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правильного ответа.Nobody walks in America nowadays. The ordinary American walks less than 75 miles a year
– about 1.4 miles a week, only 350 yards a day. I walk more than that just looking for the
channel changer.
One of the things we wanted when we moved to America was to live in a town within
walking distance of shops. Hanover, where we came to live, is a small, typical New England
town, pleasant and compact. It has a wide village green, an old-fashioned Main Street, nice
college buildings with big lawns, and leafy streets. It is, in short, an agreeable, easy place to
walk. Nearly everyone in town is within a five-minute walk of the shops, and yet as far as I can
tell no one does.
I walk to town nearly every day when I am at home. I go to the post office or library or the
local bookshop, and stop at Rosey Jekes Café for a cappuccino. All this is a big part of my life,
and I wouldn’t dream of doing it other than on foot. People have got used to this eccentric behavior now, but several times in the early days neighbours used to slow down and offer me a
lift.
‘But I’m going your way,’ they used to say when I politely said no. ‘Really, it’s no trouble.’
‘Honestly, I enjoy walking.’
“Well, if you’re absolutely sure,’ they used to say and leave, as if they felt they were leaving
the scene of an accident.
People have become so habituated to using the car for everything they don’t even think about
using their legs. The other day I was in a little nearby town called Etna waiting to bring home
one of my children from a piano lesson when a car stopped outside the local post office and a
man about my age went out and entered the post office (and left the motor running). He was
inside for about three or four minutes, then came out, got in the car, and drove exactly 16 feet (I
had nothing better to do so I walked this distance) to the shop next door, and went in again,
engine still running.
And the thing is this man looks really fit. I’m sure he jogs impressive distances and plays
squash and does all kinds of very healthy things, but I am just as sure that he drives to each of
these places. It’s crazy. A neighbour of ours was saying the other day about the difficulty of
finding a place to park outside the local gymnasium. She goes there several times a week to walk
on a treadmill. The gymnasium is, at most, a six-minute walk from her front door. I asked her
why she didn’t walk to the gym and do six minutes less on the treadmill.
She looked at me as if I were unable to understand simple things and said, ‘But I have a
programme for the treadmill. It shows my distance and speed, and I can change the level of
difficulty.’ It had not come into my mind that nature is not perfect from this point of view.
Main Street in Hanover can be called a shopping centre.
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ответ:
A lot of people in Hanover live close to the shops.
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The author’s behavior was considered to be usual by local people.
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The author’s son takes guitar lessons.
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ответ:
The man, whom the author saw in Etna, preferred driving a few metres to walking that
distance.
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The man, whom the author saw in Etna, looked healthy.
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A few people visit the local gym.
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The author’s neighbour gives some reasons for exercising in the gym.
1) true 2) false 3) not stated
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