Predicting the Future

What is Gary Golden’s one passion?

• Houston, Texas

• the environment

• human society

• transportation

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One problem with electric cars is that they require very strong batteries. Part of the reason the batteries have to be so strong is that cars are so heavy. What solution does Golden propose for this problem?

• build cars out of strong plastic composites so that they are lighter

• find an easier and faster way to produce strong batteries for cars

• build cars out of lighter weight metals so they don’t need as many batteries

• create a way for cars to communicate with each other and adjust their speeds

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Cars require a lot of space in cities. What evidence from the passage best supports this conclusion?

• Cities have to build parking spaces and repair roads for cars.

• Cities may limit the number of cars people can have within the city.

• In Houston, there are 30 parking spaces for every resident.

• Parking lots at shopping centers are not full all of the time.

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Based on Garry Golden’s predictions, how can transportation systems of the future best be described?

• expensive and complicated

• high-tech and efficient

• high-tech yet impractical

• inexpensive yet outdated

What is this passage mostly about?

• how one futurist thinks transportation will change in the coming years

• reasons why cars cost the city money and are an inefficient use of resources

• how to improve electric cars so that they are more widely used and available

• a comparison of public transportation systems across the United States

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Read the following sentences: “Houston, for example, has 30 parking spaces for every resident. That’s 64.8 million parking spaces in only one city. Golden points out that having so many parking spaces is inefficient. Much of the time the parking spaces sit empty. At high-use times—for example, Saturday afternoon when everyone is running errands—every parking space at a shopping center is full. But at 3 a.m. on a Monday, no one is at the shopping center.”

As used in this sentence, what does the word “inefficient” most nearly mean?

• productive without wasting time and materials

• successful and effective

• imaginative and creative

• wasteful of space and materials

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Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.Historians study the past in order to better understand the present. ___________, futurists analyze the present in order to make scientific predictions about the future.

• In particular

• Such as

• In contrast

• Ultimately

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