True, False & Not Given / Yes, No & Not Given
l She also claims that those who think the more intense the exercise the better are wrong. She believes that more health benefits are gained from exercising vigorously than exercising gently.----False
l "...it was first used as lamp fuel. Later on, due to skyrocketing oil prices in the 1970s, E10 was produced..." The need to control air pollution is why ethanol came into use.---No
l "Today,
l "...it increases the monetary value of feed grains grown by farmers." Select food crops become more expensive due to ethanol production.---Yes
l "...the money sugarcane growers get for their cane is not determined by the domestic consumption or domestic demand for ethanol..." The Australian sugar industry will benefit from the production of ethanol.---No
l Many benefits of exercise – reducing the risk of hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and cancers – can be achieved from any level of activity. One effect of exercise is to help prevent cancer. ----True.
l The level of fat in the blood does not rise so much. Taking exercise before a meal prevents blood fat levels from rising. –False(i.e reduce)
l Fat and carbohydrate from the meal are handled more quickly after the activity. The body processes food more rapidly after exercise.—True
l As you increase the amount of exercise, you also increase the risk of injury. The more exercise you do, the better it is for you.—False
l The existence of music mystifies scientists. Scientists have a clear explanation for the existence of music. –False
l I have seen many reports over the years suggesting that employers view postgraduates as eminently less employable than those with a first degree. The writer claims that undergraduates often plan to do a masters because they can’t decide what career to follow. ---Not Given
l The feasibility of travel to other planets, and beyond, is no longer limited by engineering constraints but by what the human body can actually withstand. The obstacles to going far into space are now medical, not technological.—True
l Many question the ethics of investing huge sums of money to help a handful of people who, after all, are willingly risking their own health….. (…) It is now clear, however, that every problem of space travel has a parallel problem on Earth. It is morally wrong to spend so much money on space biomedicine.—No
l One tried and tested method is to work under water, but the space biomedicine centres are also looking at other ideas. Space biomedical research can only be done in space. –No
l People may unconsciously exaggerate symptoms… because it gets them a break from unappealing work. Some keep scratching because they know it will enable to stop work. –False
l The lab workers ... spent the day laboriously examining the results of … tests and textile workers and clerical staff … found what they had to do tedious. The laboratory, factory and office employees all had boring jobs. –True
l In the past … expert reassurance was enough; theses days, there is a mistrust of conventional medicine. In many cases, people no longer believe what medical professionals say.---True
l This could give rise to an epidemic (…) Only an awareness of the power of the illusion can stop it. It is impossible to prevent the condition becoming an Internet epidemic.---False
l While the effects of touching are easy to understand, the mechanics of it are less so. (…) No one knows exactly how it takes place. Even scientists have difficulty understanding how our sense of touch works.---True
l Repairs occur with varying success (…). Severe burns, though, are a different matter. The human skin is always good at repairing itself.---False
l The outcome of many managers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures between British and European companies is that they do not achieve their objectives and end in tears. Attempts by British and mainland European firms to work together often fail. ---Yes
l Visible light is (…) biologically convenient. To see long, stretched-out radio waves, we’d have to have huge eyes like satellite dishes. Not worth that trouble. It is more practical for human to detect visible light rather than radio waves.
l Lynch is a man who, when he looks at a rainbow, spots details that elude most of us. David Lynch sometimes notices things that other people don’t.---Yes
l Specialist knowledge is not everything (…). AGR repeatedly confirm that what employers seek, and continue to find scarce, are the personal skills that will make graduated valuable employees. British employers are more interested in what potential recruits can do than what they know.
l The result is a management culture which is (…) focused almost entirely on the short term. Project management principles discourage consideration of long-term issues.---Yes
l We have to accept that, in flattened and decentralized organizations, there are very limited career prospects. There are good opportunities for promotion within segmented companies.---No
l The average salary paid to an MBA with good experience in the
l European organizations continue to be structured hierarchically (…) with explicit channels of reporting (…) Decision making, although incorporating consultative processes, remains essentially top-down. The European model gives more freedom of action to junior managers.---No
l Light won’t reduce. Light is light – pure, but not simple. (…) No one is quite sure how to describe it. It is difficult to find a single word to say exactly what light is. ---Yes
l You can’t appreciate the beauty of a rose if you ponder that the colour red is just the brain’s interpretation of a specific wavelength of light with crests that are roughly 700 nanometres apart. Thinking about the physics of light can make an object seem even more beautiful.---No
l The sun gives life to our planet. Light from the sun makes it possible for life to exist on other planets. ---Not Given
l But the picture is not uniform and doesn’t readily demonstrate the sample distinction between literate and illiterate which had been considered adequate since the middle of the 19th century. It is not as easy to analyse literacy levels as it used to be.---Yes
l While reading a certain amount of writing is as crucial as it has ever been in industrial societies, it is doubtful whether a fully extended grasp of either is as necessary as it was 30 or 40 years ago. Our literacy skills need to be as highly developed as they were in the past.---No
l On the other hand, it is also the case that ever-increasing numbers of people make their living out of writing, which is better rewarded than ever before. Professional writers earn relatively more than they used to.---Yes
l While you may not need to read and write to watch television, you certainly need to be able to read and write in order to make programmes. A good literacy level is important for those who work in television.---Yes
l The computer has re-established a central place for the written word on the screen, which used to be entirely devoted to the image. There is even anecdotal evidence that children are mastering reading and writing in order to get on to the internet. Computers are having a negative impact on literacy in schools.---No
l This can sometimes cause problems with other siblings. (…) Their creative talents may be undervalued and so never come to fruition. The brother and sister of a gifted older child may fail to fulfill their own potential.---Yes
l This last point – luck – is often not mentioned where talent is concerned but plays an undoubted part. The importance of luck in the genius equation tends to be ignored.---Yes
l Mozart himself simply wanted to create the finest music ever written but did not necessarily view himself as genius. Mozart was acutely aware of his own remarkable talent.---No
l Albert Einstein and Bill Gates are two more examples of people whose talents have blossomed by virtue of the times they were living in. Einstein and Gates would have achieved success in any era.---No
l Such is the scope of uses envisioned by Karel Capek, the Czech playwright who coined the term ‘robot’ in 1920. Karel Capek successfully predicted our current uses for robots.---Yes
l There are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with sub-millimeter accuracy (…) Robots are able to make fine visual judgements.---Yes
l
(The opposite is true) When it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to perform in the same way as the human brain by the 21st century, researchers lately have extended their forecasts by decades if not centuries. The internal workings of the brain can be replicated by robots.---No
l This is particularly important in
l But what is happening today is extraordinary, judged by the standards of the past. It is language extinction on a massive scale. The rate at which languages are becoming extinct has increased.---Yes
l