Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
___________are that stock price will go up in the coming months.




A.Conditions
B.Opportunities
C.Possibilities
D.Chances

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States was responsible for sweeping changes in attitudes toward the decorative arts, then considered the minor or household arts. Its focus on decorative arts helped to induce United States museums and private collectors to begin collecting furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, and textiles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The fact that artisans, who were looked on as mechanics or skilled workers in the eighteenth century, are frequently considered artists today is directly attributable to the Arts and Crafts Movement of the nineteenth century. The importance now placed on attractive and harmonious home decoration can also be traced to this period, when Victorian interior arrangements were revised to admit greater light and more freely flowing spaces.
The Arts and Crafts Movement reacted against mechanized processes that threatened handcrafts and resulted in cheapened, monotonous merchandise. Founded in the late nineteenth century by British social critics John Ruskin and William Morris, the movement revered craft as a form of art. In a rapidly industrializing society, most Victorians agreed that art was an essential moral ingredient in the home environment, and in many middle- and working-class homes, craft was the only form of art. Ruskin and his followers criticized not only the degradation of artisans reduced to machine operators, but also the impending loss of daily contact with handcrafted objects, fashioned with pride, integrity, and attention to beauty.
In the United States as well as in Great Britain, reformers extolled the virtues of handcrafted objects: simple, straightforward design; solid materials of good quality; and sound, enduring construction techniques. These criteria were interpreted in a variety of styles, ranging from rational and geometric to romantic or naturalistic. Whether abstract, stylized, or realistically treated, the consistent theme in virtually all Arts and Crafts designs is nature.
The Arts and Crafts Movement was much more than a particular style; it was a philosophy of domestic life. Proponents believed that if simple design, high-quality materials, and honest construction were realized in the home and its appointments, then the occupants would enjoy moral and therapeutic effects. For both artisan and consumer, the Arts and Crafts doctrine was seen as a magical force against the undesirable effects of industrialization.
According to the passage, which of the following changes occurred at the same time as the Arts and Crafts Movement?




A.The creation of brighter and more airy spaces inside homes
B.The rejection of art that depicted nature in a realistic manner
C.A decline of interest in art museum collections
D.An increase in the buying of imported art objects

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 1 to 10.
The texting pigeons
Not everybody recognizes the benefits of new developments in communications technology. Indeed, some people fear that text messaging may actually be having a negative (1)_____ on young people's communication and language skills, especially when we hear that primary school children may be at (2)______ of becoming addicted to the habit. So widespread has texting become, however, that even pigeons have started doing it. (3) _____, in this case, it's difficult to view the results as anything but positive.

Twenty of the birds are about to (4) ______ to the skies with the task of measuring air pollution, each (5) _____ with sensor equipment and a mobile phone. The (6) _____ made by the sensors will be automatically (7) _____ into text messages and beamed to the Internet - where they will appear on a dedicated 'pigeon blog'.

The birds will also each have a GPS receiver and a camera to capture aerial photos, and researchers are building a tiny 'pigeon kit' containing all these (8)_____. Each bird will carry these in a miniature backpack, (9) _____ , that is, from the camera, which will hang around its neck.
The data the pigeons text will be displayed in the (10) _____of an interactive map, which will provide local residents with up-to-the-minute information on their local air quality.
__________




A.armed
B.loaded
C.granted
D.stocked