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  School of Foreign Languages, Hebust INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE TESTING 2013-06 SUPERVISOR: Mr. Peng James Yu BY Student’s Name Pei Ying This work is original and has not been submitted previously in support of a degree qualification or other course. DATE OF SUBMISSION: 25/06/2013 STUDENTS ID NO. 10L1301415 SIGNATURE: INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE TESTING Take-home Exam 1. Compose a fast-reading test. 2. What factors have you considered in composing the test? Sitting Experience 1. Most of us have years of sitting experience, consider ourselves quite good at it and would swear that nature intended us to do it as much as possible. 2.Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us, says Dr. Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of medicine and director of womens health at the UCLA Comprehensive Health Program. 3.The chair is out to kill us, says James Levine, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. Most of us have years of sitting experience, consider ourselves quite good at it and would swear that nature intended us to do it as much as possible. 4.But unfortunately, a good deal of data suggest that were off our rockers to spend so much time on our rockers — as well as the vast variety of other seats where were fond of parking our duffs. Heres a sampling of what scientists have learned about the insidious nature of sitting. 5. The human body was designed for walking, and people did a whole lot of that for millenniums. But lately, not so much. In general, scientists believe, Americans now sit for more than half of their waking hours. Sadly, the sitting position exerts forces on the body that its not built to accommodate, Davtyan says, and so, as comfy as it may seem, couch potato-hood can lead to a host of woes, including poor