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(Task 1)

1 This new spaper article contains useful vocabulary for giving your w riting more
range and variety, particularly in Task 1. Read it and pick out some useful
language.
Fears increase among environmentalists as car travel
experiences another boom
Latest transport statistics reveal Europeans are
using their cars more than ever - despite
growing 
economic 
pressures 
and the
increasing threat o f global warming. Journeys
by car now make up more than 40% o f all
travel within the European Union, making this
the highest rate on record by some distance.
The Transport A gency’s annual report,
which includes data on a range o f transport
issues, shows that the percentage o f trips
made by car has now exceeded the previous
high o f 37% in 2005. While the overall
frequency o f car travel has shown a marginal
decline, from an average o f 6.4 trips per week
down to 6.2, environmentalists are sure to be
paying close attention to how the government
reacts to the report.
The increased proportion o f travel by
Europe’s car users is even more concerning,
given the fact that public-transport use has
dropped o ff substantially in the last five years.
A glance at bus travel, for instance, shows
that use o f this mode o f transport has almost
halved over the same period, dropping from
28% o f the overall share in 2005 to just 15%
today.
Meanwhile, the use o f the underground has
remained fairly constant over the last five
years, fluctuating between 20% and 23% o f
the overall share o f travel in Europe.
Similarly, train travel has also shown no

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