Londoners lose 10,000 mobile phones a month in taxis

KEY

Question 1
1. TRUE ………… as passengers rush onto their next destination with their hands full.
2. FALSE……… and it’s always about an hour later we get a panicked call on their mobile phones asking for them to be returned."
3. FALSE ….."We carry out our taxi survey regularly
4. TRUE…."It used to be small items like brollies and briefcases stuffed full of boring office papers.
Question 2
1. More people travel into London to buy their Christmas presents during this period who are not regular cab users, passengers rush onto their next destination with their hands full.
Over the Christmas period, people who do not usually travel by taxi come into London to do their Christmas shopping and then continue their trip with lots of bags.
2. These objects fall onto the floor or remain on the car seat when their owners leave the taxi..
Question 3
a) rush
b) hop
c) stuffed
Question 4
1. People leave other portable technologies like laptops or iPods in black cabs each month.
2. Steve McMenara said that it was a known fact that that was the worst time of year for forgetting 'property' in the back of cabs.
3. If London visitors used cabs regularly they wouldn’t forget their gadgets.