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In “But over the years as I’ve gotten to know her better” (ℓ.7) “I”
and “her” are respectively

                                                            Words that went extinct
                                                                                                                                           By Kimberly Joki
 
Dictionaries incorporate new words every year.
Some are pop culture inventions like jeggings,
photobomb, and meme. Other words, like emoji
and upvote, spring up from technology and social
media. Dictionaries respond by creating definitions
for anyone who cares to know what a twitterer is.
And thank goodness they do; you can learn what
an eggcorn is simply by turning a few pages in your
trusty updated dictionary.
    Interestingly, not all newly added words are recent
developments. The Oxford English Dictionary June
2015 new words list included autotune, birdhouse,
North Korean, and shizzle! North Korea was
founded in 1948. The initial release of the autotuner
audio processor was in 1997. Before adding a slang
term like shizzle, dictionary publishers weigh the
current popularity, predicted longevity, and other
factors. Just this year alone, the Merriam-Webster
Dictionary welcomed about 1,700 new arrivals.
    With more and more words coined every year,
dictionaries couldn’t possibly add them all to their
existing word banks. Can you imagine a dictionary
containing all the words ever used in English? It
would be impossible to lift! With each yearly edit,
dictionary editors must discard some words to
make room for new ones.
(…)
    The Sami languages, spoken in Finland, Norway,
and Sweden, reportedly include more than 150
words related to snow and ice. In the 1590s, the
English language had a word for recently melted
snow—snowbroth. Now, English speakers simply
call it water or melted snow. In fact, words that
are markedly specific seem more vulnerable to
extinction. A 19th-century dictionary included
Englishable, a term to describe how appropriate a
word is for the English language. However, English
is a dynamic language, always accepting and
abandoning words. Apparently, Englishable itself
isn’t Englishable; it’s now obsolete.
    Do you favor any infrequently used words? If so,
use them now and often. . . A word’s best defense
against extinction is regular use.
(Source: http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/words-that-went-extinct/)

Observe the following excerpt: “With more and
more words coined every year, dictionaries
couldn’t possibly add them all to their existing
word banks.” Mark the alternative that best
describes the pronoun them. 

Words that went extinct
By Kimberly Joki
    Dictionaries incorporate new words every year.
Some are pop culture inventions like jeggings,
photobomb, and meme. Other words, like emoji
and upvote, spring up from technology and social
media. Dictionaries respond by creating definitions
for anyone who cares to know what a twitterer is.
And thank goodness they do; you can learn what
an eggcorn is simply by turning a few pages in your
trusty updated dictionary.
    Interestingly, not all newly added words are recent
developments. The Oxford English Dictionary June
2015 new words list included autotune, birdhouse,
North Korean, and shizzle! North Korea was
founded in 1948. The initial release of the autotuner
audio processor was in 1997. Before adding a slang
term like shizzle, dictionary publishers weigh the
current popularity, predicted longevity, and other
factors. Just this year alone, the Merriam-Webster
Dictionary welcomed about 1,700 new arrivals.
    With more and more words coined every year,
dictionaries couldn’t possibly add them all to their
existing word banks. Can you imagine a dictionary
containing all the words ever used in English? It
would be impossible to lift! With each yearly edit,
dictionary editors must discard some words to
make room for new ones.
    (…)
    The Sami languages, spoken in Finland, Norway,
and Sweden, reportedly include more than 150
words related to snow and ice. In the 1590s, the
English language had a word for recently melted
snow—snowbroth. Now, English speakers simply
call it water or melted snow. In fact, words that
are markedly specific seem more vulnerable to
extinction. A 19th-century dictionary included
Englishable, a term to describe how appropriate a
word is for the English language. However, English
is a dynamic language, always accepting and
abandoning words. Apparently, Englishable itself
isn’t Englishable; it’s now obsolete.
    Do you favor any infrequently used words? If so,
use them now and often. . . A word’s best defense
against extinction is regular use.
(Source: http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/words-that-went-extinct/)

Observe the following excerpt: “With more and
more words coined every year, dictionaries
couldn’t possibly add them all to their existing
word banks.” Mark the alternative that best
describes the pronoun them.

            How Telecommuting Works
Telecommuting, which is growing in popularity, allows

employees to avoid long commutes.
“Brring,” the alarm startles you out of a deep sleep. It’s
8 a.m. on Monday morning. Time to head to the office.
You roll out of bed, brush your teeth and stumble your

way to the kitchen to grab some coffee.
Moments later, you head to the office, still wearing

your pajamas and fluffy slippers. Luckily for you, you
don’t have to go far – you work at home.
Telecommuting, or working at home, has grown in

popularity over the last 20 years.
On an increasing basis, workers are saying “no” to
long commutes and opting to work at home. In fact,
the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of
employees working from home grew by 23 percent
from 1990 to 2000.
Telecommuting workers revel in making their own
schedule – allowing them to schedule work around
family and personal commitments. With the ready
availability of technology tools, like the Internet and
home computers, companies are more willing to let
employees work from home.
    ( Adaptedfrom : < http: //home.howstuffworks.com/telecommuting.htm>Access on 18th January, 2014) 

The pronoun THEM in the last paragraph of the text
refers to: 

TEXT I
How music is the real language of political diplomacy
Forget guns and bombs, it is the power of melody that has
changed the world
Marie Zawisza
Saturday 31 October 2015 10.00 GMT
Last modified on Tuesday 10 November 201513.19 GMT 
                   
An old man plays his cello at the foot of a crumbling wall. The
notes of the sarabande of Bach’s Suite No 2 rise in the cold air,
praising God for the “miracle” of the fall of the Berlin Wall,
as Mstislav Rostropovich later put it. The photograph is seen
around the world. The date is 11 November 1989, and the
Russian virtuoso is marching to the beat of history.
Publicity stunt or political act? No doubt a bit of both – and proof,
in any case, that music can have a political dimension. Yo-Yo
Ma showed as much in September when the cellist opened the
new season of the Philharmonie de Paris with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. As a “messenger of peace” for the United
Nations, the Chinese American is the founder of Silk Road Project,
which trains young musicians from a variety of cultures to listen
to and improvise with each other and develop a common
repertoire. “In this way, musicians create a dialogue and arrive at
common policies,” says analyst Frédéric Ramel, a professor at the
Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris. By having music take the
place of speeches and peace talks, the hope is that it will succeed
where diplomacy has failed.[…]
Curiously, the study of the role of music in international relations
is still in its infancy. “Historians must have long seen it as
something fanciful, because history has long been dominated by
interpretations that stress economic, social and political factors,”
says Anaïs Fléchet, a lecturer in contemporary history at the
Université de Versailles-St-Quentin and co-editor of a book about
music and globalisation.
“As for musicologists,” she adds, “until quite recently they were
more interested in analysing musical scores than the actual
context in which these were produced and how they were
received.” In the 1990s came a cultural shift. Scholars were no
longer interested solely in “hard power” – that is, in the balance
of powers and in geopolitics – but also in “soft power”, where
political issues are resolved by mutual support rather than force.
[…] 
                
Gilberto Gil sings while then UN secretary general Kofi Annan plays
percussion at a September 2003 concert at the UN headquarters
honouring those killed by a bomb at a UN office in Baghdad a month
earlier. Photograph: Zuma/Alamy 
Since then, every embassy has a cultural attaché. The US engages
in “audio diplomacy” by financing hip-hop festivals in the Middle
East. China promotes opera in neighbouring states to project an
image of harmony. Brazil has invested in culture to assert itself as
a leader in Latin America, notably by establishing close
collaboration between its ministries of foreign affairs and culture;
musician Gilberto Gil was culture minister during Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva᾽s presidency from 2003 to 2008. He was involved in
France’s Year of Brazil. As Fléchet recalls, “the free concert he
gave on 13 July, 2005 at the Place de la Bastille was the pinnacle.
That day, he sang La Marseillaise in the presence of presidents
Lula and Jacques Chirac.” Two years earlier, in September 2003,
Gil sang at the UN in honour of the victims of the 19
August bombing of the UN headquartes in Baghdad. He was
delivering a message of peace, criticising the war on Iraq by the
US: “There is no point in preaching security without giving a
thought to respecting others,” he told his audience. Closing the
concert, he invited then UN secretary general Kofi Annan on
stage for a surprise appearance as a percussionist. “This highly
symbolic image, which highlighted the conviction that culture can
play a role in bringing people together, shows how music can
become a political language,” Fléchet says. 
(adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/31
/music-language-human-rights-political-diplomacy) 

In the sentence “Gilberto Gil sings while then UN secretary
general Kofi Annan plays”, the word “then” means: 

TEXT 2

Innovation is the new key to survival

[…]

At its most basic, innovation presents an optimal strategy for controlling costs. Companies that have invested in such technologies as remote mining, autonomous equipment and driverless trucks and trains have reduced expenses by orders of magnitude, while simultaneously driving up productivity.

Yet, gazing towards the horizon, it is rapidly becoming clear that innovation can do much more than reduce capital intensity. Approached strategically, it also has the power to reduce people and energy intensity, while increasing mining intensity.

Capturing the learnings 

The key is to think of innovation as much more than research and development (R&D) around particular processes or technologies. Companies can, in fact, innovate in multiple ways, such as leveraging supplier knowledge around specific operational challenges, redefining their participation in the energy value chain or finding new ways to engage and partner with major stakeholders and constituencies.

To reap these rewards, however, mining companies must overcome their traditionally conservative tendencies. In many cases, miners struggle to adopt technologies proven to work at other mining companies, let alone those from other industries. As a result, innovation becomes less of a technology problem and more of an adoption problem.

By breaking this mindset, mining companies can free themselves to adapt practical applications that already exist in other industries and apply them to fit their current needs. For instance, the tunnel boring machines used by civil engineers to excavate the Chunnel can vastly reduce miners' reliance on explosives. Until recently, those machines were too large to apply in a mining setting. Some innovators, however, are now incorporating the underlying technology to build smaller machines—effectively adapting mature solutions from other industries to realize more rapid results. 

Re-imagining the future

At the same time, innovation mandates companies to think in entirely new ways. Traditionally, for instance, miners have focused on extracting higher grades and achieving faster throughput by optimizing the pit, schedule, product mix and logistics. A truly innovative mindset, however, will see them adopt an entirely new design paradigm that leverages new information, mining and energy technologies to maximize value. […]

Approached in this way, innovation can drive more than cost reduction. It can help mining companies mitigate and manage risks, strengthen business models and foster more effective community and government relations. It can help mining services companies enhance their value to the industry by developing new products and services. Longer-term, it can even position organizations to move the needle on such endemic issues as corporate social responsibility, environmental performance and sustainability.

(http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ru/Document s/energy-resources/ru_er_tracking_the_trends_2015_eng.pdf)

The word “them" in “apply them to fit" (l. 25) refers to:

Choose the CORRECT answer.

She has told _____ many stories about _____ life in Africa. 

Concerning the content of the text, mark the statement which presents the correct information about reference.

How Telecommuting Works

Telecommuting, which is growing in popularity, allows employees to avoid long commuts

“Brring,” the alarm startles you out of a deep sleep. It’s 8 a.m. on Monday morning. Time to head to the office. You roll out of bed, brush your teeth and stumble your way to the kitchen to grab some coffee.

Moments later, you head to the office, still wearing your pajamas and fluffy slippers. Luckily for you, you don’t have to go far - you work at home. Telecommuting, or working at home, has grown in popularity over the last 20 years.

On an increasing basis, workers are saying “no” to long commutes and opting to work at home. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of employees working from home grew by 23 percent from 1990 to 2000.

Telecommuting workers revel in making their own schedule - allowing them to schedule work around family and personal commitments. With the ready availability of technology tools, like the Internet and home computers, companies are more willing to let employees work from home.

(Adapted from: < http://home.howstuffworks.com/ telecommuting.htm> Access on 18th January, 2014)


The pronoun THEM in the last paragraph of the text refers to

 

Read each of the sentences below.

I. The word "them" in " When I showed them Star Wars" means "that day". 
II. The word "progeny in "If your progeny were meh on any other sci-fi classic" means "kids".
III. The text is a kind of letter to a philosopher. 

We can say that: