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Select the choice that arranges the given sentences A, B, C and D between 1 and 6
in a coherent paragraph.
1) 1. The skin has other defence mechanisms.
A. With all these defences, why do we get sunburned at all?
B. After the first burning doses of ultraviolet rays have begun unleashing free
radicals, cells in the top layers of skin begin reproducing rapidly.
C. The skin thickens and hardens, making it more difficult for ultraviolet rays
to penetrate.
D. If even this fails and the skin flushes with sunburn, it will speed up its
normal but usually unnoticed shedding – or peeling – of damaged and old cells.
6. The answer lies in part with our industrial civilization.
a. ADCB
b. BCDA
c. BACD
d. ABDC
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2) 1. On the morning of August 21, 1973, several dozen people nearly lost their
lives off Naust Beach on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
A. At 11.23 a.m., lifeguard Lec Anderson had spotted a young boy in trouble and
dashed into the surf, expecting that chief guard Gary Guertin would follow with
a lifeline.
B. Guertin, however, was already preoccupied with saving an elderly couple he
had seen flailing helplessly in the waves.
C. The water was pouring away from the beach, Guertin told to a reporter
D. Soon the water was swarming with 50 – 60 victims – shrieking, panicked
people suddenly being swept out to see by a violent current.
6. “It was as if someone had pulled a plug in the ocean and it was running down a
drain.”
a. ABCD
b. DACB
c. ACBD
d. ABDC
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3) 1. To compensate for this foolishness, we smear our skins with more than $200
million worth of suntan creams and lotions each year.
A. But research in the U.S and England suggests that some of PABA’s chemical by
products are photo-toxins; they become poisons when struck by sunlight
B. The use of such preparations is generally wise, say doctors.
C. But now scientists are worried that some sunscreen products may in some
cases do as much harm as good.
D. For example, PABA has been praised as an excellent defence against UV rays;
it is used in dozens of today’s most effective suntan preparations.
6. Also some people have allergic reactions to PABA; they experience burning,
stinging, or itching following application.
a. ADCB
b. BCDA
c. BACD
d. ABDC
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4) 1. To understand why the scientists are worried, reflect on what happens when
you talk into bright sunlight without sunglasses.
A. Infrared and UV lights are not blocked to the same degree.
B. You squint, and the pupils of your eyes contract to protect the delicate
visual receptors inside.
C. But when you walk into sunshine while wearing improperly filtered
sunglasses, your eyes feel protected – and your pupils remain wide open – even
though they may be in danger.
D. For, in fact, many sunglasses screen out only visible light.
6. They are burning into your eye – an eye you have unwittingly tricked into
staying wide open.
a. ADCB
b. BCDA
c. BACD
d. BADC
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5) 1. It is innocuous looking, fine powder with a white sheen that’s produced by
crushing quartz stones.
A. When the fine silica powder that’s used to manufacture glass gets into the
lungs of those who inhale them, it causes silicosis.
B. But when it gets into the lungs of the workers who toil in these factories,
it becomes the carrier of a deadly disease with no respite and no cure:
silicosis
C. The white sheen of the silica particles is like a shroud of death of workers
in the quartz crushing factories.
D. The factories give families their bread.
6. They have also been responsible for snatching away their bread – winners.
a. ADBC
b. CDAB
c. ACBD
d. BCAD
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