Прочитайте текст. Определите какие из приведенных утверждений 1-8 соответствуют содержанию текста(1-TRUE), какие не соответствуют(2-FALSE) и о чем в тексте не сказано(3-Not STATED), то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного ни отрицательного ответа. Nobody walks anywhere 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 vil¬lage 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 of¬fice or library or the local bookshop, and I stop at Rosey Jekes Cafe 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 behaviour 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 that 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 looked 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.
1) Main Street in Hanover can be called a shopping street.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
2) A lot of people in Hanover live far away from the shops.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
3) The author's behaviour was considered to be strange by local people.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
4) The author's daughter takes piano lessons.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
5) The man, whom the author saw in Etna, preferred driving a few metres to walking that distance.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
6) The man, whom the author saw in Etna, didn't look healthy.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
7)A lot of people visit the local gym. 1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
8)The author's neighbour gives some reasons for exercising in the gym.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
