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Part III Listening Comprehension |
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Section A |
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Q11. |
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M: Shawn's been trying for months to find a job. |
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But I wonder how he could get a job when he looks like that. |
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W: Oh, that poor guy! |
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He really should shave himself every other day at least and put on something clean. |
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Q: What do we learn about Shawn? |
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Q12. |
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W: I wish Jane would call when she know she'll be late. |
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This is not the first time we've had to wait for her. |
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M: I agree. But she does have to drive through very heavy traffic to get here. |
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Q: What does the man imply? |
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Q13. |
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M: Congratulations! I heard your baseball team is going to the Middle Atlantic Championship. |
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W: Yeah, we're all working real hard right now! |
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Q: What is the woman's team doing? |
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Q14. |
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W: John's been looking after his mother in the hospital. |
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She was injured in a car accident two weeks ago and still in critical condition. |
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W:Oh, that's terrible. And you know his father passed away last year. |
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Q: What do we learn about John? |
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Q15. |
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M: What a boring speaker! I can hardly stay awake. |
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W: Well, I don't know. In fact, I think it's been a long time since I've heard anyone is good. |
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Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
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Q16. |
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W: I'm having a lot of trouble with logic |
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and it seems my professor can't explain it in a way that makes sense to me. |
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M: You know, there is a tutoring service on campus. |
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I was about to drop statistics before they helped me out. |
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Q: What does the man mean? |
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Q17. |
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M: This is a stylish overcoat. I saw you wearing it last week, did't I ? |
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W: Oh, that wasn't me. That was my sister Joe. She's in your class. |
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Q: What does the woman mean? |
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Q18. |
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M: Jane, suppose you lost all your money while taking a vacation overseas, what would you do? |
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W: Well, I guess I'd sell my watch or computer or do some odd jobs |
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till I could afford a return plane ticket. |
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Q: What are the speakers talking about? |
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Two long conversations |
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Conversation One |
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M: Hello, professor Johnson. |
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W: Hello, Tony. So what shall we work on today? |
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M: Well, the problem is that this writing assignment isn't coming out right. |
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What I thought I was writing on was to talk about what particular sport means to me when I participate in. |
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W: What sport did you choose? |
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M: I decided to write about cross-country skiing. |
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W: What are you going to say about skiing? |
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M: That's the problem. I thought I would write about how peac eful it is to be out in the country. |
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W: So why is that a problem? |
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M: As I start describing how quiet it is to be out in the woods. |
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I keep mentioning how much effort it takes to keep going. |
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Cross-country skiing isn't as easy as some people think. |
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It takes a lot of energy, but that's not part of my paper. |
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So I guess I should leave it out. |
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But now I don't know how to explain that feeling of peacefulness without explaining how hard you have to work for it. |
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It all fits together. It's not like just sitting down s omewhere and watching the clouds roll by. |
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That's different. |
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W: Then you'll have to include that in your point. |
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The peacefulness of cross-country skiing is the kind you earn by effort. |
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Why leave that out? Part of your point you knew before hand but part you discovered as you wrote. |
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That's common, right? |
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M: Yeah, I guess so. |
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Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard. |
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Q19: What is the topic of the man's writing assignment? |
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Q20: What problem does the man have while working on his paper? |
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Q21: What does the woman say is common in writing papers? |
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Conversation Two |
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W: Good evening and welcome to this week's Business World. |
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It program for and about business people. |
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Tonight we have Mr. Angeleno who came to the US six years ago, |
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and is now an established businessman with three restaurants in town. |
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Tell us Mr. Angeleno, how did you get started? |
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M: Well I started off with a small diner. |
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I did all the cooking myself and my wife waited on tables. |
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It was really too much work for two people. My cooking is great. |
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And word got around town about the food. Within a year, I had to hire another cook and four waitresses. |
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When that restaurant became very busy, I decided to expand my business. |
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Now with three places my main concern is keeping the business successful |
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and running business successful and running smoothly. |
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W: Do you advertise? |
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M: Oh yes. I don't have any TV commercials, because they are too expensive. |
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But I advertise a lot on radio and in local newspapers. |
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My children used to distribute ads. in nearby shopping centres, but we don't need to do that anymore. |
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W: Why do you believe you've been so successful? |
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M: Em, I always serve the freshest possible food and I make the atmosphere as comfortable and as pleasant as I can, |
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so that my customers will want to come back. |
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W: So you always aim to please the customers? |
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M: Absolutely!Without them I would have no business at all. |
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W: Thank you Mr.Angeleno.I think your advice will be helpfull to those just staring out in business. |
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Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. |
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Q22 What is the woman's occupation? |
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Q23 what do we learn about Mr.Angel eno's business at its beginning? |
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Q24 what does Mr.Angeleno say about advertising his businesses? |
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Q25 What does the man say contribute to his success? |
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Section B |
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Passage One |
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There are many commonly held beliefs about eye glasses and eyesight that are not proven facts. |
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For instance, some people believe that wearing glasses too soon weakens the eyes. |
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But there is no evidence to show that the structure of eyes is changed by wearing glasses at a young age. |
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Wearing the wrong glasses, however, can prove harmful. |
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Studies show that for adults there is no danger, |
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but children can develop loss of vision if they have glasses inappropriate for their eyes. |
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We have all heard some of the common myths about how eyesight gets bad. |
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Most people believe that reading in dim light causes poor eyesight, but that is untrue. |
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Too little light makes the eyes work harder, so they do get tired and strained. |
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Eyestrain also results from reading a lot, reading in bed, and watching too much television. |
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However, although eyestrain may cause some pain or headaches, it does not permanently damage eyesight. |
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Another myth about eyes is that they can be replaced, or transferred from one person to another. |
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There are close to one million nerve fibres that connect the eyeball to the brain, |
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as of yet it is impossible to attach them all in a new person. |
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Only certain parts of the eye can be replaced. |
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But if we keep clearing up the myths and learning more about the eyes, |
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some day a full transplant may be possible. |
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Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Q26. What does the speaker want to tell us about eyesight? |
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Q27. What do studies about wearing the wrong glasses show? |
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Q28. What do we learn about eye transplanting from the talk? |
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Passage Two |
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When people care for an elderly relative, |
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they often do not use available community services such as adult daycare centers. |
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If the caregivers are adult children, they are more likely to use such services, |
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especially because they often have jobs and other responsibilities. |
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In contrast, a spouse usually the wife, is much less likely to use support services |
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or to put the dependent person in a nursing home. |
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Social workers discover that the wife normally tries to take care of her husband herself |
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for as long as she can in order not to use up their life savings. |
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Researchers have found that caring for the elderly can be a very positive experience. |
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The elderly appreciated the care and attention they received. They were affectionate and cooperative. |
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However, even when care giving is satisfying, it is hard work. |
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Social workers and experts on aging offer caregivers |
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and potential caregivers help when arranging for the care of an elderly relative. |
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One consideration is to ask parents what they want before they become sick or dependent. |
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Perhaps they prefer going into a nursing home and can select one in advance. |
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On the other hand, they may their adult children. |
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Caregivers must also learn to state their needs and opinions clearly |
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and ask for help from others especially brothers and sisters. |
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Brothers and sisters are often willing to help, but they may not know what to do. |
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Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Q29. Why are adult children more likely to use community services to help care for elderly parents? |
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Q30. Why are most wives unwilling to put their dependent husbands into nursing homes? |
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Q31. According to the passage, what must caregivers learn to do? |
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Passage Three |
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Since a union representative visited our company to inform us about our rights and protections. |
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My coworkers have been worrying about health conditions and complaining about safety hazards in the workplace. |
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Several of the employees in the computer department, for example, |
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claim to be developing vision problems from having to stare at a video display terminal for about 7 hours a day. |
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The supervisor of the laboratory is beginning to get headaches and dizzy spells |
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because she says it's dangerous to breathe some of the chemical smoke there. |
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An X-rays technician is refusing to do her job until the firm agrees to replace its out-dated equipment. |
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She insists that it's exposing workers to unnecessarily high doses of radiation. |
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She thinks that she may have to contact the Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
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and asked that government agency to inspect the department. |
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I've heard that at a factory in the area two pregnant women |
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who were working with paint requested a transfer to a safer department, |
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because they wanted to prevent damage to their unborn babies. |
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The supervisor of personnel refused the request. |
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In another firm the workers were constantly complaining about the malfunctioning heating system, |
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but the owners was too busy or too mean to do anything about it. |
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Finally, they all met an agree to wear ski-clothing to work the next day. |
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The owner was too embarrassed to talk to his employees. |
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But he had the heating system replaced right away. |
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Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Q32. What does the talk focus on? |
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Q33. What did the X-ray technician ask her company to do? |
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Q34. What does the speaker say about the two pregnant women working with paint? |
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Q35. Why did the workers in the firm wear ski-clothing to work? |
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Section C |
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Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move. |
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It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts some day may survive so long in space |
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that they would return to an Earth of the distant future. |
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If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand still, |
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if you could move faster than light, your time would move backward. |
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Although no form of matter yet discovered, moves as fast as or faster than light, |
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scientific experiments has already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched. |
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Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905, |
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when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity. |
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A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light. |
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And therefore, might serve as our passports to the past. |
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An obsession with time--saving, gaming, wasting, losing and mastering it-- |
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seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as human have existed. |
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Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time. |
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Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock. |
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Thus time and time's relativity are measurable by any hour glass, alarm clock, |
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or atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second. |
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Read again |
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Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move. |
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It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts some day may survive so long in space |
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that they would return to an Earth of the distant future. |
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If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand still, |
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if you could move faster than light, your time would move backward. |
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Although no form of matter yet discovered, moves as fast as or faster than light, |
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scientific experiments has already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched. |
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Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905, |
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when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity. |
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A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light. |
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And therefore, might serve as our passports to the past. |
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An obsession with time--saving, gaming, wasting, losing and mastering it-- |
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seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as human have existed. |
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Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time. |
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Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock. |
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Thus time and time's relativity are measurable by any hour glass, alarm clock, |
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or atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second. |
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Read third time |
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Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move. |
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It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts some day may survive so long in space |
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that they would return to an Earth of the distant future. |
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If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand still, |
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if you could move faster than light, your time would move backward. |
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Although no form of matter yet discovered, moves as fast as or faster than light, |
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scientific experiments has already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched. |
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Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905, |
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when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity. |
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A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light. |
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And therefore, might serve as our passports to the past. |
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An obsession with time--saving, gaming, wasting, losing and mastering it-- |
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seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as human have existed. |
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Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time. |
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Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock. |
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Thus time and time's relativity are measurable by any hour glass, alarm clock, |
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or atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second. |