It can be inferred from the fourth paragraph that______________ .
A.employees have more freedom to decide what time they start and finish work
B.employers are more demanding and have efficient means to monitor employees
C.life is more relaxing with cell phones and other technological devices
D.it is compulsory that employees go to the office, even on days off

With the phrase "at a predictable time", the author implies that__________________.
A.people were unable to foresee their working hours
B.people had to predict the time they were allowed to leave offices
C.people wanted to be completely disconnected from their work
D.people used to have more time and privacy after work

Which of the following is true, according to the passage?
A.Students used to have to study more about technological advances.
B.People have more opportunities to get access to technological applications.
C.Employees were supposed to make technology do what they expected.
D.People now enjoy greater freedom thanks to the technological boom.

Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence.
____________, Harry S.Truman was our nation’s thirty-third President.
A.To be born and raised in Missouri
B.Born and raised in Missouri
C.Because he was born and raised in Missouri
D.That he was born and raised in Missouri

Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence.
In Australia, where fertile farmland is limited, crops____________.
A.are on the sides of mountains often grown
B.often are on the sides of mountains grown
C.are grown on the sides often of mountains
D.are often grown on the sides of mountains

Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence.
Firstborn children in a family seem to have a stronger desire to succeed________________.
A.than do later born children
B.but later-born children do
C.as children born later
D.if later-born children do

______ (51)
A.cope
B.stay
C.fight
D.do

According to the first three paragraphs, technological tools that were designed to make our lives easier_________.
A.have not interfered with our privacy
B.have turned out to do us more harm than good
C.have brought us complete happiness
D.have fully met our expectations

Which of the following is NOT true about technological tools, according to new surveys?
A.They are being increasingly used.
B.They are used even during vacations.
C.They make our life more stressful.
D.They bring more leisure to our life.

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question.
What geologists call the Basin and Range Province in the United States roughly coincides in its northern portions with the geographic province known as the Great Basin. (51)The Great Basin is hemmed in on the west by the Sierra Nevada and on the east Line by the Rocky Mountains; it has no outlet to the sea.(52) The prevailing winds in the Great Basin are from the west. Warm, moist air from the Pacific Ocean is forced upward as it crosses the Sierra Nevada. At the higher altitudes it cools and the moisture it carries is precipitated as rain or snow on the western slopes of the mountains. That which reaches the Basin is air wrung dry of moisture(54). What little water falls there as rain or snow, mostly in the winter months, evaporates on the broad, flat desert floors. It is, therefore, an environment in which organisms battle for survival. Along the rare watercourses, cottonwoods and willows eke out a sparse existence. In the upland ranges, pinion pines and junipers struggle to hold their own. (56)
But the Great Basin has not always been so arid. Many of its dry, closed depressions were once filled with water. Owens Valley, Panamint Valley, and Death Valley were once a string of interconnected lakes.(57) The two largest of the ancient lakes of the Great Basin were Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville. The Great Salt Lake is all that remains of the latter, and Pyramid Lake is one of the last briny remnants of the former. There seem to have been several periods within the last tens of thousands of years when water accumulated in these basins. The rise and fall of the lakes were undoubtedly linked to the advances and retreats of the great ice sheets that covered much of the northern part of the North American continent during those times. Climatic changes during the Ice Ages sometimes brought cooler, wetter weather to mid latitude deserts worldwide, including those of the Great Basin(60). The broken valleys of the Great Basin provided ready receptacles for this moisture.
It can be inferred that the climate in the Great Basin is dry because
A.the weather patterns are so turbulent
B.the altitude prevents precipitation
C.the winds are not strong enough to carry moisture
D.precipitation falls in the nearby mountains