IELTS Mock Test 2023 February
IELTS Mock Test 2023
February
Reading Practice Test 2
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READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-14
Questions 1-14, which are based on Reading Passage
1 below.
Environmentally-Friendly! Vehicles
A
In the early 1990s, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the government of California’s
“clean air agency”, began a push for more fuel-efficient, lower-emissions vehicles, with the
ultimate goal being a move to zero-emissions vehicles such as electric vehicles. In response,
automakers developed electric models, including the Chrysler TEVan, Ford Ranger EV pickup
truck, GM EV1 and S10 EV pickup, Honda EV Plus hatchback, Nissan lithium-battery Altra EV
miniwagon and Toyota RAV4 EV. Ford Fusion is manufactured at Ford’s Hermosillo Stamping
& Assembly plant, located in Sonora Mexico. I thought going green was supposed to provide
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In the United States, the NHW11 was the first Prius to be sold. The Prius was marketed
between the smaller Corolla and the larger Camry. The published retail price of the car was
US$19,995. The NHW11 Prius became more powerful partly to satisfy the higher speeds and
longer distances that Americans drive. Air conditioning and electric power steering were
standard equipment. The vehicle was the second mass-produced hybrid on the American
market, after the two-seat Honda Insight. While the larger Prius could seat five, its battery pack
restricted cargo space.
G
Hybrids, which featured a combined gasoline and electric powertrain, were seen as a balance,
offering an environmentally friendly image and improved fuel economy, without being hindered
by the low range of electric vehicles, albeit at an increased price over comparable gasoline cars.
Sales were poor, the lack of interest attributed to the car’s small size and the lack of necessity
for a fuel-efficient car at the time. The 2000s energy crisis brought renewed interest in hybrid
and electric cars. In America, sales of the Toyota Prius jumped, and a variety of automakers
followed suit, releasing hybrid models of their own. Several began to produce new electric car
prototypes, as consumers called for cars that would free them from the fluctuations of oil
prices.
H
In 2000, Hybrid Technologies, later renamed Li-ion Motors, started manufacturing electric cars
in Mooresville, North Carolina. There has been increasing controversy with Li-ion Motors
though due to the ongoing ‘Lemon issues’ regarding their product. And their attempt to cover it
up. California electric-car maker Tesla Motors began development in 2004 on the Tesla
Roadster, which was first delivered to customers in 2008. The Roadster remained the only
highway-capable EV in serial production and available for sale until 2010. Senior leaders at
several large automakers, including Nissan and General Motors, have stated that the Roadster
was a catalyst which demonstrated that there is pent-up consumer demand for more efficient
vehicles. GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said in 2007 that the Tesla Roadster inspired him to push
GM to develop the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid sedan prototype that aims to reverse years
of dwindling market share and massive financial losses for America’s largest automaker. In an
August 2009 edition of The New Yorker, Lutz was quoted as saying, “All the geniuses here at
General Motors kept saying lithium-ion technology is 10 years away, and Toyota agreed with
us – and boom, along comes Tesla. So I said, ‘How come some tiny little California startup, run
by guys who know nothing about the car business, can do this, and we can’t?’ That was the
crowbar that helped break up the log jam.”
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