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BEST IELTS General Reading Test 186
IELTS GENERAL READING TEST 186 – PASSAGE – 1
IELTS GENERAL READING TEST – 186
READING PASSAGE – 1
Read the text below and answer Questions 1-5.
SHARED BICYCLE SERVICE
A bicycle-sharing system, public bicycle system, or bike-share scheme, is a service in which bicycles are made available for shared use to individuals on a short term basis for a price or free. Many bike share systems allow people to borrow a bike from a “dock” and return it at another dock belonging to the same system. Docks are special bike racks that lock the bike, and only release it by computer control.
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The user enters payment information, and the computer unlocks a bike. The user returns the bike by placing it in the dock, which locks it in place. Other systems are dock less. For many systems, smartphone mapping apps show nearby available bikes and open docks. Bike-sharing has a lot going for it. It’s mass transit that’s ultra-cheap, bums body fat instead of fossil fuels and is adored by venture capitalists. But the business model has hit a major snag: parking.
Stringent laws against sidewalk clutter – and cultural sensibilities that are easily offended – make the problem more acute in Japanese cities than in places like Munich or Melbourne, where bicycles are piling up outside subway stations or turning up under bridges, sometimes to the dismay of neighbours and city officials. Bike-sharing took China by storm in 2016, quickly became a novel tech export, and is now facing backlash even in environmentally-friendly places where you’d expect it to be embraced.
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Treading Lightly
Mobike began testing its Japanese service last summer with 1,000 bikes in the out-of-the way city of Sapporo. The bikes were the same silver and orange ones Mobike deploys everywhere – with airless tires and chainless drive shafts they can run for years without maintenance – but the company was careful to tie up with local retailers, who provided space for designated parking. They also made sure to secure the approval of city government, which sent its vice mayor to pose for photos at the August launch ceremony.
“Whether you have a working relationship with local governments makes all the difference,” Chris Martin, Mobike’s vice president in charge of international expansion said in an interview.
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Questions 1-5
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the text? In boxes 1 5 on your answer sheet write
TRUE – if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE – if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN – if there is no information on this
1. Mobile are used for finding bikes nearby.
2. Bike export has become a major business in china since the year 2016.
3. Bike sharing system leads to burning of fossil fuels.
4. Mobike has deployed its designed parking everywhere.
5. Multinational businesses don’t need any support of government.
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Read the text below and answer Questions 6-10.
FUEL CONSUMPTION AND FUEL ECONOMY
Fuel efficiency is a historical goal of automotive engineering. As early as 1918, General Motors Company automotive pioneer Charles Kettering was predicting the demise of the internal combustion engine within 5 years because of its wasteful use of fuel energy: “The good Lord has tolerated this foolishness of throwing away 90 percent of the energy in the fuel long enough” (Kettering, 1918). And indeed, in the 1920s through the 1950s peak efficiencies went from 10 percent to as much as 40 percent, with improvements in fuels, combustion system design, friction reduction, and more precise manufacturing processes. Engines became more powerful, and vehicles became heavier, bigger, and faster.
Fuel economy is a measure of how far a vehicle will travel with a gallon of fuel; it is expressed in miles per gallon. This is a popular measure used for a long time by consumers in the United States; it is used also by vehicle manufacturers and regulators, mostly to communicate with the public. As a metric, fuel economy actually measures distance travelled per unit of fuel.
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Fuel consumption is the inverse of fuel economy. It is the amount of fuel consumed in driving a given distance. It is measured in the United States in gallons per 100 miles, and in liters per 100 kilometers in Europe and elsewhere throughout the world.
Guzzler The reason was simple for returning to the SUVs rather than sedans. With fuel prices sliding downward, gas-guzzling SUVs and pickup trucks were hot again. So-called “start/stop” technology isn’t really new it’s been one of the keys to making hybrids so fuel-efficient. When a car stops at a light or in heavy traffic, the engine quits running, instead of burning gas as it idles.
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Start /Stop Technology
A San Francisco start up called Voyomotive has now made it possible to add start/stop technology to older gas-powered vehicles. The company has developed a $100 device, called Voyo, which plugs into a port under the dashboard that provides access to the car’s computer, if the vehicle was manufactured in the U.S. after 1995. This allows the driver to upload all kinds of driving behavior data to his or her smart phone.
Voyomotive claims that a person who cuts out 20 minutes of engine idling a day can save hundreds of dollars a year by reducing their gas consumption by roughly 60 gallons. Plus, they say it would decrease that driver’s annual carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1,200 pounds.
Researchers at Bosch, the German manufacturer, also like the potential of the pedals for getting people to drive more efficiently. But for them, it has nothing to do with shutting down the engine. Instead, it’s about signalling drivers to stop doing inefficient things, such as speeding off when a light turns green or going too fast up a hill.
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Questions 6 -10
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text for each answer.
6. ………………… Is an ancient target of engineering related to motor vehicles.
7. With the time the engines became ………………… and vehicles became weighty, huge and speedy.
8. ………………… Allows the driver to upload the driving behaviour on the smartphone.
9. Not an actual technology rather shifting your driving interests is known as ………………… .
10. Green house gases emissions could be reduced by ………………… .
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Questions 11 – 13
Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.
11. Fuel economy can be referred as
A. How long the vehicle is going per gallon
B. Distance per unit of fuel
C. Economy that is based on fuel consumption
12. Fuel consumption is referred as
A. Gallons per 100 miles in Europe
B. Liters per 100 kilometers in United States
C. Amount of fuel consumed driving a certain distance
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13. Fuel efficiency as a term
A. Has gained its meaning throughout the years
B. Was the main goal of engine industry
C. Was outshined by the automotive engineering
ANSWERS ARE BELOW
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ANSWERS
1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE
6. FUEL EFFICIENCY
7. MORE POWERFUL
8. START / STOP TECHNOLOGY
9. GUZZLER
10. START / STOP TECHNOLOGY
11. C
12. C
13. A