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23. What is the main purpose of the wildlife photography?
A) to show animals’ actions such as eating, fighting, or in flight
B) to show animals’ actions, peculiarities of their appearance and their habitat
C) to depict animals in their environment
D) to picture captive or controlled animals instead of true wild specimens
24. Choose the best definition for the underlined word in the passage
A) the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow.
B) the collective term for all known frequencies and their linked wavelengths of the known photos.
C) the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment.
D) a number of viscoelastic polymers.
25. Identify TRUE statement.
A) All wildlife photography including captive or controlled animals constitute true wildlife photography.
B) There are regulations that will be applied to wildlife photography competitions.
C) The techniques of wildlife photography have minimal difference from those used in landscape photography.
D) Wildlife is usually shot with long telephoto lenses from a close distance.
26. What types of photography are compared in the passage?
A) wildlife photography and landscape photography B) wildlife photography and macro photography
C) wildlife photography and portrait photography D) wildlife photography and narrative photography


The digital revolution in music has enabled people to download, store and listen to songs on a tiny, portable device called an MP3 player. The process is quick and afterwards you can have access to a library of thousands of songs that can fit into your palm. But experts say that continuously listening to loud music on these small music players can permanently damage hair cells in the inner ear, resulting in hearing loss. For instance, old-fashioned headphones have been replaced with smaller ones that fit neatly into the ear, instead of over them, which intensifies the sound. In addition to that, digital music does not distort and keeps its crystal clear sound, even on loud settings, which encourages children to crank up the volume. Combine that with the fact that many children will spend hours listening to their iPods, and you have the recipe for hearing loss. Put into further perspective, most MP3 players can reach levels of 120 decibels, chainsaw or lawnmower. When you consider 85 decibels is the maximum safe decibel level set by hearing experts over the course of a working day, and that children will listen to music at higher decibel levels than that for long periods of time, hearing will invariably suffer.