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In protest against “trash TV” – the game and variety shows featuring scantily clad dancers that make up much of the prime time schedule – a Milan viewers‘ association launched a three-day nationwide television strike. To encourage Italians to get up off their sofas, venues including museums, theaters and restaurants offered a discount to anyone turning up with a TV remote control. Organizers were hoping that up to 400,000 people would participate, but conceded that it might be difficult to persuade some – mostly male – viewers away from the weekend’s football matches.
(TIME, Dec. 22, 2003; p.22)
1.In line 1 the word “trash” means:
a) poor quality.
b) good quality.
c) ok quality.
d) terrific quality.
e) excellent quality.
2.The television strike _____.
a) was organized by the Italian government
b) had 400,000 participants
c) lasted 3 days
d) was a protest against variety shows
e) wanted to give participants a discount
3.According to the text it is correct to say:
I) The protest was against the poor quality of TV programs.
II) In order to get a discount in some places people should take with them a TV remote control.
III) The organizers thought it would be equally difficult to persuade both men and women.
a) F – F – T
b) F – T – T
c) T – F – T
d) T – T – F
e) T – T – T
Welcome to the jungle
Because there is no way to know in advance which forest sample will lead to a cancer drug or AIDS vaccine, most countries treat all research as potentially profitable. In some countries, investigators must negotiate with several levels of government. “The very people who are most able to get out there and discover and describe and quantify biodiversity are being impeded from doing it. Everyone struggles with the paradox of it,” says Columbia University economic botanist Brian M. Boom.
(Adapted from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Dec. 2003, p.18)
4.The paradox mentioned in the text is:
a) there is no way to know in advance which sample will be good.
b) all research is potentially profitable.
c) investigators must negotiate with the government.
d) cancer drugs and AIDS vaccines.
e) people who are qualified are being impeded to work.
5.According to the text:
I) It is impossible to know beforehand which sample will lead to a drug or vaccine.
II) Investigators must negotiate with many levels of government everywhere.
III) Not many countries treat all research as potentially profitable.
IV) Mr.Boom can see the paradox.
a) T – T – F – T
b) T – F – F – T
c) T – T – T – F
d) F – T – F – T
e) F – F – T – F
Down to the deep
Humans have visited the very bottom of the ocean only a few times. The first expeditions took place in 1960, when Jacques Piccard set the U.S. Navy submersible Trieste down; the next occurred thirty five years later, when Japan’s Kaiko, a multimillion dollar remotely operated vehicle (ROV), returned briefly to that black realm during several dives. The extreme depths and pressures of the earth‘s least explored territories have kept scientists from studying the ocean’s abyss up so close.
Engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Navy have begun developing an undersea craft that is designed to do meaningful science at the lowest depths routinely and cost-effectively. The device will be a hybrid ROV, it will combine the capabilities of a fully autonomous undersea robot with those of a craft piloted from the surface via a thin optical-communications fiber, the same technology used to guide torpedoes. The system is intended to be compact, lightweight and easily deployed from standard oceanographic vessels. If it all goes well, the hybrid ROV will let scientists better understand fundamental processes occurring at the deep subduction zones along the continental margins. Further, it will permit the exploration of the unkown seas below the polar ice packs as well as the study of any new undersea phenomenon that emerges unexpectedly.
(Adapted from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Dec. 2003, p.17)
6.The Kaiko’s expedition took place in _____.
a) 1035
b) 1925
c) 1995
d) 1935
e) 1960
7.Kaiko returned to the bottom of the ocean:
a) never
b) hardly ever
c) once
d) frequently
e) not many times
8.”Kept from” in ‘…kept scientists from studying…‘ means:
a) induced
b) prevented
c) made
d) disturbed
e) maintained
9.”As well as” in ‘…as well as the study of any new…‘ can be best replaced by:
a) and
b) very good
c) too
d) best
e) very well
10.According to the text:
I) Men have visited the very bottom of the sea several times.
II) Trieste was a U.S. Navy aircraft.
III) The hybrid ROV is intended to do science cost-effectively.
IV) Scientists are sure that the hybrid ROV will be successful.
a) T – T – F – T
b) F – T – T – F
c) T – F – F – T
d) F – F – T – F
e) T – F – T – F