Ejercicio 1 · Gapped text
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Ejercicio 1 · Gapped text
Escribe en cada hueco la letra de la frase que falta. Sobra una y ninguna letra se repite.
The return of the night train
Twenty years ago the sleeper train looked finished. Budget airlines had made flying cheaper than a bunk bed, and one European operator after another quietly withdrew its overnight services. (1) Today, however, the picture is changing again.
The reasons are partly environmental. A flight from Vienna to Brussels produces several times the emissions of the same journey by rail, and a growing number of travellers have begun to factor that difference into their plans. (2) Governments have noticed, and several now subsidise routes that no private company would touch.
Austria has led the way. Its state operator runs a network of night services reaching as far as Amsterdam and Rome, using carriages built specifically for the job. (3) The compartments are smaller than the old ones, but they are private, and that turns out to matter more to passengers than floor space.
Not everything has been solved. Night trains are expensive to run: they occupy the track all night, need staff on board, and carry far fewer passengers per carriage than a daytime service. (4) Without some form of public support, most routes would not survive their first winter.
There is also the question of time. A sleeper saves a hotel night and a morning at an airport, but it rarely saves hours. (5) For business travellers on a tight schedule, that remains a difficult argument to win.
Still, bookings keep rising. (6) For a generation that grew up being told to fly less, a bunk and a moving window may be the closest thing there is to a guilt-free holiday.
| Letra | Frase |
|---|---|
| A | That combination makes it almost impossible to compete on price alone. |
| B | At the time, few passengers complained, and even fewer campaigned to keep them. |
| C | Operators report that the most popular routes now sell out weeks ahead. |
| D | Most of the old carriages were eventually scrapped or sold abroad. |
| E | Each one contains a row of single sleeping pods rather than the old six-berth couchettes. |
| F | A journey of two hours by plane can take fourteen on rails. |
| G | What began as a personal choice among a small minority has slowly become a visible trend. |
- (1)B. El hueco va detrás de withdrew its overnight services, y keep them se refiere justo a esos servicios. Además At the time encaja con el Today, however que viene después. La D habla de los vagones, que todavía no se han mencionado.
- (2)G. Antes se dice que cada vez más viajeros tienen en cuenta las emisiones, y G lo resume como una tendencia. El Governments have noticed siguiente necesita que antes haya algo visible que notar.
- (3)E. Each one se refiere a los vagones nuevos de la frase anterior, y las pods explican por qué después se dice que los compartimentos son pequeños pero privados.
- (4)A. That combination recoge la lista de costes que acaba de darse, y encadena con Without some form of public support: si no puedes competir en precio, necesitas subvención.
- (5)F. Es el ejemplo concreto de it rarely saves hours. Dos horas frente a catorce ilustra esa idea y prepara el argumento sobre los viajeros de negocios.
- (6)C. Bookings keep rising pide un dato que lo confirme, y sell out weeks ahead es ese dato.