Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 63 стр.

tive. It is a bittersweet feeling that life might have been better or different if   5. What title would you give to the text?
only certain actions had been taken. Typically, it means something that                 A What can’t be cured must be endured at once.
people should have done but didn’t do. A growing body of research sug-                  B Hot regret and how to avoid it.
gests that wistful regret may figure more prominently in people’s lives over            C Regret – to whistle or to boil?
the long term.                                                                          D The paths you failed to take or chances that were not exploited.
        Asked to describe their biggest regrets, participants most often cited
things they failed to do.
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1. Which of the following is not true?
   Recent studies of regret showed
                                                                                      Part B. Directions:     Questions 1 through 5 are based on the text below.
   A an enlarged view of this topic.                                                  (Questions 1 – 5)       Choose the one best answer to each question on
   B regret as a far more complex emotion than once thought.                                                  the basis of what is stated or implied in the text.
   C inaction as the leading cause of regret.
                                                                                                              Mark the answer in your answer sheet.
   D the importance of romance in people’s lives.
                                                                                            Many of the world’s dormant volcanoes are showing signs of re-
2. According to Janet Landman, people are not keen to discuss regret be-
                                                                                     newed life. Some of them are close to cities where eruptions would threaten
   cause
                                                                                     the lives of millions of people. We can be virtually certain that the next
   A it can lead to negative feelings.
                                                                                     catastrophic eruption will occur where we least expect it. It will probably
   B it makes them feel wistful or hot.
                                                                                     occur at a volcano that has not erupted for several hundred years, and could
   C it produces physical symptoms.
                                                                                     even be at a volcano thought to be extinct.
   D it makes them feel inferior.
                                                                                            Modern civilisation has still never experienced a really big eruption.
                                                                                     One of the biggest recently was Mount St Helens in 1984 but the eruption
3. Psychologists view regret as something
                                                                                     of Tambora, Indonesia, in 1815 was 100 times more powerful and created a
   A that should be accepted enthusiastically.
                                                                                     hole 15 km wide.
   B that was avoidable in the past.
                                                                                            Such explosions can influence the entire planet through their effect
   C that cannot be avoided in today’s world.
                                                                                     on the global climate. The dust and ash they throw into the atmosphere can
   D that takes different forms in various historical periods.
                                                                                     prevent solar radiation reaching the surface. This leads to dramatic falls in
                                                                                     temperature.
4. Research indicates that ‘hot’ regret
                                                                                            Even Tambora is insignificant compared with Toba, Sumatra, 73,000
   A is related to what other people do to you.
                                                                                     years ago. This created a hole 50 km across and 1000m deep, which would
   B is concerned with long-term effects.
                                                                                     definitely be big enough to swallow London. Temperatures plummeted and
   C relates to physical actions.
                                                                                     the Earth entered a volcanic winter comparable to the conditions scientists
   D is less significant than ‘wistful’ regret.
                                                                                     predict would follow a full – scale nuclear war. It seems that Toba may
                                                                                     have been the trigger that plunged the Earth into the last ice age.


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