tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading 23

Nhằm giúp các bạn có tài liệu ôn tập những kiến thức cơ bản, kỹ năng giải các bài tập nhanh nhất và chuẩn bị cho kì thi sắp tới được tốt hơn. Hãy tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading 23 để có thêm tài liệu ôn tập. | IELTS Academic Reading 23 READING PASSAGE 23 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 13 which are based on Reading Passage 23 below. PART 1 A Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York to Singapore and Tokyo new solutions to this old problem are being proposed Mailed and implemented with ever increasing speed. It is feared that unless pollution reduction measures are able to keep pace with the continued pressures of urban growth air quality in many of the world s major cities will deteriorate beyond reason. B Action is being taken along several fronts through new legislation improved enforcement and innovative technology. In Los Angeles state regulations are forcing manufacturers to try to sell ever cleaner cars their first of the cleanest titled quot Zero Emission Vehicles have to be available soon since they are intended to make up 2 percent of sales in 1997. Local authorities in London are campaigning to be allowed to enforce anti-pollution laws themselves at present only the police have the power to do so but they tend to be busy elsewhere. In Singapore renting out road space to users is the way of the future. C When Britain s Royal Automobile Club monitored the exhausts of 60 000 vehicles it found that 12 per cent of them produced more than half the total pollution. Older cars were the worst offenders though a sizeable number of quite new cars were also identified as gross polluters they were simply badly tuned. California has developed a scheme to get these gross polluters off the streets they offer a flat 700 for any old run-down vehicle driven in by its owner. The aim is to remove the heaviest-polluting most decrepit vehicles from the roads. D As part of a European Union environmental programme a London council is resting an infra-red spectrometer from the University of Denver in Colorado. It gauges the pollution from a passing vehicle - more useful than the .

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