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Name: Date: PAGE 5 Rise English Test for Rookies Part 1: Listening Listen to part of a conversation in a library and answer the following questions. You will be hearing the conversation only ONCE! 1. What does the man need from the library? A research study written by his professor Demographic information about people living in Europe Information on research methods in demographics A specific geography reference book 2. What does the man imply about the atlas he looked at? It does not list population statistics by city. It does not list population statistics by country. It contains information about Europe that is out of date. It lacks information on southern Europe. 3. What is an example the man gives of the kind of information he needs about European cities? Their climate Their geographic size How long people live What languages people speak? 4. Where will the man and woman look for the information the man needs? In a different library In Professor Miller’s office In the geography department In the reference section of the library 5. What does the woman mean when she says this? She knows which book the man needs. She is too busy to find the information for the man. She is not sure she has heard the man correctly. She is not sure she can find the information the man needs.  Part 2: Reading Opportunists and Competitors (1)Growth, reproduction, and daily metabolism all require an organism to expend energy. The expenditure of energy is essentially a process of budgeting, just as finances are budgeted. If all of one’s money is spent on clothes, there may be none left to buy food or go to the movies. Similarly, a plant or animal cannot squander all its energy on growing a big body if none would be left over for reproduction, for this is the surest way to extinction. (2)All organisms, therefore, allocate energy to growth, reproduction, maintenance, and s