Question 25 is based on the recording you have just heard.

Recording Three

听力原文

        According to official statistics, (22) [Thailand’s annual road death rate is almost double the global average.] Thai people know that their roads are dangerous, but they don’t know this could easily be changed.

       Globally, road accidents kill more people every year than any infectious disease. Researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in America put the death toll in 2017 at 1.24 million. According to the institute, (23) [the overall number of deaths has been more or less static since the turn of the century, but that disguises a lot of changes in individual countries. ]

        In many poor countries, road accidents are killing more people than ever before. Those countries have swelling young populations, a fast-growing fleet of cars and motorbikes and a limited supply of surgeons. It is impossible to know for sure, because official statistics are so inadequate. But deaths are thought to have risen by 40% since 1990 in many low income countries.In many rich countries, by contrast, roads are becoming even safer. In Estonia and Ireland, for example, the number of deaths has fallen by about two thirds since the late 1990s.

        (24) [But the most important and intriguing changes are taking place in middle-income countries, which contain most of the world’s people, and have some of the most dangerous roads. According to researchers, in China and South Africa traffic deaths have been falling since 2000, and in India since 2012, and the Philippines reached its peak four years ago.] The question is whether Thailand can soon follow suit.

        Rob McInerney, head of the International Road Assessment Program, says that all countries tend to go through three phases. They begin with poor, slow roads. In the second phase, as they grow wealthier, they pave the roads, allowing traffic to move faster and pushing up the death rate. Lastly, in the third phase, countries act to make their roads safer. The trick, then, is to reach the third stage sooner by focusing earlier and more closely on fatal accidents.

        How to do that? (25) [The solution lies not just in better infrastructure, but in better social incentives. Safe driving habits are practices which people know they should follow but often don’t.] Dangerous driving is not a fixed cultural trait, as some imagine. People respond to incentives such as traffic laws that are actually enforced.

25. What else could be done to reduce fatal road accidents, in addition to safer roads?（除了更安全的道路外，还可以做些什么来减少交通死亡事故?）

解析：A。录音结尾提到，解决之道不仅在于改善基础设施，还在于改善社会激励机制，接着说到，人们都知道应该遵守安全驾驶习惯（safe driving habits），却往往都做不到。言外之意就是，解决的方法是培养安全驾驶行为，A项的better driving behavior与此相符，因此选A。

错项排除：B项的better training for drivers和D项的heavier penalties on speeding在录音中均无依据，故B、D两项可排除。C项利用录音结尾的traffic laws设置干扰，但outdated无依据，故排除。