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English Test 6: Left – handed traffic

Tham khảo tài liệu 'english test 6: left – handed traffic', tài liệu phổ thông, ôn thi đh-cđ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | English Test 6 Left - handed traffic The next topic was one which I have been investigating 1 __some length - why the English drive on the left - hand side of the road. T here is only one place in the whole of England 2 _it is legal to drive on the right barring one - way streets and that is the passage and court at the Strand entrance to the Savoy Hotel. Before leaving New York I put the question to Mr C.S. Forester. He said the custom was grounded in good sense and 3 __back to the period when many Londoners travelled to and from on the horseback. A horse said Mr Forester is always mounted 4 the left side. It was a matter of convenience then that a man coming out of a shop or house or tavern would have his horse aimed toward the left 5 he d have to walk into the mud and slop of the street to mount and from this practice came the custom of bearing to the left in traffic. Sensible Mr Forester added that my forefathers the founders of the American nation reversed the custom after the Revolution out of sheer perversity. On arriving in London I 6 another explanation in a guide book. The author of this book said that the Pope and Napoleon were responsible. Some years before the resign of Bonaparte the Pope came to visit Paris. Up to then there had been no rule 7 the movement of traffic. The authorities however decreed that the Parisians should ride or drive on the right - hand side of the street leaving the left -hand side clear for the movement of the papal carriage. Thus a custom was born and when Bonaparte came along he made it the law of the land. Moreover as he conquered country 8 country the right - hand rule was put in force in those lands until it became the general thing throughout continental Europe. The British however hating Napoleon reversed the custom out of sheer perversity. Now I had two conflicting theories and I told them to Nat Gubbins and he said they were both wrong. He said that Mr Forester was correct in one detail - the custom really dated .