An advantage of using chain lashing on heavy vehicles aboard Ro-Ro vessels is that it（）.

Townley Vehicles have appointed Ken Roberts, formerly of Weaton Motors, as Sales Manager.
What do we know about Ken Roberts?

Practice 3
　　Energy-saving vehicles were part of the Green Transportation Festival in the US in 2003. The vehicles shown were designed to reduce America’s dependence on oil and help the environment.
　　There are exhibits of cars and buses at the festivals. Most of them use little gas or use another kind of fuel such as natural gas. People are also urged to consider simpler ways of getting around, such as walking, biking and using public transportation systems.
　　The United States has less than five per cent of the world’s population, but uses about twenty-five per cent of the world’s oil. More than half of the nation’s oil is imported. Most of it goes to transportation.
　　Festival organizers said progress in technology was making it possible for Americans to reduce their dependence on oil. That is because the kinds of energy-saving vehicles are increasing. Efforts to reduce oil imports in the United States would also have important environmental benefits. The burning of oil as fuel is responsible for gases blamed for climate change. When gasoline is burned in cars, it also pollutes the air. This leads to many health problems.

However, since methanol-fueled vehicles could be designed to be much more（）than gasoline clone vehicles fueled with methanol, they would need comparatively less fuel.

The number of such vehicles（）steadily increasing.

Which of the following is/are TRUE regarding lashing requirements to secure vehicles aboard Ro-Ro vessels? （）

A disadvantage of using chain lashing on heavy vehicles aboard Ro-Ro vessels is that it is （）.

A disadvantage of using chain lashing on heavy vehicles aboard Ro-Ro vessels is that it is （）.

When accepting vehicles for shipment，the Master should ensure that（）.

Practice 7　　● Look at the graphs below. They show the number of vehicles sold compared with the number leased by eight different retailers during the year 2000.
　　● Which chart does each sentence (11-15) on the opposite page describe?
　　● For each sentence, mark one letter (A-H) on your Answer Sheet.
　　● Do not use any letter more than once.
　　11. Leases grew more rapidly than sales in the second half of the year, following a steady rise in both sectors earlier in the year.
　　12. Vehicle sales rose sharply in the middle of the year, overtaking leases which nevertheless rose slightly in the last quarter.
　　13. While the vehicle lease business expanded during the year, vehicle sales dipped sharply after six months, never recovering their early high level.
　　14. The number of vehicles leased remained low throughout the year, rising only briefly above sales, which fluctuated dramatically in the first six months.
　　15. After falling steadily for much of the year, both sales and leases recovered, with the number of leases eventually exceeding sales.