Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

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.

The passage would most likely be followed by details about _______.

A. automated freeways

B. pollution restrictions in the future

C. the neighborhood of the future

D. electric shuttle buses

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Đáp án A.

Keyword: passage, likely be followed, details about.

Câu hỏi yêu cầu tìm thông tin đoạn văn tiếp nối bài văn này. Để làm dạng câu hỏi này, chúng ta cần nghiên cứu kỹ đoạn cuối cùng và đặc biệt là câu văn cuối cùng.

Clue: “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”: những… sẽ có thể thuê rất nhiều các loại xe điện khác nhau tùy theo nhu cầu của họ: xe tải nhẹ, xe ba bánh chở một người, xe ô tô nhỏ, hay xe ô tô lại sử dụng cả xăng và điện cho những chuyến đi dài hơn. Những phương tiện này chắc chắn sẽ lưu hành trên những quốc lộ tự động hóa mà có thể đáp ứng cho số lượng phương tiện nhiều gấp năm lần so với đường cao tốc ngày nay.

Phân tích đáp án:

A. automated freeways: các đường cao tốc tự động hóa.

B. pollution restrictions in the future: sự hạn chế tình trạng ô nhiễm trong tương lai.

C. the neighborhood of the future: vùng lân cận trong tương lai.

D. electric shuttle buses: xe buýt điện chạy tuyến đường ngắn.

Đáp án A chính xác vì nội dung của câu cuối cùng của bài văn có đề cập đến một khái niệm mới đó là “automated freeways capable of handling five times the number of vehicles that can be carried by freeway today”. Bởi vậy chúng ta có cơ sở để dự đoán rằng đoạn văn tiếp theo sẽ đề cập tới nội dung này.