IV. Read the passage and answer the following questions.
The streets are crowded with traffic. Taxis are bringing tired people from the
airport and the train stations to the hotels. They hope to sleep a few hours before their
busy day in the big city. Trucks are bringing fresh fruit and vegetables into the city.
Ships are bringing food and fuel to the harbor.
By seven o’clock in the morning, the streets are filled again with people. Millions
of people live in the big city, and millions of people who work in the big city live in the
suburbs, the commuters, are hurrying to get to their offices. Everyone is in a hurry.
Some stop only to drink a cup of coffee. Others stop to buy a morning paper or to have
breakfast. The noise of traffic gets louder. The policemen blow their whistles to stop the
traffic or to hurry it alone.
Answer the questions:
1. Where do taxis often take people from?
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2. What are trucks bringing? And what about ships?
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3. Who are commuters?
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4. What do people often do when they are in a hurry in the early morning?
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5. What do the policemen do to control the traffic?
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1Taxis often take people from the airport
2Trucks are bringing fresh fruits and vegetables into the city. And Ships are bringing food and fuel to the harbour.
3Millions of people live in the big city, and millions of people who work in the big city live in the subrbs are the commuters,
4Some stop only to drink a cup of coffe and other stop to buy the morning paper or to have breakfast.
5The policemen blow their whisles to control the traffic..