SELF-REINFORCEMENT EXERCISES 5 Pre-เตรียม

EXERCISE 5

CLOZE TEST

Choose the best answer to complete each blank in the passages below.

Rising carbon dioxide levels are one of the main problems inside buildings,

_____1_____ John Spengler, the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health

and Human Habitation at the Harvard School of Public Health. A recent study he

was _____2_____ in shows that higher CO2 levels can affect work _____3_____.

The researchers gave a number of tests to _____4_____ exposed to different

levels of CO2 and found that workers subjected to CO2 levels of 1,000 parts per

million or higher showed _____5_____ in decision making. Office buildings currently

measure around 600 to 1,200 ppm, but these numbers will rise as outside CO2

levels increase with climate change.

Most of us are _____6_____ of our great grandmothers’ faith in red flannel

as a(n) _____7_____ for coughs and bronchitis when worn _____8_____ the chest,

but in some area, a _____9_____ of brown paper, rubbed with tallow candle, is

_____10_____ to have similar healing powers. An _____11_____ belief goes:

_____12_____ throats could be _____13_____ by removing the left stocking and

_____14_____ it round the neck, the foot of the stocking next to the throat, and

then going to bed. By morning, all the trouble would disappear.

Frank Lloyd Wright didn’t just ___15___ gorgeous houses and museums.

In the 1930s, he ___16___ of Broadacre City, a utopian ___17___ to the hustle

and bustle of the ___18___ metropolis. Wright was so ___19___ by his idea of

giving one acre to each family and ___20___ them in a sprawling suburbia without

social problems or skyscrapers.