Bsi 2023 Semester

 Is social background an important factor in success in life?

 

It is generally thought that to have a good chance of succeeding in life you need to have certain social advantages; wealthy parents, high social status and privileged education. But I would argue that provided a child is given the basic necessities of life being fed and clothed properly, being loved and cared for – then their prospects are determined by their own opinion of what they can achieve. And that is something that can be changed.

 

In a recent study, children in the city of Baltimore, USA, were interviewed about their prospects. Their ambition reflected their own experience. Those from high-income families hoped to become lawyers or doctors, because those were typical their professions of their parents’ friends. Those from poorer background wanted to be professional sport people or music artists, because those were the people who had succeeded in their communities. However, they expected to be electricians or hairdressers. At school. The more privileged children performed better, because they knew if they got good grades, their prospects of becoming a lawyer or doctor were good. The children from poorer background had no such incentive to do well at academic subjects and performed much worse. However, when their school offered cash prizes on condition that their grades improved, the improvement was immediate.

 

This shows that the child’s prospects are clearly connected to their expectation. As long as children have low ambition, they will see no benefit in working hard at school and, as   a result, they will not succeed. Some people always start life worse off than others, but when they end up is a question of what they believe is possible.

 

All the words below are the synonym of “privileged” in the first paragraph, except …………

• Indulged

• Honored 

• Powerful

• Silk-stocking

• Inauspicious

 Is social background an important factor in success in life?

 

It is generally thought that to have a good chance of succeeding in life you need to have certain social advantages; wealthy parents, high social status and privileged education. But I would argue that provided a child is given the basic necessities of life being fed and clothed properly, being loved and cared for – then their prospects are determined by their own opinion of what they can achieve. And that is something that can be changed.

 

In a recent study, children in the city of Baltimore, USA, were interviewed about their prospects. Their ambition reflected their own experience. Those from high-income families hoped to become lawyers or doctors, because those were typical their professions of their parents’ friends. Those from poorer background wanted to be professional sport people or music artists, because those were the people who had succeeded in their communities. However, they expected to be electricians or hairdressers. At school. The more privileged children performed better, because they knew if they got good grades, their prospects of becoming a lawyer or doctor were good. The children from poorer background had no such incentive to do well at academic subjects and performed much worse. However, when their school offered cash prizes on condition that their grades improved, the improvement was immediate.

 

This shows that the child’s prospects are clearly connected to their expectation. As long as children have low ambition, they will see no benefit in working hard at school and, as   a result, they will not succeed. Some people always start life worse off than others, but when they end up is a question of what they believe is possible.

 What is the main idea of paragraph one?

•  It tells about my idea

•  It tells about cloths

   

• It tells about the general thought

   

• It tells about necessities

•  It tells about  love and care

 Is social background an important factor in success in life?

 

It is generally thought that to have a good chance of succeeding in life you need to have certain social advantages; wealthy parents, high social status and privileged education. But I would argue that provided a child is given the basic necessities of life being fed and clothed properly, being loved and cared for – then their prospects are determined by their own opinion of what they can achieve. And that is something that can be changed.

 

In a recent study, children in the city of Baltimore, USA, were interviewed about their prospects. Their ambition reflected their own experience. Those from high-income families hoped to become lawyers or doctors, because those were typical their professions of their parents’ friends. Those from poorer background wanted to be professional sport people or music artists, because those were the people who had succeeded in their communities. However, they expected to be electricians or hairdressers. At school. The more privileged children performed better, because they knew if they got good grades, their prospects of becoming a lawyer or doctor were good. The children from poorer background had no such incentive to do well at academic subjects and performed much worse. However, when their school offered cash prizes on condition that their grades improved, the improvement was immediate.

 

This shows that the child’s prospects are clearly connected to their expectation. As long as children have low ambition, they will see no benefit in working hard at school and, as   a result, they will not succeed. Some people always start life worse off than others, but when they end up is a question of what they believe is possible.

 Choose the best statement from the text!

•  Wealthy parents results successful children

• Expectation connects to prospect

   

• Low ambition results good prospects

•  Higher education results better prospects

   

• Poor people believe in what they do

Phil asked Moe, “What time does the class start?”.

Change the sentence above into indirect speech!

• Phil asked Moe did the class start on time.

• Phil asked Moe if the class was started.

• Phil asked Moe what time the class started.

• Phil asked Moe what day the class started.

• Phil asked Moe how long the class was.

 Scientists have discovered the bones of what may be the largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever to walk the earth. The discovery was made by a team of researchers from Argentina and North America in Patagonia, a desert on the eastern slopes of the Andes in South America. Besides the interesting fact that the dinosaurs was huge and horryfying, it is even more astounding that the bones of a number of the dinosaurs were found together. This discovery challenges the prior theory that the biggest meat-eaters lived as loners and instead indicates that they may havelived and hunted in packs. The Tyrannosaurus Rex lived in North America and was believed to hunt and live alone.

The newly discovered meat-eaters appears to be related to the Giganotosaurus family, being as closely related to it as a fox would be to a dog. It is actually not of the same family at all as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, being as different from it as a cat is from a dog.

The fossilized remains indicates that the animals lived about 100 million years ago. With needle-shaped noses and razor sharp teeth, they were larger than the Tyrannosaurus Rex, although their legs were slightly shorter, and their jaws were designed to be better able to dissect their prey quckly and precisely.

 

The word horrifying in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to.........

• Frightening

• Large

• Fast

• Interesting

• Frightened

 Even a muddy pond contributes to the ecosystem that effects the environment. A vernal or springtime pool is only a few feet deep and lasts only from March until mid summer but yields a consider number of diverse life forms. Like all of nature, there are predators and victims, and a particular living being may be one or the other., depending on its age and characteristic. One may find masses of spotted salamander eggs floating just under the surface of the pond, left behind by adults who entered the pond early int the season before predators arrived. Other amphibians and reptiles return to the recurrent pond year after  year to reproduce, as their ancestors have done for years.

Various forms of algae grow well in the murky water, if there is sufficient sunlight. They in  turn produce and transmit oxygen to the salamander embryos and other young that are not yet able to survive outside of water. Diving beetles feast on eggs and larvae deposited in the pond by the salamaders  and other amphibians that have called it home. Tadpoles are born in the late spring and speed on the algae. The pond also invites wood frogs staking their territory and courting potential mates, calling as loud as quacking ducks.

By the end of the short season, the pond dries to spongy mud and then dries further, becoming covered with leaves and debris, until the following spring when the process repeats itself.

 

The word vernal in the second sentence means most nearly the same as  

•  Springtime

• Pool

• Deep

• Transitory

• Mud

 Even a muddy pond contributes to the ecosystem that effects the environment. A vernal or springtime pool is only a few feet deep and lasts only from March until mid summer but yields a consider number of diverse life forms. Like all of nature, there are predators and victims, and a particular living being may be one or the other., depending on its age and characteristic. One may find masses of spotted salamander eggs floating just under the surface of the pond, left behind by adults who entered the pond early int the season before predators arrived. Other amphibians and reptiles return to the recurrent pond year after  year to reproduce, as their ancestors have done for years.

Various forms of algae grow well in the murky water, if there is sufficient sunlight. They in  turn produce and transmit oxygen to the salamander embryos and other young that are not yet able to survive outside of water. Diving beetles feast on eggs and larvae deposited in the pond by the salamaders  and other amphibians that have called it home. Tadpoles are born in the late spring and speed on the algae. The pond also invites wood frogs staking their territory and courting potential mates, calling as loud as quacking ducks.

By the end of the short season, the pond dries to spongy mud and then dries further, becoming covered with leaves and debris, until the following spring when the process repeats itself.

 

What is the author’s purpose stated in the first sentence: Even a muddy pond contributes to the ecosystem that affects the environment?

• To explain that a verrnal pool is very muddy

• To describe how the vernal pool fits into the larger environment picture

• To explain that mud is important to the environment

• To show how algae grows

• To protect the algae

 Even a muddy pond contributes to the ecosystem that effects the environment. A vernal or springtime pool is only a few feet deep and lasts only from March until mid summer but yields a consider number of diverse life forms. Like all of nature, there are predators and victims, and a particular living being may be one or the other., depending on its age and characteristic. One may find masses of spotted salamander eggs floating just under the surface of the pond, left behind by adults who entered the pond early int the season before predators arrived. Other amphibians and reptiles return to the recurrent pond year after  year to reproduce, as their ancestors have done for years.

Various forms of algae grow well in the murky water, if there is sufficient sunlight. They in  turn produce and transmit oxygen to the salamander embryos and other young that are not yet able to survive outside of water. Diving beetles feast on eggs and larvae deposited in the pond by the salamaders  and other amphibians that have called it home. Tadpoles are born in the late spring and speed on the algae. The pond also invites wood frogs staking their territory and courting potential mates, calling as loud as quacking ducks.

By the end of the short season, the pond dries to spongy mud and then dries further, becoming covered with leaves and debris, until the following spring when the process repeats itself.

 

The word yield in the third sentence means most nearly the same as

• Produces

• Contributes to

• Kills

• Harms

• Protect

 Even a muddy pond contributes to the ecosystem that effects the environment. A vernal or springtime pool is only a few feet deep and lasts only from March until mid summer but yields a consider number of diverse life forms. Like all of nature, there are predators and victims, and a particular living being may be one or the other., depending on its age and characteristic. One may find masses of spotted salamander eggs floating just under the surface of the pond, left behind by adults who entered the pond early int the season before predators arrived. Other amphibians and reptiles return to the recurrent pond year after  year to reproduce, as their ancestors have done for years.

Various forms of algae grow well in the murky water, if there is sufficient sunlight. They in  turn produce and transmit oxygen to the salamander embryos and other young that are not yet able to survive outside of water. Diving beetles feast on eggs and larvae deposited in the pond by the salamaders  and other amphibians that have called it home. Tadpoles are born in the late spring and speed on the algae. The pond also invites wood frogs staking their territory and courting potential mates, calling as loud as quacking ducks.

By the end of the short season, the pond dries to spongy mud and then dries further, becoming covered with leaves and debris, until the following spring when the process repeats itself.

 

 

The word diverse in the third sentence means most nearly the same as

• Distinct

• Living

• Numerous

• Primitive

• Large

 Scientists have developed a new bionic computer chip that can be mated with Human cells to combat disease. The tiny device,smaller and thinner than a strand of hair, combines a healthy human cell with an electronic circuitry  ship. Doctors can control the activity of the cell by  controlling the chip with a computer.

It has long been established that cell membranes become permeable when exposed to electrical impulses. Researchers have conducted genetic research for years with a trial- and – error process of bombarding cells with electricity in an attempt to introduce foreign substances such as new drug treatments or genetic material. They were unable to apply a particular level of viltage for a particular purpose. With the new invention, the computer sends electrical impulses to the chip, which triggers the cell’s membrane pores to open and activate  the cell in order to correct diseased tissues. It permits physicians to open a cell’s pores with control.

Researchers hope that eventually they will be able to develop more advanved chips whereby they can choose a particular voltage  to activate particular tissues, whether they be muscle, bone, brqin, or others. They believe that they will be able to implant multiple chips into a person to deal with one problem or more that one problem.

 

The word mated in the first sentence is closest in meaning to

• Avoided

• Combined

• Introduced

• Developed

• Protected