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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 from 36 to 43.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, 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 another dependable source of current is available, transportation expects foresee a new assortment of electric vehicles entering everyday life: shorter-range commuter electric cars, three-wheeled neighbourhood cars, electric deliver vans, bikes, and trolleys.As automakers work to develop practical electric 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 centres might be reserved for electric cars.Planners foresee electric shuttle buses, trains and neighbourhood vehicles all meeting at transit centres 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 is no doubt take place on automated freeways capable of handling five times number of vehicles that can be carried by a freeway today.

Câu 1: The following electric vehicles are all mentioned in the passage EXCEPT........

A. trolleys

B. trains

C. vans

D. planes

Câu 2: In the second paragraph the author implies that.......

A. everyday life will stay such the same in the future.

B. a dependable source of electric energy will eventually be developed.

C. electric vehicles are not practical for the future.

D. a single electric vehicle will eventually replace several modem transportation.

Câu 3: According to the passage, public parking lots in the future will be......

A.  more convenient than they are today.   

B. much larger than they are today.

C. equipped with charging devices.     

D. as common as today’s gas stations

Câu 4: The passage would most likely be followed by details about.......

A. electric shuttle buses 

B. pollution restitutions in the future.

C. the neighbourhood of the future.

D. automated freeways.

Câu 5: The author’s purpose in the passage is to........
 

A. narrate a story about alternative energy vehicles.

B.  describe the possibilities for transportation in the future.

C. support the invention of electric cars.

D. criticize conventional vehicles.

Câu 6: The word “compact” in the second paragraph is closest meaning to......

A. concentrated

B. inexpensive

C. long-range      

D. squared

Câu 7: The word “charging” in this passage refer to.......

A. lightening

B. electricity

C. parking

D. credit cards

Câu 8: It can be inferred from the passage that..........

A.  electricity is the best alternative source of power as it is almost free of pollution.

B. the present electric engines are the best option as being practical.

C. the present cars are more economical than their future generation.

D. many new types of practical electric engines have been developed.

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