Air Pollution Reading Answers

Dec 8, 2023

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Section 1

Read the following passage to answer the questions given below.

Air Pollution Reading Answers

Air Pollution

A
Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York, to Singapore and Tokyo, new solutions to this old problem are being proposed, Mailed and implemented with ever increasing speed. It is feared that unless pollution reduction measures are able to keep pace with the continued pressures of urban growth, air quality in many of the world’s major cities will deteriorate beyond reason.
B
Action is being taken along several fronts: through new legislation, improved enforcement and innovative technology. In Los Angeles, state regulations are forcing manufacturers to try to sell ever cleaner cars: their first of the cleanest, titled "Zero Emission Vehicles’, hove to be available soon, since they are intended to make up 2 per cent of sales in 1997. Local authorities in London are campaigning to be allowed to enforce anti-pollution lows themselves; at present only the police have the power to do so, but they tend to be busy elsewhere. In Singapore, renting out toad space to users is the way of the future.
C
When Britain’s Royal Automobile Club monitored the exhausts of 60,000 vehicles, it found that 12 per cent of them produced more than half the total pollution. Older cars were the worst offenders; though a sizeable number of quire new cars were also identified as gross polluters, they were simply badly tuned. California has developed a scheme to get these gross polluters off the streets: they offer a flat $700 for any old, run-down vehicle driven in by its owner. The aim is to remove the heaviest-polluting, most decrepit vehicles from the roads.
D
As part of a European Union environmental programme, a London council is resting an infra-red spectrometer from the University of Denver in Colorado. It gauges the pollution from a passing vehicle - more useful than the annual stationary rest that is the British standard today - by bouncing a beam through the exhaust and measuring what gets blocked. The councils next step may be to link the system to a computerised video camera able to read number plates automatically.
E
The effort to clean up cars may do little to cut pollution if nothing is done about the tendency to drive them more. Los Angeles has some of the world’s cleanest cars - far better than those of Europe - but the total number of miles those cars drive continues to grow. One solution is car-pooling, an arrangement in which a number of people who share the same destination share the use of one car. However, the average number of people in o car on the freeway in, which is 1.0, has been falling steadily. Increasing it would be an effective way of reducing emissions as well as easing congestion. The trouble is, Los Angeles seem to like being alone in their cars.
F
Singapore has for a while had o scheme that forces drivers to buy a badge if they wish to visit a certain part of the city. Electronic innovations make possible increasing sophistication: rates can vary according to road conditions, time of day and so on. Singapore is advancing in this direction, with a city-wide network of transmitters to collect information and charge drivers as they pass certain points. Such road-pricing, however, can be controversial. When the local government in Cambridge, England, considered introducing Singaporean techniques, it faced vocal and ultimately successful opposition.

Section 2

Answers and Explanation
Questions 1-5

Look at the following solutions (Questions 1-5) and locations. Match each solution with one location. Write the appropriate locations in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet. NB, You may use any location more than once.

Locations

Singapore
Tokyo
London
New York
Mexico City
Cambridge
Los Angeles

Solutions

Manufacturers must sell cleaner cars.
Answer: Los Angeles
Supporting statement: In Los Angeles, state regulations are forcing manufacturers to try to sell ever cleaner cars.
Keywords: Los Angeles, cleaner cars.
Keyword Location: 2nd and 3rd line, Section B.
Explanation: In the 2nd and 3rd lines of Section B, it clearly states that In Los Angeles, state regulations are forcing manufacturers to try to sell ever cleaner cars.
Authorities want to have power to enforce anti-pollution laws.
Answer: London
Supporting statement: Local authorities in London are campaigning to be allowed to enforce anti-pollution lows themselves.
Keywords: Anti-pollution, London.
Keyword Location: 5th line, Section B.
Explanation: In the 5th line of Section B, it clearly states that the local authorities in London are campaigning to be allowed to enforce anti-pollution lows themselves.
Drivers will be charged according to the roads they use.
Answer: Singapore
Supporting statement: Singapore is advancing in this direction, with a city-wide network of transmitters to collect information and charge drivers as they pass certain points.
Keywords: Singapore, charge.
Keyword Location: 3rd and 4th line, Section F
Explanation: In the 3rd and 4th lines, Section F, it clearly states that Singapore is advancing in this direction, with a city-wide network of transmitters to collect information and charge drivers as they pass certain points.
Moving vehicles will be monitored for their exhaust emissions.
Answer: London
Supporting statement: London council is resting an infra-red spectrometer from the University of Denver in Colorado. It gauges the pollution from a passing vehicle.
Keywords: passing vehicle.
Keyword Location: 1st and 2nd line, Section D.
Explanation: In the 1st and 2nd line, Section D, it clearly states that London council is resting an infra-red spectrometer from the University of Denver in Colorado. It gauges the pollution from a passing vehicle.
Commuters are encouraged to share their vehicles with others.
Answer: Los Angeles
Supporting statement: A number of people who share the same destination share the use of one car.
Keywords: share.
Keyword Location: 4th line, Section E.
Explanation: In the 3rd, and 4th line of section E, it clearly states that “Los Angeles has some of the world’s cleanest cars - far better than those of Europe - but the total number of miles those cars drive continues to grow. One solution is car-pooling, an arrangement in which a number of people who share the same destination share the use of one car.”

Questions 6-10

Do the following statements reflect the claims of the writer in Reading Passage? In boxes 6-10 on your answer sheet, write YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

According to British research, a mere twelve percent of vehicles tested produced over fifty percent of total pollution produced by the sample group.
Answer: Yes
Supporting statement: It found that 12 percent of them produced more than half the total pollution.
Keywords: pollution, 12 percent
Keyword Location: 1st and 2nd line, Section C.
Explanation: In the 1st and 2nd lines of Section C, it clearly states that “It found that 12 percent of them produced more than half the total pollution.”
It is currently possible to measure the pollution coming from individual vehicles whilst they are moving.
Answer: Yes.
Supporting statement: It gauges the pollution from a passing vehicle.
Keywords: Pollution, vehicle.
Keyword Location: 2nd line, Section D.
Explanation: In the 2nd line of Section D, it clearly states that “It gauges the pollution from a passing vehicle.”
Residents of Los Angeles are now tending to reduce the yearly distances they travel by car.
Answer: No
Supporting statement: But the total number of miles those cars drive continues to grow.
Keywords: Drive, Miles.
Keyword Location: 3rd line, Section E.
Explanation: In the 2nd and 3rd lines of section E, it clearly states that “Los Angeles has some of the world’s cleanest cars - far better than those of Europe - but the total number of miles those cars drive continues to grow.”
Car-pooling has steadily become more popular in Los Angeles in recent years.
Answer: No
Supporting statement: One solution is car-pooling, an arrangement in which a number of people who share the same destination share the use of one car.
Keywords: car-pooling
Keyword Location: 4th line, Section E.
Explanation: The 4th line of section E clearly states that car-pooling can be a solution, but does not define that it’s popular in Los Angles. In the last line of section E, it’s also mentioned that “The trouble is, Los Angeles seem to like being alone in their cars.”
Charging drivers for entering certain parts of the city has been successfully done in Cambridge, England.
Answer: No
Supporting statement: When the local government in Cambridge, England, considered introducing Singaporean techniques, it faced vocal and ultimately successful opposition.
Keywords: Cambridge, England
Keyword Location: Last 2 lines, Section F.
Explanation: In the last 2 lines of section F, it clearly states that Cambridge, England, considered introducing Singaporean techniques like; Charging drivers for entering certain parts of the city. But it faced vocal and ultimately successful opposition.