Test 7

Directions: (Questions 1—6).

Read the text and choose the one best answer to each question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the text. Mark the answer on your answer sheet.

Задания: (1—6)

Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопросы, следующие за текстом, выбрав один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

Vegetarians

The word «vegetarian» was coined in about 1840 to mean people who lived without killing for food, either for moral or health reasons, or both. But the practice is much older than that. Greek philosophers recommended vegetarianism and famous people who have practiced it in the past include Leonardo da Vinci, Tolstoy and Voltaire, Milton, Newton and Bernard Show. Surely this proves that mental activity does not depend on flesh foods. What are the arguments that might stop us from eating meat?

Men's body is more like those of fruit-eating animals (such as our cousins the apes) than like those of flesh-eating animals. For millions of years man must have lived on fruit, nuts and leaves and so developed a digestive system. Perhaps the more we move away from this diet towards meat eating, the less likely we are to be healthy. Cancer, tuberculosis and heart disease are certainly more common in meat-eating communities. Man may have started eating the flesh of animals during the Ice Age when most of the vegetation was destroyed.

A diet of vegetables, fruit, grains and nuts together with a few diary products can give us all the vitamins and minerals we need. By eating meat we are getting the basic food elements secondhand after they have been digested by the animals. It is worth considering how wasteful meat-eaters are with land. A meet-eater needs about three times as much land to support himself and his animals as a vegetarian does. For eveiy 45 kilos of dry food eaten by cattle only 1,8—7,3 kilos come back as food for us humans — an expensive method of producing food.

(from American English)

People who live without killing for food are called...

A saints. В vegetarians. С fruit-eaters.

People who had practiced vegetarianism in the past include... A Greek emperors.

В persons who work in the Zoo. С famous artists, writers and scientists.

What is the most suitable food for men? A pears, wheat, dandelions

В sharks, oysters, apes С pastilles, batch, candies

Meat-eating...

A helps people to be healthy.

В is a good way to fall ill.

С can give us all the vitamins we need.

There is an opinion that the era of meat-eating started... A after the Flood.

В during the Ice Age.

С when most of the vegetation was destroyed by dinosaurs.

Vegetarianism ...

A provokes serious diseases. В provides people with all necessary substances. С deprives fruit-eating animals of their favourite food.

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