Question

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.

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 than run on alternative sources of power, such as electricity, compressed natural gas, methanol, steam, hydrogen, and 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 other dependable source of current is available, transport experts foresee a new assortment of electric vehicles entering everyday life: shorter-range commuter electric cars, three-wheeled neighborhood cars, electric delivery vans, bikes and trolleys.

As automakers work to develop practical electrical 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 centers might be reserved for electric cars.

Planners foresee electric shuttle buses, trains, buses and neighborhood vehicles all meeting at transit centers 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 will no doubt take place on automated freeways capable of handling five times the number of vehicles that can be carried by freeway today.

According to the passage, public parking lots of the future will be ________ .

A. more convenient than they are today

B. equipped with charging devices

C. much larger than they are today

D. as common as today’s gas stations

Answer 1

Đáp án B.

Keyword: public parking, future.

Clue:

1. “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.”: Những điểm đỗ xe công cộng trên đường hay những lô đất thương mại sẽ cần được trang bị những thiết bị cho phép lái xe sạc pin khi họ dừng xe, ăn tối hoặc đi đến một buổi hòa nhạc.

2. “Public charging facilities will need to be as common as today’s gas stations”: Những thiết bị hỗ trợ sạc công cộng phải phổ biến như trạm xăng ngày nay.

Phân tích đáp án:

A. more convenient than they are today: tiện lợi hơn ngày nay.

B. equipped with charging devices: trang bị với thiết bị sạc.

C. much larger than they are today: lớn hơn ngày nay.

D. as common as today’s gas stations: sẽ phổ biến như trạm xăng ngày nay.

Ta thấy đáp án B hoàn toàn phù hợp với nội dung của clue.

Đáp án D sai vì public charging facilities mới có đặc điểm này chứ không phải là public parking spots. Các đáp án A và C không có thông tin tương xứng trong bài.