miércoles, 25 de noviembre de 2015

Britain's first ever pedestrian fast lane introduced

  KEY

Question 1
a. True. “ almost half the nation found the slow pace of high streets to be their biggest shopping bugbear.”
b. True.  "Perusing the high street is one of my favourite past times.”
c. False. “The new lane, being trialled this week in the Liverpool One shopping complex…” Shoppers are testing out the experimental pavement fast lane for one week from Monday until this Sunday.”
d. False.  "Shoppers have also told us that speed is critical when simply getting around the high street or town centre”

Question 2
a. The new fast pedestrian lane has opened in Liverpool city centre, outside an Argos store. It will be tested for one week.
b. Shopping in high streets becomes slow because of people who walk very slowly or stop to chat or to look at their phones. There are also people who seem to occupy all the street making it hard to get around.

Question 3

a.  Bypass / to bypass                  b. revealed / to reveal               c. chattering / to chatter
d.   alleviates / to alleviate              e. ensure/ to ensure

Question 4 
a. Markings have been painted onto the pavement to let those hurrying bypass crowds.
b. Dr. Moore said that they hoped it alleviated some of the biggest shopping high street frustrations.
c. If shoppers could walk faster, they wouldn’t get frustrated.

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