Bài tập ôn tập môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 7 (thí điểm) - Lần 6

ue to (increase)	 population of the metropolitan cities. People from far off places rush towards big cities to (earn) 	 as big cities (have) 	 many options and possibilities for them. Then there are permanent citizens also. So with the human traffic, vehicular traffic also increases. As the standard of living is (become) 	 high everyone wants to (purchase) 	 his own car.
III.	Fill in the blank with a word/ phrase in the box.
	trains	discourage	transport	expensive
	example	problem	cities	pollution
	Traffic congestion in many (1)	 around the world is severe. One possible solution to this (2) 	 is to impose heavy taxes on car drivers and use this money to make public transport better. One of the first benefits of such a measure is that the heavy taxes would (3) 	 car owners from using their cars because it would become very (4) 	 to drive. This would mean that they would begin to make use of public (5) 	 instead, thus reducing traffic problems and (6) 	 as well. Another benefit would ... to help alert travelers of the change, the design was also used in Philadelphia and Detroit. The example in Ohio was the first time America tried to use a more visible form of traffic control that evolved the use of semaphore. The device that was used in Ohio was designed based on the use of railroad signals.
	1. What was the main purpose of making the first traffic control device?
	2. What was the light operated manually by a police officer called?
	3. Why wasn't John Peake Knight's invention to last long?
	4. How tall were the arms of the traffic lights used in Ohio in 1908?
	5. The Westminster Bridge is in 	.
	A. America	B. England	C. Brazil	D. Canada
V.	Read the passage and put a suitable word in each of the gaps.
	Traffic jams in Vietnam only frequently take 	 in Hanoi capital and Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese people seem to be accustomed to traffic congestion, even miss it whenever they go to other places. There is no fixed rule for the 	 the traffic jams to happen but 	 is worst during the rush hour when everyone is in a hurry to get to work or come back home. Apart from peak hours, the time between 9 am and 10 am and between 3 pm and 4 pm also witnesses long lines of vehicles, mainly motorbikes, struggling to get 	 of narrow streets.
	Whenever it rains, the traffic jam gets more terrible with the joining hand of flooding. Taxis are extremely hard to 	 or wave during the downpour. However, it only	 about 30 minutes on average for a standstill and 2 hours to get through the worst, not really bad compared to that of other countries. While the rapid increase in car use coupled with the deterioration of roads caused by disordered planning make the matter worse, the most annoying thing about the traffic jam 	 the way people react when being 	 at the congestion. Most road users ride their motorbikes on the pavement rather than waiting calmly, or they constantly use their horns to hasten riders in the front, even shouting at them from time to time. More luc