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82. Which tines of the passage illustrate the Certainly, one of the most important
ideal ICT teacher education programs most benefits to be derived from natural areas is
effectively? the perceptive-recreational benefit they
(A) sentence(s) A in the passage provide. This is evidenced by the increasing
(B) sentence(s) B in the passage numbers of people turning to the nature
(C) sentence(s) C in the passage preserve in order to escape briefly from the
(D) sentence(s) D in the passage hustle-bustle of fast-paced society. The quiet
(E) all the sentences in the last paragraph. environment of nature calms the monotony
in our daily lives whether from skyscrapers
and pavement or unbroken horizons of corn
Text 83-86. and beans. Healthy natural areas can offer
Our ancestors destroyed moot of our substantial economic benefits to our com-
natural areas before anyone had a chance munities as well. Wetlands, for example, help
to study or to try to understand them. As with flood protection and the removal of
a result, we have lost the opportunity to learn pollutants from our water supply.
about this areas and the benefits and
opportunities they might have yielded. Today 83. Paragraph 4 implies that .
our remaining natural areas serve important (A) the number of people turning to the
roles in the study of ecology, botany, nature preserves becomes more and
zoology, geology, and soil science. They more.
provide controls for comparison against (B) we cannot see any skyscrapers and
managed or exploited resources. They also pavement due to natural preservation.
provide educational and cultural information (C) preservation of natural areas can help us
important in the study of science, local throw away our stressful days.
history, conservation, and nature studies (D) nature preserves briefly lighten busy life
such as bird-watching, insect study, and tree of urban environment.
identification. (E) quiet enjoyment of nature creates better
Preservation of natural areas also daily lives.
provides many practical benefits. For
example, natural areas contain the biological 84. The sentence Our ancestors destroyed most
raw materials necessary for the development of our natural areas before anyone had a
of products that could greatly benefit the chance to study o try to understand them in
health and well-being of a man. A new the first paragraph can best be restated as
wonder drug or fine industrial product may .
exist now only in some inconspicuous (A) after we had an opportunity to deeply
organism harboured in a nature preserve. Up study our natural areas, most of them
to approximately half of the drugs currently had been destroyed by our ancestors
in use contain derivatives of wild plants, yet (B) we had an opportunity to deeply study
only a small percentage of all plants have our natural areas although most of them
been investigated for their potential in such had been destroyed by our ancestors.
uses. The need to protect the remaining 98 (C) most of our natural areas had been
percent of natural areas until they can be destroyed by our ancestors, besides, we
researched is obvious. had an opportunity to deeply study
From a genealogical standpoint, we have them.
roots linking us to our ancestors. With so (D) before most of our natural areas had
many of our natural areas now gone, those been destroyed by our ancestors, we had
that remain are a vital link to the past. They an opportunity to deeply study them.
can help us and future generations better (E) we might have had an opportunity to
understand the landscape and natural deeply study our natural areas if most of
resources from which the pioneers molded them had not been destroyed by our
their lives. ancestors.
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85. Which of the following obviously shows the While 61 percent of Americans said they
authors bias about natural areas? were bothered by the use of steroids among
(A) As a result, we have lost the opportunity professional athletes. 75 percent said they
to learn about these areas and the bene- were concerned about the use of perform-
fits and opportunities they might have ance-enhancing drugs among Olympic
yielded. athletes. This response seem to be based
(B) Wetlands, for example, help with flood partly on the ideal that American Olympic
protection and the removal of pollutants spoils are purer than professional sports, and
from our water supply. on the widely held belief that Olympic
(C) The need to protect the remaining 98 athletes are still amateurs. The Olympics are
percent until they can be researched is pure and clean, Jason Mannino, 32, a tax
obvious. assessor, said. We want these kids to be all
(D) With so many of our natural areas now on the same playing field. A lot of these kids
gone, those that remain are vital link to are trying to make a name for themselves
the past. purely on their athletic ability, and they are
(E) Preservation of natural areas also not getting high-dollar contracts to perform.
provides many practical benefits. They are performing out of pride for the
country and out of pride for getting a gold
86. The organizational pattern of passage is .... medal. In fact, the Olympics have been
open to professionals since the late 1980s.
(A) listing order.
And most of the drug scandals in recent
(B) time order.
years have involved sports related to the
(C) classification.
Olympics.
(D) cause-effect.
(E) comparison-contrast.
87. What is the authors attitude towards topic
of the passage?
Text 87-90.
According to the latest New York Times (A) Tolerant.
poll, most Americans are troubled by (B) Unhappy.
performance-enhancing drugs, which they (C) Worried.
believe are widely used by the nations (D) Critical
athletes. The public believes that professional (E) Unconcerned.
athletes in major American sports leagues
use steroids to a greater degree than 88. The paragraph following the passage will
American Olympic athletes do. But the likely talk about ....
prospect of achievement through illicit (A) drug use by Olympic athletes.
means in the Winter and Summer Olympics (B) the opinions of young people and those
is more troubling. Also, younger Americans above 30.
are much less troubled by drug use in sports (C) what the surveyor think about drug use.
and believe it to be more widespread than do (D) what is being done about the problem.
Americans age 30 and above. (E) what the problems will lead to.
After recent revelations about the use of
performance-enhancing drugs in football.
baseball, and track-and-field, 43 percent of
those polled said they believe that at least
half of professional athletes in the United
States use steroids. In comparison, 18
percent of those surveyed said they believe
that at least half of American Olympic
athletes use banned performance-enhancing
substances.
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