THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS TODAY ARE……… THEY WERE IN THE PAST.A. MUCH...

15. The economic conditions today are……… they were in the past.

A. much more good

B. much better than

C. much better

D. the best than.

V. Fill in each blank with one suitable word.

INTELLIGENCE

Are some people born cleaver and others born (1)……….. ? Or is

intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the

answer to both these (2)………… is “Yes”. To some extent, our intelligence is given at

birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a (3)……….

born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring surrounding

will develop his intelligence less than (4)……… who lives in rich and

varied surrounding. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth but

(5)………. or not he reaches those limits will (6)……….. on his

environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.

It is easy to show that intelligence is something we are born with (7)………..

we take two unrelated people at random from the population. It is likely that

(8)……….. degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other

hand, we take children-identical twins, they will very likely be (9)………. intelligent

as other. This clearly suggests that intelligence depends on (10)………..

VI. Read the passage carefully then answer the questions below.

Higher education is given in colleges and universities. The average course is four years.

Students choose a major and take courses in this subject. After four years they get a

bachelor degree. Then the students may go on to graduate school and, with a year or two

of further study, get a master’s degree. After another two or three years of study, they may

get a still higher degree as doctor of philosophy. Higher education trains people to become

teachers, nurse, engineers or do other professional work. Lawyers and doctors must go to

school longer than four years.