V06 - SENTENCE COMPLETION

Reading passage Questions

1. In one well-known test, women and men were Tests have shown that odours
able to distinguish by smell alone clothing worn by can help people recognise
their marriage partners from similar clothing worn by the ..................... belonging to their
other people. husbands and wives.
2. Odours, unlike colours, for instance, cannot be
named in many languages because the specific Certain linguistic groups may
vocabulary simply doesn’t exist . ‘It smells like . . . ,’ have difficulty describing smell
ONE WORD

we have to say when describing an because they lack

odour, struggling to express our olfactory the appropriate……………
experience
3. Researchers have still to decide whether smell is The sense of smell may involve
one sense or two - one responding to odours proper response to ......................... which
and the other registering odourless chemicals in do not smell, in addition to
the air . obvious odours.
4. Odours are invested with cultural values: smells Odours regarded as unpleasant
that are considered to be offensive in some in certain…....................... are not
cultures may be perfectly acceptable in others. regarded as unpleasant in others.
5. The technique survives to this day at a test site in
Florida run by the University of Florida, with
support from the Electrical Power Research Institute EPRI receives financial support
(EPRI) , based in California. EPRI, which is funded from………………
by power companies , is looking at ways to protect
the United States’ power grid from lightning strikes.
6. However, there is still a big stumbling block. The
laser is no nifty portable: it’s a monster that takes up The main difficulty associated
TWO WORDS

a whole room. Diels is trying to cut down the size with using the laser equipment is
and says that a laser around the size of a small related to its………………
table is in the offing.
7. The Sonar and Radar pioneers didn't know it
then, but all the world now knows that bats, or rather Long before the invention of
natural selection working on bats, had perfected the radar, .......................... had resulted
system tens of millions of years earlier; and their in a sophisticated radar-like
radar' achieves feats of detection and navigation system in bats.
that would strike an engineer dumb with admiration.
Radar is an inaccurate term when
8. It is technically incorrect to talk about bat 'radar',
referring to bats because
since they do not use radio waves. It is sonar.
……………… are not used in

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9. The underlying mathematical theories of radar
and sonar are very similar; and much of our
Radar and sonar are based on
scientific understanding of the details of what bats
similar………………
are doing has come from applying radar theory to
them.
10. The American zoologist Donald Griffin, who was
largely responsible for the discovery of sonar in The word ‘echolocation’ was first
bats, coined the term 'écholocation' to cover used by someone working as a
both sonar and radar, whether used by animals or ………………
by human instruments.

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Example 1.
THE CONTEXT, MEANING AND SCOPE OF TOURISM
Once the exclusive province of the wealthy, travel and tourism have become an
institutionalised way of life for most of the population. In fact, McIntosh and Goeldner (1990)
suggest that tourism has become the largest commodity in international trade for many
nations and, for a significant number of other countries, it ranks second or third . For example,
tourism is the major source of income in Bermuda, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and most
Caribbean countries. In addition, Hawkins and Ritchie, quoting from data published by the
American Express Company, suggest that the travel and tourism industry is the number one
ranked employer in the Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, France, (the former) West Germany, Hong
Kong, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. However,
because of problems of definition, which directly affect statistical measurement, it is not
possible with any degree of certainty to provide precise, valid or reliable data about the extent
of world-wide tourism participation or its economic impact . In many cases, similar difficulties
arise when attempts are made to measure domestic tourism.

Questions 11-13
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 11-13 on your answer sheet.
source of income
11. In Greece, tourism is the most important …………………………………..
ranked employer
12. The travel and tourism industry in Jamaica is the major …………………………………..
13. The problems associated with measuring international tourism are often reflected in the
domestic tourism.
measurement of …………………………………..

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