Section B
Passage One
[26]One of the complaints of city residents, not surprisingly, is the lack of parking. This problem is partly caused by all the abandoned cars on the streets. It has been estimated by A to Z Towing Inc., a nationwide tow-truck agency, that over one million cars are abandoned on the streets and alleyways of the nation's cities. Each year, approximately a third of those cars are removed and destroyed. [27]The rest of the cars, which are not removed, take up parking spaces and make neighborhoods look run-down.
A survey of twenty cities by A to Z reports that as much as 30 million dollars is spent annually to tow away and dismantle abandoned vehicles. One city alone, Los Angeles, spends five million dollars a year to control the accumulation of abandoned cars on its streets. Even though the city spends so much money on the program, it is always fighting a losing battle as more and more cars are constantly coming off the production line.
On the other hand, Boston, which spends most of its money on museums and libraries, does not appropriate tax money to clean abandoned cars off the streets. [28]In Boston the problem has been dealt with by a non-profit government agency called Street Horizons, which uses the money from the recycling of metal in the cars to pay for the cost of towing them. The program in Boston sounds good although it has not completely reached financial independence from the federal government yet. Until a truly self-sufficient program for removing old cars is developed, it will remain a serious problem.

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What is the problem with abandoned cars?
正確答案：C
解析：推斷題。文章開篇就指出城市居民經常抱怨停車場地少，其中一個原因就是由街上被拋棄的舊車所致，故C為正確答案。
27. What does A to Z Towing Inc. say about the abandoned cars?
正確答案：C
解析：短文提到，A to Z Towing Inc.估計有100多萬輛車被遺棄在大街小巷，每年大約有1/3被拖走或銷毀，剩下的車沒有拖走。由此可知沒拖走的車所占比例約為2/3，故C正確。選項D的little與短文接下來提到的各個城市花費了大量的金錢來處理abandoned cars不符。
28. How has Boston dealt with the abandoned cars?
正確答案：B
解析：細節題。在波士頓，這一問題由一家名為Street Horizons的非贏利性政府機構通過回收利用廢舊汽車來解決，故B為正確答案。