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The Amazon gets less and less green
Despite the alarms about global warming, the news concerning Brazil’s crucial Amazon jungle is not good. Once again, satellites are showing deforestation is on the rise. And once again the government has announced a package of measures aimed at halting it. If you think you’ve heard this story before, you’re not wrong. It’s depressingly familiar. “This is only a surprise if you believe in Father Christmas,” said Roberto Smeraldi, director of Friends of the Earth’s Brazil office.
The new statistics show that deforestation for the last five months of 2007 was 3,235 sq. kilometers (1,250 sq. miles or about the size of Rhode Island), a rise from the previous year’s figure and alarming because deforestation normally drops in the final rainy months of the year. In a world panicked by its own carbon footprint, the forests of the Amazon are the planet’s largest absorber of carbon dioxide.
Adapted from “The Amazon gets less and less green”
Available at <http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=92021&keybold=Amazon visited on June 26, 2009.
Which of the sentences DOES NOT show the same use of the relative pronoun that as in the segment “The new statistics show that deforestation for the last five months of 2007 was 3,235 sq. kilometers […]”?
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In the sequence ‘The yachtsman had lost all sense of direction, __________ he refused to give up in his attempt to cross the Atlantic.’, the two options that CORRECTLY complete the blank are those in alternative
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Read the following excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The scarlet letter in order to answer the question.
The scarlet letter
‘’The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in first place, like a black shadow emerging into the sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of a guard, with a sword by his side. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender. Stretching forth his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward; until, on the edge of the prison door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air, as if by her own free will. She bore in her arms a child, a baby some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, until now, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment on the prison.
When the young woman – the mother of this child – stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that thereby she might conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress. In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbors. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter ‘’A’’. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the regulations of the colony.
The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped. It may be true, that, to a sensitive observer, there was something exquisitely painful in it. Her attire, which, indeed, she had wrought for the occasion, in prison, and had modeled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity. But the point which drew all the eyes of the surrounding crowd, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer, - so that both men and women who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time, - was that SCARLET LETTER, fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself”.
HAWTHORNE, N. The scarlet letter. New York: Dover Publications, 1994.
The way Hester embroidered the letter “A” - which was a symbol of shame and punishment according to the puritan code - shows that
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The sentence in which the infinitive CANNOT be used is
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The alternative that presents a rhetorical question is
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Knowledge storage versus knowledge access
There is always the possibility that knowledge of a language is a single entity but one can develop it and have access to it in two different ways. Hence, for example, if I can produce questions like ‘What am I doing?’, this means at the very least that I have some intuitive knowledge of English interrogatives. If I can talk about it and perhaps even give a rule, this means that I have explicit knowledge of this area of the language. But it is the same knowledge as the intuitive knowledge: I have simply uncovered it, i.e. made it ‘visible’ to conscious analysis. I can also acquire new knowledge either intuitively or by using my conscious analysis. This third, commonsense, which lay understanding of the knowledge as a single store may also be shared by many researchers. Most of the literature on the topic has, however, tended to support some idea of two separate knowledge stores, the argument being about whether they can influence one another and, if so, how.
According to which proposals that one favoured, one could see Interlanguage knowledge as consisting of:
(1) two entirely different non-interacting kinds of knowledge;
(2) two entirely different kinds of knowledge but still capable of influencing one another;
(3) the same knowledge but one which could be developed and accessed in two different ways (intuitively and consciously)
Source; SMITH, Michael Sharwood. Second Language Learning: theoretical foundations. New York: Longman, 1994, p. 95.
The sentence in which the adverb STILL denotes a different meaning from the one in the sentence ‘two entirely different kinds of knowledge but still capable of influencing one another’ is
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TEXT A
The Natural Order hypothesis is based on research findings (Dulay & Burt, 1974; Fathman, 1975; Makino, 1980 cited in Krashen, 1987) which suggested that the acquisition of grammatical structures follows a 'natural order' which is predictable. For a given language, some grammatical structures tend to be acquired early while others late. This order seemed to be independent of the learners' age, L1 background, conditions of exposure, and although the agreement between individual acquirers was not always 100% in the studies, there were statistically significant similarities that reinforced the existence of a Natural Order of language acquisition. Krashen, however, points out that the implication of the natural order hypothesis is not that a language program syllabus should be based on the order found in the studies. In fact, he rejects grammatical sequencing when the goal is language acquisition.
Available at < http://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash.html> access on June 28th, 2009
TEXT B
One source of deviation from a ‘natural’ order is the learner’s first language. Hakuta and Cancino (1977) have argued that the semantic complexity of the morphemes may vary depending on the learner’s native language. They cited research that indicates that where a second-language learner’s first language does not make the same discriminations as the target language, more difficulty in learning to use these morphemes occurs than is the case for learners whose first language makes the semantic discrimination. Thus, Korean children, whose language has no article equivalents, performed more poorly on the article in morpheme studies than did children whose language, such as Spanish, contains articles. Similarly, longitudinal research showed that a Japanese child had great difficulty with the English definite/indefinite article contrast, presumably because Japanese lacks this semantic discrimination.
Source: McLAUGHLIN, Barry. Theories of Second Language Learning: second language acquisition. London: Arnold, 1987, p 32-33.
Now, read the statements below considering the information in texts A and B.
I. Since evidence of transfer from the first language has been obtained in a number of studies dealing with acquisitional sequences, supporting the fact that children will use first-language structures to solve the riddle of second-language forms, and that the different system of their mother tongue does influence the way they acquire a second language, Krashen’s Natural Order Hypothesis does not have enough evidence to be fully supported.
II. Formal instruction does not interfere on learners’ natural course of linguistic development. This explains why errors occur, and why learning experiences are sometimes unsuccessful, no matter how differently the learning situations are presented.
III. The research presented in text B invalidates Krashen’s Natural Hypothesis, proving that it is not possible to predict the order of acquisition of language aspects.
IV. If the Natural Order Hypothesis is to be accepted, it must be in a weak form. It is plausible to say that some things are learned before others, but not always, since individual learning strategies, to name one example factor, indicate a much greater complexity than Krashen has acknowledged.
It is possible to say that the CORRECT statement(s) is (are)
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Knowledge storage versus knowledge access
There is always the possibility that knowledge of a language is a __________ but one can develop it and have access to it in two different ways. Hence, for example, if I can produce questions like ‘What am I doing?’, this means at the very least that I have some __________ of English interrogatives. If I can talk about it and perhaps even give a rule, this means that I have __________ of this area of the language. But it is the same knowledge as the intuitive knowledge: I have simply uncovered it, i.e. made it ‘visible’ to __________. I can also acquire new knowledge either intuitively or by using my conscious analysis. This third, commonsense, which lay understanding of the knowledge as a single store may also be shared by many researchers. Most of the literature on the topic has, however, tended to support some idea of two separate knowledge stores, the argument being about whether they can influence one another and, if so, how.
According to which proposals that one favoured, one could see Interlanguage knowledge as consisting of:
(1) two entirely different non-interacting kinds of knowledge;
(2) two entirely different kinds of knowledge but still capable of influencing one another;
(3) the same knowledge but one which could be developed and accessed in two different ways (intuitively and consciously)
Source; SMITH, Michael Sharwood. Second Language Learning: theoretical foundations. New York: Longman, 1994, p. 95.
The sequence of expressions that respectively complete the blanks in this text correctly is
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To travel or not to travel? A Swine Flu Dilemma
Fearing that their vacations could comprise of surf, sand and swine flu, potential travelers are turning to health organizations for guidance on whether to pack their bags or stay home. And while opinions from health officials have come thick and fast, their often contradictory advice doesn’t make it any easier to decide whether to fly or not to fly.
On Monday, the European Union’s health commissioner Androulla Vassiliou told reporters in Luxembourg that she was ‘’not worried at this stage’’ about a pandemic sweeping across Europe, but she urged travelers to avoid Mexico and the United States anyway. That prompted a swift rebuke from Richard Besser, the acting director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, who rejected her advisory as ‘’quite premature’’. Even so, the CDC website ‘’recommends that U.S. travelers avoid all nonessential travel to Mexico”. As for the World Health Organization, it’s calling on nations to keep their borders open and to avoid restricting international travel, and emphasizes that a pandemic is not evitable. Despite that plea, Argentina and Cuba have suspended all flights from Mexico, and tour operators and airlines across the globe – including some based in Canada, Germany and the U.K. – have canceled flights and holiday packages to sunshine destinations like Cancún and Cozumel.
Available at < http://www.time.com/health/article/0,8599,1894660,00.html/ >,
visited on June 26, 2009.
In the passage: “That prompted a swift rebuke from Richard Besser, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, who rejected her advisory as quite premature”, there is an occurrence of
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2008) — Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a study out today reports.
This new "enhanced" form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-E) builds on and improves the current leading treatment for bulimia nervosa as recommended by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). CBT-E is the first treatment to be shown to be suitable for the majority of cases of eating disorders.
According to NICE, eating disorders are a major cause of physical and psychosocial impairment in young women, affecting at least one in twenty women between the ages of 18 and 30. They also occur in young men but are less common. Three eating disorders are recognised: anorexia nervosa, which accounts for around one in ten cases in adults; bulimia nervosa, which accounts for a third of all cases; and the remainder are classed as "atypical eating disorders, which account for over half of all cases. In these atypical cases the features of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are combined in a different way.
The three eating disorders vary in their severity, but typically involve extreme and relentless dieting, self-induced vomiting or laxative misuse, binge eating, driven exercising and in some cases marked weight loss. Common associated features are depression, social withdrawal, perfectionism and low self-esteem. The disorders tend to run a chronic course and are notoriously difficult to treat. Relapse is common.
This new treatment derives from an earlier form of CBT that was designed exclusively for patients with bulimia nervosa. Both were developed by Professor Christopher Fairburn, a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. In 2004, the earlier treatment became the first psychotherapy to be recognised by NICE as the leading treatment for a clinical condition and its use was recommended across the NHS.
Now, in a study published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Professor Fairburn and colleagues have shown that the enhanced version of the treatment is not only more potent than the earlier NICE-recommended treatment, but it can also be used to treat both bulimia nervosa and the atypical eating disorders, making it suitable for over 80 percent of cases of eating disorders.
"Eating disorders are serious mental health problems and can be very distressing for both patients and their families," says Professor Fairburn. "Now for the first time, we have a single treatment which can be effective at treating the majority of cases without the need for patients to be admitted into hospital."
154 people were recruited for the study which was based in Oxfordshire and Leicestershire. Two versions of CBT-E were compared: a simple version that focused solely on the eating disorder and a second, more complex version that simultaneously addressed commonly associated problems such as low self-esteem and extreme perfectionism. Both treatments comprised twenty 50-minute outpatient appointments over twenty weeks.
The researchers found that the majority of patients responded well and rapidly to the two forms of CBT-E and that the changes were sustained over the following year, the time at which relapse is most likely to occur. Approximately two-thirds of those who completed treatment made a complete and lasting response with many of the remainder showing substantial improvement. Patients with bulimia nervosa or an atypical eating disorder responded equally well, though a planned sub-analysis showed that patients with particularly complex clinical features responded better to the more complex treatment and vice versa.
"This new psychotherapy is an effective and relatively straightforward intervention for treating most clinical disorders seen in adults," says Professor Fairburn. "It is increasingly being used across the NHS and has the potential to improve the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people living with eating disorders."
Professor Fairburn and colleagues are also nearing the completion of a largescale trial investigating the effectiveness of CBT-E as a treatment for anorexia nervosa, the interim result of which look very promising.
The findings have been welcomed by Susan Ringwood, Chief Executive Officer of Beat, the beating eating disorders campaign group: "This research shows that people can benefit from psychological therapy even at a very low weight. There has been so little research into eating disorders and anorexia in particular, and Professor Fairburn's work has really added to our knowledge in this challenging field."
The research is the culmination of a seven-year study funded by the Wellcome Trust, the UK's largest medical research charity.
Adapted from materials provided by Wellcome Trust.
Available at <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215074404.htm> access on June 19, 2009.
“Now, in a study published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Professor Fairburn and colleagues have shown that the enhanced version of the treatment is not only more potent than the earlier NICE-recommended treatment, but it can also be used to treat both bulimia nervosa and the atypical eating disorders, making it suitable for over 80 percent of cases of eating disorders.”
The expression not only... but also denotes an idea of
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