Unit 3 Out of Step Key to the Exercises Text comprehension I. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose of writing. A (The author brings the attention of Americans to the fact that they walk too little by citing many of his personal experiences as well as others'. He does not write out any solution to the problem; he simply "sounds the siren" as the last sentence of the passage shows: "And if that isn't sad, I don't know what is.") II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. T (Refer to Paragraph 1. The author and his wife wanted to live in a small, compact, and sedate town where they can go about their business on foot when they moved back to the United States. As a result, they settled down in Hanover, a typical New England town.) 2. T (Refer to Paragraph 6. Though it was convenient to go about one's business on foot in the town, the author could hardly find anyone else who did so. His acquaintances in the early days would "depart reluctantly, even guiltily" when failing to persuade the author to accept a ride as if they escaped the scene of an accident without giving their names.) 3. F (People like the man who drove his car to do the chores and the woman who complained about the difficulty of parking outside the gymnasium make a clear distinction between exercise and walking for business. They "jog extravagant distances" or walk on the treadmill, but they never take walking on the sidewalk as a form of exercise.) 4. T (Refer to Paragraphs 18 and 19. The pedestrian mall constructed in the early 1970s in Laconia proved to be a commercial disaster simply because people had to walk one whole block to...
