Mary
Read the text and answer the questions that follows (in the correction): Slow down, you move too fast Do you eat 'Slow Food'? The Slow Food movement was founded the day that an Italian journalist, Carlo Petrini, saw that McDonald's had opened a restaurant in Piazza di Spagna, the beautiful square in Rome. He thought it was tragic that many people today live too quickly to sit down for a proper meal and only eat mass-produced fast food. He decided that he had to try to do something about it and so he started the Slow Food movement. Although he didn't succeed in (banning) McDonalds from Piazza di Spagna, Slow Food has become a global organization and now has more than 80,000 in 100 countries. 'We believe,' says Fiona Richmond of Slow Food UK, 'that people should take time to enjoy food.' Slow Food also (encourages) people to eat local and regional food, to use local shops and markets, to eat out in small family restaurants, and to cook with traditional recipes. Says Richmond, 'There is nothing more I satisfying than relaxing around a lively table in the company of family and friends. The pleasure of eating quality food should be celebrated.' Would you like to live in a 'Slow City'? The idea of 'Cittaslow' or 'Slow Cities' was inspired by the Slow Food movement and it was started by the mayor of the small Italian town of Greve in Chianti. The aim of Slow Cities is to make our towns places where people enjoy living and working, and where they value and protect the things that make the town different. Towns which want to become a Slow City have to (reduce) traffic and noise, increase the number of green areas, plant trees, build pedestrian zones, and (promote) local businesses and traditions. Many other small towns in Italy have joined the movement and it has spread into other countries all over the world, from the UK to Japan and Australia. Aylsham in the UK recently became a Slow City, and most people are delighted. 'Slow Cities are about having a community life in the town, so people don't come home from work, shut their doors and that's it,' said a local resident. 'It is not "slow" as in "stupid". It is "slow" as in the opposite of "frantic" and "stressful". It is about quality of life.' But not everybody in Aylsham is happy. For teenagers, who have to go 25 km to Norwich, the nearest city, to buy trainers or CDs, living in a Slow City is not very attractive. 'It's all right here,' says Lewis Cook, 16. 'But if you want excitement, you have to go to Norwich. We need more things here for young people.'
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Choose the right answer:
40. Who started the Slow Food movement?
A. Fiona Richmond
B. Piazza de Spagna
C. Italy
D. Carlo Petrini ✔

41. What did he think was wrong with today's world?
A. McDonalds opened a restaurant in Piazza de Spagna
B. It is a very poor world
C. People live too quickly to sit down for a proper meal ✔
D. Fast food isn't healthy

42. One of the aims of Slow Food movement is to
A. Eat in a small family restaurant
B. eat at home
C. stop eating fast food ✔
D. eat foreign food

43. How big is the Slow Food movement now?
A. It has 80,000 members ✔
B. It is a local organization
C. It is in 100 countries
D. It is in every country in the world

44. Who started the Slow City movement?
A. Finam Richmond
B. A local resident
C. Lewis Cook
D. The mayor of an Italian town ✔

45. Where has the Slow City movement spread to?
A. to the UK and Japan
B. to other Italian towns
C. To all over the world ✔
D. To 100 countries

46. What do the people of Aylsham in the UK think about living in a Slow City?
A. Everyone is happy about it
B. No one is happy about it
C. Only teenagers are happy about it
D. Teenagers aren't happy about it ✔

Choose the right meaning of the following bold (between brackets) words in the text.
47. Promote D
48. Encourage A
49. Reduce C
50. Ban B
A. To influence somebody in a positive way
B. To say something is not allowed
C. To make something smaller
D. To help something to happen or develop

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