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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questionsA considerable body of research has demonstrated a correlation between birth order and aspects such as temperament and behavior, and some psychologists believe that birth order significantly affects the development of personality. Psychologist Alfred Adler was a pioneer in the study of the relationship between birth order and personality. A key point in his research and in the hypothesis that he developed based on it was that it was not the actual numerical birth position that affected personality; instead, it was the similar responses in large numbers of families to children in specific birth order positions that had an effect. For example, first-borns, who have their parents to themselves initially and do not have to deal with siblings in the first part of their lives, tend to have their first socialization experiences with adults and therefore tend to find the process of peer socialization more difficult. In contrast, later-born children have to deal with siblings from the first moment of their lives and therefore tend to have stronger socialization skills.Numerous studies since Adler’s have been conducted on the effect of birth order and personality. These studies have tended to classify birth order types into four different categories: first-born, second-born and/or middle, last, and only child.Studies have consistently shown that first-born children tend to exhibit similar, positive and negative personality traits. First-borns have consistently been linked with academic achievement in various studies; in one study, the number of National Merit scholarship winners who are first-borns was found to be equal to the number of second-and third-borns combined. First-borns have been found to be more responsible and assertive than those born in other birth-order positions and tend to rise to positions of leadership more often than others; more first-borns have served in the U.S. Congress and as U.S. presidents than have those born in other birth-orderpositions. However, studies have shown that first-borns tend to be more subject to stress and were considered problem children more often than later-borns.Second-born and/or middle children demonstrate markedly different tendencies from first-borns. They tend to feel inferior to the older child or children because it is difficult for them to comprehend that their lower level of achievement is a function of age rather than ability, and they often try to succeed in areas other than those in which their older sibling or siblings excel. They tend to be more trusting, accepting, and focused on others than the more self-centered first-borns, and they tend to have a comparatively higher level of success in team sports than do first-borns or only children, who more often excel in individual sports.The last-born child is the one who tends to be the eternal baby of the family and thus often exhibits a strong sense of security. Last-borns collectively achieve the highest degree of social success and demonstrate the highest levels of self-esteem of all the birth-order positions. They often exhibit less competitiveness than older brothers and sisters and are more likely to take part in less competitive group games or in social organizations such as sororities and fraternities.Only children tend to exhibit some of the main characteristics of first-borns and some of the characteristics of last-borns. Only children tend to exhibit the strong sense of security and self-esteem exhibited by last-borns while, like first-borns, they are more achievement oriented and more likely than middle-or last-borns to achieve academic success. However, only children tend to have the most problems establishing close relationships and exhibit a lower need for affiliation than other children.Question:The word “it” in paragraph 1 refers to________.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questionsA considerable body of research has demonstrated a correlation between birth order and aspects such as temperament and behavior, and some psychologists believe that birth order significantly affects the development of personality. Psychologist Alfred Adler was a pioneer in the study of the relationship between birth order and personality. A key point in his research and in the hypothesis that he developed based on it was that it was not the actual numerical birth position that affected personality; instead, it was the similar responses in large numbers of families to children in specific birth order positions that had an effect. For example, first-borns, who have their parents to themselves initially and do not have to deal with siblings in the first part of their lives, tend to have their first socialization experiences with adults and therefore tend to find the process of peer socialization more difficult. In contrast, later-born children have to deal with siblings from the first moment of their lives and therefore tend to have stronger socialization skills.Numerous studies since Adler’s have been conducted on the effect of birth order and personality. These studies have tended to classify birth order types into four different categories: first-born, second-born and/or middle, last, and only child.Studies have consistently shown that first-born children tend to exhibit similar, positive and negative personality traits. First-borns have consistently been linked with academic achievement in various studies; in one study, the number of National Merit scholarship winners who are first-borns was found to be equal to the number of second-and third-borns combined. First-borns have been found to be more responsible and assertive than those born in other birth-order positions and tend to rise to positions of leadership more often than others; more first-borns have served in the U.S. Congress and as U.S. presidents than have those born in other birth-orderpositions. However, studies have shown that first-borns tend to be more subject to stress and were considered problem children more often than later-borns.Second-born and/or middle children demonstrate markedly different tendencies from first-borns. They tend to feel inferior to the older child or children because it is difficult for them to comprehend that their lower level of achievement is a function of age rather than ability, and they often try to succeed in areas other than those in which their older sibling or siblings excel. They tend to be more trusting, accepting, and focused on others than the more self-centered first-borns, and they tend to have a comparatively higher level of success in team sports than do first-borns or only children, who more often excel in individual sports.The last-born child is the one who tends to be the eternal baby of the family and thus often exhibits a strong sense of security. Last-borns collectively achieve the highest degree of social success and demonstrate the highest levels of self-esteem of all the birth-order positions. They often exhibit less competitiveness than older brothers and sisters and are more likely to take part in less competitive group games or in social organizations such as sororities and fraternities.Only children tend to exhibit some of the main characteristics of first-borns and some of the characteristics of last-borns. Only children tend to exhibit the strong sense of security and self-esteem exhibited by last-borns while, like first-borns, they are more achievement oriented and more likely than middle-or last-borns to achieve academic success. However, only children tend to have the most problems establishing close relationships and exhibit a lower need for affiliation than other children.Question:The word “key” in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by________.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questionsA considerable body of research has demonstrated a correlation between birth order and aspects such as temperament and behavior, and some psychologists believe that birth order significantly affects the development of personality. Psychologist Alfred Adler was a pioneer in the study of the relationship between birth order and personality. A key point in his research and in the hypothesis that he developed based on it was that it was not the actual numerical birth position that affected personality; instead, it was the similar responses in large numbers of families to children in specific birth order positions that had an effect. For example, first-borns, who have their parents to themselves initially and do not have to deal with siblings in the first part of their lives, tend to have their first socialization experiences with adults and therefore tend to find the process of peer socialization more difficult. In contrast, later-born children have to deal with siblings from the first moment of their lives and therefore tend to have stronger socialization skills.Numerous studies since Adler’s have been conducted on the effect of birth order and personality. These studies have tended to classify birth order types into four different categories: first-born, second-born and/or middle, last, and only child.Studies have consistently shown that first-born children tend to exhibit similar, positive and negative personality traits. First-borns have consistently been linked with academic achievement in various studies; in one study, the number of National Merit scholarship winners who are first-borns was found to be equal to the number of second-and third-borns combined. First-borns have been found to be more responsible and assertive than those born in other birth-order positions and tend to rise to positions of leadership more often than others; more first-borns have served in the U.S. Congress and as U.S. presidents than have those born in other birth-orderpositions. However, studies have shown that first-borns tend to be more subject to stress and were considered problem children more often than later-borns.Second-born and/or middle children demonstrate markedly different tendencies from first-borns. They tend to feel inferior to the older child or children because it is difficult for them to comprehend that their lower level of achievement is a function of age rather than ability, and they often try to succeed in areas other than those in which their older sibling or siblings excel. They tend to be more trusting, accepting, and focused on others than the more self-centered first-borns, and they tend to have a comparatively higher level of success in team sports than do first-borns or only children, who more often excel in individual sports.The last-born child is the one who tends to be the eternal baby of the family and thus often exhibits a strong sense of security. Last-borns collectively achieve the highest degree of social success and demonstrate the highest levels of self-esteem of all the birth-order positions. They often exhibit less competitiveness than older brothers and sisters and are more likely to take part in less competitive group games or in social organizations such as sororities and fraternities.Only children tend to exhibit some of the main characteristics of first-borns and some of the characteristics of last-borns. Only children tend to exhibit the strong sense of security and self-esteem exhibited by last-borns while, like first-borns, they are more achievement oriented and more likely than middle-or last-borns to achieve academic success. However, only children tend to have the most problems establishing close relationships and exhibit a lower need for affiliation than other children.Question:The word “body” in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by________.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)What is probably the best title for this passage?
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks.From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 12
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective is obviously ________
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)The word “slip” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks.From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 10
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks.From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 9
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts _________.
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks.From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 13
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks.From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 7
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)The word “traumatic” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks.From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 5
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)In the past, we had less news of distant people and lands because ______.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)According to the passage, which of the following has contributed to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress?
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks. From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 7
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks. From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 6
Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks.From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers and pesticides -The Green Revolution regimen depends heavily on technology. One (4) , however , depends much(5) on technology - organic farming . Many organic farmers use machinery, but (6) chemical fertilizers or pesticides .(7) chemical soil enriches , they use animal manure and plant part not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (8) .Organic farmers also use alternatives (9) pesticides ; for example they many rely on natural predators of certain insect pets.(10) the need arises ; they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields . They use(11) techniques to control pests as well , like planting certain crops together because one crop repels the other’s pests . Organic farmers do not need a lot of land ; (12) ,organic farming is perfectly (13) to small farm and is relatively inexpensive .Finally , many organic farmers’ average yields compare favorably with other farmers’ yields.Điền vào ô 4