Irrelevant Sentences Advanced Level Test – Quiz (Online Exercise With Answers) 3

(I) When Europeans first arrived North America in 1620, the forests were full of bears. (II) There were more than half a million of these wild animals. (III) Then the Europeans began to cut down the forests where the bears lived. (IV) They also began to hunt them in great numbers. (V) Therefore, by 1800 the number of bears doubled.

2. (I) Amish life is very strict and very
simple. (II) The Amish people dress in
very plain clothes. (Ill) The men and
boys wear dark jackets and trousers,
plain shirts and hats. (IV) The women
and girls wore long dresses and small
bonnets. (V) They have long hair and
don’t wear any make-up or jewellery.

3. (I) To an outsider, İstanbul may at first
seem like a Western city. (II) The Western dress, the many new
buildings, the traffic problems all
make the city seem very modern. (Ill
But there is another side to this great
city, its rich past as the capital of the
Ottoman Empire. (IV) In the narrow
back streets, the bazaars, and the
mosques, this past seems very near
and real. (V) The Blue Mosque is one
of the best examples of Islamic
architecture in İstanbul.

4. (I) For more than three years, Anna
Freg didn’t tell her husband that she
had sunk nearly half of their savings
into the Shanghai stock market. (II)
Everyone seems to be so optimistic
about the markets now. (Ill) While he
thought all their money was safely
sitting in a bank, the value of the
stocks plunged by almost 75%. (IV)
But over the past couple of months,
the Shanghai market has shown signs
of life, and Feng, 56-year-oid retiree,
has recouped half her loses. (IV)
She’s quietly hopeful that maybe
she’ll make it all back before her
husband has noticed what has been
happening to their savings.

5. (I) Skin cancer used to be considered
an affliction mainly of older people,
and indeed, it was rising among over
50. (II) About 1 million Americans are
diagnosed each year with nonmelanoma
skin cancer. (Ill) Some
800.000 of these are basal cell, the
most common type, and another
200.000 are squamous cell. (IV) If left
untreated, these skin cancers may
become invasive, requiring fairly
major surgery. (V) But these types
rarely metastasize and are relatively
easy to cure if caught early on.

6. (I) Right now the only treatment for
food allergy is to avoid the food for
life. (II) But researchers are looking
for better options. (Ill) One that has -
received a lot of attention is antilge,
which tries to cause a problem. (IV)
Another focus is finding ways to
prevent the immune system from
attacking the food protein in the first
place, which may teach the immune
system to tolerate the food. (V) When
people complain of allergies, they
have hives or a scratchy throat.

7. (I) One of the few things people can
agree on about Britain's class system
is that it is always out of date. (II) “The
peculiarity of English class
distinctions is not that they are unjust
-for after all, wealth and poverty exist
side by side in almost all countries
but that they are anachronistic,”
George Orwell wrote back in 1947.
More recently, Andrew (now Lord)
Adonis, one of the brains behind this
week's education white paper, helped
write a book arguing much the same.
(IV) Old ideas about monocles and
stately homes were misleading. (V) An
adolescence spent at an expensive
school with archaic rules and an
absurd dress code was until recently
thought to be a handicap for a
politician.

8. (I) Bedrooms should be devoid of
clutter and have adequate lighting. (II)
Light sensitive night lights can make
getting up in the middle of the night
safer. (Ill) For electronics such as
lights, radios and televisions, remote
controls will help you to avoid getting
up and down unnecessarily. (IV)
Minimizing clutter and ensuring ample
space around the bed is also
important. (V) Comforters or blankets
should be well fit so they are not
dragging on the floor.

9. (I) The Oregon State permits only
assisted suicide -the prescribing
doctor cannot even be there when the
patient takes the lethal potion, usually
barbiturates. (II) The patient must be
adult, mentally competent, and
“terminally ill” having a life
expectancy of six months of less. (Ill)
The Bush administration is
challenging Oregon's law, saying it
violates federal drug rules. (IV) There
is no requirement of “unbearable
suffering”. (V) Two written requests
for assistance must be made,
separated by a 15-day interval.

10. (I) No country In modern history has
moved so swiftly from worldwide
adulation to dismissal or even
contempt as did Japan, in a process
that began more or less as the temple
bells were tolling in the new year of
1990. (II) In the 15 years that followed,
amid crashing stock-and property
markets, mountains of dud debt,
scores of corruption scandals, vast
government deficits and stagnant
economic growth, Japan mutated
from being a giver of lessons to a
recipient of lectures, all of which
offered recipes for its reform and
revival, (ill) Since then, Japan has
suffered a price deflation that has still
not come to an end. (IV)Those Ö
lectures, although received politely by
a newly seif-deprecatory Japanese
elite, seemed to be ignored. (V) Now,
however, the time for lectures is over;
Japan is back.

11. (I) Giacomo Rizzoiatti,
neuroscientist at the University of
Parma in Italy who studies the origins
of language, says the game is
interesting because it shows the
importance of imitation in language t development. (II) The birth of a new
language is such a rare event that t-scientists who want to watch it
happen generally have to make do !with computer simulations. (Ill) Bruno
Gaiantucci, a cognitive scientist at 9
Yale University in America, has -developed a human alternative, based
on the principle that necessity is the
mother of invention. (IV) He asks pairs
of strangers to play a computer game
in which they have to find one another
in a virtual bungalow. (V) This
requires them to communicate, but
the only way they can do so is by
inventing a language.

12. (I) “In the future, the only thing that
will get read is something that will be
online. (II) MSN is initially scanning
only books from the British Library
that are out of copyright. (Ill) If it isn't
online, it doesn't exist”, proclaims the
director of content partnerships at
Google. (IV) Yet for search companies
such as Google, Yahoo! and
Microsoft's MSN, digitising books is
particularly important because it
represents the next critical phase of
the industry. (V) Most of the web has
already been scanned and indexed—
there are already between 8 billion
and 10 billion items online.

13. (I) Despite the fact that it is difficult to
study in another language, the rewards
will probably last a lifetime. (II)
Studying at an English medium
university in countries that are non-
English speaking is a good thing if
students want to have more job
opportunities after graduation, (ill)
Many people prefer these universities
because the world is becoming a
global village and employers are
requiring employees to speak more
than one language. (IV) As a result,
applicants who don’t have enough
qualifications are unlikely to have a
good future (V) Furthermore,
graduates who communicate well in
English will find it easier to get jobs
abroad as well as in their own country.

14. (I) Nothing could have surprised me
so much as Aunt Clara’s marriage. (II)
She is such an interesting person that
you never guess what she’ll do next.
(Ill) It shocked the other members of
the family, too. (IV) Some of them
even got very annoyed, especially my
father. (V) He said he’d never approve
of her marrying such a young man.

15. (i) The first known people of the many
to settle the Island. of_ Malta were the
Phoenicians, who reached it in about
9th century B.C. (II) They were
followed by the Romans. (Ill) In
succession, the island was then
occupied by the Arabs, the Knights,
the French, and most recently, the
British. (IV) The Phoenicians, or
course, came from the area called
Lebanon today. (V) All in all there is a
wide variety of population there.

16. (I) Legumes are a category of J
vegetable that includes beans, lentils
and peas. (II) Coffee bean is eaten as
candy, in cakes cookies and
puddingy. (Ill) In some places,
however, it is also eaten in a nonsweet
form. (IV) The Mexicans, for
example, make a chicken dish with a
spicy chocolate sauce. (V) Or in
Turkey they put in sugar free coffeesI

17. (I) Different countries have different
customs. (II) Sometimes, these
customs are so different that what
may be a traditional act in one
country may be a sign of disrespect in
another. (Ill) For instance, in Turkey,
when people see each other after a
long time, they hug each other and
kiss on cheeks. (IV) Nonetheless, in
Japan, this is considered rude and in
many European countries, these
behaviours can be regarded as signs
of different sexual tendencies. (V) In
many countries, in Asia such as
Japan, China and South Korea,
people prefer to eat sushi at their
lunch time.

18. (I) Swimming at least 300 meters a
day tones up all the muscles in your
body; therefore, it is a good way to
stay healthy. (II) Another benefit of
swimming is that it’s the best way to
lose weight. (Ill) Swimming is a sport
that you can do alone. (IV) Doctors all
over the world recommend swimming
for overweight people. (V) Many sport
centers now have a swimming pool to
encourage people to swim.

19. (I) The divorce rate in many European
countries increased over the last
decade. (II) One reason for this is that
many men and women don’t want to
be tied down to just one partner their
whole lives. (Ill) Mainly children are
affected by this rapid increase in
divorce. (IV) Another reason is that
man and women are so busy with
their careers that they have little time
to work on their marriage. (V) In the
future, it has been suggested that
marriage will become rare.

20. (I) Years ago people started fighting
for animal rights. (II) They struggled in
order to prevent manufacturers from
testing their products on animals. (Ill)
Some products such as make-up,
perfume, and medicine are now being
tested without using animals. (IV)
These days some species of animals
are gradually becoming extinct. (V)
However, animal testing is still a
major problem all over the world.

21. (I) Is it possible for a party to join a
government and stay in the
opposition at the same time? (II)
Forming a government in New
Zealand is no mean feat. (Ill) Helen
Clark, who was sworn in for a third
three-year term as New Zealand's
prime minister on October 19th,
obviously thinks so. (IV) Her minority
coalition, of Labour and the one-man
Progressive Party, commands only
votes in the 121-seat parliament. (V)
To give herself a working majority,
she has entered into peculiar
agreements with two smaller parties.

22. (I) Home to nearly two-fifths of
humanity, two neighbouring
countries, India and China, are two of
the world's fastest-growing
economies. (II) Both are poor
countries that have made great
strides in reducing poverty,
especially since embarking on
radical economic reform. (Ill) But
India and China, always very
different civilisations, have followed
very different paths to growth. (IV)
Under reform, they have converged
somewhat in the past two decades,
but will remain distinctive. (V) The
two countries reacted to the recent
deaths of two reformist leaders in the
same way.

23. (l)China is mobilising 30,000 extra
troops and 90 more helicopters to
help with the rescue operation after
Monday's devastating earthquake. (II)
The correspondents say that hopes of
finding survivors fade with each
passing day. (Ill) About 10 million
people in Sichuan province have been
directly affected by the 7.9 quake that
flattened entire villages, state media
said. (IV) Nearly 15,000 people have
been killed, and another 26,000 are
still trapped. (V) China says it will
accept foreign aid and help from
rescue teams from Japan and its rival
Taiwan.

24. (l)Like the Indian plant-hopper, these
tiny unwanted animals can strip a
field completely, literally sucking the
life out of the plants. (II) Scientists say
they are worried about new EU
proposals which could drastically
restrict the number of pesticides
available to farmers. (Ill) The
registration process is changing and
many commonly used chemicals are
likely to fall out of use. (IV) It is
claimed the replacement regime could
lead to reduced yields and further
increases in food costs. (V) But anti-
pesticide campaigners say the
changes are needed to help protect
human health and the environment.

25. (I) Major changes in the Earth's
natural systems driven by global
warming are under research. (II) Since
1970, there's been about 0,5°C, 0,6°C
of warming - that's the global average.
(Ill) Glacier and permafrost melting,
earlier spring-time, coastal erosion
and animal migrations are among the
observations laid at the door of manmade
warming. (IV) The research, in
the journal Nature, involves many
scientists who took part in last year's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change report. (V) It links warming
and natural impacts on a tighter
regional scale.