Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Today's cars are smaller, safer, cleaner, and more economical than their predecessors, but the car of the future will be far more pollution-free than those on the road today. Several new types of automobile engines have already been developed that run on alternative sources of power, such as electricity, compressed natural gas, methanol, steam, hydrogen, and propane. Electricity, however, is the only zero- emission option presently available.
Although electric vehicles will not be truly practical until a powerful, compact battery or other dependable source of current is available, transportation experts foresee a new assortment of electric vehicles entering everyday life: shorter-range commuter electric cars, three-wheeled neighborhood cars, electric delivery vans, bikes, and trolleys.
As automakers work to develop practical electrical vehicles, urban planners and utility engineers are focusing on infrastructure systems to support and make the best use of the new cars. Public charging facilities will need to be as common as today's gas stations. Public parking spots on the street or in commercial lots will need to be equipped with devices that allow drivers to charge their batteries while they stop, dine, or attend a concert. To encourage the use of electric vehicles, the most convenient parking in transportation centers might be reserved for electric cars.
Planners foresee electric shuttle buses, trains, buses, and neighborhood vehicles all meeting at transit centers that would have facilities for charging and renting. Commuters will be able to rent a variety of electric cars to suit their needs: light trucks, one-person three-wheelers, small cars, or electric/gasoline hybrid cars for longer trips, which will no doubt take place on automated freeways capable of handling five times the number of vehicles that can be carried by a freeway today.
The following electrical vehicles are all mentioned in the passage EXCEPT .
A. vans
B. trains
C. planes
D. trolleys
Đáp án C.
Key word: vehicles, mentioned, except.
Clue: 1. “electric vehicles entering everyday life: shorter-range commuter electric cars, three-wheeled neighborhood cars, electric delivery vans, bikes, and trolleys.”: những phương tiện dùng điện được sử dụng trong cuộc sống hằng ngày như: ô tô điện di chuyển ngắn hơn, ô tô ba bánh trong khu phố, xe tải điện chở hàng, xe đạp, và xe đẩy.
2. “Planners foresee electric shuttle buses, trains, buses”: những nhà hoạch định chính sách có thế ... những xe buýt điện con thoi, tàu hỏa và xe buýt.
Phân tích đáp án:
A. vans: xe tải - có trong clue 1.
B. trains: tàu lửa - có trong clue 2.
C. planes: máy bay - không có trong bài.
D. trolleys: xe đẩy - có trong clue 1.
Đề bài yêu cầu tìm phương tiện không được đề cập đến trong bài, do đó đáp án chính xác là c.
MEMORIZE
- foresee (v): tiên đoán, dự đoán
Tiền tố “fore” có nghĩa là đi trước, làm trước cái gì
- foretell (v): nói trước, đoán trước; báo hiệu trước
- forecast (v): dự báo
- forebode (v): báo trước, báo điểm
- foredoom (v): kết tội trước, phán quyết trước