City life

Life in a big city is not easy. Posing many problems such as traffic jam, waiting in queues, noise, air pollution, power failures or lack of sufficient water supply, it has a bad influence on city-dwellers. Despite these difficulties, an increasing percentage of the population prefer living in big cities so that they can take advantage of amenities presented by a modern life. Considering that it is our own choice, all of us have some certain responsibilities for making life where we live easier and bearable.

VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS

 Jam: tirbandlik

To pose : sabab bo’lmoq

Queue: navbat

Power failure: chiroq o’chib qolishi Sufficient: yetarli

Supply: ta’minot

Dweller: yashovchi, aholi

Bearable: chidasa bo’ladigan 

EXERCISE

Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words defined above

1. Fixing kitchen units to walls always... problems imitators ....forthe “one-man" DIYer, but it can be simplified.

2. They formed a ......outside the cinema, pockets of greasy overcoats and grubby kaftans bulging with flagons.

3. To a town ..... the silence is eerie — so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers.

4 .......include a sun terrace built out above the lake, garden, lounge, bar and table tennis.

5. The pain of the separation was made more......by the fact their father was in constant touch.

READING COMPREHENSION

1. It is pointed out in the passage that..

A) it is amusing to live in a big city.

B) we don't complain about living in a big city at all.

C) our complaints about living in a big city are nonsense.

D) it has some negative aspects to. live in a big city.

E) there is nothing logical to influence us to live in a big city in fact 

2. We can infer from the passage that...........

A) there is a decrease in the number of people who would like to live in a big city. B) many people have to live in a big city because they don't have another chance. C) people who live in a big city are supposed to make a special effort to make life tolerable.

D) it isn't pleasant to have some responsibilities for others' comfort.

E) although we have some difficulties, we have to bear city life.

3. We can understand from the passage that .....................

A) people living in a big city are unaware of the problems that make life unbearable.

B) city life provides us with some facilities for which we can, stand difficulties in big cities.

C) it is impossible to avoid problems as long as we live in a big city.

D) we have to endure the problems because we prefer living in a big city.

E) difficulties are the results of a modern life, so they are inevitable.