A. PREVENT B. PRESERVE C. PROTECT D. PROHIBITPART 2

10. A. prevent B. preserve C. protect D. prohibitPart 2: Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write youranswers in the corresponding boxes provided below the passage. Enjoy the benefits of stress!Are you looking forward to another busy week? You should be according to some experts. Theyargue that the stress encountered in our daily lives is not only good for us, but essential to survival.They say that the response to (1) _________, which creates a chemical called adrenal in, helps themind and body to act quickly (2) ___________ emergencies. Animals and human beings use it tomeet the hostile conditions which exist on the planet. Whilst nobody denies the pressures of everyday life, what is surprising is that we are yet to developsuccessful ways of dealing with them. (3) ________ the experts consider the current strategies tobe inadequate and often dangerous. They believe that (4) ________ of trying to manage ourresponse to stress with drugs or relaxation techniques, we must exploit it. Apparently, researchshows that people (5) ________ create conditions of stress for (6) _______ by doing exciting andrisky sports or looking for challenges, cope much better with life's problems. Activities of this typehave been shown to create a lot of emotion; people may actually cry or feel extremelyuncomfortable. But there is a point (7) _________ which they realise they have succeeded andknow that it was a positive experience. This is because we learn through challenge and difficulty.That's (8) _________ we get our wisdom. Few of us, unfortunately, understand this fact. Forexample, many people believe they (9) _________ from stress at work, and take time off as aresult. Yet it has been found in some companies that by far (10) __________ healthiest peopleare those with the most responsibility. So next time you're in a stressful situation, just rememberthat it will be a positive learning experience and could also benefit your health!Part 3: Read the following passage. For question 1-5, choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D).Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming.According to an increasingly vocal minority, however, we should be asking ourselves how muchof this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence. It seems, as so often is the case,that it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study.Yes, it is true that there is a mass of evidence to indicate that the world is getting warmer, withone of the world's leading weather predictors stating that air temperatures have shown anincrease of just under half a degree Celsius since the beginning of the twentieth century. Andwhile this may not sound like anything worth losing sleep over the international press wouldhave us believe that the consequences could be devastating. Other experts, however, are of theopinion that what we are seeing is just part of a natural upward and downward swing that hasalways been part of the cycle of global weather. An analysis of the views of majormeteorologists in the United States showed that less than 20% of them believed that any changein temperature over the last hundred years was our own fault-the rest attributed it to naturalcyclical changes.There is, of course, no denying that we are still at a very early stage in understanding weather.The effects of such variables as rainfall, cloud formation, the seas and oceans, gases such asmethane and ozone, or even solar energy are still not really understood, and therefore thepredictions that we make using them cannot always be relied on. Dr. James Hansen, in 1988, waspredicting that the likely effects of global warming would be a raising of world temperaturewhich would have disastrous consequences for mankind: "a strong cause and effect relationshipbetween the current climate and human alteration of the atmosphere". He has now gone onrecord as stating that using artificial models of climate as a way of predicting change is all butimpossible. In fact, he now believes that, rather than getting hotter, our planet is getting greeneras a result of the carbon dioxide increase, with the prospect of increasing vegetation in areaswhich in recent history have been frozen wastelands.In fact. there is some evidence to suggest that as our computer-based weather models havebecome more sophisticated, the predicted rises in temperature have been cut back. In addition, ifwe look at the much reported rise in global temperature over the last century, a close analysisreveals that the lion's share of that increase, almost three quarters in total, occurred before manbegan to 'poison' his world with industrial processes and the accompanying greenhouse gasemissions in the second half of the twentieth century.So should we pay any attention to those stories that scream out at us from billboards andtelevision news headlines, claiming that man, with his inexhaustible dependence on oil-basedmachinery and ever more sophisticated forms of transport is creating a nightmare level of'greenhouse gas emissions, poisoning his environment and ripping open the ozone layer?Doubters point to scientific evidence. which can prove that, of all the greenhouse gases, only twopercent come from man-made sources, the rest resulting from natural emissions.Who, then, to believe: the environmentalist exhorting us to leave the car at home, to buy re-usable products packaged in recycled paper and to plant trees in our back yard? Or the sceptics,including, of course, a lot of big businesses who have most to lose, when they tell us that we aremaking a mountain out of a molehill? And my own opinion? The jury's still out as far as I amconcerned!