阅读理解China'slong-awaitedrulesonschoolbu

阅读理解China's long-awaited rules on school bus safety finally came into force on Tuesday, including a list of ways aimed at reducing the risk of accident.Among the biggest changes is that buses carrying students will be given priority(优先权) in traffic, while panies and drivers will need licenses to offer school transport services.Officials have spent more than four months making the rules, during which time the country has been shocked by several big crashes because of overcrowded school buses.The latest accident happened on Monday in Yangchun, Guangdong province, in which three kindergarten pupils were killed and 14 others injured.Rules and fundingIn the new rules, a school bus is considered as a vehicle with more than seven seats that is transporting children receiving the State's nine-year pulsory education (ages 6 to 15) to or from school. This can also be for preschoolers(学龄前儿童) if a parent is unable to take them to or from kindergarten（幼儿园）.School buses must also operate in routes marked in the map by governments to ensure safety.PunishmentCompanies and bus drivers who fail to meet the rules face the punishment.Drivers against the rules will be fined 200 yuan ($32) and vehicles will be taken away from its owner if they have been used as an unlicensed school bus.1.New safety rules for school buses can ________.A.make the students have a school busB.make fewer accidentC.make the school bus biggerD.punish the parents2.The accident happened usually because ________.A.there were more students than there should be in the busB.the road is not wide enoughC.there were not any rule at firstD.panies and drivers faced no punishment3.Which of the following is Not true?A.When a truck and a school bus meet, the school bus can go first.B.The students (ages 3—5) mustn’t take school bus according to the rules.C.Those who break the rules will be fined two hundred yuan.D.The school bus has at least 7 seats.4.The passage mainly talks about ________.A.the accident in GuangdongB.the school bus safety rulesC.how to punish the driversD.what a school bus is like5.A school bus must go _______.A.different ways every dayB.after other busesC.with all the studentsD.the same way all the days