Question: The way people in the US travel to and from work has changed a lot in the last fifty years.  Before the Second World War, most people lived in the town or the city where they worked.  Almost everyone either walked to work or used a good inexpensive transportation system  Many of  these systems were electrified and ran on tracks, so they used very little energy.       After 1945, the US government built many new roads and highways. People moved farther and farther form the cities where they worked because they could drive their cars on these new  roads from their suburban homes to work in the city. Some of the big car makers also bought the  electrified transportation systems and destroyed them. As people stopped using public  transporation , cities spent less money fixing old buses and trains or buying new ones. Public  transportation got worse and worse.       In the late 1960s, people found out that the increase in the use of cars led to many  problems. There were always too many cars for the highway system, and terrible traffic problems  developed. People were spending hours in traffic jams getting to and from work every day. In  addition, the air in many cities became dirty because of pollution from millions of cars, and many  people died in traffic accidents. As people began to get worried about how the use of cars was  hurting the environment,  cities began to spend more money on public transportation again,  so  fewer people would have to drive cars.       When gas became very expensive in the mid-1970s, the number of people taking public transportation  began to increase .It's terribly expensive to build new public transportation systems. so it's very difficult to make big changes in the way people travel .However ,an increase in the use of public transportation has begun. It can be inferred from the passage that the author seems to favor  _  . A) gas cars B) busses and trains C) bicycles D) electric cars
Answer: B

Question: Sunshine Sports Centre One of the most modem sports centers in town, the Sunshine Sports Centre is not just a sports club but much more! Facilities With a swimming pool for adults and teens, and a smaller one for children, our centre has something for all the members of the family.Parents can relax while children play in the water.For anybody who is interested in competitive sports, our volleyball, tennis and basketball courts are the ideal place to work off stress. Whether you just want to keep in shape, lose some weight or build your strength, there's the gym with its super        modem equipment and three personal trainers to look after you and answer all your questions.They can also give you general advice about healthy eating and dieting. Lessons It doesn't matter if you' re five or eighty        five, there's something for you at the Sunshine Sports Centre! We offer personal training in all sports if you want it, but there are also group lessons for all sports if you prefer teamwork. Kids and teenagers Take advantage of our special offer for younger members.For members between five and sixteen years old, there are special lessons in water polo, competitive swimming and diving.There are many classes for all levels of swimmers, with a lifeguard on duty from 9:00 am when the pool opens until it closes at 7:00 pm. Social events Sunshine Sports Centre is not only for sport! You can enjoy a delicious meal at our restaurant or have a milkshake with your friends on the balcony overlooking the swimming pool and the courts.In addition, there are lovely gardens where families or friends can have a picnic! To celebrate a birthday, there is no better place than the Sunshine Sports Centre. So, come on Sign up for Sunshine Sports Centre today! People can ask personal trainers for advice when they   _ A) learn to swim B) sign up C) build strength D) play basketball
Answer: C

Question: I give two examples as to why intelligent life may not actually exist, though I admit that for me, or even for a physicist who devoted his or her entire life to researching and studying the universe, it's shocking to claim that completely no life exists elsewhere. Keeping that in mind, I'd just like to consider conditions elsewhere in the known universe. You really only need to look at our own solar system or the Earth at certain periods in its own history to appreciate that most places are much worse and much less suitable for life than our mild, watery globe. So far, space scientists have discovered about seventy planets outside the solar. But it appears that if you wish to have a planet suitable for life, you just have to be very lucky, and the more advanced the life is, the luckier you'll have to be. I'm by no means a space observer, but I can recognize some particularly fortunate breaks we've had on the Earth. For example: We are, to a degree, at the right distance from the perfect type of star, the one that is big enough to radiate a huge amount of energy, but not so big as to bum itself out quickly. Had our sun been ten times as huge, it would have burnt out completely after only ten million years, instead of ten billion and surely we would not exist. Too near, everything on the Earth would have boiled and withered away; any further, everything would have frozen over. The universe is a surprising place, and our existence within it is a wonder. If a long and unimaginably complex sequence of events dating back 4.6 billion years or so hadn't happened in a particular manner at a particular time --if, to take just one example, the dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out by a meteor --we might still be a few centimeters long, with whisker  and a tail, and you'll be reading this in a cave somewhere. What's the best title for this passage? A) No Life Exists out of the Earth B) Seventy Planets Discovered C) A Place Full of Wonders D) Perfect Conditions for Life
Answer:
A