longest rail link in the world and the first direct link between China and Spain is running after a train from Yiwu completed its journey of 8, 111 miles to Madrid. On the way, it passed through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and France before arriving in Madrid. The railway has been considered as the “21st-century Silk Road” by Li Qiang, the governor of Zhejiang province, where Yiwu is located.

The first train was met by the mayor of Madrid, Ana Botella, and Spain’s minister of public works, Ana Pastor. It consisted of 30 containers carrying 1,100 tonnes of cargo —— mostly toys stationery (文具) and other goods for sale over Christmas across Europe. According to China’s ambassador to Spain, Zhu Banzao, it will return filled with wine, jamon and olive oil in time for the Chinese new year in February.

China is Spain’s biggest trading partner after the EU and it is also Spain’s third largest source of imports (进口产品), after Germany and France. About half of these imports are made up of mobile phones and clothing. The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, was in China in September, where he signed deals reported to be worth more than ￡6.3 billion.

A major advantage of the rail route is speed. The train took just three weeks to complete a Journey that takes up to six weeks by sea. It is also more environmentally friendly than road transport, which would produce 1l4 tonnes of CO₂ compared with the 44 tonnes produced by the train —— a 62% reduction.

3 . 现今，大城市普遍存在着交通问题。它不仅给人们的生活和工作带来不便而且还威胁到了人们的生命安全。请以“Traffic Problems in Big Cities”为题，根据以下内容提示完成作文：

1. 描述两个常见的交通问题；

2. 简要分析导致这些交通问题的主要原因；

3. 根据你的分析，从社会规范（rules and regulations）和个人行为两方面谈谈你得到的启示（不少于两点）。

注意：词数120左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Nowadays, traffic problems are common in big cities.

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I was only in China for about 4 months last year. I stayed in Shanghai and visited some other cities    1     (include) Beijing. While the price feels a bit too much for a high speed train, the Chinese infrastructure (基础建设) is     2     (true) far ahead of any other developing country and even some developed ones in Europe. The train stations are as big     3     airports: almost everything in     4     is like airports. They have all the high standards of airports but without the waiting time. The trains are just like those from Germany or France,     5    are clean, modern and highly developed and run at very high speeds. It is about 1,200 kms from Shanghai to Beijing, and each high speed train     6     (take) around 4 and a half hours to reach its destination and     7     are more than 2 trains every hour, each day.

I also had the experience of     8     (sit) in Maglev (磁力悬浮列车) in Shanghai. There is a public maglev train that runs from Shanghai city to its international airport. The    9     (distant) from the city to the airport is 40 kms and the speed of the train is 430 kms/hr. It took us just around 6 mins     10     (cover) 40 kms and it felt rather smooth.