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Read the following passage on commuting, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions .

Commuting is the practice of travelling a long distance to a town or city to work each day, and then travelling home again in the evening. The word commuting comes from commutation ticket, a US rail ticket for repeated journeys, called a season ticket in Britain. Regular travellers are called commuters.

The US has many commuters. A few, mostly on the East Coast, commute by train or subway, but most depend on the car. Some leave home very early to avoid the traffic jams, and sleep in their cars until their office opens. Many people accept a long trip to work so that they can live in quiet bedroom communities away from the city, but another reason is ‘white flight’. In the 1960s most cities began to desegregate their schools, so that there were no longer separate schools for white and black children. Many white families did not want to send their children to desegregated schools, so they moved to the suburbs, which have their own schools, and where, for various reasons, few black people live.

Millions of people in Britain commute by car or train. Some spend two or three hours a day travelling, so that they and their families can live in suburbia or in the countryside. Cities are surrounded by commuter belts. Part of the commuter belt around London is called the stockbroker belt because it contains houses where rich business people live. Some places are becoming dormitory towns, because people sleep there but take little part in local activities.

Most commuters travel to and from work at the same time, causing the morning and evening rush hours, when buses and trains are crowded and there are traffic jams on the roads. Commuters on trains rarely talk to each other and spend their journey reading, sleeping or using their mobile phones, though this is not popular with other passengers. Increasing numbers of people now work at home some days of the week, linked to their offices by computer, a practice called telecommuting.

Cities in both Britain and the US are trying to reduce the number of cars coming into town each day. Some companies encourage car pooling (called car sharing in Britain), an arrangement for people who live and work near each other to travel together. Some US cities have a public service that helps such people to contact each other, and traffic lanes are reserved for car-pool vehicles. But cars and petrol/gas are cheap in the US, and many people prefer to drive alone because it gives them more freedom. In Britain many cities have park-and-ride schemes, car parks on the edge of the city from which buses take drivers into the centre.

(Extracted from Oxford Guide to British and American Culture, Oxford University Press, 2000)

Trả lời cho các câu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 dưới đây:

Câu hỏi số 1:
Which of the following definitions of commuting would the author of this passage most probably agree with?  

Đáp án đúng là: D

Câu hỏi:8185
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: D

Câu hỏi số 2:
The word “repeated” in paragraph 1 most probably means ______.

Đáp án đúng là: D

Câu hỏi:8186
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: D

Câu hỏi số 3:
The passage mentions that many Americans are willing to travel a long distance to work in order to be able to live in ______.  

Đáp án đúng là: B

Câu hỏi:8187
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: B

Câu hỏi số 4:
Which of the following is true according to the passage?

Đáp án đúng là: C

Câu hỏi:8188
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: C

Câu hỏi số 5:
Which of the following is NOT true about the London commuter belt?  

Đáp án đúng là: C

Câu hỏi:8189
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: C

Câu hỏi số 6:
It can be inferred from the passage that dormitory towns in Britain are places where people ______.  

Đáp án đúng là: D

Câu hỏi:8190
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: D

Câu hỏi số 7:
As mentioned in the passage, commuters usually ______.

Đáp án đúng là: B

Câu hỏi:8191
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: B

Câu hỏi số 8:
The phrase “linked to” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ______.

Đáp án đúng là: B

Câu hỏi:8192
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: B

Câu hỏi số 9:
All of the following are measures to reduce the number of cars coming into town each day in the US and/or Britain EXCEPT ______.  

Đáp án đúng là: D

Câu hỏi:8193
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: D

Câu hỏi số 10:
The word “it” in the last paragraph refers to ______.    

Đáp án đúng là: C

Câu hỏi:8194
Giải chi tiết

Đáp án cần chọn là: C

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