Pre-Test : Part B

Section 3

In 1954 Lancia Select Answer developed develop have developed a new racing car and asked Ascari Select Answer for testing for to test to test it for them. Alberto Ascari was Select Answer Italy's more most Italy's Italy's most famous racing driver. He put the new car through Select Answer all possible test any possible test every possible test and his advice caused the Italian firm to make all Select Answer sort kind sorts of changes. In 1955 the car was ready for racing. Lancia entered it for the Monaco Grand Prix, with Ascari as their chief driver. Select Answer Theirs His Its rivals included Italian Ferraris and Maseratis, German Mercedes, and the British Vauxhall. Probably Select Answer the fast the fastest the most fast cars in the race Select Answer will be would be would have been the Mercedes. Their two leading drivers were the World Champion Juan Fangio and the young Englishman Stirling Moss. In 1954 Mercedes Select Answer entered had entered have entered cars for six big races and had won four of them. Fangio and Moss were perhaps Select Answer best two drivers the better two drivers the best two drivers in the world. It seemed impossible to beat them. Select Answer During Since While practice at Monaco, Fangio in the first Mercedes car Select Answer has broken broke has been breaking the lap record. Moss was only a little slower. All the Italian cars had Select Answer so slower times. so slower times. much slower times. Then in his last practice run Ascari drove the Lancia with all Select Answer courage the courage the courages for which he was famous. Most Grand Prix circuits Select Answer build are built is built specially for racing. In Monaco the circuit runs through the streets. Drivers have to get their cars round sharp comers between buildings, with the crowd very often only a few metres Select Answer from near next to the road. The driver's skill and experience Select Answer fully are tested, are tested full, are fully tested, and the cars require very strong safe braking, the finest road-holding on the corners, and very powerful acceleration. Ascari asked Select Answer Lancia a Lancia the Lancia for its best - and got it. The crowd Select Answer watched watching watch the practice saw Select Answer which what that he was doing, and their excitement grew. They were surprised and delighted when they heard that he Select Answer was equaling has equalled had equalled Fangio's new lap record. Now the Lancia team saw that they really had a chance. Perhaps their car was not quite Select Answer so fast as so fast than such fast as the Mercedes, but with Ascari at the wheel who could say Select Answer which what how would happen? Fangio and Moss Select Answer would will would have certainly have to drive Select Answer their fastest his fastest its fastest for the whole of the race.

Section 4

The main reason for the population explosion is not so much a Select Answer raise rise rose in birth rates as a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in public health services and medical care. Many more babies now Select Answer survive have survived surviving infancy, grow up and become parents and many more adults are living into old age Select Answer such that because so that populations Select Answer had been added were being added are being added to at both ends. In Europe and America the death rate began Select Answer for to fall to fall to falling during the Industrial Revolution. In the developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America the fall in death rate did not begin Select Answer til till while much later and the birth rate Select Answer only has recently begun has recently only begun has only recently begun to fall. This sudden increase in the population of the developing countries has come at a difficult time. Select Answer Even Unless Even if their population had not grown so fast they Select Answer would have been facing would have been faced would face a desperate struggle to bring the standard of living of their people up to the point Select Answer which at which at who there was enough food and Select Answer the education educations education for Select Answer all of people all person everyone to have a reasonable life. The poor countries are having to run Select Answer more fast and more fast faster and more fast faster and faster in their economic activity in order to stay in the same place, and the gap in wealth Select Answer among between from rich and poor countries grows Select Answer wider more wider widest every year.