Traffic and Transportation

Question 1

Mobility

Answer 1

Ppl enjoy the mobility that owning a car gives them

Question 2

Traffic-calming
physical design and other measures to improve safety for motorists, pedestrians and cyclists. It aims to encourage safer, more responsible driving and potentially reduce traffic flow.

Answer 2

~Traffic-calming measures are becoming increasingly common throughout the country.
~Specially-built obstacles are one of which
~Bollards and speed bump

Question 3

Traffic-free zone

Answer 3

no car is allowed

Question 4

Dominate the road

Answer 4

big cars dominate the road

Question 5

Accident risk

Answer 5

young drivers higher the accident risk

Question 6

Subsidized

Answer 6

Public transportation is heavily subsidized

Question 7

Black spot

Answer 7

a lot of accidents happen there

Question 8

Transport strategy

Answer 8

The city council needs to adopt an effective transport strategy for ppl to get into, around and out of the city

Question 9

Pedestrian’s injury

Answer 9

is very severe and has to go to the hospital

Question 10

Drink-driving

Answer 10

is a serious offense and will ban you from driving

Question 11

Pedestrian crossing

Answer 11

you should stop at a pedestrian crossing

Question 12

Highway code

Answer 12

the set of official rules, published in a small book, that have to be obeyed by drivers in the UK

Question 13

Heavy fine

Answer 13

and six points on my license

Question 14

Joyriding

Answer 14

driving fast and dangerously for pleasure, especially in a stolen vehicle
Joyriding has increased and I am urging everyone to think twice before they get involved in this activity

Question 15

Fatalities

Answer 15

death

Higher fatalities on roads make us think twice on regulations and impose heavy fine

Question 16

Cycle lane

Answer 16

It is safer for cyclists

Question 17

“Park and Ride”

Answer 17

Ppl leaving their cars in designated areas outside a city and catching a bus into the city center

Question 18

Traffic-related accidents

Answer 18

Has increased over the past decade

Question 19

Built-up area

Answer 19

In the UK Highway Code, a built-up area is a settled area in which the speed limit of a road is automatically 30 mph (48 km/h). These roads are known as ‘restricted roads’ and are identified by the presence of street lights.

Question 20

Plagued (by)

Answer 20

To cause suffering

A city plagued by congestion and pollution caused by traffic

Question 21

Notorious

Answer 21

famous for something bad:
one of Mexico’s most notorious criminals
The company is notorious for paying its bills late.

Question 22

Thoroughfare

Answer 22

a road that connects to other roads:

I live right on the main thoroughfare.

Question 23

Horribly mutilated

Answer 23

exteremly heart or in some cases paralyzed due to traffic-related accidents

Question 24

Steer wheel

Answer 24

When a man is sitting behind his steering wheel his car becomes the extension of his personality

Question 25

Charecteristics of a bad driver

Answer 25

Willful as a two-years-old/ utterly selfish/ ill-mannered/ aggressive

Question 26

Benignly

Answer 26

in a very kind manner

Question 27

Condone

Answer 27

To excuse
1. to ignore or accept behavior that some people consider wrong:
I don’t condone such rude behavior.
2. to accept or allow behavior that is wrong:
If the government is seen to condone violence, the bloodshed will never stop.

Question 28

Desecrate/ بی حرمت کردن

Answer 28

to damage or show a lack of respect toward something holy or respected:
Vandals desecrated the monument.

Question 29

Lax

Answer 29

lacking care, attention, or control; not severe or strong enough:
Security at the airport seemed lax.
Some countries laws are notoriously lax and even the strictest are not strict enough

Question 30

Stringent

All vehicles should be put through stringent annual tests for safety

Answer 30

extremely limiting or difficult; severe:
Members of the organization have to be willing to abide by the stringent rules.
The city has stringent fire-safety standards.

Question 31

Impair

Answer 31

to damage or weaken something so that it is less effective:

Lack of sleep impaired her ability to think clearly.

Question 32

Inordinately harsh

Answer 32

Excessively

Question 33

Annual toll of human life

Answer 33

تلفات

Question 34

Mean streets

Answer 34

an area of a city where the poor or socially deprived live or work, or an area that is noted for violence and crime.
“the mean streets of the South Bronx”

Question 35

Battalions

Answer 35

A millitary unit

Question 36

In droves

Answer 36

In large numbers

Question 37

Abreast/پهلو به پهلو

Answer 37

We were running/swimming two abreast.

The motorcyclist came abreast of her car and shouted abuse at her.

Question 38

keep abreast of sth

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Answer 38

to make sure you know all the most recent facts about a subject or situation:
I try to keep abreast of any developments.