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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (1998)-GRADE EIGHT- PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN) Directions: In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything once only. Ligteh carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question on your Colored Answer Sheet. SECTION A TALKQuestion 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk. According to the talk, compulsive gambling and alcoholic addiction share similarities because. no actual figure of addicts has been reported no scientific studies have yielded effective solutions both affect all sectors of society both cause serious mental health problemsThe development of the gambling compulsion can be described as being human infant they very quickly grow the capacity to fend for them. It is during this very long period in which the human infant is totally _7 dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature which it shareswith all other undamaged human infants, a capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest that language be species specific11 to the——— human race, that is to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic9programmed in such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies that just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in colour, and just as they are designed to stand upright rather than to move on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language as part of their normal developments as well-formed human beings. PART III READING COMPREHENSION (40MIN)SECTION A: READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN) Directions: In this section there are four reading passages followed by fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your Answer Sheet. TEXT A STAYING HEALTHY ON HOLIDAY Do people who choose to go on exotic, far-flung holidays deserve free health advice before they