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D. Television has been changing the way people live for thirty years. 
E. American children spent more hours viewing television than studying. 
2. Why is television more than just a spare time activity for 
children? 
A. Their minds are growing, developing and learning. TV 
influences children's attitudes. 
B. Television puts their dental health at risk. 
C. Exposure to excessive violence. 
D. Young children don't distinguish between commercials and programs. 
E. They have limited attention spans, low tolerance for frustration, and a lack of creative imagination. 
3. How many hours ", week is the TV set on in the standard U.S. household? 
A. 25 hours 
B. 22000 hours 
C. 35000 hours 
D. 43 hours 
E. more than 50 hours 

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Thirty-five hundred years ago, an incredible explosion blew apart an island and completely destroyed a 
civilization called Atlantis. Where was Atlantis? What kind of people lived there? Why and how was it 
destroyed? No one knows the answers to these questions, but there have been hundreds of guesses and 
theories. The Greek philosopher Plato (approximately 427 to 347 B.C.) is the primary source for the legend 
of Atlantis. His description of the "lost continent" still excites the modern mind. Plato's Atlantis was a kind of 
paradise - a vast island "larger than Libya and Asia put together" - with magnificent mountain ranges, green 
plains that were full of every variety of animal, and luxuriant gardens where the fruit was "fair and wondrous 
and in infinite abundance." The earth was rich with precious metals, especially the one prized most highly 
by the ancients, orichalc, an alloy of copper, perhaps brass. The capital of Atlantis was beautifully 
constructed in white, black, and red stone. The city was carefully planned - in five zones built in perfect 
concentric circles. Each circular zone was built inside a larger one. Plato says that the capital's canals and 
its nearby port were "full of vessels and merchants coming from all parts, who ... kept up ... din and clatter 
.... night and day." The city was full of life, activity, and culture. 
4. Plato lived ___. 
A. 3,500 years ago.
B. roughly 427 to 347 B.C. I 
C. 23 centuries ago I 
D. in Africa I 
E. on a lost continent 
5. In accordance with Plato, how large was Atlantis? 
A. as large as a continent 
B. larger than Libya and Asia put together 
C. as large as a vast island 
D. None of the above 
E. all of the above 
6. The fruit on Atlantis was ___. 
A. orichalc 
B. rich with special metals 
C. fair and wondrous and in endless abundance 
D. a kind of paradise 
E. green 
The need for a surgical operation, specially an emergency operation, almost always comes as a severe 
shock to the patient and his family. Despite modern advances, most people still have an irrational fear of 
hospitals and anaesthetics. Patients do not often believe they really need surgery - cutting into a part of the 
body as opposed to treatment with drugs. In the early years of this century there was little specialisation in 
surgery. A good surgeon was capable of performing almost every operation that had been devised up to 
that time. Today the situation is different. Operations are now being carried out that were riot even dreamed 
of fifty years ago. The heart can be safely opened and its valves repaired. Clogged blood vessels can be 
cleaned out, and broken ones mended or replaced. A lung, the whole stomach, or even part of the brain can 
be removed and still permit the patient to live a comfortable and satisfactory life. However, not every 
surgeon wants to, or is qualified to carry out every type of modern operation. 
7. Many people are afraid of being operated on ___ 

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