سطح اول - آیلتس 5-4 (A2 - B1)
This news is about a city. It is in the northwest of Spain. Its name is Pontevedra.
It is a great city for walking and cycling. Only 30% of the public space is for cars. Seventy per cent is for people. People make 73% of journeys on foot or by bike.
From 2001 to now, there are no deadly road accidents. The CO2 levels go down by 67%, also, between the 1990s and 2018.
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Public Space: فضای عمومی
Journey: سفر
Bike: دوچرخه
Go down: کاهش یافتن
سطح دوم - آیلتس 6-5 (+B1+ - B2)
The city of Pontevedra in the northwest of Spain is great for walking and cycling. Most cars are banned in the city center, and 73 per cent of journeys in the city are made on foot or by bike.
Since the 1990s, the city has been changing. Seventy per cent of public space is for people and only 30 per cent for cars. There has not been a deadly road accident since 2001, and the CO2 emission levels dropped by 67 per cent since the 1990s.
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Ban: ممنوع کردن
Emission: انتشار گاز گلخانه ای
Drop: کاهش یافتن/ سقوط کردن
سطح سوم - آیلتس 7+ ( C1 - C2)
The city of Pontevedra in the northwest of Spain has been transformed over the past 20 years by policies prioritizing pedestrians over cars.
Miguel Anxo Fernández, the mayor of Pontevedra, said that people changed the paradigm – giving 70 per cent of public space to the people and 27–30 per cent to the cars.
City streets have radically changed and there have been zero fatal road accidents since 2011 as well as a 67 per cent drop in CO2 emissions since the 1990s.
Most cars are banned from the medieval city center and 73 per cent of journeys in the city are made on foot or by bike.
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Transform: تغییر یافتن
Prioritize: اولویت بندی کردن
Pedestrian: عابر پیاده
Mayor: شهردار
Paradigm: نمونه / مدل
Radically: بطور اساسی
Fatal: کشنده
Medieval: قرون وسطی
