MEXICO'S BIKE REVOLUTION
It's a quiet Sunday morning on the city's Avenida Reforma. On weekdays
there are tens of thousands of cars here, but today there's not one car.
In 2007. Mexico City closed its main road to cars on Sundays. That was
the first big step towards becoming a bike-friendly city, and three years
later, in 2010, it started a new bike sharing system, the 'EcoBici".
Now, with over 4,000 bikes, 276 cycle stations, and 87.000 users.
Mexico City has one of the most successful bike share systems in the
Americas. Cyclists can take a bike from one cycle station and leave
it at any other station in the city between the hours of 6.00a.m. and
00.30a.m. Users have to be over sixteen and pay 300 pesos by credit or
debit card for a year's use. They don't have to pay anything for the first
forty-five minutes of each journey
Forty-nine-year-old businessman Mateo Reyes likes the scheme.
'I only use my car when I'm too tired to cycle, but I go by bike when the
traffic is bad. And the traffic is almost always bad. But he thinks it will
take some time before cyclists and drivers learn to be happy sharing
Mexico City's roads.
READING
3 A Look at the photo of EcoBici, the bike share system in
Mexico City. Write four questions with how much, how many,
who and where.
1 How much does it cost?
3 Who
?
2 How many
?
4 Where
?
B Read the article. Did you find the answers to your four
questions?
C Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? Change the false
sentences so that they are true.
1 The Avenida Reforma has no cars on Sunday afternoons.
2 You always take and leave the bicycle in the same place.
3 You can't get an EcoBici bike at 2a.m.
4 It costs nothing for one hour's cycling.
5 Mateo Reyes always uses a bike.
6 Rafael thinks driving a taxi is more difficult now.​

1) so, where did you buy the paper for the muffin? in the mcdonalds

2) why did he showed me round the town? because he's very kind.

3) did your sister have any kind of distinctive facial scarring or dental work? yes, she did.

4) did your friend check to see, if the laptop was the only computer accessing the web portal? no, he didn't, my apologies.

5) did you go around before the christmas party pulling down the mistletoe? no, i didn't, it was someone else.

6) what did you expect, men in hoods and high heads? no, i didn't expect.

7) why did i spend my life fighting against people like him? -

8) anyway, why didn't you say anything after this happend? because i was so afraid

9) did you have a good expiriense with that product? yes, i did.

10) mr.cannabis where did you meet the defendant? i just met him near the store.

i would like to spend the first summer month in the country, at my grandparents’. my friends and cousins will be waiting for me there. i miss them so much. we shall go fishing, sunbathing, swimming, horse-riding and playing football. and i’m going to help my grandparents about the garden. so i will be outdoors all the time.

i can’t wait for july because our family will travel to the seaside. we shall stay in a rented house for 2 weeks. i really enjoy the clean air and the beautiful scenery with beaches and mountains near the warm sea. i am going to swim and dive a lot. and i want to try the national cuisine, rich in fruit, vegetables and fish.

as for august, i would like to stay in the city and spend the time with my friends walking around, going to the cinema and cafes, playing computer games. my dream is to sleep as much as i like and to do what i like. i will ride my bike, go skateboarding or roller-skating in the park.

перевод:

я бы хотел провести свой первый летний месяц в деревне, у бабушки с дедушкой. мои друзья и двоюродные братья будут меня там ждать. я скучаю по ним. мы будем ходить на , загорать, купаться, кататься на лошадях и играть в футбол. и я собираюсь бабушке и дедушке работать в огороде. поэтому все время я буду находиться на открытом воздухе.

не могу дождаться и июля, потому что моя семья отправляется на отдых к морю. мы будем жить в арендованном домике в течение двух недель. мне нравится чистый воздух и красивые пейзажи с пляжами и горами возле теплого моря. я буду много плавать и нырять. и еще я хочу попробовать национальную кухню, богатую фруктами, овощами и рыбой.

что касается августа, я бы хотел остаться в городе и провести время со своими друзьями, прогуливаясь по улицам, посещая кинотеатры и кафе, играя в компьютерные игры. я мечтаю спать, сколько захочется и заниматься тем, чем захочется. я буду кататься на велосипеде, скейтборде или роликах в парке.