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People are on move. The means of transportation are more and more important. With the development of science and technology, transportation in cities is improving, but with the convenience it has brought to us, some other problems are coming out. …; What do you think of the transportation in your city? Talk about it with your friends in your group. Collect information while others are talking.;;;;; Read the passage to get the main idea of each paragraph and that of the whole passage and find details for each topic.;; Read the following events and rearrange them according to the time they happened.;Let’s get into Amsterdam!;; The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized nation, the Netherlands is also a large exporter of agricultural products. The country was a founding member of NATO and the EC (now the EU), and participated in the introduction of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. ;;Discover Amsterdam, City of bicycles ; Amsterdam is an unusual city in that it has all the advantages of a big city – culture, history, food, entertainment, good transport – with relatively few of the disadvantages: it is physically small, beautiful, relatively quiet, and largely thanks to the canals, has relatively little traffic. ;Cycling in Amsterdam; Amsterdam is a city with cyclists galore: people cycle to work, to school and to the shops. The couriers use bikes, as do the police and delivery boys. There are pedal boats, and, of course, tourists go about on bikes. ;; A couple of interesting schnapps of the bikes of Amsterdam. ;; Amsterdam is ____ of life, day and night, with ____ museums, art galleries, music, opera, theater, and dance. It is a truly ____ city. Amsterdammers are easy-going and welcoming to ____, and English is the unoffi