TEXT G
First read the following questions.
86. The best title for the passage would be ____.
A.Business Man Gives Half a Million Pounds to Pay for Bright Children
B.A Gifted Business Man
C.An Unfortunate Son
D.A Generous Help to Private Schools
87. What is NOT the reason for David’s bankruptcy?
A. Bad judgment.
B. Bad timing.
C. A lack of business acumen.
D. A shortage of money.
Now skim the table below and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
A WEALTHY business man is giving 500,000 pounds to help gifted children go to private school.Multi millionaire Mr. John James, 72, whose father was a miner, is sharing the cash between five Bristol school—— 61 years after he won a scholarship to the city’s Merchant Venturers School.
The money will provide places for able children whose parents cannot afford the fees.
Ironically, Mr. James’s son David——who received 1,000,000 pounds from his father in 1972—— went bankrupt three weeks ago.David, 35, blamed his failure on bad judgment, bad timing, combined with lack of business acumen.
TEXT H
First read the following questions.
88. Galvanized steel is used to make ____.
A.benzs
B.browns
C.cadillacs
D.rust-resistant cars
89. Recycling galvanized steel is very ____.
A. easy
B. costly
C. cheap
D. difficult
90. A newly-developed degalvanizing process can help car makers ____.
A. use more galvanized scrap
B. reduce recycling costs
C. save a lot of oil every year
D. all above
Now skim the table below and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
The old auto junkyard isn’t what it used to be. Since the early 1980’s, auto makers increasingly used galvanized steel to build rust-resistant cars. But that has created a new problem. Recycling galvanized scrap from autos and trucks costs ahefty $50 per ton, including environmental control systems to capture the steel’s toxic zinc coating.An American company has developed a degalvanizing process that can slash these costs. Scrap is put into vats of sodium hydroxide. When a electric current is applied, the zinc collects on an electrode, where it can be removed easily. The process should allow the steel-makers to use more galvanized scrap in place of primary ores. That could save the equivalent of 9 million barrels of oil annually.