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An Integrated English Course III Unit 12Text 1 Out of Step Key to Exercises Text Comprehension (pp 177-178) I. Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose of writing this article. A. The author brings Americans to the fact they walk too little by citing many of his own experiences as well as others’. He does not write out any solution to the problem; he simply “sound the siren” as the last sentence of the passage shows:” And if that isn’t sad, I don’t know what is.” II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. T. Refer to Paragraph 1. The author and his wife wanted to live in a small, compact, and sedate town where they can go about their business on foot when they moved back to the US. As a result, they settled down in Hanover, a typical New England town. 2. T. Refer to Paragraph 6. Though it’s convenient to go about one’s business on foot in the town, the author can hardly find anyone else who does so. At first, his acquaintances in the early days would “depart reluctantly, even guiltily” when failing to persuade the author to accept a ride as if they escaped the scene of an accident without leaving their names. 3. F. People like the man who drove his car to do the chore and the woman make a clear distinction between exercise and walking for business. They “jog extravagant distances,” or walk on the treadmill, but they never take walking in the street for a form of exercises. 4. T. Refer to Paragraphs 18- 19. The pedestrian mall constructed in the early 1970s in Laconia proved to be a commercial disaster simply because people had to walk one block to the mall from the nearest parking place. When the shopping mall was reconstructed so that people could park their cars fight before the stores, the downtown Laconia thrived again. That suggests how reliant Americans are on their cars as a means of transport. III. Answer the following questions. 1. Refer to Paragraphs 3 to 6. They think it strange t