Answers to the reading HW

Understanding Inference
1. They probably didn't know each other. Alfieri didn't stop and help Andrews. She probably wouldn't have behaved that way if she knew her.
2. No she didn't. We know this because the text says that a witness followed her all the way to work to get her license plate number. If she had stopped, that would not have been necessary.
3. It will teach the public exactly what the number of flashes means. It will probably explain the dangers of road rage and explain why Flash will help.

Paraphrasing
A. 1. a
     2. a
     3. b
B. Paraphrase the sentences. My examples.
1. It is not easy to know if more people today are driving ore aggressively than they did in the past.
2. However, according to the U.S. Departement of Transportation, aggressive driving is involved in 70% or more of the traffic deaths in the U.S.

Using Target Vocab. in New Contexts
1. legal         2. tragedy          3. rage          4. insurance        5. calculate      6. incident
7. accuse      8. injured           9. vehicle      10. range            11. damaged    12. flashed
13. sensational

Word Families
1. showing emotion such as love, pity and sadness too strongly
2. a feeling that you get from your senses or experience
3. a piece of equipment that finds heat, light or sound, even in very small amounts

Studying Collocations
1. pick you up          2. pulled off      3. one way street            4. take a left          5. cut him off

Summary of each paragraph
1. Two women, Andrews and Alfieri, got into a traffic accident.
2. Alfieri's was guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide and assault.
3. Alfieri's behaviour was so bad that a witness followed her to get her license plate number.
4. Andrews is still recovering from the accident 2 years later.
5. A lot has been written about road rage in recent years.
6. However, this is not a new problem and researchers believe the media is writing about these tragedies to increase sales and attention.
7. In the U.S., Britain and Canada, many accidents are caused by aggressive drivers, many people admit acting aggressively while driving and also they experience road rage.
8. To prevent road rage, researchers in the U.S. are trying to test certain machines to reduce incidents of aggressive driving.

Main Idea
Road rage is a very big problem which causes many accidents and the best way to deal with road rage is to prevent it from happening.