ZNO Practice Test (Environment)

Read the texts below. Match choices (A-H) to (1-6). There are two choices you do not need to use.

Read the text below. Choose from (A - H) the one which best fits each of (7 - 12). There are two choices you do not need to use.

A Solution to the African Healthcare Crisis With only two doctors per 1,000 people and more than 20 million people living with HIV, Africa is desperate for better access to healthcare, but (7)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H]________ .A typical three-story hospital that would be considered rather small by American standards costs $17 million to build. Add medical supplies and staffing to the total and (8)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H]________ . To solve this crisis, the Chinese government offers an amusing plan. China's Ministry of Science and Technology has developed a system of large containers (9)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H]________ to form a fully functional hospital. Each container serves different functions found in a standard hospital, such as clinics and waiting areas for patients. The containers are portable and can easily be brought to the areas (10)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H]________ . This ingenious idea is not without its challenges, such as the constant stream of electricity and water supply required to power the container hospitals, something (11)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H]________ . However, it is the first step to improving the quality of healthcare in Africa. The first container hospitals will be deployed to Cameroon and Namibia and the Chinese government hopes (12)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H]________ .

A to give more to other African countries in the near future

B doctors don't have to think of the water supply

C that many African countries also lack

D that can be slotted together like toy blocks

E that are short of medical facilities

F hospitals don't just sprout from the ground

G you need to arrange the container blocks in a special way

H you have a serious problem for these impoverished regions

For questions 13-24, read the text below and decide which answer (А-D) best fits each gap.

Thomas Edison

On the night of 21 October 1931, millions of Americans took part in a coast-to-coast ceremony to commemorate the passing of a great man. Lights 13            [turned out, came off, went out, put off]_____ in homes and offices from New York to California. The ceremony 14               [marked, distinguished, noted, indicated]_____ the death of arguably the most important inventor of 15        [whole, full, entire, all]_____ time: Thomas Alva Edison.
Few inventors have 16        [put, had, served, set]_____ such an impact on everyday life, and many of his inventions played a crucial 17        [effect, place, role, share]_____ in the development of modern technology. One should never 18               [underestimate, lower, decrease, mislead]_____ how revolutionary some of Edison's inventions were.
In many ways, Edison is the perfect example of an inventor - that is, not just someone who 19         [creates, shapes, dreams, forms]_____ up clever gadgets, but someone whose products transform the lives of millions. He possessed the key characteristics that an inventor needs to 20         [gain, make, achieve, get]_____ a success of inventions, notably sheer determination. Edison famously tried thousands of materials while working on a new type of battery, reacting to failure by cheerfully 21              [announcing, informing, instructing, notifying]_____ to his colleagues: 'Well, 22             [by far, at least, even though, for all]_____ we know 8,000 things that don't work.' Knowing when to take no 23           [notice, regard, attention, view]_____ of experts is also important. Edison's proposal for electric lighting circuitry was 24          [gathered, caught, drawn, received]_____ with total disbelief by eminent scientists, until he lit up whole streets with his lights.

Read the texts below. For questions (25 -29) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

LA Bans Plastic Bags

Los Angeles has become (25)             [largest, large, the largest, a larger]_______ city in the US to ban plastic bags, after the city council voted (26)                [banish, to banish, banished, to be banished]_____ them from supermarkets and thousands of smaller shops. San Francisco was the first US city to ban plastic bags in 2007. The phase-out will begin following completion of a (27)              [four month's, four months, four months', four month]_____ environmental review. Larger stores will then have six months to get rid of the plastic bags, (28 )        [while, unless, until , since]_____ smaller stores will be allowed 12 months to phase them out. Shops will be able to offer customers paper bags for 10c each. Environmental activists had argued that the millions of plastic bags (29)           [using , used, be used, were used]_______ in the city were a major blight in landfills, waterways and the ocean.

Read the texts below. For questions (30 -34) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

What is Ecotourism?

There are lots of names for these new forms of tourism: responsible, alternative, sustainable, educational and (30)      [more, many, much, most]_______ . In a true ecotourism project, a nature reserve allows a small number of tourists to visit its rare animals and uses the money that (31)               [generating, are generated, generate, is generated]_____ to continue with important conservation work. The local people have jobs in the nature reserve (32)       [as if, as, like, so as]_____ guides and wardens, but also have a voice in how the project develops. Tourists stay in local houses with local people, not in (33)             [specialist , special, specially, specialty]_____ built hotels, so they experience the local culture and do not take precious energy and water away from the local population. What is more, they have a special experience that they (34)                    [will be remembered, remembering , remembered, will remember]_______ for the rest of their lives.