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Model test four
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news items.
1.
A. Their health becomes worse.
B. They don’t fight as hard as before.
C. They won’t get the benefit of pension.
D. They receive less education.
2.
A. In the late 1970s.
B. In the early 1970s.
C. During World War II.
D. In the late 1960s.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news items.
3.
A. Nobody was injured in it.
B. It was caused by an error.
C. It killed 27 miners.
D. It affected national electricity supply.
4.
A. Extraordinary expansion of mine companies.
B. The laws requiring federal mine inspections.
C. The decline of coal supply in the world.
D. An accident causing thousands of death.
Questions 5 and 7 will be based on the following news items.
5.
A. An express company that delivers food.
B. A meal replacement diet.
C. A report on fast weight-loss diet category.
D. An annual ranking of best diet plans.
6.
A. The food is made by medical workers.
B. The food is healthier than made-at-home meal.
C. The food is delivered to dieters directly.
D. Dieters can order a variety of food.
7.
A. It is tough to achieve.
B. It may change our lifestyle.
C. It is unhealthy and unsustainable.
D. It can lead to future diseases.
Test 4
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
The number of Americans over the age of 65 is expected to double between now and 2030. This next generation of retirees will be the healthiest, best educated, and most wealthy in American history. [1]But many of them won’t have a retirement benefit their parents’ generation fought hard to get. It is something known as a defined-benefit plan, or “pension”. Retired workers who have a pension continue to be paid a certain percentage of their highest annual salary-usually anywhere from one to three percent-multiplied by the number of years they worked for the company. Pensions first became popular during World War Ⅱ, when a federally-approved wage-freeze meant unions had to negotiate for retirement benefits, instead of pay increases. [2]Pensions reached the height of their popularity in the late 1970s, when more than 60 percent of Americans had one.
1. What problem does the next generation of retirees have?
2. When did pensions reach the height of their popularity?
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
U.S. government health and safety officials are investigating the cause of the recent explosion at a West Virginia coal mine, which killed 12 miners. [3]The accident was apparently an error in an industry which has prided itself on miner safety at a time of extraordinary expansion. Mine companies operate in 27 states, from West Virginia in the east to Montana in the west, producing a total of about one billion tons a year, or more than a third of the world’s coal supply. The U.S. economy is dependent on coal production. Coal-fired power plants generate about 50 percent of the nation’s electricity. More than half the nation’s coal is mined underground by thousands of men and women who daily risk injury and death. [4]But the occupation has become much safer since the late 1960s, when the U.S. Congress passed laws requiring federal mine inspetions.
3. What do we learn about the recent explosion at a coal mine?
4. What made the mining industry safer in the late 1960s?
Questions 5 and 7 will be based on the following news item.
When it comes to dieting, losing weight fast holds some appeal. Maybe that’s why U.S. News & World Report has added a Fast Weight-Loss Diet category to its annual rankings of best diet plans. And one of the diets that comes out on top is the Health Management Resources (HMR) program.
[5] HMR is a meal replacement diet that can be done on your own at home or under medical supervision. Instead of made-at-home meals, dieters can order low-calorie milk, soups, nutrition bars and multigrain cereal.
The U.S. News reviewers say [6]the plus side to the HMR diet is its quick-start option and the convenience of having meals delivered to you. The down side is “the milk lacks variety,” and it’s tough to eat out while on this diet.
[7] “A common misunderstanding is that losing weight quickly is not healthy not sustainable, and will just lead to future weight re-gain,” wrote Carol Addy, the chief medical officer at HMR, in a release. But she says, to the contrary, “numerous studies demonstrate that following a lifestyle change program which promotes fast initial weight loss can result in better long-term success.”
5. What is the HMR program?
6. What is the advantage of HMR program?
7. What’s the common misunderstanding about losing weight fast?
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