Have you ever imagined sending mime（哑剧）artists to the street to fight illegal traffic? Venezuela’s capital city is giving its dangerous drivers the silent treatment. Mime artists are sent to do what the police alone have not: make the illegal traffic easy to control.
About 120 mime artists dressed like clowns put on white gloves. They shook their fingers at dangerous drivers, made faces or made other motions at badly behaved walkers who ran across busy roads rather than waiting at crossings. They do everything they can, of course, while silent.
They found plenty to keep them busy in a city where motorcycle riders drive down pavements; buses drop passengers in the middle of busy streets and drivers treat red lights and speed limits as suggestions rather than orders.
“Most people are cooperative, but bad habits are usually hard to break and some drivers just don’t change their ways,” said Neidy Suarez, an 18-year-old mime artist.“Some people got angry and shouted at us when we warned them. But most people reacted pleasantly and some offered compliments（敬意）.”
A former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, combined mime artists and stricter police enforcement（执法）in a program and that was widely seen as a success. Venezuela decided to copy Colombia. The streets of Venezuela’s capital city, Caracas, where too many drivers have little regard for the rules, though, may be even more chaotic than those of Colombia’s capital.
Alex Ojeda, president of a cultural organization that employed professional actors to train the mime artists, said he was confident they would help, although changing the behavior of motorists would be a long-term task. “The mime artists can achieve what traffic police cannot achieve using warnings and punishments in their efforts to maintain control,” he said. “Mime artists, on the contrary, often achieve the same goals by employing artistic and peaceful actions.”
At a ceremony for newly trained mime artists, an official promised to keep up the effort “until the streets are full of creativity and education”.
8. When the mime artists help the police direct traffic, they ________.
9. The underlined word “chaotic” in paragraph 5 probably means ________.
10. Why are mime artists sent to fight illegal traffic in Venezuela?
11. Which of the following gives a general idea of the passage?
根据文章第二段They shook their fingers at dangerous drivers, made faces or made other motions at badly behaved walkers who ran across busy roads rather than waiting at crossings. They do everything they can, of course, while silent.他们帮助警察指挥交通，默默的做各种可以做的事情。可以判断：A“使用肢体语言”B“喊叫那些危险驾驶的司机”C“帮助年老者过马路”D“惩罚超速的车手”。联系文章主旨，所以选择A。
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根据文章第五段和上下文的意思，本文主要是治理交通无序的乱象。可以判断：A“有竞争力的”B“无序的”C“危险的”D“不规律的”。联系文章主旨，所以选择B。
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根据文章第四段和第六段，这些艺术家的表演一定程度上帮助交警解决了问题。可以判断：A“市民不遵守秩序”B“警察更加严格和粗鲁”C“他们的指挥方式易于接受”D“他们可以替代以往指挥交通的方式”。联系文章主旨，所以选择C。
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根据文章全文和最后一段的表述，在艺术家们的无声制止下，市民们已经陆续改掉不良交通行为。可以判断：A委内瑞拉因为交通违法出名B危险驾驶的司机们得到了沉默处理C交警迟早会被解雇D不良的行为习惯应该改掉。联系文章主旨，所以选择B。
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