现在许多城市都实行“公交优先”的规定，其目的是 （   ）

---What's made Ruth so upset?
--- ______ three tickets to the folk music concert.

根据短文理解，选择正确答案。

    We are all learning English, but how can we learn English well? A student can know a lot about English, but maybe(可能)he can't speak English.

    If you want to know how to swim, you must get into the river. And if you want to be a football player, you must play football. So, you see. You can learn English only by using it. You must listen to your teacher in class. You must read your lessons every day. You must speak English to your classmates and also you must write something sometimes. Then one day, you may find your English very good.

       Taking away a city's rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can't eat or use. If we kept these things we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.
       In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of the city to a dump(垃圾站). Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs(澡盆) and other places.
        To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.
       In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus(腐殖土), which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.

历史学家罗荣渠认为：“由于新航路的开辟，东西两半球的不同文化圈的大汇合，加速了人类从传统农耕文明向现代工业文明转变的过程……没有把世界联成整体的地理大革命，西方资本主义的发展将会缓慢得多，英国也不可能成为发动工业革命的国家，同时在旧大陆也很难出现像美利坚合众国那样的自由资本主义试验场地。同样也不可能出现推动否定旧传统的思想解放运动。”对材料中有关地理大发现的理解，错误的是