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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42. 

Most weddings in Japan start with a religious ceremony in which usually only family members  attend. Afterwards, a banquet is customarily held to which many people, including friends and  colleagues, are invited. To celebrate the happy occasion, guests give the bride and groom goshuugi – gift money in special envelopes. Goshuugi from friends is usually 20,000 yen or 30,000 yen. 

A typical Japanese wedding party starts when the bride and groom enter the banquet hall  together, and take their seats on a slightly raised platform facing their guests. Invited guests are  seated closer to the bride and groom, with family and relatives seated further in back. The bride's  and groom's bosses usually give congratulatory speeches then their friends sing in celebration. Other  wedding highlights include a candle ceremony where the couple holds a candle while greeting their guests at each table, and the cutting of the wedding cake. Afterwards, the bride and groom thank  their parents with a speech, then leave to end the party. 

In the past, dishes that supposedly brought good fortune, such as prawns and sea breams, were  served in abundance. So much of the food was ordered that guests ended up taking the surplus home.  Today, the majority of the weddings serve just enough for everyone. Additionally, before leaving,  guests would traditionally receive souvenir gifts called hikidemono. 

Many wedding ceremonies take place at wedding halls or hotels. Rough estimates show that  it costs about 3 million yen to host a wedding party for 80 guests. During Japan's economic bubble,  overseas weddings and flamboyant receptions with special effects, such as smoke machines and  having the bride and groom fly in on gondolas, were very popular. But these days, couples choose  to tie the knot in various ways, from not having any ceremony to having a modest affair, or still  going all out. 

(Source: http://www.hiraganatimes.com)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42. 

Most weddings in Japan start with a religious ceremony in which usually only family members  attend. Afterwards, a banquet is customarily held to which many people, including friends and  colleagues, are invited. To celebrate the happy occasion, guests give the bride and groom goshuugi – gift money in special envelopes. Goshuugi from friends is usually 20,000 yen or 30,000 yen. 

A typical Japanese wedding party starts when the bride and groom enter the banquet hall  together, and take their seats on a slightly raised platform facing their guests. Invited guests are  seated closer to the bride and groom, with family and relatives seated further in back. The bride's  and groom's bosses usually give congratulatory speeches then their friends sing in celebration. Other  wedding highlights include a candle ceremony where the couple holds a candle while greeting their guests at each table, and the cutting of the wedding cake. Afterwards, the bride and groom thank  their parents with a speech, then leave to end the party. 

In the past, dishes that supposedly brought good fortune, such as prawns and sea breams, were  served in abundance. So much of the food was ordered that guests ended up taking the surplus home.  Today, the majority of the weddings serve just enough for everyone. Additionally, before leaving,  guests would traditionally receive souvenir gifts called hikidemono. 

Many wedding ceremonies take place at wedding halls or hotels. Rough estimates show that  it costs about 3 million yen to host a wedding party for 80 guests. During Japan's economic bubble,  overseas weddings and flamboyant receptions with special effects, such as smoke machines and  having the bride and groom fly in on gondolas, were very popular. But these days, couples choose  to tie the knot in various ways, from not having any ceremony to having a modest affair, or still  going all out. 

(Source: http://www.hiraganatimes.com)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. 

Humans are bringing about another global-scale change in the atmosphere: the increase in  what are called greenhouse gases. Like glass in a greenhouse, these gases admit the Sun's light but  tend to reflect back downward the heat that is radiated from the ground below, trapping heat in the  Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is the most  significant of these gases – there is 25 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than  there was a century ago, the result of our burning coal and fuels derived from oil. Methane, nitrous  oxide, and CFCs are greenhouse gases as well. 

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer  place. They expect a global rise in average temperature somewhere between 1.0 and 3.5 degrees  Celsius in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising and the years from 1987  to 1997 were the warmest years on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming  has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it  takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though,  that global warming is looming. 

Global warming will have different effects in different regions. A warmed world is expected  to have more extreme weather, with more rain during wet periods, longer droughts, and more  powerful storms. Although the effects of future climate changes are unknown, some predict that  exaggerated weather conditions may translate into better agricultural yields in areas such as the  western United States, where temperature and rainfall are expected to increase, while dramatic  decreases in rainfall may lead to severe droughts and plunging agricultural yields in parts of Africa,  for example. 

Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice caps, leading to a projected  sea level rise of 50 centimeters by the year 2050. A sea level rise of this magnitude would flood  coastal cities, force people to abandon low-lying islands, and completely inundate coastal wetlands.  Diseases like malaria, which at present are primarily found in the tropics, may become more  common in the regions of the globe between the tropics and the polar regions, called the temperate  zones. For many of the world's plant species, and for animal species that are not easily able to shift  their territories as their habitat grows warmer, climate change may bring extinction. 

(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. 

Humans are bringing about another global-scale change in the atmosphere: the increase in  what are called greenhouse gases. Like glass in a greenhouse, these gases admit the Sun's light but  tend to reflect back downward the heat that is radiated from the ground below, trapping heat in the  Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is the most  significant of these gases – there is 25 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than  there was a century ago, the result of our burning coal and fuels derived from oil. Methane, nitrous  oxide, and CFCs are greenhouse gases as well. 

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer  place. They expect a global rise in average temperature somewhere between 1.0 and 3.5 degrees  Celsius in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising and the years from 1987  to 1997 were the warmest years on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming  has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it  takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though,  that global warming is looming. 

Global warming will have different effects in different regions. A warmed world is expected  to have more extreme weather, with more rain during wet periods, longer droughts, and more  powerful storms. Although the effects of future climate changes are unknown, some predict that  exaggerated weather conditions may translate into better agricultural yields in areas such as the  western United States, where temperature and rainfall are expected to increase, while dramatic  decreases in rainfall may lead to severe droughts and plunging agricultural yields in parts of Africa,  for example. 

Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice caps, leading to a projected  sea level rise of 50 centimeters by the year 2050. A sea level rise of this magnitude would flood  coastal cities, force people to abandon low-lying islands, and completely inundate coastal wetlands.  Diseases like malaria, which at present are primarily found in the tropics, may become more  common in the regions of the globe between the tropics and the polar regions, called the temperate  zones. For many of the world's plant species, and for animal species that are not easily able to shift  their territories as their habitat grows warmer, climate change may bring extinction. 

(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. 

Humans are bringing about another global-scale change in the atmosphere: the increase in  what are called greenhouse gases. Like glass in a greenhouse, these gases admit the Sun's light but  tend to reflect back downward the heat that is radiated from the ground below, trapping heat in the  Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is the most  significant of these gases – there is 25 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than  there was a century ago, the result of our burning coal and fuels derived from oil. Methane, nitrous  oxide, and CFCs are greenhouse gases as well. 

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer  place. They expect a global rise in average temperature somewhere between 1.0 and 3.5 degrees  Celsius in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising and the years from 1987  to 1997 were the warmest years on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming  has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it  takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though,  that global warming is looming. 

Global warming will have different effects in different regions. A warmed world is expected  to have more extreme weather, with more rain during wet periods, longer droughts, and more  powerful storms. Although the effects of future climate changes are unknown, some predict that  exaggerated weather conditions may translate into better agricultural yields in areas such as the  western United States, where temperature and rainfall are expected to increase, while dramatic  decreases in rainfall may lead to severe droughts and plunging agricultural yields in parts of Africa,  for example. 

Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice caps, leading to a projected  sea level rise of 50 centimeters by the year 2050. A sea level rise of this magnitude would flood  coastal cities, force people to abandon low-lying islands, and completely inundate coastal wetlands.  Diseases like malaria, which at present are primarily found in the tropics, may become more  common in the regions of the globe between the tropics and the polar regions, called the temperate  zones. For many of the world's plant species, and for animal species that are not easily able to shift  their territories as their habitat grows warmer, climate change may bring extinction. 

(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. 

Humans are bringing about another global-scale change in the atmosphere: the increase in  what are called greenhouse gases. Like glass in a greenhouse, these gases admit the Sun's light but  tend to reflect back downward the heat that is radiated from the ground below, trapping heat in the  Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is the most  significant of these gases – there is 25 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than  there was a century ago, the result of our burning coal and fuels derived from oil. Methane, nitrous  oxide, and CFCs are greenhouse gases as well. 

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer  place. They expect a global rise in average temperature somewhere between 1.0 and 3.5 degrees  Celsius in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising and the years from 1987  to 1997 were the warmest years on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming  has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it  takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though,  that global warming is looming. 

Global warming will have different effects in different regions. A warmed world is expected  to have more extreme weather, with more rain during wet periods, longer droughts, and more  powerful storms. Although the effects of future climate changes are unknown, some predict that  exaggerated weather conditions may translate into better agricultural yields in areas such as the  western United States, where temperature and rainfall are expected to increase, while dramatic  decreases in rainfall may lead to severe droughts and plunging agricultural yields in parts of Africa,  for example. 

Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice caps, leading to a projected  sea level rise of 50 centimeters by the year 2050. A sea level rise of this magnitude would flood  coastal cities, force people to abandon low-lying islands, and completely inundate coastal wetlands.  Diseases like malaria, which at present are primarily found in the tropics, may become more  common in the regions of the globe between the tropics and the polar regions, called the temperate  zones. For many of the world's plant species, and for animal species that are not easily able to shift  their territories as their habitat grows warmer, climate change may bring extinction. 

(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. 

Humans are bringing about another global-scale change in the atmosphere: the increase in  what are called greenhouse gases. Like glass in a greenhouse, these gases admit the Sun's light but  tend to reflect back downward the heat that is radiated from the ground below, trapping heat in the  Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is the most  significant of these gases – there is 25 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than  there was a century ago, the result of our burning coal and fuels derived from oil. Methane, nitrous  oxide, and CFCs are greenhouse gases as well. 

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer  place. They expect a global rise in average temperature somewhere between 1.0 and 3.5 degrees  Celsius in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising and the years from 1987  to 1997 were the warmest years on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming  has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it  takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though,  that global warming is looming. 

Global warming will have different effects in different regions. A warmed world is expected  to have more extreme weather, with more rain during wet periods, longer droughts, and more  powerful storms. Although the effects of future climate changes are unknown, some predict that  exaggerated weather conditions may translate into better agricultural yields in areas such as the  western United States, where temperature and rainfall are expected to increase, while dramatic  decreases in rainfall may lead to severe droughts and plunging agricultural yields in parts of Africa,  for example. 

Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice caps, leading to a projected  sea level rise of 50 centimeters by the year 2050. A sea level rise of this magnitude would flood  coastal cities, force people to abandon low-lying islands, and completely inundate coastal wetlands.  Diseases like malaria, which at present are primarily found in the tropics, may become more  common in the regions of the globe between the tropics and the polar regions, called the temperate  zones. For many of the world's plant species, and for animal species that are not easily able to shift  their territories as their habitat grows warmer, climate change may bring extinction. 

(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. 

Humans are bringing about another global-scale change in the atmosphere: the increase in  what are called greenhouse gases. Like glass in a greenhouse, these gases admit the Sun's light but  tend to reflect back downward the heat that is radiated from the ground below, trapping heat in the  Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is the most  significant of these gases – there is 25 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than  there was a century ago, the result of our burning coal and fuels derived from oil. Methane, nitrous  oxide, and CFCs are greenhouse gases as well. 

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer  place. They expect a global rise in average temperature somewhere between 1.0 and 3.5 degrees  Celsius in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising and the years from 1987  to 1997 were the warmest years on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming  has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it  takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though,  that global warming is looming. 

Global warming will have different effects in different regions. A warmed world is expected  to have more extreme weather, with more rain during wet periods, longer droughts, and more  powerful storms. Although the effects of future climate changes are unknown, some predict that  exaggerated weather conditions may translate into better agricultural yields in areas such as the  western United States, where temperature and rainfall are expected to increase, while dramatic  decreases in rainfall may lead to severe droughts and plunging agricultural yields in parts of Africa,  for example. 

Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice caps, leading to a projected  sea level rise of 50 centimeters by the year 2050. A sea level rise of this magnitude would flood  coastal cities, force people to abandon low-lying islands, and completely inundate coastal wetlands.  Diseases like malaria, which at present are primarily found in the tropics, may become more  common in the regions of the globe between the tropics and the polar regions, called the temperate  zones. For many of the world's plant species, and for animal species that are not easily able to shift  their territories as their habitat grows warmer, climate change may bring extinction. 

(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. 

Humans are bringing about another global-scale change in the atmosphere: the increase in  what are called greenhouse gases. Like glass in a greenhouse, these gases admit the Sun's light but  tend to reflect back downward the heat that is radiated from the ground below, trapping heat in the  Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is the most  significant of these gases – there is 25 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than  there was a century ago, the result of our burning coal and fuels derived from oil. Methane, nitrous  oxide, and CFCs are greenhouse gases as well. 

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer  place. They expect a global rise in average temperature somewhere between 1.0 and 3.5 degrees  Celsius in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising and the years from 1987  to 1997 were the warmest years on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming  has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it  takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though,  that global warming is looming. 

Global warming will have different effects in different regions. A warmed world is expected  to have more extreme weather, with more rain during wet periods, longer droughts, and more  powerful storms. Although the effects of future climate changes are unknown, some predict that  exaggerated weather conditions may translate into better agricultural yields in areas such as the  western United States, where temperature and rainfall are expected to increase, while dramatic  decreases in rainfall may lead to severe droughts and plunging agricultural yields in parts of Africa,  for example. 

Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice caps, leading to a projected  sea level rise of 50 centimeters by the year 2050. A sea level rise of this magnitude would flood  coastal cities, force people to abandon low-lying islands, and completely inundate coastal wetlands.  Diseases like malaria, which at present are primarily found in the tropics, may become more  common in the regions of the globe between the tropics and the polar regions, called the temperate  zones. For many of the world's plant species, and for animal species that are not easily able to shift  their territories as their habitat grows warmer, climate change may bring extinction. 

(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the  correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. 

Humans are bringing about another global-scale change in the atmosphere: the increase in  what are called greenhouse gases. Like glass in a greenhouse, these gases admit the Sun's light but  tend to reflect back downward the heat that is radiated from the ground below, trapping heat in the  Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is the most  significant of these gases – there is 25 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than  there was a century ago, the result of our burning coal and fuels derived from oil. Methane, nitrous  oxide, and CFCs are greenhouse gases as well. 

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer  place. They expect a global rise in average temperature somewhere between 1.0 and 3.5 degrees  Celsius in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising and the years from 1987  to 1997 were the warmest years on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming  has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it  takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though,  that global warming is looming. 

Global warming will have different effects in different regions. A warmed world is expected  to have more extreme weather, with more rain during wet periods, longer droughts, and more  powerful storms. Although the effects of future climate changes are unknown, some predict that  exaggerated weather conditions may translate into better agricultural yields in areas such as the  western United States, where temperature and rainfall are expected to increase, while dramatic  decreases in rainfall may lead to severe droughts and plunging agricultural yields in parts of Africa,  for example. 

Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice caps, leading to a projected  sea level rise of 50 centimeters by the year 2050. A sea level rise of this magnitude would flood  coastal cities, force people to abandon low-lying islands, and completely inundate coastal wetlands.  Diseases like malaria, which at present are primarily found in the tropics, may become more  common in the regions of the globe between the tropics and the polar regions, called the temperate  zones. For many of the world's plant species, and for animal species that are not easily able to shift  their territories as their habitat grows warmer, climate change may bring extinction. 

(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)