There was a marked difference of quality between the personages who haunted near bridge of brick and the personages who haunted the far one of stone. Those of lowest character preferred the former, adjoining the town; they did not mind the glare of the public eye. they had been of no account during their successes; and though they might feel dispirited, they had no sense of shame in their ruin. Instead of sighing at their adversities they spat, and instead of saying the iron had entered into their souls they said they were down in their luck.The miserables who would pause on the remoter bridge of a politer stamp - persons who did not know how to get rid of the weary time. The eyes of this species were mostly directed over the parapet upon the running water below. While one on the town ward bridge did not mind who saw him so, and kept his back to the parapet to survey the passer-by, one on this never faced the road, never turned his head at coming foot-steps, but, sensitive on his own condition, watched the current whenever a stranger approached, as if some strange fish interested him, though every finned thing had been poached out of the rivers years before.
People belonging to lower strata in their moments of distress
Answer: C
Correct answer: visited the brick made bridge
The passage says those of lowest character preferred the former, the bridge of brick adjoining the town, because they did not mind the glare of the public eye. The passage adds explicitly that they had no sense of shame in their ruin, which rules out the option about feeling ashamed.
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The attitude of lowly and genteel towards strangers was
Answer: B
Correct answer: entirely different
The two are described by direct opposition: the man on the town bridge did not mind who saw him and kept his back to the parapet to survey the passers-by, while the man on the far bridge never faced the road, never turned his head at coming foot-steps. One courts the stranger's eye and the other hides from it.
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The bridge of stone was frequented by
Answer: C
Correct answer: the sophisticated but luckless
The passage calls those who paused on the remoter stone bridge of a politer stamp - persons who did not know how to get rid of the weary time. They are refined and also wretched, which is the pairing the answer must keep. The fish detail is a pretence, since every finned thing had been poached out of the rivers years before.
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The two bridges were known
Answer: D
Correct answer: for attracting dejected people to them
Both bridges are described as haunted by the miserable, and every figure on either of them is in some kind of ruin or weariness. The passage marks the difference between the two sets of visitors, but what the bridges have in common is the unhappiness that brings them there.
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The assault on the purity of the environment is the price that we pay for many of the benefits of modern technology. For the advantage of automotive transportation we pay a price in smog-induced diseases; for the powerful effects of new insecticides, we pay a price in dwindling wildlife and disturbances in the relation of living things and their surroundings; for nuclear power, we risk the biological hazards of radiation. By increasing agricultural production with fertilizers, we worsen water pollution.
The highly developed nations of the world are not only the immediate beneficiaries of the good that technology can do, they are also the first victims of environmental diseases that technology breeds. In the past, the environmental effects which accompanied technological progress were restricted to a small area and a relatively short time. The new hazards are neither local nor brief. Modern air pollution covers vast areas of continents: Radioactive fallout from the nuclear explosion is worldwide. Radioactive pollutants now on the earth surface will be found there for generations, and in case of Carbon-14, for thousands of years.
The widespread use of insecticides has
Answer: B
Correct answer: caused imbalance in the relationship between living beings and their environment
The passage names two prices paid for insecticides: dwindling wildlife and disturbances in the relation of living things and their surroundings. The first option takes only half of that pair, and the second reverses the passage, which treats insecticides as a cost rather than a cure.
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The passage emphasis that modern technology
Answer: B
Correct answer: has caused serious hazards to life
The passage opens by calling environmental damage the price that we pay for technology and then prices four benefits in turn - smog-induced disease, dwindling wildlife, radiation, water pollution. An unmixed blessing is exactly what it denies, and the benefits to developed nations are noted only to add that those nations are also the first victims.
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According to the passage the increasing use of fertilisers is responsible for
Answer: C
Correct answer: water pollution
The passage says that by increasing agricultural production with fertilizers, we worsen water pollution. Abundance of food is the benefit fertilisers bring; the question asks for the price.
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The harmful effects of modern technology are
Answer: B
Correct answer: widespread and long-lasting
The passage contrasts the past, where effects were restricted to a small area and a relatively short time, with the present, where the new hazards are neither local nor brief. Both halves of that denial must be carried into the answer, which rules out the options keeping either the limit or the brevity.
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Radioactive pollutants
Answer: C
Correct answer: will be on the surface of earth for a very long time
The passage says radioactive pollutants now on the earth surface will be found there for generations, and in the case of Carbon-14, for thousands of years. The thousands of years belong specifically to Carbon-14, which is why the option applying them to the atmosphere overstates the text.
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Until the end of his first year at school, Cyril retained many of the pleasures and pursuits he had brought with him from home, and he kept an old interest in butterflies and fossils. His grandmother had presented him with a fine bird's eggs cabinet, but he could never bring himself to risk climbing trees. Once or twice he dissected dead birds from sheer determination to overcome his horror of the operation. Probably it was his envy of those physically unlike himself that brought on a phase during which he drew massive athletes with thick necks and square shoulders. Again he was pitying himself for what he could never be.
The reason Why Cyril made drawings of athletes was that
Answer: A
Correct answer: though he admired them, he lacked a fine physique himself
The passage gives the reason directly: it was his envy of those physically unlike himself that brought on the phase of drawing thick-necked athletes, and it ends again he was pitying himself for what he could never be. Envy and self-pity are admiration turned inward, not a love of exercise.
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