10. Act the following dialogue

SHE: You shouldn't have put your brakes on when the highway's so slippery.

HE: I put the brakes on because you grabbed the steering wheel.

SHE: I grabbed the steering wheel because you started to weave from side to side.

HE: I started to weave after you grabbed the emergency brake.

SHE: I grabbed the hand brake after you shouted "My God!"

HE: I shouted "My God!" after you jerked my foot off the accelerator.

SHE: I jerked your foot off the accelerator because you didn't want to listen to me.

HE: I didn't want to listen to you because you told me I should be driving an ass on a rope instead of a car.

SHE: I suggested you should be driving an ass and not a car because you were driving like a madman. HE: I drove like a madman to get away from the Fiat driver you bawled out as we passed.

SHE: I bawled him out because he was looking at me and pointing ; his finger at his forehead.

HE: He was pointing his finger at hi? forehead because you had put your right hand out of the window as if we were going to make a right turn.

SHE: I put my hand out to show you the tree we were going to smash into if you kept driving like a fool.

HE: But in the end we smashed into a different one.

SHE: But of course. You'll do anything just to contradict me.

11. Read the following article taken from the "Morning Star". Explain its main idea. What does the author criticise in the system of transport in Great Britain?

Traffic and transport are not merely technological problems to be solved by the use of computerised models or the introduction of better hardware. They are, fundamentally, political problems.

The reason why transport technology has landed a large part of the world in a wasteful, destructive, poisonous, noisy and thorou­ghly unpleasant mess is that it serves a selfish, greedy political system.

The motor, oil and construction industries have a gigantic interest in the prolifiration of motor vehicles, particularly the private car and the enormous capital investments it requires. Workers, who buy cars and discover that without them they cannot get jobs, or can only get a very poor choice of jobs, are hooked on the system

The objective of a Socialist policy would be to effect a drastic reversal of priorities. Making, selling and servicing more vehicles and building more roads would come at the bottom of the list, not the top.

The first aim would be to place good transport within the reach of everybody and to achieve optimum (not maximum) mobility for people and goods with the minimum of scarce resources.

It would ensure that benefits for one section of the community (e.g. speed) were not achieved by inflicting noise, danger and nuisance on others.

Completely new kinds of transportation study would be set up in which the objective would be to see how far public transport could get in providing without pollution and at far less cost something approaching the convenience of the private car or lorry - but convenience for everybody, not only for the private owners.

In the short term, it would not be too difficult to prepare a crash plan to enable a public transport to begin to play its new role. It would be necessary, first, to plan far more attractive bus and rail schedules, day and night, seven days a week, with new restored and improved services, better frequencies, higher speed and lower fares or no fares at all.