# Should City Centres Go Car-Free?: answers and explanations

Testmigo Practice Test 4, Reading Passage 3

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## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 27 | C | which journeys into the centre genuinely require a private car |
| 28 | A | they were guessing: their forecasts rested on assumptions about national character, not on anything they had seen |
| 29 | D | what suits a small city may need substantial adaptation in a capital |
| 30 | B | A ban invites a battle over a symbol, whereas removing parking quietly changes each driver's calculations |
| 31 | NO | no single scheme can claim sole credit for a city's air |
| 32 | NOT GIVEN | Ghent took yet another route |
| 33 | YES | This is only partly true. |
| 34 | NO | a tendency, not a law |
| 35 | YES | a scheme should be judged by those who find walking hardest |
| 36 | A | the traders estimated that just over a fifth of customers arrived by car; the true figure was 6.6 per cent |
| 37 | C | they came to the streets less frequently |
| 38 | E | their estimated share of weekly spending was only 8.7 per cent |
| 39 | G | positive or non-significant effects |
| 40 | H | businesses oriented towards cars might suffer |

## Why these answers are right

**27. C.** The writer rejects the drivers-against-everyone framing and says the real question is which journeys into the centre genuinely require a private car. Option C restates that narrower question, with genuinely require rephrased as cannot be made without.

**28. A.** At the end of the Copenhagen paragraph the writer says the striking point is that the opponents were guessing, because their forecasts rested on assumptions rather than on anything they had seen. Option A expresses this lack of observed evidence.

**29. D.** The writer hesitates to treat Pontevedra as a template and adds that what suits a small city may need substantial adaptation in a capital. Option D paraphrases this doubt about transferring the model to a much bigger place.

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