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With more, here's Paul Bongiomo in Canberra Paul Bongiomo: Australia's balance of trade outlook brightened considerably, when Japanese and Austalian Agriculture Ministers signed a momentous beef access agreement, dismantling lon time barriers for our producers, and opening the way for a billion-dollar annual export trade within three years. Radio 2BL Sydney, 6.00 p.m. News, 24 June 1988 Today's signing of a major beef access agreement between Australia and Japan bas received widespread support. The new arrangements will double eamings for Australian producers over the next three years, and will give the country the opportunity to demonstrate its worth as a reliable exporter, More from Greg Walker in Canberra. Greg Walker; Cattle Council President Wally Peart says the agreement will inject tremendous confidence into the industry. He's welcomed assurances ftom the Japanese that the commercial contest between the United States and Australia will be a clean one. Newspaper The Weekend Australian, 25 - 26 June 1988 ‘Australia's billion-dollar beef deal with Fapan was yesterday hailed as a breakthrough in world trade reform and a landmark for the national cattle industry. The agreement to free up Japanese becf imports over three years was signed in Canberra yesterday by the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, and the Japanese Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries. 1 Which one of the following is mentioned in the television report, but not in the radio or the newspaper reports? the dollar value of the beef deal the existence of a budget surplus the significance of the deal for the cattle industry vow the portfolios of the people who signed the agreement Test 7 - Section | - Page 2BAe > oe wp X 990 4M Yow vamp Compared with the television and radio reports, the newspaper report is global in perspective. sensational in presentation, biased against the Japanese. biased in favour of the cattle industry Which one of the following shows a concern for precise detail? ‘Australia’s billion-dollar beef deal’ (newspaper) ‘signed in Canberra... by the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, and the Japanese Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries" (newspaper) ‘Australia's balance of trade outlook brightened considerably, when Japanese and Australian Agriculture Ministers signed a momentous beef access agreement (television) ‘The new arrangements will double earnings for Australian producers over the next three years, and will give the country the opportunity to demonstrate its worth as a reliable exporter! (fadio) In terms of the weightiness of the matters reported, which one of the following makes the largest claims? ‘a landmark for the national cattle industry’ (newspaper) ‘a momentous ... agreement, dismantling long-time barriers’ (television) ‘Australia's balance of trade outlook brightened considerably’ (television) ‘will give the country the opportunity to demonstrate its worth as a reliable exporter’ (radio) Compared with the other reports, Paul Bongiomo's (television) opening statement indicates a perspective of ethnic interest. national interest. concem with world trade in general. concern with international fiscal policy. The radio and television reports contrast with the newspaper report because they aim to give facts rather than opinions. specific and detailed information. a feeling of on-the-spot reporting a variety of viewpoints on an issue. Test 7 - Section | - Page 3UNIT 2 Questions 7 - 12 The following passage is an extract from ‘Civilisation and its Discontents! by the founder of modern psychiatry, Sigmund Freud. The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one. Some of those who have asked it have added that if it should tum out that life has no purpose, it would lose all value for them. But this ‘threat alters nothing. It looks, on the contrary, as though one had a right to dismiss the question, for it seems to derive from the human presumptuousness, many other manifestations of which are already familiar to us. Nobody talks about the purpose of the life of animals, unless, perhaps, it may be supposed to lie in being of service to man. But this view is not tenable either, for there are many animals of which man can make nothing, except to describe, classify and study them; and innumerable species of animals have escaped even this use, since they existed and became extinct before man set eyes on them. Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls, with the religious system. In Freud's view, 'the question of the purpose of human life’ is not worth asking, will never be answered. has a religious answer if any. yaw P is only asked by those with a religious conviction. ‘The passage as a whole suggests that people who express the view ‘...if it should tum out that life has no purpose, it would lose all value for them’ are exhibiting a kind of arrogance. disregarding the religious idea voicing an understandable anxiety. vaowp threatening their own spiritual well-being. According to the passage, the purpose of the life of animals’ is to serve humanity, mysterious and inspiring. to increase scientific knowledge sawp unknown and probably unknowable. Test 7 - Section | - Page 410 Many species of animals ‘existed and became extinct before man set eyes on them,' This information is advanced to support the argument that humans have an incomplete knowledge of nature. nobody talks about the meaning of life for animals. the purpose of life includes animals as well as humans, vou the animal world could not have been created for human use. 11 The idea that animals are made to serve humanity strikes the writer as, A. unlikely. B a possibility. C demonstrably untrue D_ complex and difficult, 12 The main thrust of the passage is to A. ridicule those who question the purpose of human life. B contend that animals have a reason for existing independent of human existence. C explore the variety of ways in which humans have tried to account for their existence. D establish the ground on which a discussion of the purpose of human life can usefully take place. Test 7 - Section | - Page 5UNIT 3 Questions 13 - 14 13 Which one of the following statements best reflects the meaning of this cartoon? All love is based on truth. If you have truth in your heart, you will find love. Truth lies at the heart of love, but it is hard to find. yaw pe ‘Those who search for the truth will find love in their hearts. 14 The cartoonist seems to view love warily hopelessly. innocently. vow enthusiastically, Test 7 - Section | - Page 6UNIT 4 Questions 15-17 ‘The following graph prepared by the Economic Planning and Advisory Council shows the growth in productivity for the public sector of the economy and the private sector of the economy for the first half of the 1980s and the second half of the 1980s. Prey cn ae a ihc ainadlel ano a5 piatig SECTSA ELECTRIC. RAIA. TELECOM, NON-FARM—MFACTURING Grisien Bog pos ere 15 The graph shows that the A. public is the more productive sector. B_ private is the more productive sector. C. public sector has had greater productivity rises. D private sector has had greater productivity rises. 16 The graph shows that productivity rises were A. uniform in the first half of the decade. B_ uniform in the second half of the decade. generally higher in the first half of the decade, D_ generally higher in the second half of the decade, 17 The part of the economy which had the largest ratio of productivity growth in the second half of the decade to its own productivity growth in the first half of the decade was Electricity, Gas, Water. Rail, Air, Ports. Telecom, Post, OTC yvowr Manufacturing, Test 7 - Section |- Page 7UNIT 5 Questions 18 - 22 In 1935, Carlo Levi, a doctor from Turin, was exiled 10 a remote village in southern Italy because of his political views. The folowing passage is adapted from the book ke wrote about the year he spent in the village. One day differed from another only in its cloud formations and the quantity of sunshine; the new year did not appear to progress, but lay dormant like the fallen trunk of a tree. In the monotony of the passing hours there was place for neither memory nor hope; the past and the future were two Separate unrippled pools. The entire future, as far as the end of the world, was merging for me too into the vague crai of the peasants, with its implications of futile endurance, remote from history and time. How deceiving are the contradictions of language! In this timeless land the dialect was richer in words with which to measure time than any other language; beyond the motionless and everlasting cvai every day in the future had a name of its own. Crai meant tomorrow and forever; the day after tomorrow was prescrai and the day after that pescrille; then came pescrujlo, maruflo, ‘maruffone; the seventh day was maruflicchio. But these precise terms had an undertone of irony ‘They were used less often to indicate this or that day than they were said all together in a string, one after the other; their very sound was grotesque and they were like a reflection of the futility of trying to make anything clear out of the cloudiness of crai. I, too, began to lose hope that anything new might come forth from maruflo or maruflone o maruflicchio. 18 In the village dialect, the word crai means A. tomorrow, or any time in the future any day in the next week. no time, or never. yaw futile endurance. 19 In the village dialect, the word maruflicchio used by itself means A any day in the next week B_ any time in the future C a week from today. D_ next Sunday. 20 In the first two sentences of the passage, Carlo Levi gives the impression that his life is iawi andy Alou hela yuvoke! ose A. sleepy and relaxing, okt he A B_ close to nature but stagnant. exechiv al chet lagialb cad C tumitious ad diSorienting, D primitive but full of fascination, Test 7 - Section | - Page 8o "How deceiving are the contradictions of language!’ Which one of the following best describes the contradiction the writer perceives? ‘The peasants had many words to express ideas about time, but found the idea of time meaningless. The dialect defined time in a way that denied the notion of time defined in other languages. C The dialect contained words with opposite meanings that were used interchangeably, 9 vawp The peasants often ironically contradicted themselves, thus confusing the writer. This passage suggests that Carlo Levi responded to his exile by coming to understand and partly share the attitudes of those among whom he lived. rejecting the peasants' way of thinking without properly trying to analyse it. learning to be intellectually and emotionally satisfied by his surroundings deciding to educate the peasants and alleviate their suffering. Test 7 - Section | - Page 9UNIT 6 Questions 23 - 27 So let's accept for the moment that this isn't rock's most enlightened or enlightening period. Let us also look at the 1960s, the period which is held up as rock's Belle Epoch. There were some great moments, especially in 1965, when Pete Townshend penned the definitive youth song My Generation ‘People try to put us down Talking about my generation Just because we get around Talking about my generation Things they do look awful cold Talking about my generation Hope I die before I get old This is my generation, my generation, baby.’ This was a quantum leap from the rock music of the 1950s, which in songs like Summertime Blues and Yakety Yak (Don't Talk Back), complained about the plight of individual young people but accepted the inevitability of adult decision-making and recommended young love as the compensation, American rock critic, Ken Tucker wrote: ‘In the sixties rock was the stuff of the counterculture; in the 1970s and on into the 1980s, this music WAS the culture. In the 1960s, the music's authenticity was measured by the distance it placed between its rebellious, unkempt, adversarial point of view and the acquiescent, mannerly tame world of professional entertainment. In the 1970s, this notion gradually came to be viewed as unrealistic and immature. What some saw as the death of rock as a challenging, creative medium, others recognised as an opportunity to spread the nmusic’s diverse messages to an unprecedented number of people. And, in some cases, get rich while doing it." And significantly, those who had inculcated the rock-as-counter-culture notion started doubting what they were doing. In 1971, Townshend wrote Won't Get Fooled Again: ‘There's nothing in the street looks any different to me And the slogans are all replaced by the by In the parting on the left is now a parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight.’ It was a song of cynicism and futility. Last year, Townshend had this to say about one of rock's greatest — and most wasted — anthems. ‘It was the dumbest song I've ever written. Tt was dumb to deny the political role of the individual, the political responsibility of the individyal. Burning your draft card is @ political act. Throwing your vote away is an apolitical act, And Won't Get Fooled Again was an apolitical song," Test 7 - Section |- Page 10vawe 7 vow> The writer sees the comparison between the songs My Generation and Summertime Blues or Yakety Yak (Don't Talk Back) as showing that love is always important to young people. the relevance to young people of the 1950s songs the plight of individuals in different situations. struggle against the system in the 1960s songs. Ken Tucker's view of rock music over three decades, quoted in this passage, is that 1950s rock music was a strong protest. 1960s rock music accepted the social system 1970s rock music was widely accepted. 1980s rock music is authentic, In Tucker's view, ‘authenticity’ of rock music in the 1960s was to be judged by its being outside the system. the individuality of the material the standard of the performance. its smoothness and professionalism. According to the writer, the Pete Townshend song Won't Get Fooled Again in contrast with his earlier song My Generation shows a lack of interest in social change. anew kind of social criticism. disillusion with attempted social change. anew kind of counter-culture. Pete Townshend's recent criticism of his song Won't Get Fooled Again is that it dismissed political responsibilities. was against social change through music. was too politically motivated. was not aware of the political situation Test 7 - Section | - Page 11UNIT 7 Questions 28 - 33 The following passage is from the English translation of the Czech novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. All languages that derive from Latin form the word ‘compassion’ by combining the prefix meaning 'with' (com-) and the root meaning ‘suffering’ (Late Latin, passio). In other languages — Czech, Polish, German, and Swedish, for instance this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefix combined with the word that means ‘feeling’ (Czech: sou-cif; Polish: wspél- czucie; German: Mit-geftthl, Swedish: med-kéinsla). In languages that derive from Latin, ‘compassion’ means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, We sympathise with those who suffer. Another word with approximately the same meaning, pity’ (French: pitié; Italian: pietd ete.), connotes a certain condescension towards the sufferer. ‘To take pity on a woman’ means that we are better off than she, that we stoop to her level, lower ourselves. ‘That is why the word ‘compassion’ generally inspires suspicion; it designates what is considered an inferior, second-rate sentiment that has little to do with love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love, In languages that form the word ‘compassion’ not from the root ‘suffering’ but from the root ‘feeling’, the word is used in approximately the same way, but to contend that it designates a bad or inferior sentiment is difficult. The secret strength of its etymology floods the word with another light and gives it a broader meaning: to have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with the other's misfortune but also to feel with that person any emotion — joy, anxiety, happiness, pain. This kind of compassion (in the sense of soucit, wspélczucie, Mitgefith, ‘medkénsla) therefore signifies the maximal capacity of affective imagination, the art of emotional telepathy. In the hierarchy of sentiments, then, it is supreme. 28 According to the passage, in languages in which the word equivalent to ‘compassion’ is derived from Latin, the word caries the suggestion of A love. B_ coolness, C suspicion. D_ condescension. 29 In Czech, Polish, German and Swedish, the words with approximately the same meaning as compassion A. exchide the idea of feeling. B_ include the idea of supremacy. C carry the idea of co-feeling but not of pity. D carry the idea of passion (passio) but not of sharing (‘com-') Test 7 - Section | - Page 12sawp "The secret strength of its etymology floods the word with another light’. This suggests that the force of the word comes from its root meaning. origins of the word are obscure, and drown its meaning. precise meaning of the word is known only to etymologists. word can have two meanings, depending on whether its derivation is known or not According to the passage, the word 'pity’ (line 9) has approximately the same meaning as the word for compassion, in languages derived from Latin, compassion, in languages not derived from Latin. suffering, in languages derived from Latin. suffering, in languages not derived from Latin, The passage makes the point that a word's apparent counterpart in another language may incorporate the same root word yet have a different meaning. may have a very similar meaning even though the derivation is different. never has exactly the same meaning even when the derivation is the same. may have a significantly different meaning when the derivations are different. The passage suggests that the writer places a particularly high value on the individual's capacity to avoid expressing pity even when it is strongly felt, share the full range and depth of another's emotions. sympathise with the suffering of those who are less fortunate. give practical assistance to others regardless of private feelings Test 7 - Section | - Page 13UNIT 8 Questions 34 - 41 In this scene from a play, Annie, an actress, has received a playscript written by Brodie, a young man imprisoned for a political protest. Annie is talking to her husband Henry, who is a playwright, about the play and her wish to perform it. ANNIE: You're jealous. HENRY: Of Brodie? ANNIE: You're jealous of the idea of the writer, You want to keep it sacred, special, not something anybody can do. Some of us have it, some of us don't. We write, you get written about, What gets you about Brodie is he doesn't know his place, You say he can't write like a head waiter saying you can't come in here without a tie. Because he can't put words together. What's so good about putting words together? HENRY: It's traditionally considered advantageous for a writer. ANNIE: He's nota writer, He's a convict, You're a writer. You write because you're a writer, Even when you write about something, you have to think up something to write about just so you can keep writing. More well chosen words nicely put together. Sowhat? Why should that be it? Who says? HENRY: Nobody says, Itjust works best. ANNIE: Of course it works. You teach a lot of people what to expect from good writing, and you end up with a lot of people saying you write well. Then somebody who isn't in ‘on the game comes along, like Brodie, who really has something to write about, something real, and you can’t get through it. Well, he couldn't get through yours, so where are you? To you, be can't write. To him, write is all you can do. HENRY: Jesus, Annie, you're beginning to appal me. There's something scary about stupidity made coherent. 1 can deal with idiots, and I can deal with sensible argument, but I don't know how to deal with you. Where's my cricket bat? ANNIE: Your cricket bat? HENRY: Yes. It'sanew approach. — (He heads out into the hall.) ANNIE: Are you trying to be funny? HENRY: No, I'm serious. (Fe goes out while she watches in wary disbelief. He returns with an old cricket bat.) ANNIE You better not be. HENRY Right, you silly cow - ANNIE: Don't you bloody dare - HENRY: Shut up and listen, This thing here, which looks like @ wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the Test 7 - Section | - Page 14ANNIE; whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It's for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly ... (He clucks his tongue to make the noise.) What we'te trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give ita little knock, it might ... travel .. (Ffe clucks his tongue again and picks up the script) Now, what we've got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘Ouch!’ with your hands stuck into your armpits. (Indicating the cricket bat.) This isn’t better because someone says it's better, or because there's a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. It's better because it’s better. You don't believe me, so I suggest you go out to bat with this and see how you get on. (He reads from the script) "You'e a strange boy, Billy, how old are you?! 'Twenty, but I've lived more than you'll ever live.' Ooh, ouch! (He drops the script and hops about with his hands in his armpits, going Ouch!" ANNIE watches him expressionlessly until he desists.) Thate you 34 To Annie, Henry's view of the writer is based on envy of others' ability. based on snobbish and exclusive feelings. A B C confused with personal objections to Brodie. D based on insecurity and fear 35 ‘It's traditionally considered advantageous for a writer.’ In making this statement in response to Annie's question, ‘What's so good about putting words together?', Henry seems to be prompted by the feeling that he vawp e your must do something to strengthen his argument. is stating the obvious and unarguable. must evade a particularly difficult point. is making a provocative statement. }6 Annie views ‘well chosen words nicely put together" as, the limited definition set up by some. a good definition of a playscript. merely a necessary element of a playscript. merely Henry's definition. Test 7 - Section | - Page 1537 A vow & 8 vows 8 9 B vaowp B soup vawp In Annie's view the ‘good writing’ Henry speaks of is no more than a game that all can play. what people want and expect. what people are taught to expect. Henry's unique kind of writing only. Annie suggests a criticism of Henry's writing in that he cannot really use words well. has to find things to write about. deals with the sacred and special. lacks sympathy and understanding. Henry says he is beginning to be appalled by Annie because she is not making any sense at all he does not believe what she is saying she does not understand what she is saying. she is making nonsense sound sensible. ‘If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly... This description by Henry of a cricket bat shows that he admires the design of cricket bats finds cricket bats amusing. is making a joke of their disagreement. is trying to distract and confuse Annie. Henry thinks that if Brodie's seript is performed it will be like using a cricket bat like using a cudgel. against the rules of the game. unacceptable to the audience. Test 7 - Section | - Page 16UNIT 9 Question 42 The following cartoon represents Dr Henry Kissinger, who was US Secretary of State during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Doctor K NAOT GREWE 42. The cartoon suggests that Dr Kissinger was a humane person bebind a mask. dove disguised as a hawk. hawk acting like a dove. vawer theatrical character. Test 7 - Section | - Page 17UNIT 10 Questions 43 - 50 This passage is from John Berger's Pig Earth, a book about peasant life in a French village Most of what happens during a day is recounted by somebody before the day ends. The stories are factual, based on observation or on a first-hand account. This combination of the sharpest observation, of the daily recounting of the day's events and encounters, and of lifelong mutual familiarities is what constitutes so-called village gossip. Sometimes there is a moral judgement implicit in the story, but this judgement, whether just or unjust, remains a detail: the story as a whole is told with some tolerance because it involves those with whom the story-teller and listener are going to go on living, Very few stories are narrated either to idealise or condemn; rather they testify to the always slightly surprising range of the possible. The story invites comment. Indeed it creates it, for even total silence is taken as a comment. The comments may be spiteful or bigoted, but, if so, they themselves will become a story and thus, in tum, become subject to comment. More usually the comments, which add to the story, are intended and taken as the commentator's personal response — in the light of that story — to the riddie of existence. Each story allows everyone to define himself. Indeed the function of this gossip which, in fact, is close, oral, daily history, is to allow the whole village to define itself. The life of a village, as distinct from its physical and geographical attributes, is perhaps the sum of all the social and personal relationships existing within it, plus the social and economic relations — usually oppressive — which link the village to the rest of the world. But one could say something similar about the life of a large town. What distinguishes the life of a village is that it is also a living portrait of itself: a communal portrait, in that everybody is portrayed and everybody portrays. As with the carvings on the capitols in a Romanesque church, there is an identity of spirit between what is shown and how it is shown — as if the portrayed were also the carvers, Every village's portrait of itself is constructed, however, not out of stone, but out of words, spoken and remembered. 43 The passage suggests that village gossip is A_ amusing but trivial potentially dangerous. important and valuable. vow damaging and unnecessary. £ 4 Consider the following comments on a story about a son running away from home. Which one best typifies the attitudes of a gossiper, as described in the passage? ‘It's none of my business anyway, and quite frankly I couldn't care less." "Didn't we always know that Marc would tum out to be a nasty piece of work?’ "How is it that Mare could run off, when he's always seemed so devoted to his parents?" vow ‘Claude and Marie brought the boy up so badly. It's a wonder he didn't take off sooner.’ Test 7 - Section | - Page 1845 vawp & > a 7 your 2 8 vamp "The comments may be spiteful or bigoted, but, if so, they themselves will become a story and thus, in turn, become subject to comment’. Thus, a story, which began, ‘Paul told me that his cousin Pierre made a right fool of himself yesterday...’ would typically finish something like this: ‘wonder why Paul is always bad-mouthing Pierre.’ "Idon't believe a word of it, though ... and don't tell anybody.’ ‘Pierre should lear to be a bit more sensible about how much he drinks.’ ‘If only there weren't so many spiteful people in our community, we'd all get along much better." What does the passage suggest about the village's relationship with the rest of the world? The village is both socially and economically entirely independent of the outside world The village is an idyll which the rest of the world looks upon with nostalgia and longing. The village is productive and derives confidence from its status as part of the backbone of the country's economy. The village creates its own sense of meaning and purpose; the rest of the world regards it as an object of exploitation, Why are the stories ‘told with some tolerance’? Peasants naturally tend to be broad-minded and compassionate. People in a small community know they need to get on with each other from day to day. The gossiper feels morally superior, in a position to patronise the victims of the gossip. The gossip is usually about insignificant matters; there's no point in getting worked up about it According to the passage; the artists of the carvings on Romanesque church capitols seem to have imbued their work with their own beings. been incapable of judging their own work, concentrated as much on technical skills as on content. been chiefly concerned with the religious and spiritual nature of their activity, Test 7 - Section | - Page 1949 According to the passage, both village gossip and the capitols on Romanesque churches are characterised by an identity between A. spiritand intellect. B creator and creation. artist and technician, D_ performer and spectator. 50 Which one of the following seems to be closest to the writer's view of art? Artis essentially about moral judgements. A B_ anything which is entertaining and makes life less boring C something constructed to make meaning out of experience. D created out of a combination of skill and a sense of beauty. Test 7 - Section | - Page 20UNIT 11 Questions 51 - 52 ‘Thate "Humanity" and all such abstracts: but I love people. Lovers of "Humanity" generally hate people and children, and keep parrots or puppy dogs.’ Roy Campbell 51 The author's comment suggests that ‘Lovers of "Humanity A. can only love people. hate more than they love. only love people as an idea. vas Jove no more than they hate, 52 Campbell's comment distinguishes between A_ love and hate. B_ an idea and a real fecling C humanity and abstractions. D_ love of humans and love of other creatures. Test 7 - Section | - Page 21UNIT 12 Questions 53 - 57 The populations of animals and plants that exist in a certain area of land can be estimated by counting the number of individuals in a small portion of the area. The results for the small portion can be extended (extrapolated) to cover the whole area. Belt transects are counting areas which can be used in estimation studies of larger areas. Figure 1 illustrates belt transects W, X, Y and Z which are rectangular counting areas. The intersection of the vertical and horizontal belt transects creates squares Q, R, S, and T. belt belt transect transect CPW ht g z belt (Ox ea i } Baler 7 grass rocks 5 La ; water 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 pe mewes RSS ees Figure 1 Identical procedures were used to count ants of various species in the belt transects of the area shown in Figure 1. The results are shown in Table 1 Table 1 | Number counted: | Ant species | Transect | January | ‘April July ‘October 1 Ww 29 | 32 24 26 x 2 | 3 2 0 2 Ww 00 100 1900 To0 | x 4100 | 2600 300 2900 | 3 w 1800 | 1000 700 800 x 100 | 50 40 30 Test 7 - Section | - Page 22