The phrasal verb “make something up” is the same:
The Past Perfect Continuous form of the sentence “I have been waiting for 20 minutes.” is:
Choose the right alternative to complete the sentence below.
Brazil is the _________ most active hiring market for
accounting and finance professionals.
Using the above text as reference, choose the correct
alternative.
The word which can replace may (line 11) without changing
its meaning is
Among the problems which occur in the Amazon region listed by the World Wildlife Fund report, in the 3rd paragraph of Text II, the one that is NOT mentioned is
In Text I, the only idea that does NOT accurately reflect the debate about multiculturalism and interculturalism is that the
The boldfaced pronoun in the fragment of Text II: “No government is prepared for it.” (lines 28-29) refers to
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The criteria established by International Telecommunications Union were accepted by the 4G companies.
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The technology of mobile networks was less complex in the first two generations.
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The new technology being developed at the University of Maryland may enable signals to be sent to longer distances than before.
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are being tested by NASA.
Based on the text, judge the following items.
The criteria established by International Telecommunications
Union were accepted by the 4G companies.
This text refers to items from 27 to 31.
Under our feet, cables carry data between our homes,
offices and data centers at a pace that can match the speed of light.
The data travels as light that runs through strings made of materials
like glass and plastic.
Researchers at the University of Maryland want to do away
with the cable altogether and just use air to guide the light. That's
not as simple as it sounds, because a laser sent through air will
spread apart and interact with particles, gradually losing its intensity
over time.
The research team instead caused patches of air to mimic
a fiber optic cable by creating tubes of dense air surrounded by
low–density air. In a fiber optic cable, a laser travels through a
string of glass. When it tries to leave the glass, it hits a wall that
reflects it back into the center, guiding it along the length of the
cable. The cable made of air works in the same way.
“It's like you could just take a physical optical fiber and
unreel it at the speed of light, put it next to this thing that you want
to measure remotely, and then have the signal come all the way
back to where you are," University of Maryland team lead Howard
Milchberg said in a release.
Signals that traveled through the air cable were 1.5 times
stronger than when they were sent through plain air. The team was
able to send them over a distance of three feet and is now interested
in pushing the range to 150 feet.
If the University of Maryland team succeeds, the air cables
could be used for communication in remote locations on Earth
where laying fiber optic cables is extremely difficult, or places
where it actually is impossible like space. NASA is already
experimenting with laser communication between the International
Space Station and Earth. The technique could also be used to probe
the Earth to make topographic maps or examine the chemicals
present in hard–to–reach places like the atmosphere or a nuclear
plant.
S. Brewster. Making optical cables out of air could boost
communication in space. Internet:
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The aim of the text is to present news about cables used for
data traveling.
Questions 34 through 38 refer to the following text.
We've been keeping our veterinarian in business lately.
First Sammy, our nine-year-old golden retriever, needed
surgery. (She's fine now.) Then Inky, our curious cat,
burned his paw. (He'll be fine, too.) At our last visit, as we
were writing our fourth (or was it the fifth?) consecutive
check to the veterinary hospital, there was much joking
about how vet bills should be tax-deductible. After all, pets
are dependents, too, right? (Guffaws all around.)
Now, halfway through tax-filing season, comes news
that pets are high on the list of unusual deductions
taxpayers try to claim. From routine pet expenses to the
costs of adopting a pet to, yes, pets as "dependents," tax
accountants have heard it all this year, according to the
Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants, which
surveys its members annually about the most outlandish
tax deductions proposed by clients. Most of these doggy
deductions don't hunt, but, believe it or not, some do. Could
there be a spot for Sammy and Inky on our 1040?
Scott Kadrlik, a certified public accountant in Eden Prairie,
Minn., who moonlights as a stand-up comedian (really!),
gave me a dog's-eye view of the tax code: "In most cases
our family pets are just family pets," he says. They cannot
be claimed as dependents, and you cannot deduct the
cost of their food, medical care or other expenses. One
exception is service dogs. If you require a Seeing Eye
dog, for example, your canine's costs are deductible as
a medical expense. Occasionally, man's best friend also
is man's best business deduction. The Doberman that
guards the junk yard can be deductible as a business
expense of the junk-yard owner, says Mr. Kadrlik. Ditto the
convenience-store cat that keeps the rats at bay.
For most of us, though, our pets are hobbies at most.
Something's a hobby if, among other things, it hasn't turned
a profit in at least three of the past five years (or two of the
past seven years in the case of horse training, breeding
or racing). In that case, you can't deduct losses—only
expenses to the extent of income in the same year. So if
your beloved Bichon earns $100 for a modeling gig, you
could deduct $100 worth of vet bills (or dog food or doggy
attire).
(Source: Carolyn Geer, The Wall Street Journal, retrieved on 13 March
2014 - slightly adapted)
The opening sentence of the text reveals that the author has been
