决胜六级--简答+改错（6）
TEST 6??
Put the pedal to the metal, if you’re driving in Montana. That state is ab
out to abandon the little?loved 65mph speed limit?and, indeed, any limit at all. The state’s regulators have been wanting to do this for years, but until now
were prevented by a federal law passed 22 years ago. ?
The end came on November 28th, when a new federal highway bill was signed into law by President Clinton. The president admitted misgivings, perhaps because his own father had been killed in a road accident, but it was clear that a veto would have been most unpopular. The old speed limit was “about the most disregarded law in America”, notes Csaba Csere. editor of ?Car Driver? magazine. A recent study, he said, found that the average speed on ?interstate? highways in Michigan was 74mph. Until this week, the official limit was 55mph on urban freeways and 65mph on rural expressways. ?
Out west, where a motorist may travel 100 miles without seeing another car, nine states will immediately jump to at least 70mph, and ?Nevada, Wyoming and Kansas? will go to 75mph; in Montana it is any speed you like in the daytime (though
lorries must still keep to 65). Farther east, where traffic is denser and the weather less reliable, some states are likely to keep to 55?65mph. ?
The national speed limit was passed in 1973 when the first oil crisis had almost trebled fuel prices. In 1974, Congress ordered a 50mph limit, raised to 55 when the oil crisis had passed. But by then safety enthusiasts were arguing that
lower speed limits would sharply reduce road deaths, and they continued to argue their case even as Mr Cliton signed the bill this week. The change is “equiva
lent to