10.SECTION C – READINGPART 1

5. 10.

SECTION C – READING

Part 1: Read the passage and choose the best answer

Why don’t the British cycle? Only a quarter of the (1) … twenty million bicycles in the country are thought

to be in (2) … use. In Denmark, which is flatter but not darker or rainier than Britain, 20% of all journeys are

made by bicycles, while in Britain the (3) … is only 5%. The government is trying to (4) … this. It is hoped

that a grant of millions of pounds from the National Lottery will (5) … more people to use their bikes. The

money will be used to (6) … for a 6,500 mile national network of cycle tracks. Britain needs to (7) …

environmentally friendly schemes such as this. The southern third of the country is one of the most (8) …

areas of the world. Environmentalists make it (9) … to build new roads, and (10) … roads are very

overcrowded. One official committee described the growth of motor transport as “possibly the (11) …

environmental threat to the UK”. The (12) … of building the cycle tracks is to motivate people to use their

bikes instead of their cars. However, the new tracks are being built (13) … cities and not through them. This

(14) … that only long distance journeys may be easier and safer. Those cyclists who want to (15) … inside

cities will still be in danger of losing their lives on busy roads every time they use their bicycles.