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Part III. Reading comprehension

Exercise 1
Mr. and Mrs. Stokes were sitting in the garden of their Bristol home when I arrived to interview .....(1).... and their fourteen-year-old son Carl. But Carl was working upstairs. “ He doesn’t often ....(2)...... his room, ” his mother explained.
At the.....(3).....Carl is working on a program for a new computer game. Computers have .....(4)..... his whole life. In the last year Carl has ....(5).....over $ 25,000 from visiting programs. A lot of other people are trying to do the ......(6)......nowadays, but not many of them have done as well as Carl.
“ When did the boy buy the......(7).....? ” I wondered. “ We bought it for him eighteen months ago .....(8).....his birthday, ” said Mr. Stokes. “ We didn’t know what we were doing. Our son has ...(9).... Now he doesn’t talk about .....(10)......else but computers. And we don’t understand a thing about computers”
1. A. they B. them C. their D. theirs
2. A. live B. leave C. sit D. seat
3. A. second B. moment C. minute D. time
4. A. come B. came C. become D. became
5. A. do B. done C. earned D. earn
6. A. same B. similar C. like D. alike
7. A. radio B. machine C. computer D. TV
8. A. in B. about C. for D. with
9. A. thought B. changed D. done D. made
10. A. nothing B. anything D. something D. not

Exercise 2
If you are an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or snarl. It has become a......(1)...... of our wasteful, throwing-away society. But there seems little.....(2).....it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastics have brought enormous...... (3)......, even environmental ones. It is not really the plastic themselves that are the environmental evils, it is the way society choose to use and abuse them.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal non-renewable natural......(4).......We import well over three million tones of stuff in Britain each year and sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high ......(5).....of our natural consumption is in the .....(6).... of packaging and this constitutes about seven per cent by weight of our domestic refuse. Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling....(7).....is growing fast.
The plastics themselves are extremely energetic-rich, they have a higher calorific.......(8)....... than coal and one method of recovery strongly favored by the plastic manufacturers is the conservation of waste plastic into a fuel.
1. A. symbol B. mark C. sign D. detail
2. A. evidence B. likelihood C. doubt D. concern
3. A. pleasures B. benefits C. savings D. profits
4. A. recourses B. processes C. products D. fuels
5. A. portion B. amount C. proportion D. rate
6. A. way B. kind C. form D. type
7. A. manufacturer B. plant C. factory D. industry
8. A. degree B. value C. demand D. effect

Exercise 3
School exams are , generally speaking , the first kind of tests we take . They find out how much knowledge we have .....(1)...... But do they really show how intelligent we are ? After all , isn’t it a....(2).... that some people who are very successful academically don’t have any....(3)....sense ?
Intelligence is the speed ....(4).....which we can understand and ....(5)......to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles . Although scientists are now preparing ....(6).....computer technology that will be able to “ read” our brains ,.....(7) ....tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence.
1. A. fetched B. gained C.