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

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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.

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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

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What is this passage mostly about?

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