THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS OF COMPARING THE ECONOMY OF ONE NATI...

50. There are many different ways of comparing the economy of one nation with those of another.

A B C D

D. READING

I. There are five blanks in the passage below. From the words given in the box, choose the most suitable

for each blank. There are TWO EXTRA WORDS that you do not need to use (5.0 points):

E. considerably

G. experiment

A. taken

C. made

D. experience

F. however

B. total

For many people, traveling by plane is an exciting (51) __________. Others, however, find the whole

idea quite terrifying, although flying is no more dangerous than any other forms of travel and some experts say it

is (52)__________safer. It is known, (53)__________, that most accidents occur during take-off and landing

when the pilot’s decisions are very important.

The people whose job is to look after the passengers - the stewards and stewardesses - play an important

role in helping passengers to feel safe and comfortable. Indeed for many passengers, being (54)__________ such

care of is all part of the (55)__________experience. No other form of travel is required to wait on people in quite

the same way, with food, drink, newspapers, magazines, music and even video films.

II. Read the passage below and decide which option A, B, C or D best fits each space (10 points):

The media are the means or methods by which people learn what is (56)__________ in the city, in the

country and in the world. The news media can be classified (57)__________ two general categories: the

categories of print media and electronic media. Print media use the written material to communicate news to

(58)__________. Electronic media use air waves to (59)__________ news to homes, offices and public places.

Print media are usually divided into magazines and newspapers. Most newspapers print news daily. For example,

(62)__________ news is news that you listen to. In the United States many radio (63)__________ broadcast five

minutes of news every hour. Television news is news that you not only listen to but also watch. In Canada and

the United States, for example, many people watch an hour of news on TV at six o’clock in the evening. In the

future, new categories of news media will (64)__________ even today computers are beginning to influence the

transmission and reception (65)__________news.