15 Flashcards

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  1. How are the ideas that “not all evidence is considered” and “not all findings are released” related?
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C. Both are examples of public opinion about the type of research.

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  1. How is the public’s view about funding science different from the industry’s view?
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D. The public think that the industry mainly cares about money

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  1. What can we understand from the text about company-funded research?
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A. It is less reliable than government-funded research.

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What can we understand from the passage about government funding for research?

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B. The public think it’s a waste of money.

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Governed

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Controlled

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Agreement

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Arrangements

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371 What is an example of Hughes' obsessive behavior in the passage?
Checking looked doors continuously
B.
Dictating phrases repeatedly
Stepping over cracks
Pencil straightening
.
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Dictating phrases repeatedly

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381 What key information is given about Howard Hughes in Paragraph 3)?
He was a very rich man.
He always wore white gloves.
C.
He was scared of dying at an early age.
D
He became ill because of his assistants.
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391 Why does the writer mention Howard Hughes?
He was a famous person
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B
He would not leave his home.
He helped treat anxiety disorders.
He suffered from anxiety and phobias
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34| What is the main topic of this passage?
Habits that people like to repeat a lot.
B.
A comparison of normal and obsessive behavior.
C.
Types of anxiety related psychological disorders.
D
An examination of the billionaire Howard Hughes.

A
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35] What is one important idea related to general anxiety and phobias mentioned In
P1)?
A.
B.
C
There are three types of behavior.
We must neck treatment straight away.
Compulsive disorders make us hurt others.
Features of compulsive behavior are present in everyone.

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36| What important information about obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior is
expressed in Paragraph 2)?
They take up very little time.
They negatively affect daily life.
C
They affect mainly young people.
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28| What does Paragraph 1) say about the scientific method?
A
It helps scientists to make questions.
It is made up of six different procedures.
C
It is something that you do only one time.
D
It involves different steps that you do many times.
.

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29| What does Paragraph 2) say about qualitative observations?
They help explain why we use table salt.
B.
They mainly deal with the air temperature outside.
C.
D.
They explain what happens by carefully watching! things.
They use numbers to discover the reason something happens

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301 Which sentence gives the main idea of Paragraph 2)?
A. Observations can be qualitative or quantitative.
B. Qualitative observations describe properties or occurrences in ways that do not rely on
numbers

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261 What is one important idea that the writer mentions?
That animals like to eat the orange bananas.

That a lack of vitamin A makes people go blind.
That children in Africa need better food.
That Uganda is a rich country in East Africa.

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27| What is one important idea that the writer mentions?
That Ugandans have grown bananas for centuries.
B
That the way we produce food is changing
That climate change is a serious global problem.
That genetically modified bananas may save lives

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21| What helped open-source software gain steam?
HE 90
Internet access
B
cheap equipment
C
software licensing
D
Linux operating system
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22| What is one benefit of open-source software?
It is quite cheap to buy.
B.
C.
D
It leads to quick bug-fixing.
It comes with technical support.
It is superior to closed-source software.
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231 What is one benefit of closed-source software?
Technical support from the company.
B.
C.
The software is available for free.
Quick and better updates.
Access to the source code.
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21
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24] What are two examples of open-source software?
Fire fox and Microsoft

Firefox and Apache

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22
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What is one important idea that the writer mentions? Cooks
(A) Web servers send information to web browsers. (
B) Messages are displayed on computer screens. (
C) Servers store information about web users.
(D) Cookies are different from programs.

A
23
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  1. What is one important idea that the writer mentions? (
    A) Internet privacy is an important issue.
    (B) Cookies are without personal information.
    (C) Music websites are among the most popular
    (D) Web servers store information in central databas
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24
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  1. What is one important idea in the passage?
    (A) Cumin is a spice
    (B) The economy changed
    (C) Farming provided food to Europe,
    (D) Muslim traders introduced new crops to Europe.
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  1. What is the writer’s main purpose
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To explain

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7. What two phrases does the writer use to say that deserts have few people?
(A) hostile; cannot support life
(B) arid; nonliving composition
(C) unexplored; hardly inhabited
(D) population density; human footprint.
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27
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  1. Which of the following is a fact?

(D) Deserts are large and support a variety of species.

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28
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49. What can we understand about desert species?
(A) They can survive with little water.
(B) They like extreme temperatures.
(C) They move with the seasons.
(D) They are dying out.
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D

29
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  1. What can we understand about the Australian and the Nearctic deserts? (

(B) The Nearctic deserts have more people.
(

A