In the 1900s in America，kids traveled to school in different ways.Many walked.Others rode in farm trucks or on bikes.Some rode in school buses called "kid hacks." Kid hacks were wooden horse-drawn carriages.It had two long bench seats with little space in the middle for people to pass.The carriages were open on the sides，so kids might get wet on rainy days!
By the mid-1920s，more cars were on the roads，and some transport companies started to make buses out of steel.But buses still looked different from place to place.
That changed in 1939，when transportation officials from around the country met to come up with a set of standards for school buses.They wanted to make buses safer.Besides，if all school buses looked alike，it would be easier for factories to build them quickly and more conveniently.
The school bus's color was one of the 44 standards people discussed at that seven-day meeting.After trying 50 kinds of color on the wall，they settled on the orange-yellow.And that's still what you see on buses today.National School Bus Glossy Yellow，as the color is officially called，has advantages.The color was chosen because studies had shown yellow was the most eye-catching to human beings and because it could be seen clearly in the morning and evening light when school buses usually operated.
And now the yellow bus is about to go green.The American School Bus Council says that over 25 million school children ride more than 480，000 school buses each day，making school buses the largest transport system in America.Fewer than 1，200 of those buses were electric in 2020，but that number could rise to 10，000 by 2026.
So the next time you step onto a school bus，you can feel good knowing that your ride is much safer and drier than it would have been 100 years ago!
（1）What was the kid hack like？ BB
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（2）People made standards for school buses in 1939 DD.
A．to keep it dry on rainy days
B．to ask more people to take buses
C．to build more beautiful buses
D．to make it safer and easier to produce
（3）The underlined words settled on in Paragraph 4 mean AA.
A．chose
B．replaced
C．mentioned
D．collected
（4）What's the main idea of the passage？ DD
A．The situation of American school buses nowadays.
B．The introduction of ancient American school buses.
C．The difference between kid hacks and school buses.
D．The development of school buses in the United States.
【答案】B；D；A；D
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