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India gears up for mass motoring revolution
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India gears up for mass motoring revolution
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1. People will buy the Nano because…
2. The Nano is cheap because…
3. Environmentalists are worried because…
4. The farmer killed himself because…
5. China…
6. India…
a. … is the fastest-growing car market in the world.
b. … it is cheap.
c. … he lost his land.
d. … they believe the Nano will make the air dirtier. 
e. … will soon be the fastest-growing car market in the world.
f. … it is made mostly of plastic, not steel.
Match the beginnings with the endings to make sentences about the text.
projects. Companies are building car factories on 
farmland.
The Tata factory will produce 250,000 cars a 
year. Thousands of farmers lost their land when 
the new factory was built. Last month Shankar 
Patra, a 50-year-old farmer who lost his fields 
to the Tata factory, killed himself. “Without our 
fields we have no work. The village will die,” 
said Patra’s 22-year-old son, Pratap. “We have 
nothing, but the rest of India will have a new car.”
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First published in The Guardian, 11/01/08
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India gears up for mass motoring revolution
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Vocabulary 2: Cars and car travel
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Fill the gaps in the sentences using these words connected with cars and car travel.
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1. A ____________ is a situation when cars cannot move because there are too many cars on the road.
2. You use the ____________ if you are hot.
3. You use the ____________ if it is raining and you can’t see.
4. You use the ____________ to see what is behind your car.
5. The ____________ limit in English towns and cities is 30 miles per hour.
6. A ____________ is someone who travels in a car with the driver.