Read the text. Then choose the correct answer to questions 30-32

d) 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,
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
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
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 105

d) became less and less popular during the 8* century BC.

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.
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