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The impact of alcohol on the nation's health and welfare is almost incalculable. According to the latest 
figures, alcohol causes or is associated with 200,000 deaths every year. These include deaths from alcohol-
related diseases (such as cirrhosis of the liver, cancers of the mouth and larynx, chronic brain injury), 
traumatic events (including automobile crashes), and thousands of other injuries. Many of these deaths and 
injuries occur among the young. Alcohol-impaired driving is the leading cause of death and injury among 
those under 25 years of age (in 1984 an average of 9 teenagers were killed and more than 400 injured each 
day in alcohol-related car crashes). Alcohol contributes to falls in the home, house fires, and drowning. 
People who drink habitually are more likely to smoke and hence to doze off and start fires with 
unextinguished cigarettes. Half of the pedestrians killed on the streets are under the influence. Nor are the 
highways and the home the only places where trouble occurs. Lost work time due to drinking on the job 
and/or recovering from hangovers costs an estimated $7.9 million annually. 
22. The country is badly influenced by alcohol.................. 
A) as it has been proved alcohol causes many fatal diseases 
B) if drunk-driving is tolerated more than now 
C) because traumatic proceedings kill many people every year 
D) so the government is right in their efforts to curb alcoholism 
E) because of the heavy death toll resulting from the harmful effect of the substance on the individual and 
others 
23. Drunk-driving is the most responsible for the huge number of deaths and injuries, 

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A) because traumatic events are as ordinary as terminal diseases 
B) because alcoholic drivers are inclined to get irritated with drunk pedestrians and hit them to death 
C) which explains why sleepers on the wheel cause more accidents than others 
D) which usually occur among the young as they are more prone to drink and drive recklessly 
E) as those who are involved in automobile crashes are decrepit people 
24.Economic damage of alcoholism is enhanced..................... 
A) when the drunkard sleeps with his cigarette not put out and goes to work drunk 
B) if any crash they cause involves pedestrians besides car drivers 
C) so much that 9 teenagers perish and over 300 hundred are injured every day
D) due to the expensive treatment of alcohol-related diseases 
E) because the highways host most drunkards dismissed from their jobs 
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Nobody knows when fiction started. Perhaps, the first story-teller was a prehistoric mother trying to explain 
the world to her children. Or maybe it was a hunter telling about hi adventures around the camp fire. Who 
can till? What we do know, though, is that story- telling was a purely oral activity around 800 BC. Myths and 
tales were passed down by word of mouth and had to be memorized by each new generation of story-
tellers. This oral tradition only examples of Homer, a blind professional story-teller, who lived in the eighth 
century BC. 
1. It is stressed in the passage that story-telling................. 
A) was first introduced by Homer in ancient times 
B) possibly began in prehistoric times 
C) began as a written activity 
D) became less and less popular during the 8* century BC. 
E) Became far more popular with the invention of writing 
2. It is very clear from the passage that the Homeric epics................... 
A) were among the first stories to be written down 
B)consisted mainly of myths and other tales 
C)are the first examples of prehistoric tales and myths 
D) were not the best of their kind in the 8th century BC. 
E) Have often been imitated successfully in later centuries 
3. We can infer from the passage that, throughout the oral tradition, professional story-tellers............... 
A) were much respected in primitive societies 
B) depended on Homer for their stories 
C) were skilful at creating new stories 
D) collected the first stories going back to prehistoric times 
E) used to learn myths and tales by heart 
The printing press was invented by Gutenberg in the city of Mainz, in Germany. He built and operated the 
printing press with moveable metal letters. Actually, simple printing methods had existed for centuries, but 
they had to be done by hand and took a long time. What made Gutenberg's press so different was that the 

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