Câu hỏi:

Fill the gaps in the passage by choosing the best phrases from A-M.

A few years ago one enlightened city decided to ease traffic congestion by (1) _______. People would just take a bike, ride it to where they were going and leave it (2) _______. The trouble was the citizens naturally found it (3) _______ to have their own free bicycle and (4) _______.

That slight detail of human nature apart, it was a good idea and (5) _______. The electric cars buzzing round the streets of La Rochelle in France are seen (6) _______ and, it is clamed, will make it easier (7) _______ within the city centre.

The idea is based on the belief that people like their own space, the freedom to drive a vehicle themselves (8) _______. It’s also based on the fact that cars in towns usually carry just one person. In effect, it’s (9) _______. At the moment, it’s a slightly utonpian view but the concept has grown (10) _______.

A. to end the use of private cars	H. supplying sufficient communal bicycles
B. rather than crowd on to a bus or train	I. taking the place of bicycles
C. to encourage their use	J. a sort of do-it-yourself taxi
D. stock swiftly dwindled	K. as a supplement to conventional cars
E. out of a practical study	L. instead of car
F. for someone else to use	M. it’s now the basic of a new scheme
G. even more convenient

A few years ago one enlightened city decided to ease traffic congestion by (1) _______.