reading 1

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according to the writer, creative people

• are usually born with their talents

• are born with their talents

• are not born with their talents

• are geniuses

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according to the writer, creativity is

• a gift from cod or nature

• an automatic response

• difficult for many people to achieve

• a well trodden path

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according to the writer

• the human race's fight to live is becoming a tyranny

• the human brain is blocked with cholesterol

• the human race is now circumscribed by talents

• the human race's fight to survive stifles creative ability

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advancing technology

• holds creativity in check

• improves creativity

• enhances creativity

• is a tyranny

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according to the author, creativity

• is common

• is increasingly common

• is becoming rarer and rarer

• is a rare commodity

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the complex relationship between failure and success needs to be addressed carefully

• yes

• no

• not given

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people perform certain rituals to try to avoid failure

• yes

• no

• not given

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anxiety in daily life is what we want

• yes

• no

• not given

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the writer believes that nostradamus and certain other prophets are right about their predictions for the end of the human race

• yes

• no

• not given

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mankind needs to be pessimistic to survive

• yes

• no

• no given

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ulf leonhardt and john pendry

• worked together on a project in 2006

• both came up with the same idea

• invented the microwave oven

• used only basic objects in their research

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metamaterials are

• similar to light, but with a smaller wavelength

• able to change where electiomagnetic waves go

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the improtance of the casimir effect is that it

• creates large and frequent fluctuations

• creates a pressure difference and stickiness

• increases the number of plates that can be used

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leonhardt and philbin think that putting a metamaterial between two plates will

• cause the top plate to rise above the bottom plate

• stop electromagnetic light waves bending

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why is it important to change the strength of the casimir force

• to reflect the plates

• to help reserve the force

• to see virtual particles

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by 2025 only a small number of languages will be flourishing

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australian academics' efforts to record existing aboriginal languages have been too limited

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tho use of technology in language research is proving unsatisfactory in some repects

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chomsky's political views have overshadowed his academic work

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documentary linguistics studies require long term financial support

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for centuries, both at home and in society, tea has had an important role in

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falling tea prices in the nineteenth century meant that people could choose the

of tea they could afford

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because it

seventh-day adventists do no approve of the drinking

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in the desert, one group that is well known for its traditions of hospitality is the

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in india,

, as well as tea, are added to boiling milk to make chai

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lack of money is the main reason both fathers and mothers enter the workforce

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the conflict between work and family increases according to the size of the family

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high income earners balance woek and family life better than low income earners

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man handle work stresses better than women

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work family conflict is due largely to constant changes in work hours

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methods for predicting the earth's population have recently changed

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human beings are responsible for some of the destruction of food-producting land

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the crops produced in vertical farms will depend on the reason

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some damage to food crops is caused by climate change days

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fertilizers will be needed for certain crops is vertical farms

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according to the writer, an internal language structure

• consists only part of the alphabet

• is the starting point for communication

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the writer states that understanding a language occurs

• once the learner understands the basic building blocks

• once the learner grasps the units of a language

• once the alphabet is learned

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an artificial language

• is a new form of communication among young children

• was used as a contrast with the real language

• was devised slowly, over a considerable period of time

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according to the writer, infant surprise and interest

• indicated infant intelligence

• was greater amongst infants exposed to a bona fide language

• revealed how languages is initially learned

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what greatly surprised researchers of infants language acquisition was

• how quickly the infants learned to verbally communicate

• how young the participants in the experiment were

• how quickly some infants learned new information