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[投票预测+答案] 2011 Year End MUET Reading 800/3 [ ANSWER ]

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1. B: 1995 - 2005 = ten year period, not 20

2. B: 2005, 1st is fishing 43.3 million, skateboarding 12.2 mil

3. A: - get this - ...! (use of expression and exclamation mark)

4. B: percentage growth of soccer 17.5, golf 2.9 does not indicate MORE THAN TWICE THE RATE

5. C: No mention of statistics for those 'watching' big sports

6. A: kayaking is an individual sport

7. B: writer DOES NOT prefer the current trend in sports participation, he's all for the cheering crowd (meaning he likes to watch, not
participate)

8. A: worried how customers perceive their brand = losing their distinctiveness

9. B: no mention of Starbucks loss of revenue/income, paragraph 2 indicates Starbucks experienced has watered down but didn't mention
income.

10. B: not because of high prices but paragraph 3 states 'are at risk from growing sense that their products are indeed just commodities'.

11. C: Schulz suggests that the company needs to go back to its roots.

12. A: up-market - more appealing to the rich.

13. B: doubtful - similar to 'not sure'

14. C: health conscious because there is a growing concern about obesity.

15. A: a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 - pound for pound methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas

16. B: difficult to control - para 2: 'it is not always easy because sometimes they are one and the same'.

17. A: 'they do exist' conveys disbelief

18. B: warming at higher latitudes

19. A: tipping point - point where something tips over/trigger a serious reaction

20. C: are easier to control than those emitted from wetlands and paddy fields

21. A: option III is not stated

22. B: women now earn almost as much as men because it stated, 'due to a narrowing wage gap'. option A is unacceptable as there is no
data and option C is also not related as it is not stated who owns more property

23. B: emphasise the large numbers - biggest/twice the size of the hottest developing markets

24. B: seismic relates to earthquakes/earth shattering/something amazing, nerve wrecking means nervous, groundbreaking means
pioneer/original/first of its kind

25. A: human capital - manpower

26. A: more open - more liberal

27. C: cause and effect (access to female edu therefore increase of literacy, increased labour-force participation therefore 70 percent
more women work etc)

28. A: growing faster because 8.1 compared to 5.8. option B is not accurate as higher female earners in developed world is not
necessarily comparing to men, could be compared to number of female earner is poorer countries and C is inaccurate as 80 percent is not
the same as 'Some 80 percent' which means 'about 80 percent)

29. B: 'what the world needs at the moment' = positive attitude

30. C: conveys surprise

31. B: anaphoric reference

32. A: affects the ability to convey emotions

33. B: one consequence (stated in the question) is a delayed response to anger as given in the example in lines 42 - 44

34. C: contributes to the field : 'part of a bludgeoning field called 'embodied cognition'

35. C: using their hands to commit a moral transgression therefore they will have an urge to wash them.

36. B: because all the other statements are can be proven wrong.

37. C: all three - body, mind (thoughts) and emotions (feelings) are interrelated.

38. B: previous paragraph (anaphoric) refers to how cheap food has been and how much people waste

39. D: NOT TRUE because when more meat is consumed demand for grain increases as 8kg grain needed to produce 1kg meat

40. C: the use of maize for ethanol has increased food prices because the maize for ethanol amounts for half of the fall in the world's overall
grain stocks.

41. A: farmers not the urban poor

42. D: no mention of higher wages

43. B: free up agricultural trade= less control and opening up

44. B: a catch here refers to a drawback/disadvantage

45. D: once in a lifetime chance to narrow the gap

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1B 2B 3A 4B 5C 6A 7B 8A 9B 10B
11C 12A 13B 14C 15A 16B 17A 18B 19A 20C
21A 22B 23B 24B 25A 26A 27C 28A 29B 30C
31B 32A 33B 34C 35C 36B 37C 38B 39D 40C
41A 42D 43B 44B 45D

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