“Cars, cars, cars…” - reading

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There are now over 700 million motor vehicles in the world - and the number is rising by more than 40 million each year. The average distance driven by car users is growing too - from 8 km a day per person in western Europe in 1965 to 25 km a day in 1995. This dependence on motor vehicles has given rise to major problems, including environmental pollution, depletion of oil resources, traffic congestion and safety.

Task

• There are eight paragraphs in the text. In which of the paragraphs A-H are the problems 1-8 mentioned?. Match only one paragraph for each of the problems.




• Which of the sentences are true according to the above text

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