Technological Progress

Over the past thirty years or so the quality of many people's lives has
deteriorated in some respects because of technological progress. Those
people living near airports are constantly assailed by the noise of increasingly
larger and more powerful jet aircraft taking off and landing. We have ugly
buildings which have sprung up in towns and cities. Some of these are blocks
of flats-high-rise buildings built because of the high price of land, which seem
more like breeding boxes than houses where people have space to live.
Worse still, much of our building effort has been channeled into the
construction of more and more large office blocks at the expense of much
needed housing for the growing urban population.
1. It's obvious in the passage that ----.
A. the quality of people's lives has declined by technology
B. those people living around airports are happy with their condition
C. technology progressed the life standards
D. airports are usually constructed in urban areas
E. people want to live near airports
2. We have ugly buildings ----.
A. so, we need to improve technology
B. because the land is expensive
C. but we don't have much complaint about it
D. where people find enough space to live
E. which have appeared only in rural areas
3. Technological progress ----.
A. has negative effects on people's lives
B. requires more large office blocks
C. became much faster than expected
D. enabled people to live in large blocks
E. force us to find ways to own land
STUDENTS LEARNING
One of the major processes that takes place in schools, of course, is that
students learn. When they graduate from high school, many can use a
computer, write essays with threepart theses, and differentiate equations. In
addition to learning specific skills, they learn to think critically, to weigh
evidence and to develop independent judgment. The extent to which this
development takes place is related to both school and home environments.
Teachers who are more open to new ideas and less authoritarian produce
students who have greater intellectual flexibility and higher achievement test
scores. Studies show that teachers are most demanding when they are of the
same social class as their students. The greater the difference between their
own social class and that of their pupils, the more rigidly they structure their
classrooms and the fewer demands they place on their students.
1. It is stated in the passage that teachers who are more open to new
ideas –-.
A. produce more successful students in terms of test scores and
intellectual flexibility
B. often come from a lower social class than their students
C. are more authoritarian towards students
D. discourage intellectual flexibility in schools
E. give students more homework
2. We learn from the reading that when students graduate from high
school ----.
A. none of them are able to think critically
B. they can take the overall responsibility of anything
C. all of them have a good knowledge of computer usage
D. many of them have gained specific skills like writing essays and
differentiating equations
E. most of them lack knowledge because of unavailability of ideal learning
conditions
3. According to the reading, it is true that ----.
A. teachers who are from a higher social class than their students should
be hired
B. it is not so difficult to constitute ideal learning conditions
C. with close supervision every student can get high test scores
D. both the school and home environments greatly influence a student's
achievement in school
E. students learn best in a rigid classroom environment