1. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence
After Craig Rogers fell into the water, the
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23. After Craig Rogers fell into the water, the
shark … . B) bit his fingers C) swam away
D) attacked him 24. It is difficult for the author to understand why great whites … . B) kill humans C) have so many teeth
D) grow to six meters or more
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25. The underlined word their in the text means … . A) people’s B) great whites’ C) sea lions' D) seals'
A) create B) are C) increase D) depend upon Read the text answer the questions 27 – 30 Flowers can now travel long distances thanks to air freight1 and high-tech cooling systems. Even the most delicate orchid can be shipped to arrive fresh in most places on Earth. This allows Americans, for example, to import some 70 percent of the cut flowers they buy. The country that exports the most cut flowers is the Netherlands, which dominates die world cut flower trade. There, seven auction houses handle about 60 percent of the world’s cut flower exports. Some auction houses are very large indeed Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam, is an auction house in the sense that Tokyo is a city or Everest a mountain. Its scale is daunting. About 120 soccer fields would fill its main hangar, which holds five auction halls. Nineteen million cut flowers are sold here on an average day. The Netherlands is also a world leader in developing new flower varieties. Dutch companies and the government invest a considerable amount of money in flower research. Their scientists try to find ways to lengthen a flower’s vase life. They also try to strengthen flowers to prevent them from being damaged while traveling on rough roads and to strengthen flowers’ natural fragrance. Despite Holland’s dominance of the flower 30 market, there are many places with a better climate for growing flowers, and the climate of Ecuador is almost perfect. Mauricio Davalos is the man responsible for starting Ecuador’s flower industry some 20 years ago. “ Our biggest edge is nature,” he claims. “ Our roses are the best in the world.” With predictable rainy periods and 12 hours of sunlight each day, Ecuador’s roses
are renowned for their large heads and long stems. The flower industry has brought employment opportunities and a stronger economy to regions of the country. “My family has TV now. There are radios. Some people have remodeled their houses,” says Yolanda Quishpe, 20, who picked roses for four years. In recent years, local growers in Ecuador have faced growing competition from greenhouses built by major international companies. Despite this, Davalos feels that the world cut flower trade is large enough to allow both high-tech international companies and smaller national growers to succeed at least for the time being. But not all local growers are as optimistic. Lina Hale is an independent rose grower in the United States whose business is now under constant threat from cheaper imports from large companies. In the 1980s, her father predicted the situation would get worse: “I see a freight train coming down the track,” he warned her, “and it’s coming straight towards us.”
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