B) Read each short text and the question that follows. Select the correct answer to the question.

Read text 48. If a handsome face and hard work were what made a man a movie star, Rex Rubble would certainly be one.

Read text 49. Warren Pierce was one of a team of three Huron High School students who was named Michigan’s first-place winner in the 2016 high school mathematics competition.

Read text 50. Had John not broken his leg, he might have gone skiing with us.

C) Read the information below, then choose the best answer

Read text 51. Before giving first aid to an accident victim, you should obtain his or her consent. Asking for consent takes a simple question. Say to the victim, “I know first aid, and I can help until an ambulance arrives. Is that okay?”

Read text 52. If you hold a piece of copper wire over the flame of a wooden match, heat will be conducted by the copper wire to your fingers, and you will be forced to drop the wire. You will, however, still be able to hold the match because wood is a poor conductor of heat.

Read text 53. The phenomenon called global warming started many years ago. The greenhouse gasses that the Earth produced were in balance with what the atmosphere could store. With the Industrial Revolution, the increased productivity required burning large amounts of fossil fuels that the Earth could not get rid of. The result has been the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. They can stay there for years, acting like a shield that keeps the Earth warm. The problem is that the Earth's temperature is rising every year, and this is affecting life on Earth. We have already noticed significant changes in climate and natural disasters that have occurred as a result of global warming.

Read text 54. We all know about the moon landing in 1969. Hundreds of millions of people watched on their television screens as Neil Armstrong stepped off the Apollo 11 spacecraft and spoke those famous words "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." However, not a lot of people know that there were not one, not two, but three people on the spacecraft that historic day. I believe that there needs to be more focus on the other two astronauts when the media covers this topic. Both Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins played equally important roles in the mission, and I regard them as unsung heroes.

Read text 55. and 56. In the words of Thomas De Quincey, “It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it.” If, like most people, you have trouble recalling the names of those you have just met, try this: The next time you are introduced, plan to remember the names. Say to yourself, “I’ll listen carefully; I’ll repeat each person’s name to be sure I’ve got it, and I will remember.” You’ll discover how effective this technique is and probably recall those names for the rest of your life.

Read text 57. Samuel Morse, best known today as the inventor of Morse Code and one of the inventors of the telegraph, was originally a prominent painter. While he was always interested in technology and studied electrical engineering in college, Morse went to Paris to learn from famous artists of his day, and later painted many pictures that now hang in museums, including a portrait of former President John Adams. In 1825, Morse was in Washington, D.C., painting a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette when a messenger arrived on horseback to tell him that his wife was gravely ill back at his home in Connecticut. The message had taken several days to reach him because of the distance. Morse rushed to his home as fast as he could, but his wife had already passed away by the time he arrived. Grief-stricken, he gave up painting and devoted the rest of his life to finding ways to transmit messages over long distances faster.

Read text 58. Roosevelt signed the Federal Emergency Relief Act on May 12, 1933. The president selected Harry L. Hopkins, who headed the New York relief program, to run FERA. A gifted administrator, Hopkins quickly put the program into high gear. He gathered a small staff in Washington and brought the state relief organizations into the FERA system. While the agency tried to provide all the necessities, food came first. City dwellers usually got an allowance for fuel, and rent for one month was provided in case of eviction.

Read text 59. and 60. A German court has ruled that clearing of trees from the site of Tesla’s first electric car factory in Europe can go ahead, days after it issued an injunction temporarily halting the preparatory work.

The top administrative court in the Berlin-Brandenburg region ruled on Thursday that authorities had been within their rights to clear the way for work to start. The court had issued an injunction last weekend to give it time to consider the case, after an environmental group challenged a lower court’s ruling that Tesla could proceed with felling 92 hectares (227 acres) of pine trees at the site in Grünheide, 24 miles (38km) east of Berlin. Final planning approval for the factory has yet to be granted.

The company wants to start manufacturing 150,000 electric cars a year from mid-2023, with plans to increase that number to half a million annually.

Germany’s main business lobby group, the Federation of German Industries, welcomed the latest court decision on Friday. Holger Lösch, a senior official with the group, described it as “an important signal for Germany as a site for investment”.

He called for a wider discussion about planning and approval procedures in Germany, “which over the years have developed into a serious impediment to investment.”