EOIDNA / Nivel Intermedio / Reading P3

PART 3 You are going to read an article about cabs in China. Choose the sentence from the list (AH) that best fits in each gap (1-5) . There are two extra sentences that you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0-A) I have to compare the way China Daily and the New York Times report on big events for one of my classes. While I was looking around ChinaDaily.com.cn __________(0)__________ I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, this great headline : Beijing bans smelly taxi drivers Under the new regulations, which came into effect today, drivers whose cabs are smelly (1) __ _____ while they receive "rectification and reform" guidance, the Beijing News agency said. *Cabbies, (2) __________________and female taxi drivers who wear big earrings or radical hairstyles, will also be banned under rules before next year's Olympics. Beijing's taxi drivers often sleep, eat and smoke in their vehicles. "Many drivers pay no attention to appearances," Yao Kuo, the head of the transportation management office, said: Their mouths stink of garlic and their bodies smell, making the whole cab foul. (3) ____________ . The article explains that Hong Kong-based political adviser Shi Xiangpeng, talked about his experience at the annual session of the National Committee of the Chinese People Conference: Sometimes I could smell unbearable stink once I got into the cab, but was afraid of being too rude to get off immediately. So I had to roll down the windows (4) ______________________ . Does this guy have a point? When I was in Beijing last summer, beyond the odd cigarettesmoke infused taxi, I didnt have any problems with taxi smell. The worst problem I had with taxis was that Id often get seat-belt tattoo. You know, when the seat belt hasnt been used in so long that the wonderful Beijing pollution builds up a thick layer of soot around it. Do Beijingers wear seat-belts? I also get the feeling that taxi-drivers consider wearing a seatbelt to be rude (5) _____________________ . Beijing taxi drivers face a lifestyle change before the Olympics. That will mean the end of spitting, smoking, weird hairstyles and dangly earrings -and the beginning of regular baths . www.huoleifeng.blogspot.com/2007/03 *Cabbies : Taxi drivers SENTENCES FOR SOME FOREIGN NEWS STILL UNCOVERED WILL BE SUSPENDED FOR TWO DAYS EVEN IF IT WAS COLD OUTSIDE AS IF YOU DONT TRUST THEIR DRIVING BECAUSE THEY TRY TO AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS WHO SPIT OR SMOKE ALTHOUGH HE CLAIMED TO BE ONE OF THEIR DEFENDERS IT CREATES A BAD IMPRESSION FOR THE TAXI INDUSTRY KEY 0 A 1 B 2 F 3 H 4 C 5 D