Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 66 стр.

sumed that young people’s aggression could be safely channelled through      4. What title would you give to the text?
sport.                                                                          A Building sporty characters.
       The alternative view, the New Zealand researchers now point out, is      B Less sporty counterparts.
that involvement in sport encourages aggressiveness and even cheating,          C Sport and delinquency.
which can be successful in games.                                               D Outward Bound-type activities – a panacea or a challenge?
       They conclude that Outward Bound-type activities, such as hill-
walking, canoeing, rock-climbing and sailing, which provide individual       5. The word ‘exacerbate’ means in the text:
challenges, are likely to be more effective in helping young delinquents        A to exemplify anti-social behaviour.
than organized games.                                                           B to simplify matters.
                                                                                C to make the problem worse.
1. Which of the following is not true?                                          D to solve the problem.
   A Scientists from New Zealand found that teenagers going in for
      sport can be expected to be delinquent.
   B There is a popular myth that teenagers are keen on sport and delin-                                       Text 13
      quency
   C According to the research, sport activities do not necessarily help
                                                                              Part B. Directions:     Questions 1 through 5 are based on the text below.
      to prevent delinquency                                                  (Questions 1 – 5)       Choose the one best answer to each question on
   D According to the research, building character and moral values is                                the basis of what is stated or implied in the text.
      not a necessary result of organised sport activities
                                                                                                      Mark the answer in your answer sheet.

2. According to the research, teenagers
                                                                                     Physical attractiveness can affect the personality. Of course, notions
   A involved in sporting activity are not ensured against delinquency.
                                                                             of what makes a person attractive have changed throughout history and
   B keen on sport are less likely to have sporty counterparts at the age
                                                                             from culture to culture. For instance, the Western ideal of beauty today is to
      of eighteen.
                                                                             be tanned, slim and athletic. It was not always so, nor is it likely to remain
   C are almost twice as likely to be sporty at the age of eighteen.
                                                                             the same in the future. However, within the same culture at any given time,
   D involved in sporting activity have a panacea for delinquent behav-
                                                                             most people agree on which individuals are more or less attractive.
      iour.
                                                                                     Most people also tend to think that someone with good looks is con-
                                                                             fident and socially adept. These perceptions do seem to hold true up to a
3. Why have the researchers been monitoring people?
                                                                             point. No doubt part of the explanation is that a person who has been
   A To have a panacea for delinquent behaviour.
                                                                             treated as attractive tends to develop more self-confidence in dealing with
   B To monitor birth rates of around one thousand people.
                                                                             others. In contrast, a less attractive person may seldom have experienced
   C To examine anti-social tendencies from birth.
                                                                             the same kind of ego-building feedback in social situations.
   D To establish the connection between young people’s participation
                                                                                     Differential treatment based on appearance seems to begin early in
      in sport and juvenile delinquency.
                                                                             life. In one experiment, women were shown pictures of attractive and unat-
                                                                             tractive children misbehaving. The women saw the attractive children’s
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