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G Read the article from a travel website. Write T (true) or F (false). GETTING AROUND Some Interesting Facts about Subway Systems Ten subway systems around the world take people on more than a billion rides a year! Which city wins the prize for the most passenger rides? Right now, the top prize goes to Tokyo, with over three billion rides a year. Moscow and Seoul come in second and third places, with over two billion rides each, while New York, Paris, Beijing, Mexico City, Hong Kong, and Shanghai follow with between 1.4 and 1.9 billion rides a year. London's Underground comes in eleventh with a little more than a billion yearly rides! Speaking of London's Underground, did you know it was the very first subway system in the world? It also used to be the longest (at 402 km), but in 2010 first place went to Shanghai, at 420 kilometers. London's Underground also has a lot of stations (270), but Tokyo and Shanghai (282 each); Madrid (294); Seoul, Moscow, and Paris (300 each), and New York City (468) all have more. The Shanghai Metro is probably the fastest-growing subway system in the world. It opened in 1995, and it's getting longer and busier every year. People say that in 2020, the metro will be about 877 kilometers long, and it will pass Tokyo as the busiest system in the world. According to the article: 1. Tokyo has one of the busiest subway systems in the world. true 2. London's Underground is as busy as the subways in Beijing and Paris. false 3. New York City's subway system isn't the longest. true 4. The subway system in Paris has the largest number of stations. false 5. Shanghai has the second-longest subway system in the world. true 6. Shanghai's subway system has more passenger rides a day than Tokyo's. true