TRANSPORT

Complete this passage using ONLY ONE WORD in each space

Travelling to or from anywhere these days can be an unhealthy and frustrating experience. In most
cities, air pollution has reached.................... (1) proportions that we all suffer.................... (2)
coughs, colds and other chest problems constantly. Also our transport system.................... (3)
become dangerously overloaded. Our roads are blocked.................... (4) traffic jams, while buses,
cars, taxis and motorbikes fight against .................... (5) other to get through. Annoyed and tired,
drivers drive badly, .................... (6) accidents and even murdering one another.
Also, buses and trains are .................... (7) crowded that you.................... (8) hardly breathe or even
stand up straight. There are simply too.................... (9) people wanting to move from one place to
another and not.................... (10) space for them to do so.
Town planners , ...................................... (11), tell us that everything will soon be
different. .................... (12) the future, according to them, private cars will.................... (13)
banned.................... (14) town centres and be replaced by an integrated transport system in....................
(15) all vehicles will be....................(16) by a central computer and radar will take the place of human
drivers. 'People movers' - a kind of urban cable car - will carry us high in the air over
towns.................... (17) car parks, airports, bus stations and railway stations. Pollution will....................
(18) a thing of the past.................... (19) all vehicles will have special filters and run on lead-free petrol.
Doesn't....................(20) sound marvellous? I wonder, though, if any of us will be around to see it.

Rewrite the second sentence so that it means the same as the sentence above

a) Travelling by train is usually quicker than travelling by road.

It is not.......................................................................................................................................
b) Bill didn't go to work because there was a transport strike.
If there........................................................................................................................................
c) I prefer flying to going by boat.
I'd rather......................................................................................................................................
d) We haven't got enough money to fly to Madrid.
It's too.........................................................................................................................................
e) It was such a difficult journey that it took John nearly ten hours.
The journey..............................................................................................................................
f) It's not always necessary to show your passport at the border.
You...........................................................................................................................................
g) If a new bridge is not built, the traffic problems will get worse.
Unless.......................................................................................................................................
h) The new motorway to the coast is still being built.
They are still.............................................................................................................................
i) Why don't you go to the island by hydrofoil?' Tim suggested.
Tim suggested...........................................................................................................................
j) Don't forget to take all your hand luggage with you,' the airhostess told the passengers.
The airhostess..........................................................................................................................
k) I last travelled by tram when I was a child.
I haven't......................................................................................................................................
l) Bill Brown started flying planes ten years ago.
Bill Brown has............................................................................................................................
m) They have already banned lorries from the centre of some cities.
Lorries.........................................................................................................................................
n) How long is it since they first used battery-powered cars?
When ..........................................................................................................................................
o) Public transport used to be cheaper than it is now.
Public transport isn't...................................................................................................................
p) I've never been on a transatlantic flight before.
This is.........................................................................................................................................
q) My grandmother used to cycle more than she does now.
My grandmother doesn't.............................................................................................................
r) Before the bypass was built, you couldn't cross the High Street safely.
Now the bypass..........................................................................................................................
s) This airline used to be so dangerous that very few people used it.
This used to be...........................................................................................................................
t) The superjet flew from London to New York in only two hours.
It only took.................................................................................................................................