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1.4 0 43 listen again and complete these sentences with words and phrases used by the speaker.
of the world.
1 People refer to Amsterdam as the
of safe and fast cycle lanes in Amsterdam.
2
There is an
There is also an effective scheme designed to prevent the
3 of bicycles in the city.
4 It is possible for people who live in Amsterdam or visitors to bicycles.
5 The creation of cycle paths in Portland has resulted in a in the use of bicycles in the city.
with commuter bicycles.
6 Portland was the first city in America to provide adults on
The bicycles are all everything needed to use them.
7
8 The world's most successful community cycling
can be found in Copenhagen.
In Copenhagen the majority of bicycle paths are separated from the main
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when you use one of Copenhagen's public bicycles.
10 There is a 20 kroner
Public transport

la Complete the text with the correct words from the box.
V Vocabulary note
eco-friendly fossil fuels get around carbon-emissions
get around = travel to different places:
private cars self-driving vehicles More and more people are getting around
by bicycle, especially in big cities.
Dubai recently opened its first Metro network in a bid to get away with = escape without
reduce the number of people using their cars and cut punishment for something you have
(1) carbon emissions . The $7.42 billion project has so far done wrong They attacked the old man
in the park, but nobody saw them, so they
been hailed as a success as thousands of people have opted to
got away with their crime.
the city, as opposed to their cars.
use it to (2)
get by = to cope in a difficult situation:
It raises the question that, if governments are so enthusiastic
I couldn't speak the language, but I got by
about citizens relinquishing their (3)
to save
with gestures.
the environment, what other alternatives are them? How else
get out of= avoid doing something He
are people going to get to work conveniently, do their shopping
tried to get out of going on the school trip,
or generally travel with ease and relative cheapness? but in the end he had no choice.
Currently, the majority of public transport runs on get round to = do something after a
long delay: I've had her DVD for weeks,
(4) which creates pollution and is reliant on
but yesterday I eventually got round to
finite resources. However, many alternatives, such as
giving it back.
are being researched. Some of them may
(5)
seem like preposterous ideas drawn from science fiction, but
the drive to find (6) forms of transport is on.
la Answer these questions using appropriate phrasal verbs from the Vocabulary note.
1
If you were in an unfamiliar city, how would you travel from place to place?
2 If you were abroad and couldn't speak the language, how would you cope?
3 How do you avoid doing things you don't want to do?

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