Reading passages

92- The writer can be understood to favour the notion that the development of the ski industry in the world .......... .

A) owes a little to the growing international interest in this sport

B) is faster in countries outside Europe
C) has been the result of the efforts made by the European professionals
D) has been to the benefit of other countries, to the detriment of the European countries
E) is attributable to the growing international idolisation of skiing as a sport


93- As cited in the passage, as a sport, skiing ............ .

A) shakes up little enthusiasm outside Europe

B) is merely under the care of professionals
C) isn’t confined to any special age group or gender
D) ordinarily came into being in Austria
E) has proved too expensive a sport to take up


Edith Wharton is, perhaps, the greatest women novelist America has yet produced. Her novels are skilfully constructed, and her style is smooth and elegant. Her richest gifts, however, are the result of
her fearless search for truth in human relationships. She is largely interested in the emotions we all experience. Her novels record timeless truths; ant it is this fact that continues to make them meaningful and important.


94- All of the following statements are verifiable in the passage except that ........... .

A) no other author has been acclaimed as much as Wharton so far

B) Wharton is masterful in the setting of her novels
C) Wharton was concerned with the basis for human relations
D) what the author talks about in her novels are substantiated in terms of being lasting truths
E) Wharton’s novels are permanently significant


95- A novice novelist who wants to succeed Edith Wharton and gain reputation close to that of hers would be best advised to ........... .

A) talk about human relationships in his novels

B) write with elegance
C) to employ a way of writing that is particularly easy to understand
D) be interested in the emotions of people
E) touch on the facts that are perpetual