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II. Multiple matching (12)
Match the headlines below with a paragraph in the text. There is one headline which does not fit.
1. What is there to chose?
2. Driving for fun
3. Too many cars
4. Online chat more popular?
5. I don’t want a car.
6. Not so many cars anymore
III. Answer the questions in whole sentences. (26)
1. What’s been the most important event for a young US-American for a long time?
The day when they’ve got their car.
2. When do young Americans usually get their first car? They get their car when they are seventeen.
3. Economists say that this could be changing. What does Talitha (author of the text) think about that?
She thinks this would be great.
4. Explain what the number “17 million” means in the text. US citizens have bought 17 million
cars every year since year 2000.
5. What can be said about cars in the US last year? People bought only 10 million cars.
6. Why did the number in car sales drop? Write down three reasons.
a) Because the high cost of oil / Bad economy,
b) worries about the environment,
c) and because teenagers have changed their opinions.
7. Why does Talitha say that there are too many cars? Answer with three short sentences.
a) There are more cars in the US than drivers.
b) In LA the roads are full with cars.
c) Drivers of big cars often travel alone.
8. Why are so many cars bad? Cars emit gases that are bad for the environment.
9. What’s a big disadvantage in Los Angeles? There isn’t enough public transport, so people have to
use their cars.
IV. Samoans drive from right to left: Fill in the correct verb from the list. (10)
allow – be – change – crash – die – do – drive - have – help – must
A 2
B 6
C 4
D 3
E 1
doesn’t fit 5
It's something no country has done for around 40 years. On 7th September, drivers in Samoa changed
sides - from the right side of the road to the left!
This change may sound unusual, but it helps the small country in the South Pacific save money! It will
allow cheaper vehicles to be imported from Australia and Japan - where cars drive on the left too, and
therefore have the steering wheel on the right.
However, many people think the idea is crazy and totally confusing for drivers. "Cars are going to crash,
people are going to die - not to talk about the huge cost to our country," says lawyer Tole'afoa Solomona
Toa'iloa. Preparations for the move may cost the government $300 million, and bus owners must buy new
buses. After all, now their doors are on the wrong side!
www.spoton.de, 09.09.2009, slightly adapted