All over the world, forests are safeguarding the health of the planet itself. They do this (26) protecting the soil, providing water and (27) the climate. Trees (28) soil to mountainsides. Hills (29) the trees have been felled lose 500 times as (30) soil a year as those with trees. Trees catch and (31) rainwater. Their leaves break the impact (32) the rains, robbing them of (33) destructive power. The roots of trees allow the water to go into the soil, (34) gradually releases it to flow down rivers and refill ground-water reserves. Where there are no (35) , the rains run in sheets of water off the land, (36) the soil with them. Land (37) with trees and other plants (38) 20 times more rainwater than (39) earth. As they grow, trees absorb carbon dioxide, the main (40) of the "greenhouse effect" , which (41) irreversibly to change the world’s climate. Together, the world’s trees, plants and soils contain three times as much carbon as (42) is in the atmosphere. The world’s forests (43) the vast majority of its animal and plant species. The tropical rainforests (44) have well over half of them, (45) they cover only about 6% of the Earth’s land surface.
A. adopting
B. regulating
C. transforming
D. controlling
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At what point in the semester does this talk take place
At the beginning.
B. In the middle.
C. Near the end.
During the final exam.
A narrowing of your work interests is implied in almost any transition from a study environment to managerial or professional work. In the humanities and social sciences you will at best reuse only a fraction of the material (26) in three or four years’ study. In most career paths academic knowledge only (2) a background to much more applied decision-making. Even with a "training" form of degree, (3) a few of the procedures or methods (4) in your studies are likely to be continuously relevant in your work. Partly (5) reflects the greater specialization of most work tasks compared (6) studying. Many graduates are not (7) with the variety involved in (8) from degree study in at least four or five subjects a year (9) very standardized job demands. Academic work values (10) inventiveness, originality, and the cultivation of self-realization and self-development. Emphasis is placed (11) generating new ideas and knowledge, assembling (12) information to make a "rational" decision, appreciating basic (13) and theories, and getting involved in fundamental controversies and debates. The humanistic values of higher (14) encourages the feeling of being (15) in a process with a self-developmental rhythm. (16) , even if your employers pursue enlightened personnel development (17) and invest heavily in "human capital"—for example, by rotating graduate trainees to (18) their work experiences—you are still likely to notice and feel (19) about some major restrictions of your (20) and activities compared with a study environment. (17)()
A. laws
B. rules
C. policies
D. studies
A narrowing of your work interests is implied in almost any transition from a study environment to managerial or professional work. In the humanities and social sciences you will at best reuse only a fraction of the material (26) in three or four years’ study. In most career paths academic knowledge only (2) a background to much more applied decision-making. Even with a "training" form of degree, (3) a few of the procedures or methods (4) in your studies are likely to be continuously relevant in your work. Partly (5) reflects the greater specialization of most work tasks compared (6) studying. Many graduates are not (7) with the variety involved in (8) from degree study in at least four or five subjects a year (9) very standardized job demands. Academic work values (10) inventiveness, originality, and the cultivation of self-realization and self-development. Emphasis is placed (11) generating new ideas and knowledge, assembling (12) information to make a "rational" decision, appreciating basic (13) and theories, and getting involved in fundamental controversies and debates. The humanistic values of higher (14) encourages the feeling of being (15) in a process with a self-developmental rhythm. (16) , even if your employers pursue enlightened personnel development (17) and invest heavily in "human capital"—for example, by rotating graduate trainees to (18) their work experiences—you are still likely to notice and feel (19) about some major restrictions of your (20) and activities compared with a study environment. (15)()
A. consisted
B. dealt
C. engaged
D. worked
A narrowing of your work interests is implied in almost any transition from a study environment to managerial or professional work. In the humanities and social sciences you will at best reuse only a fraction of the material (26) in three or four years’ study. In most career paths academic knowledge only (2) a background to much more applied decision-making. Even with a "training" form of degree, (3) a few of the procedures or methods (4) in your studies are likely to be continuously relevant in your work. Partly (5) reflects the greater specialization of most work tasks compared (6) studying. Many graduates are not (7) with the variety involved in (8) from degree study in at least four or five subjects a year (9) very standardized job demands. Academic work values (10) inventiveness, originality, and the cultivation of self-realization and self-development. Emphasis is placed (11) generating new ideas and knowledge, assembling (12) information to make a "rational" decision, appreciating basic (13) and theories, and getting involved in fundamental controversies and debates. The humanistic values of higher (14) encourages the feeling of being (15) in a process with a self-developmental rhythm. (16) , even if your employers pursue enlightened personnel development (17) and invest heavily in "human capital"—for example, by rotating graduate trainees to (18) their work experiences—you are still likely to notice and feel (19) about some major restrictions of your (20) and activities compared with a study environment. (20)()
A. hobbies
B. interests
C. subjects
D. concerns