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市の自転車シェアについてのラジオ報道
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地元ラジオのレポーターがハーバートンを訪れ、緑色の公共自転車について人々がどう思っているかを調べます。
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報道の内容を理解する
報道を聞いて、最も適切な答えを選びましょう。
- What is the report mainly about?
- What does the reporter say about the main railway station this morning?
- How has the scheme affected Amira?
- How did Amira feel about the scheme at first?
- Why were some shop owners worried?
- What does the word "conceded" suggest about the café owner's comment?
- What is the scheme's biggest problem?
- What is the reporter's view of the plan to add electric bikes?
数字と詳細
もう一度聞いて、抜けている単語または数字を入力しましょう。数字は単語でも算用数字でも書けます。
- There are ___ bikes in the scheme.
- Riders can collect bikes from ___ docking stations.
- A ride of up to thirty minutes costs ___.
- A year's membership costs ___ pounds.
- Amira's journey to work by bike takes ___ minutes.
- Next spring, the city will add ___ electric bikes.
解答
報道の内容を理解する
- b) How a bike-sharing scheme is working so farレポーターは、このしくみがどう動くか、利用者や店の経営者がどう思っているか、そして主な問題を説明しています。
- a) Most of the bikes had already been taken by half past eightラックは8時半（half past eight）にはほとんど空で、ほとんどの自転車が使われたということです。
- d) Her journey to work is much shorter彼女の移動は、バスで40分から、自転車ではずっと短い時間になりました。
- c) Doubtful子どものころから自転車に乗っていなかったので、懐疑的だったと彼女は認めました。
- a) They thought fewer customers would come without parking spaces彼らは、駐車スペースがなくなると客が来なくなるのではと心配しました。
- c) The owner admitted, perhaps unwillingly, that the scheme has had a positive effectconcede は、しぶしぶであることが多いものの、何かを認めるという意味です。店主は、今は朝のほうがにぎやかだと認めています。
- d) Bikes collect at the bottom of the hill and must be moved back up利用者は朝は坂を下りますが、上り返す人はほとんどいないので、バンで自転車を上の方のステーションに戻さなければなりません。
- b) She is not yet sure whether it will work彼女は、それで足りるかどうかは remains to be seen だと言っています。つまり、結果はまだ不確かだという意味です。
数字と詳細
- six hundred / 600600台（Six hundred）の自転車が利用できます。
- forty-five / forty five / 45自転車は45か所（forty-five）のステーションで利用できます。
- one pound / a pound / 1 pound / £11ポンド（one pound）で最大30分（thirty minutes）まで乗れます。
- sixty / 60よく使う人は、年会費として60ポンド（sixty pounds）を払うことができます。
- fifteen / 15彼女の移動は、バスで40分（forty minutes）だったのが、自転車では15分（fifteen）になりました。
- two hundred / 200市は来年の春に、電動自転車を200台（two hundred）追加する予定です。
スクリプト
Reporter: Eighteen months after its launch, Harbourton's public bike scheme has become part of everyday life in the city centre. Six hundred bright green bikes are available from forty-five docking stations, and according to the city's transport office, they've been used for just over a million journeys.
Reporter: The idea is straightforward. You unlock a bike with a card or your phone, ride for up to thirty minutes for one pound, and leave it at any station. Regular users can pay sixty pounds for a year's membership instead.
Reporter: At the main railway station this morning, the racks were almost empty by half past eight. Amira, a hospital nurse, told me the scheme had cut her journey to work from forty minutes on the bus to fifteen by bike. She admitted she'd been sceptical at first, mainly because she hadn't ridden a bike since she was a child.
Reporter: Not everyone was convinced from the start. When the docking stations went in, several shop owners on Market Street worried that losing parking spaces would keep customers away. Those concerns haven't entirely disappeared, but one café owner I spoke to conceded that weekday mornings are noticeably busier than they used to be.
Reporter: The scheme's biggest headache, though, is geography. Harbourton is built on a steep hill, and riders are happy to cycle down to the harbour in the morning, but far fewer choose to ride back up in the evening. As a result, vans spend much of the day carrying bikes back to the upper stations, which adds considerably to running costs.
Reporter: The city's answer is to add two hundred electric bikes next spring, aimed especially at the hillside neighbourhoods. Whether that will be enough to balance the system remains to be seen. For now, though, the green bikes look as if they're here to stay. Nadia Price, City Matters, Harbourton.