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9、ous about becoming car free But eight months ago our car was hit by a passing vehicle and it was destroyed No problem I thought we ll buy another But the insurance payout didn t even begin to cover the costs of buying a new car I worked out that with the loan 贷款 we d need plus petrol insurance parki
10、ng permits and tax we would make a payment as much as 600 a month And that s when I had my fancy idea Why not just give up having a car at all I live in London We have a railway station behind our house a tube station 10 minutes walk away and a bus stop at the end of the street A new car club had ju
11、st opened in our area and one of its shiny little red Peugeot was parked nearby If 3 any family in Britain could live without a car I reasoned then surely we were that family But my new car free idea sadly wasn t shared by my family My teenage daughters were horrified What would their friends think
12、about our family being too poor to afford a car I wasn t that bothered what they thought and I suggested the girls should take the same approach My friends too were astonished at our plan What would happen if someone got seriously ill overnight and needed to go to hospital an ambulance How would the
13、 children get to and from their many events buses and trains People smiled as though this was another of my mad ideas before saying they were sure I d soon realize that a car was a necessity Eight months on I wonder whether we ll ever own a car again The idea that you have to own a car especially if
14、 you live in a city is all in the mind I live and many other citizens do too in a place that has never been better served by public transport and yet car ownership has never been higher We worry about rising car costs but we d be better off asking something much more basic do I really need a car Cer
15、tainly the answer is no and I m a lot richer because I dared to ask the question 4 The author decided to live a car free life partly because A the cost of a new car was too much B the traffic jam was unbearable for him C most families chose to go car free D he was hurt in a terrible car accident 5 W
16、hat is the attitude of the author s family toward his plan A Optimistic B Unconcerned C Supportive D Disapproving 6 What did the author suggest his daughters do about their friends opinion A Take their advice B Argue against it C Leave it alone D Think it over 4 7 What conclusion did the author draw after the eight month car free life A A car free life does not suit everyone B Life cannot go without a car C His life gets improved without a car D Life without a car is a little bit hard C C Every
