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Listening
Today's listening exercise was a news item about the testing of driverless electric buses in Las Vegas & Paris. This news bit also came from http://learningenglish.voanews.com/ which is quickly becoming my favorite source for off the shelf contemporary listening exercises. Today's exercise took 43 minutes including the vocabulary and comprehension quiz. The remaining 20 or so minutes was a discussion of metropolitan transportation needs and the effect on air pollution by increasing the number of electric mass transit vehicles. I was informed that there are about 24 million people in Seoul where my 2T lives and there is a lot of air pollution even though their mass transit system is effective and includes non-combustion vehicles such as monorail, subway, etc. According to my 2T, even if all internal combustion engines were eliminated from Seoul, there would still be significant air pollution due to the pollutive effects of China's manufacturing and heavy industry close across the border and the prevailing west wind.
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