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1. The main power of the media lies in the fact that it can shape what we know about the world and can be a main source of ideas and opinions. _____ . This power is greater if we consider all the various media together, not just one, such as the Press.

 

A) The most influential media is obviously television

B) Indeed it can influence the way we think and act more than we realise

C) Journalists are jealous of the power of television

D) In recent decades the main concern of the media has been democracy

E) Most governments ignore the influence of the media on society

Answer B

2. All considered, the United States has the world's most efficient overall economy. _____ . This increase in efficiency has in part been made possible by the fact that this sector is less heavily unionised than the manufacturing sector.

 

A) Unfortunately many American car manufacturers have lost a sizeable share of the world market

B) In fact Japan has become one of the biggest exporters of high-tech goods

C) Many American steel plants have entered a period of recession

D) Europe, however, has been making itself more efficient in the services industry

E) Competition from Germany is a threat both to Japan and the US

Answer D

3. When Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1885, the Soviet Union had the only advanced economy that had not joined the computer age. As a result of this, Soviet-manufactured products found no customers in world markets. He realised that to modernise the country, it was essential to permit the free exchange of scientific and technological ideas. _____ .

 

A) He played a constructive role in the reduction of weapons of mass destruction

B) The average income, over the last five years, has dropped considerably

C) The process of industrialisation, therefore, came to a halt

D) Any radical political change would obviously have encountered fierce opposition

E) This, indeed, was the policy he followed while he was in power

Answer E

4. The most important ideas of the 19th century was that everyone had the right to personal freedom which was the basis of capitalism. This idea had spread widely through Adam Smith's book Wealth of Nations, written in the 18th century. _____ . Fewer laws, they claimed, meant more freedom, and freedom for individuals would lead to happiness for the greatest number of people.

 

A) The British government at this time was reluctant to make use of his ideas

B) The result was a number of laws were passed to prevent people carrying guns

C) Obviously Adam Smith was well informed about working conditions in the factories

D) After Adam Smith, several capitalist economists argued that governments should not interfere in trade and industry at all

E) By the turn of the 20th century, capitalism had grown less popular outside England

Answer D

5. It seems that in most countries, the categorising of the handicapped is undergoing a change. In particular, the idea of mental handicap is being recognised. The case of autistic children is an example of this. ____ .

 

A) It is now clear that these children can be taught

B) On the contrary, the handicapped can get effective education in regular classrooms

C) As far as the authorities are concerned, more attention should be given to budgetary restrictions

D) Judging from the data gathered recently, throughout the world the handicapped are not receiving the care they actually need

E) In fact, among reforms proposed by the ministry, is the form of general election

Answer A

6. In this age crime has become everyday event, and this has had an effect on our reading. Readers no longer look for an escape when they pick up a crime novel. ____ . That is, they want to learn something about the real world, and about those good and bad, who inhabit it.

 

A) Crime novelists cannot be dismissed simply because the incidents they describe are inherently more interesting than those in other kinds

B) Today the crime novel, in all its forms, proceeds more surely and satisfactorily from character

C) Most novelists see crime as a fascinating topic when they creatively write about

D) They read it for the same reasons they read novels of any other kind

E) A great majority of readers regard incidents in a crime novel as more fantasy  

Answer D

7. The word “psychology’ was coined by the ancient Greeks as a label for their philosophic probings into the human “psyche”. ____ . But how does this go about studying the mind scientifically? Science implies measurement. How does one measure something which can neither be seen nor heard nor touched?

 

A) This is why psychology has come to be known as the study of behaviour

B) It is not the only discipline that is concerned with a systematic study of behaviour

C) All of these disciplines are rightly regarded as behavioural sciences

D) Sociology, on the other hand, is devoted in largest part to the nature and development of human society

E) Gradually it came to mean the study of the “mind”, and still, in part, retains that meaning

Answer E

8. ____ . Size alone has clearly nothing to do with the distinction, there are some huge colleges and some small universities. Is the difference to be found in breadth or scope of instructional offerings? Not according to the late Hastings Renewal, whose three-volume “Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages” is a classic in the field.

 

A) Public institutions are in a different situation

B) The content and the structure of general education need to be improved

C) First, let us clarify the terms “college” and “university”  

D) In most countries college has come to mean a label for a higher institution of limited or special scope

E) A number of colleges and universities have experimented with curricular structures  

Answer C

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