1. What does "this" in "Even expecting this…" (para.2, line 11) refer to?
 (A) The distance between San Francisco and New York.
 (B) The vastness of the country.
 (C) The size of the Mediterranean Sea.
 (D) The country's borders.
2. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
 (A) New England winters are cold.
 (B) Some taxi drivers are impolite.
 (C) The U.S.A is a popular place for tourists.
 (D) Hotel staff are often sympathetic.
3. New England is located _______.
 (A) in the south west of the US
 (B) to the south of California
 (C) in the northeast of the US
 (D) to the west of Florida
4. What made the most negative impression on foreign visitors?
 (A) The country's vastness.
 (B) The informal friendliness of Americans.
 (C) The fact that the American accent is hard to understand.
 (D) The fact that not many Americans can speak a foreign language.
5. The overall purpose of this passage is to _______.
 (A) demonstrate the cultural differences between America and Europe
 (B) indicate ways to improve the American image abroad
 (C) describe the general impression of foreign visitors on America
 (D) criticize some behaviors of American taxi drivers

Questions 6-10
A million motorists leave their cars full up with petrol and with the keys in the ignition every day. The vehicles are sitting in petrol stations while drivers pay for their fuel. The Automobile Association (AA) has discovered that cars are left unattended for an average three minutes — and sometimes considerably longer — as drivers buy drinks, sweets, cigarettes and other consumer items — and then pay at the cash till. With payment by the credit card more and more common, it is not unusually for a driver to be out of his car for as long as six minutes, providing the car thief with a golden opportunity.
In an exclusive AA survey, carried out at a busy garage on a main road out of London, 300 motorists were questioned over three days of the holiday period. Twenty four percent admitted that they 'always' or 'sometimes' leave the keys in their car. This means that nationwide, a million cars daily become easy targets for the opportunist thief.
For more than ten years there has been a bigger rise in car crime than in most other types of crime. An average of more than two cars a minute are broken into, vandalized or stolen in the UK. Car crime accounts for almost a third of all reported offences with no signs that the trend is slowing down.
Although there are highly professional criminals involved in car theft, almost 90 percent of car crime is committed by the opportunist. Amateur thieves are aided by our own carelessness. When AA engineers surveyed on town center car park last year, ten percent of the cars checked were unlocked, a figure backed by a Home Office national survey that found 12 percent of drivers sometimes left their cars unlocked. The AA recommends locking up whenever you leave the car — and for howev

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