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Model test2 Section A: Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. The survey by the Modern Language Association of America finds that the study of Arabic has increased a whopping 127 percent, and the number of schools offering Arabic study has doubled since the last nationwide survey in 2002.Spanish continues to be the most studied language at US higher education institutions, but interest in Asian languages is growing with Chinese up more than 50 percent. The Modern Language Association has been tracking language enrollment for half a century. The groups executive director, Rosemary Feal, says the number of enrollments is now at an historic high. She says the increase reflects a growing recognition on the part of students and government that languages play a role in an ever smaller world. First of all, we think that they know that they are going to be better prepared in their careers and in their lives as citizens. And we also know that there is a lot more support for language study today, support in the form of federal dollars, support also in the form of technology, she said. The study finds that students continue to study traditionally taught languages such as Spanish, French and Italian and that interest in classical languages such as Greek and Latin remains strong. Which of the following languages has the biggest increase? What does the very high number of student language enrollments today reflect? Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. SMART-1 landed with a small flash on a part of the moon called “ The sea of Excellence ” . Its fight lasted a year longer than originally planned. European space officials say the mission was so successful they wanted to allow it more time to orbit the moon after a slow journey to get there. SMART-1 sent back to earth high-resolution photographs and detailed data about the chemical composition of the moon surface. Scientists hope the data will help test a theory that the moon was formed