Part 1. For questions 46-55, read the passage and fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE
suitable word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
to live on the planet.
According to the UN's Human Development Index, Norway is the best (46)
It certainly (47)
one of the best places to be a baby. In (48).
to most European countries,
the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child-friendly society is particularly founded
a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
leave is 42 weeks with full pay, and paternity leave is 4 weeks. There is financial support for
who choose to look after their children rather than return to the (52)
And the baby
(49)
(50)
(51)
industry is (53)
book days at (54)
Your answers:
46.
51.
47.
52.
giving birth to a plethora of new activities: baby-massage, baby-cinema, baby 'n'
library, even baby-au-lait (a (55)
for breastfeeding-friendly cafés).
48.
53.
49.
54.
Part 2. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
"Television makes you stupid."
50.
55.
Virtually all current theories of the medium come down to this simple statement. As a rule, this conclusion
is delivered with a melancholy undertone. Four principal theories can be distinguished.
The manipulation thesis points to an ideological dimension. It sees in television above all an instrument of
political domination. The medium is understood as a neutral vessel, which pours out opinions over a public thought
of as passive. Seduced, unsuspecting viewers are won over by the wire-pullers, without ever realising what is
happening to them.