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Directions: In the following article, some sentences
have been removed. For Questions 41 - 45, choose the most suitable one from the
list A-- G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra
choices, which do not fir in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on Answer
Sheet I.
Anyone paying attention to the debate over Social Security has
heard a litany of dates. There’s 2018, when the program is expected to start
taking in less in taxes than it pays out in benefits. And there’s 2042 (or 2052
by some estimates), when its trust fund is supposed to run out of
money.
(41)___________________
For years, the
government has collected more in Social Security taxes than it needed to pay
current benefits, Those excess collections are credited to the Social Security
Trust Fund, ostensibly to pay future retirees. But there is no actual
money in the fund. Instead, the government spends the money for
other purposes and issues the
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Directions: In the following
text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions (41-45), choose the most
suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are
two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps.
In 1959 the average American family paid $ 989 for a year’s
supply of food. In 1972 the family paid $1,311．That was a price increase of
nearly one-third. Every family has had this sort of experience. Everyone agrees
that the cost of feeding a family has risen sharply. 41．______.
Many blame the farmers who produce the vegetables, fruit, meat,
eggs, and cheese that stores offer for sale. According to the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, the farmer’s share of the $1,311 spent by the family in 1972 was
$ 521．This was 31 per cent more than the farmer had received in 1959.
But farmers claim that this increase was very
small compared to the increase in their cost
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Directions:
In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Question 41—45, choose the most suitable one the list A—G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
We might marvel at the process made in every field of study, but the method of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years educationists have still failed to devise anything more efficient and reliable than examinations.
41. ______
They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and aptitude.
42. ______
Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or t
