2011 Year End MUET Reading 800/3 [ ANSWER ]

NightHawKz

1. B: 1995 - 2005 = ten year period, not 20

2. B: 2005, 1st is fishing 43.3 million, skateboarding 12.2 mil


3. A: - get this - ...! (use of expression and exclamation mark)


4. B: percentage growth of soccer 17.5, golf 2.9 does not indicate MORE THAN TWICE THE RATE


5. C: No mention of statistics for those 'watching' big sports


6. A: kayaking is an individual sport


7. B: writer DOES NOT prefer the current trend in sports participation, he's all for the cheering crowd (meaning he likes to watch, not
participate)


8. A: worried how customers perceive their brand = losing their distinctiveness


9. B: no mention of Starbucks loss of revenue/income, paragraph 2 indicates Starbucks experienced has watered down but didn't mention
income.


10. B: not because of high prices but paragraph 3 states 'are at risk from growing sense that their products are indeed just commodities'.


11. C: Schulz suggests that the company needs to go back to its roots.


12. A: up-market - more appealing to the rich.


13. B: doubtful - similar to 'not sure'


14. C: health conscious because there is a growing concern about obesity.


15. A: a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 - pound for pound methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas


16. B: difficult to control - para 2: 'it is not always easy because sometimes they are one and the same'.


17. A: 'they do exist' conveys disbelief


18. B: warming at higher latitudes


19. A: tipping point - point where something tips over/trigger a serious reaction


20. C: are easier to control than those emitted from wetlands and paddy fields


21. A: option III is not stated


22. B: women now earn almost as much as men because it stated, 'due to a narrowing wage gap'. option A is unacceptable as there is no
data and option C is also not related as it is not stated who owns more property


23. B: emphasise the large numbers - biggest/twice the size of the hottest developing markets


24. B: seismic relates to earthquakes/earth shattering/something amazing, nerve wrecking means nervous, groundbreaking means
pioneer/original/first of its kind


25. A: human capital - manpower


26. A: more open - more liberal


27. C: cause and effect (access to female edu therefore increase of literacy, increased labour-force participation therefore 70 percent
more women work etc)


28. A: growing faster because 8.1 compared to 5.8. option B is not accurate as higher female earners in developed world is not
necessarily comparing to men, could be compared to number of female earner is poorer countries and C is inaccurate as 80 percent is not
the same as 'Some 80 percent' which means 'about 80 percent)


29. B: 'what the world needs at the moment' = positive attitude


30. C: conveys surprise


31. B: anaphoric reference


32. A: affects the ability to convey emotions


33. B: one consequence (stated in the question) is a delayed response to anger as given in the example in lines 42 - 44


34. C: contributes to the field : 'part of a bludgeoning field called 'embodied cognition'


35. C: using their hands to commit a moral transgression therefore they will have an urge to wash them.


36. B: because all the other statements are can be proven wrong.


37. C: all three - body, mind (thoughts) and emotions (feelings) are interrelated.


38. B: previous paragraph (anaphoric) refers to how cheap food has been and how much people waste


39. D: NOT TRUE because when more meat is consumed demand for grain increases as 8kg grain needed to produce 1kg meat


40. C: the use of maize for ethanol has increased food prices because the maize for ethanol amounts for half of the fall in the world's overall
grain stocks.


41. A: farmers not the urban poor

42. D: no mention of higher wages


43. B: free up agricultural trade= less control and opening up


44. B: a catch here refers to a drawback/disadvantage


45. D: once in a lifetime chance to narrow the gap




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恩媛

错好多题哟...

Elainesx

等收尸啦

tingly

错好多，信心直线下滑。。。