Đề thi chọn đội tuyển dự thi học sinh giỏi Quốc gia THPT năm 2018 môn Tiếng Anh

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DỰ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC GIA THPT NĂM 2018
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Điểm bài thi
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* Ghi chú: - Đề thi gồm 14 trang. Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi.
	 - Thí sinh không được sử dụng từ điển. Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.
SECTION I: LISTENING (50 points)
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần.
Mở đầu và kết thúc phần nghe có tín hiệu nhạc.
Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1: For questions 1 – 5, listen to part of a discussion about a book on laughter. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER taken from the recording for each answer in the spaces provided. (10 points) 
1. Provine’s book proposes that laughter is used to improve human ________________________ .
2. Mark says that today people often only laugh at TV ________________________ .
3. Diana says that women think a good ________________________ is vital in personal male/female relationships.
4. Diana thinks that the fact that there haven’t been many ________________________ in the past reflects a commonly held attitude.
5. Although laughter is important in relationships, there is no evidence to suggest that our ________________________ would benefit.
Your answers:
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Part 2: Listen to a conversation between two psychologists about modern childhood. For questions 6-10, decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the numbered boxes below. (10 points)
6. Daniel implies that past images of childhood are entirely fictional.
7. According to Daniel, children are failing to learn adequate social skills.
8. Louise believes that modern life has a negative effect on children.
9. Louise says that the media encourages celebrities to inspire young children.
10. Daniel implies that machines are more of a menace to children than people are.
Your answers:
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Part 3: For questions 11 - 15, listen to Tim Cole talking about guidebooks and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D), which fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points) 
11. Once, when Tim used a guidebook in Australia, _____.
A. he found the best budget hotel ever
B. it took him ages to find the place he was looking for 
C. he ended up at an unexpected destination
D. he travelled a lot to his favourite places
12. Tim believes the problem with guidebooks is that _____. 
A. some of them are very poorly researched 
B. many things have changed by the time you read the book
C. they are only regularly updated
D. some passengers cannot book their hotels
13. The thing Tim particularly dislikes about guidebooks is _____.
A. the recommendations about where to eat
B. that they have too much information about nightlife
C. the limited amount of information about history and culture
D. that they are too heavy to carry
14. Other things which should be included in guidebooks are _____.
A. clear and detailed maps of the area
B. as much information as possible about an area
C. good pictures of well-known tourist sites
D. as much money as possible
15. What is Tim’s view on digital guidebooks? 
A. They can be problematic when downloading.
B. He can’t find what he wants as easily as he can in a traditional guidebook. 
C. He likes the fact that they’re tailored to your individual requirements. 
D. Too many travellers are too trusting of their guidebooks.
Your answers:
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Part 4: Listen to the news about Reindeer and fill in each blank of the news summary with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
Polar bears aren't the only beloved Arctic animal threatened by climate change. Scientists believe reindeer are at risk as a warming world makes their main winter food source disappear. But reindeer on one Alaskan island are (16) ______________.
	Historically, the reindeer population on St. Paul island ate (17) _________, a small type of plant or fungus that grows on rocks in areas with cold weather. However, climate change has made it harder for lichen to grow on this island, and the reindeer ate the lichen faster than it could grow back. Researchers thought that the reindeer population would starve without access to lichen, but these reindeer have found another way to survive.
	Reindeer are not (18) ___________ to Alaska, and they were introduced to rural villages around the state in the (19) __________, in order to provide an alternative food source for residents of the villages. In communities like St. Paul, where grocery prices are (20) ___________, residents depend on reindeer to feed their families. And to (21) ____________ winter, the reindeer need something as well. 
	Fortunately, after the reindeer on this island depleted the lichen supply, they went (22) _____________. They began digging and discovered new sources of food: roots and grass shoots. Plants like these grow more quickly than lichen in the warmer, wetter conditions introduced by climate change, and the reindeer’s (23) ___________ to their new diet is a good sign for the survival of the species. However, reindeer researchers are not so (24) ___________. They warn that global reindeer populations are still in danger, as climate change warms and alters their (25) _______________, as are many other animals that depend on colder conditions to survive. 
 (Adapted from “When Their Food Ran Out, These Reindeer Kept Digging”) 
Your answers:
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SECTION II: LEXICO-GRAMMAR (40 points)
Part 1: For question 26-39, choose the best answers (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following questions and write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes. (28 points) 
26. Fiona didn’t lie but she did give rather ______ a picture of the situation.
	A. defaced	B. distorted	C. disfigured	D. disguised
27. As Michelle told me the story, tears ______ up in her eyes.
	A. welled	B. raised	C. filled	D. mounted
28. J. Edgar Hoover was a(n) ______ professional who served as director of the FBI for 48 years.
	A. astounding	B. resilient	C. determined	D. perceptive
29. When threatened, the opossum often ______ death.
	A. avoids	B. confronts	C. feigns	D. withstands
30. Most tadpoles are vegetarians, ______ those of some species are carnivorous.
	A. albeit	B. simply	C. supposedly	D. notwithstanding
31. I hope you won’t take it ______ if I suggest an alternative remedy.
	A. offence	B. amiss	C. upset	D. heart
32. ______ for the defence made an application for more time to discuss matters with his clients.
	A. Counsel	B. Lawyer	C. Judge	D. Legislation
33. Psychologists still wonder if some personality traits are ______.
	A. inevitable	B. interminable	C. inadvertent	D. innate
34. I thought you were looking a little ______ this morning.
	A. tumble-down	B. downcast	C. run-down	D. down-and-out
35. Do you think your family members would ______ ranks if criticized?
	A. close	B. bridge	C. order	D. join
36. I must get to bed early tonight; I sat up till the ______ hours to finish that report.
	A. small	B. deep 	C. late	D. last
37. He seemed rather ______. Was he upset about something?
	A. unsocial 	B. apathetic	C. passive 	D. subdued 
38. I wouldn't say he was brilliant at his job but he is quite ______.
	A. competent 	B. quary 	C. effective	D. cautious	
39. He has no friends because he's the new kid on the ______.
	A. bus	B. block	C. house	D. corner
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Part 2: For questions 40 – 45, write the correct form of each given word in corresponding numbered box. (12 points) 
 CUL8R!
Fancy some sort of (40) _____ with a distant boyfriend or girlfriend? Send a text. Lost in the woods, wilderness, or a heavy fog? Use GPS. A case of mistaken identity? Facebook! And who is this (41) _____ Jay Gatsby? Just Google him.
Books can now be read on iPhones, and (42) _____ young writers in Japan are using their cellphone keypads to write (43) ______ short novels. But, at the same time, technology is making some classic narrative plot devices obsolete. Excuses like poor connections and (44) _____, or the inability to reach someone just don’t work when even the most (45) _____ places have wireless coverage.
It’s the same problem with movies. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart would have been spared the aching uncertainty of wondering why Ingrid Bergman had stood him up at the train station. “Why isn’t she here? We were supposed to run away together! Let me check my messages. Maybe I can find her online ”
40. CONSPIRE
41. ENIGMA
42. OPPORTUNITY
43. SELL
44. COMMUNICATE
45. ACCESS
Your answers:
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SECTION III: READING (50 points)
Part 1: For questions 46-50, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in corresponding numbered boxes. (5 points) 
Recently I went out to dinner with a friend and her new boyfriend. She had been raving for weeks about what a kind, considerate, engaging person he was. He had truly (46) _____ her off her feet. Within minutes of meeting him I thought 'Boy, has he got her fooled?' 
At the restaurant, he curtly announced his reservation to the maitre d' without so (47) _____ as a glimmer of courtesy. He proceeded to interrogate the waiter about the menu as if he were conducting a criminal investigation, and then (48) _____ at the young man who brushed against him as he served his water. Meanwhile, he was exuding charm and grace to those of us at the table whom he (49) _____ worthy of his attention and good humour. It was clear to me that he was a nice guy only when it (50) _____ his purpose. 
'Little people' didn't rate. Truly kind, thoughtful and confident people do not treat others in dramatically different ways depending on their mood or their perception of what someone can do for them.
46. A. plucked	B. swept	C. dragged	D. hoisted
47. A. muck	B. far	C. great	D. long
48. A. winked	B. glared	C. peeped	D. eyed
49. A. pondered	B. discriminated	C. weighed	D. deemed
50. A. met	B. realised	C. performed	D. served
Your answers:
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Part 2: For questions 51 - 60, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 points) 
ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY
Etymology is the study of word origins. It is a subiect which seems to hold a remarkable fascination for people, as can be seen from the numerous blogs and Internet sites dedicated (51) _____ lengthy discussions and speculations about the origin of a given word. Below are a few examples of words that are of particular etymological interest.
According to the lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, the original meaning of this word suggests somewhat cynically that marriage begins with the sweetness and tenderness of honey, but soon wanes (52) _____ the moon. It still retains those connotations today in the expression honeymoon period which refers to the first stage of a new activity - a government's first term in office, for example - when people are prepared temporarily to ignore (53) _____ imperfections. Nowadays, in the context of marriage, the pessimistic implications have faded and the word simply refers to a holiday taken by a newly married couple.
This word originated from Latin, where salarium, a derivative of sal- meaning 'salt', referred to 'an allowance given to soldiers to buy salt'. In former times salt was a valued commodity, over which wars were (54) _____. It was not taken for (55) _____ as it is today. Use of the word soon broadened out to the current meaning of 'fixed periodic payment of work done' and passed in this sense via Anglo-Norman into English.
This word describes something stylishly luxurious. In Britain it also means somebody or something typical (56) _____ the upper classes. It first appeared in the early twentieth (57) _____ and was widely (58) _____ to be an acronym for 'Port Out, Starboard Home', referring to the location of the more desirable cabins on passenger ships travelling (59) _____ Britain and India. Those on the port (left) side on the way out, and the starboard (right) on the return trip benefited from the sea breeze and shelter from the sun. (60) _____ it provides a very neat explanation, there isn't a shred of evidence for it. A more plausible solution is that the modern adjective, posh, is the same word as the now obsolete noun posh, meaning 'dandy' (a man who cares a lot about his clothes) a slang term current in the late nineteenth century.
 Your answers:
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Part 3: For questions 61-73, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (13 points)
Museums of fine art and their public
The fact that people go to the Louvre museum in Paris to see the original painting Mona Lisa when they can see a reproduction anywhere leads us to question some assumptions about the role of museums of fine art in today’s world.
One of the most famous works of art in the world is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Nearly everyone who goes to see the original will already be familiar with it from reproductions, but they accept that fine art is more rewardingly viewed in its original form.
However, if Mona Lisa was a famous novel, few people would bother to go to a museum to read the writer’s actual manuscript rather than a printed reproduction. This might be explained by the fact that the novel has evolved precisely because of technological developments that made it possible to print out huge numbers of texts, whereas oil paintings have always been produced as unique objects. In addition, it could be argued that the practice of interpreting or ‘reading’ each medium follows different conventions. With novels, the reader attends mainly to the meaning of words rather than the way they are printed on the page, whereas the ‘reader’ of a painting must attend just as closely to the material form of marks and shapes in the picture as to any ideas they may signify.
Yet it has always been possible to make very accurate facsimiles of pretty well any fine art work. The seven surviving versions of Mona Lisa bear witness to the fact that in the 16th century, artists seemed perfectly content to assign the reproduction of their creations to their workshop apprentices as regular ‘bread and butter’ work. And today the task of reproducing pictures is incomparably more simple and reliable, with reprographic techniques that allow the production of high-quality prints made exactly to the original scale, with faithful colour values, and even with duplication of the surface relief of the painting.
But despite an implicit recognition that the spread of good reproductions can be culturally valuable, museums continue to promote the special status of original work. Unfortunately, this seems to place severe limitations on the kind of experience offered to visitors.
One limitation is related to the way the museum presents its exhibits. As repositories of unique historical objects, art museums are often called ‘treasure houses’. We are reminded of this even before we view a collection by the presence of security guards, attendants, ropes and display cases to keep us away from the exhibits. In many cases, the architectural style of the building further reinforces that notion. In addition, a major collection like that of London’s National Gallery is housed in numerous rooms, each with dozens of works, any one of which is likely to be worth more than all the average visitor possesses. In a society that judges the personal status of the individual so much by their material worth, it is, therefore, difficult not to be impressed by one’s own relative ‘worthlessness’ in such an environment.
Furthermore, consideration of the ‘value’ of the original work in its treasure house setting impresses upon the viewer that, since these works were originally produced, they have been assigned a huge monetary value by some person or institution more powerful than themselves. Evidently, nothing the viewer thinks about the work is going to alter that value, and so today’s viewer is deterred from trying to extend that spontaneous, immediate, self-reliant kind of reading which would originally have met the work.
The visitor may then be struck by the strangeness of seeing such diverse paintings, drawings and sculptures brought together in an environment for which they were not originally created. This ‘displacement effect’ is further heightened by the sheer volume of exhibits. In the case of a major collection, there are probably more works on display than we could realistically view in weeks or even months.
This is particularly distressing because time seems to be a vital factor in the appreciation of all art forms. A fundamental difference between paintings and other art forms is that there is no prescribed time over which a painting is viewed. By contrast, the audience encourages an opera or a play over a specific time, which is the duration of the performance. Similarly, novels and poems are read in a prescribed temporal sequence, whereas a picture has no clear place at which to start viewing, or at which to finish. Thus artworks themselves encourage us to view them superficially, without appreciating the richness of detail and labour that is involved.
Consequently, the dominant critical approach becomes that of the art historian, a specialised academic approach devoted to ‘discovering the meaning’ of art within the cultural context of its time. This is in perfect harmony with the museum's function, since the approach is dedicated to seeking out and conserving ‘authentic’, original, readings of the exhibits. Again, this seems to put paid to that spontaneous, participators criticism which can be found in abundance in criticism of classic works of literature, but is absent from most art history.
The displays of art museums serve as a warning of what critical practices can emerge when spontaneous criticism is suppressed. The museum public, like any other audience, experience art more rewardingly when given the confidence to express their views. If appropriate works of fine art could be rendered permanently accessible to the public by means of high-fidelity reproductions, as literature and music already are, the public may feel somewhat less in awe of them. Unfortunately, that may be too much to ask from those who seek to maintain and control the art establishment.
Questions 61 – 65: Complete the summary using the list of words A-L below. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 
The value attached to original works of art
People go to art museums because they accept the value of seeing an original work of art. But they do not go to museums to read original manuscripts of novels, perhaps because the availability of novels has depended on (61) _____ for so long, and also because with novels, the (62) _____ are the most important thing.
However, in historical times artists such as Leonardo were happy to instruct (63) _____ to produce copies of their work and these days new methods of reproduction allow excellent replication of surface relief features as well as colour and (64) _____.
It is regrettable that museums still promote the superiority of original works of art, since this may not be in the interests of the (65) _____.
A. institution           
B. mass production       
C. mechanical processes 
D.  public            
E. paints                   
F. artist 
G. size                      
H. underlying ideas 
I. basic technology  
J. readers               
K. picture frames                   
L. assistants        
Your answers:
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Questions 66 – 69: Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.  
66. The writer mentions London’s National Gallery to illustrate ______.
A. the undesirable cost to a nation of maintaining a huge collection of art
B. the conflict that may arise in society between financial and artistic values
C. the negative effect a museum can have on visitors’ opinions of themselves
D. the need to put individual well-being above large-scale artistic schemes
67. The writer says that today, viewers may be unwilling to criticise a because ______.
A. they lack the knowledge needed to support an opinion
B. they fear it may have financial implications
C. they have no real concept of the work’s value
D. they feel their personal reaction is of no significance
68. According to the writer, the ‘displacement effect’ on the visitor is caused by ______.
A. the variety of works on display and the way they are arranged
B. the impossibility of viewing particular works of art over a long period
C. the similar nature of the paintings and the lack of great works
D. the inappropriate nature of the individual works selected for exhibition
69. The writer says that unlike other forms of art, a painting does not ______.
A. involve direct contact with an audience
B. require a specific location for a performance
C. need the involvement of other professionals
D. have a specific beginning or end
Your answers:
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Questions 70 - 73
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the Reading Passage? In boxes 70 - 73, write	
YES	if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO 	if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOT GIVEN if the statement is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
70. Art history should focus on discovering the meaning of art using a range of media.
71. The approach of art historians conflicts with that of art museums.
72. People should be encouraged to give their opinions openly on works of art.
73. Reproductions of fine art should only be sold to the public if they are of high quality.
Your answers: 
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Part 4: For questions 74-80, read the following passage. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the passage. Choose the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (7 points)
Garbage in, garbage out
	Charging families for each bag of rubbish they produce seems environmentally sound and economically sensible. It may not be.
	Some rituals of modern domestic living vary little throughout the developed world. One such is the municipal refuse collection: at regular intervals, rubbish bags or the contents of rubbish bins disappear into the bowels of a special lorry and are carried away to the local tip.
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	Yet the cost of rubbish disposal is not zero at all. The more rubbish people throw away, the more rubbish collectors and trucks are needed, and the more the local authorities have to pay in landfill and tipping fees. This looks like the most basic of economic problems: if rubbish disposal is free, people will produce too much rubbish.
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	But as Don Fullerton and Thomas Kinnaman, two American economists, have found, what appears to be the logical approach to an everyday problem has surprisingly intricate and sometimes disappointing results.
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	In a paper published last year Messrs Fullerton and Kinnaman concentrated on the effects of one such scheme, introduced in July 1992 in Charlottesville, Virginia, a town of about 40,000 people. Residents were charged 80 cents for each tagged bag of rubbish. This may sound like sensible use of market forces. In fact, the authors conclude, the scheme’s benefits did not cover the cost of printing materials, the commissions to sellers and the wages of the people running the scheme.
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	As we all know, such compacting is done better by machines at landfill sites than by individuals,- however enthusiastically. The weight of rubbish collected (a better indicator of disposal costs than volume) fell by a modest 14% in Charlottesville. In 25 other Virginian cities where no pricing scheme was in place, and which were used as a rough-and-ready control group, it fell by 3.5% in any case.
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	The one bright spot in the whole experience seems to have been a 15% increase in the weight of materials recycled, suggesting that people chose to recycle (which is free) rather than pay to have their refuse carted away. But the fee may have little to do with the growth in recycling, as many citizens were already participating in Charlottesville’s voluntary scheme.
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	This figure is lower than in other studies covering fewer towns, but is it so surprising? To reduce their output of rubbish by a lot, people would have to buy less of just about everything. A tax of a few cents on the week’s garbage seems unlikely to make much difference.
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	Should we conclude that the idea of charging households for the rubbish they produce is daft? Not at all: free disposal after all is surely too cheap. But the effects of seemingly simple policies are often complex. Intricate economic models are often needed to sort them out. And sometimes, the results of this rummaging do not smell sweet.
A. 	Less pleasing still, some people resorted to illegal dumping rather than pay to have their rubbish removed. This is hard to measure directly but the authors guess that illegal dumping may account for 30-40% of the reduction in collected rubbish.
B. 	It would be foolish to generalise from this one situation. Economic incentives sometimes produce unforeseen responses. To discourage this method of waste disposal, local authorities might have to spend more on catching litterers, or raise fines.
C. 	If that’s the case, it seems worth considering whether other factors, such as income and education, matter every bit as much as price. In richer towns, for example, people throw out more rubbish than in poorer ones and they have less time for recycling.
D. 	In a more recent study, Messrs Fullerton and Kinnaman explore the economics of rubbish in more detail. One conclusion from this broader study is that pricing does reduce the weight of rubbish - but not by much. On average, a 10% increase in sticker prices cuts quantity only by 0.3%.
E. 	To economists, this ceremony is peculiar, because in most places it is free. Yes, households pay for the service out of local taxes but the family that fills four bins with rubbish each week pays no more than the elderly couple that fills one.
F. 	The obvious solution is to make households pay the marginal cost of disposing of their waste. That will give them an incentive to throw out less and recycle more (assuming that local governments provide collection points for suitable materials).
G. 	True, the number of bags or cans did fall sharply, by 37%. But this was largely thanks to the ‘Seattle stomp’, a frantic dance, first noticed when that distant city introduced rubbish pricing. Rather than buy more tags, people simply crammed more garbage - about 40% more - into each container by jumping on it if necessary.
H. 	Research focused on several American towns and cities which, in the past few years, have started charging households for generating rubbish. The commonest system is to sell stickers or tags which householders attach to rubbish bags or cans. Only bags with these labels are picked up in the weekly collection.
Your answers:
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Part 5: You are going to read a newspaper article in which women talk about their attitudes toward cars. For questions 81-95, choose from the women (A-D). When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order. (15 points) 
WOMEN DRIVERS
What do women think about the cars they drive? We talked to four women about their views.
A. Megan Fields
Megan Fields lives in rural Herfordshire, just outside a small village. In recent years the bus service in the village has improved, and there is also a good link now to the nearest town. Consequently, she uses a car mainly to commute to her office almost forty miles away. Megan works normal office hours, Mondays to Fridays, and this means she has to make a round trip of very nearly eighty miles a day in the enervating rush-hour traffic. However, since the latest increases in the price of fuel, she and her husband feel they have to think more carefully about car maintenance costs.
Megan was forced to purchase a new car only a short while ago: she was recently involved in a collision with a lorry. It was an unequal contest, and Megan’s car was a write-off. Fortunately, nobody was badly hurt, but Megan was shaken by the experience. She promised herself that her next car would have more robust bodywork in case anything like that ever happens again. Since their old car had been on its last ages anyway, she and her husband had been looking at the options available on the market even before the crash, and they had narrowd the choice down to three or four models. Before they made their final decision, they took a number of other factors into consideration. They wanted a car that would be fuel-efficient and that would produce as few harmful emissions as possible. Megan left the choice of car to her husband; she claims she is ignorant of the technical issues involved and has no desire to learn. She stresses that she would rather be able to manage without a car at all. However, given their circumstances, doing without a car does not appear to be a viable option.
B. Vera Aziz
Vera is one of the growing numbers of people who have purchased an SUV – a sports utility vehicle. In her view, there is something very reassuring about the