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item and starchy food like bread or pasta. Lunchboxes (55) ......... by researchers contained
sweet drinks, crisps and chocolate bars. Children consume twice as much sugar (56) .........
they should at lunchtime.
The research will provide a better understanding of why the percentage of overweight
students in Britain has (57) ....... in the last decade. Unfortunately, the government cannot
criticize parents, but it can remind them of the (58) ....... value of milk, fruit and vegetables.
Small changes in their children’s diet can (59) ...... their future health. Children can easily
develop bad eating (60) ...... at this age, and parents are the only ones who can prevent it.
51. A. appropriately B. properly C. probably D. possibly
52. A. give B. provide C. make D. do
53. A. prefer B. manage C. want D. choose
54. A. many B. much C. more D. less
55. A. examined B. found C. taken D. investigated
56. A. so B. than C. as D. such
57. A. increased B. expanded C. extended D. added
58. A. positive B. healthy C. nutritional D. good
59. A. damage B. predict C. destroy D. affect
60. A. behaviors B. styles C. attitudes D. habits
b. Read the passage, and do the task below: (5 × 0,2 = 1,0 pt)
Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as
more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and
writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from
surviving evidence) for at least 5,000 years; but they have been talking for much longer,
doubtless ever since there have been human beings.
When writing did develop, it was derived from and represented speech, although
imperfectly. Even today there are spoken languages that have no written form. Furthermore,
we all learn to talk well before we learn to write; any human child who is not severely
handicapped physically or mentally will learn to talk: a normal human being cannot be
prevented from doing so. On the other hand, it takes a special effort to learn to write. In the
past many intelligent and useful members of society did not acquire the skill, and even today
many who speak languages with writing systems never learn to read or write, while some
who learn the rudiments of those skills do so only imperfectly.
To affirm the primacy of speech over writing is not, however, to disparage the latter.
One advantage writing has over speech is that it is more permanent and makes possible the
records that any civilization must have. Thus, if speaking makes us human, writing makes us
civilized.
61. We sometimes think of writing as more real than speech because .........
A. it has become very important in our culture
B. people have been writing since there have been human beings
C. writing is secondary to language
D. human beings have been writing for at least 5,000 years
62. The author of the passage argues that .........
A. writing has become too important in today’s society
B. speech is more basic to language than writing
C. everyone who learns to speak must learn to write
D. all languages should have a written form
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