COMPUTERS THAT ONCE TOOK UP ENTIRE ROOMS ARE NOW SMALL ENOUGH TO___...
30.Computers that once took up entire rooms are now small enough to_____desktops and
into wristwatches.
A.put on
B.place into
C. install in
D. lay under
Use correct form of the words in brackets to complete the passage.
In the past, any mother would be proud if her children were round and slightly fat. Those
days are gone. (31. Research)_______________ have now reached the (32.
conclude)__________ that too much fat and sugar in children’s diets are a major factor in
the (33. develop)______ of heart diseases and other (34. ill)_______ when they are older.
However, (35. grow)_______ children need to eat a wide range of foods, and their general
health could be (36. danger)________ by cutting out particular ones. Psychologists say
that the (37. solve)_______ is not to change eating habits too fast, but to do it (38.
care)_______ , so that children do not lose muscle in addition to fat. Parents should
present food a little (39. difference)___________ , spread butter thinly and avoid putting
sugar on the table. Children should also be (40. courage)________ to take part in sports:
this way they will be using the calories that they have eaten.
Choose the correct option for each of the gaps to finish the passage.
A very important world problem – in fact, it may be the most important of all the great
world problems which face us at the present time – is the rapidly increasing pressure of
population (41) the land. The important thing is not so (42)_____ the actual population of
the world at present, but its rate of increase. It works (43)_____ to be about 1.6 percent
annual net increase. In numbers it means something (44)_________ forty five to fifty
million additional people every year. Take Australia. There are about 18 million people in
Australia. So it takes the world less than three months to (45)____________ itself a
population which populates that vast (46)________ Speaking of birth rate, look at the
second hand of your watch. Every second, three babies are bom somewhere in the world.
You cannot (47)__________ quickly enough to keep up with the birth rate. This enormous
increase of population (48)_____ immense problems. In about 20 years’ time,
(49)________ something terrible happens there will be as many as billion people on the
surface of the earth!
So this is a problem which you are going to (50)_____in your lifetime.