SELF-REINFORCEMENT TCAS Admission 2 TGAT & A-LEVEL EXERCISE 2

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EXERCISE 2

1. The report recommends that the legal hunting of leopards should be _______________.

a. restricted

b. restored

c. advertised

d. abandoned

2. The word “its” in paragraph 3 refers to the ______________.

a. cheetah’s

b. alligator’s

c. common leopard’s

d. Himalayan snow leopard’s

3. Jacques Berney says that leopards “are highly adaptable animals” in paragraph 3 to explain why leopards ________________.

a. are often taken as pets

b. are different from cheetahs

c. could respond to excessive hunting

d. could adjust to smaller living areas

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

a. Alligators and leopards are still facing extinction.

b. Fears about shrinking habitats and excessive hunting have decreased.

c. Leopard coats and alligator shoes reflect humans’ insensitivity towards animals.

d. Those wearing clothes made from endangered animals often suffer verbal attacks.

5. The best title for this passage is ________________________.

a. Coming Back from Extinction

b. Saving Endangered Species

c. Destruction of Wildlife Animals

d. Convention of Preservationists

6. In paragraph 1, “stunt” means ___________.

a. limit

b. maintain

c. develop

d. reverse

7. In paragraph 4, “who” refers to ___________________.

a. the youngsters who smoked

b. Gold and colleagues

c. 5,158 boys and 4,902 girls

d. a third of the smokers

8. In paragraph 5, “The study” refers to the ___________________.

a. lung cancer study

b. New England study

c. previous research on lung’s health

d. Harvard University study

9. According to this study, the people at greatest risk of suffering from lung damage are ____________________.

a. teenage girls who smoke

b. all smokers

c. teenage boys who smoke

d. all teenagers

10. Gold and her colleagues were surprised that ________________________.

a. it didn’t take long to see the effect of smoking on the lung growth of teenagers

b. girls tended to be heavier smokers than boys

c. it took so many years before the effect of smoking could be studied

d. children started smoking much sooner than previously thought

11. A major finding of Gold and colleagues’ study is that teenagers who smoke ________________________.

a. die of unexpected illnesses

b. endanger the health of their lungs

c. are more likely to develop lung cancer

d. do not grow as tall as non-smokers

12. The purpose of the writer is to ________________________.

a. persuade

b. criticize

c. report

d. promote

13. The best title for this passage is ________________________.

a. A Comparative Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lungs

b. Contradictions in Old and New Studies of Smoking and Lung’s Health

c. Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Teenagers’ Lung’s Growth

d. How Sex Differences Affect Lung’s Growth

14. From the article, we can infer that mobile phones ____________________.

a. are a possible danger to children’s health

b. will be banned very soon

c. have caused permanent brain damage

d. will be used increasingly in the future

15. The test indicated that the use of mobile phones by children ________________________.

a. would make them attentive

b. would certainly add to the cost of living

c. might help their parents control them

d. could slow down their reactions

16. The tests referred to in the article were carried out to discover more about the effects of using mobile phones on children’s ________________.

a. appetite

b. brains

c. hearing

d. moods

17. The pictures of brain activity in two children were obtained by means of _____________.

a. the test results

b. a mobile phone

c. the media

d. a scanner

18. The term “child subjects” refers to _________________.

a. child psychology

b. children who took part in the test

c. studies of brains activity in children

d. courses studied in school

19. The word “vulnerable” means ___________________.

a. hard to penetrate

b. likely to be affected

c. well-developed

d. easy to be protected

20. The researcher’s advice is that _______________________________.

a. mobile phones should be banned

b. parents should encourage use of mobile phones

c. children should not use mobile phones

d. licenses should be obtained by all mobile phone users