Μάθημα : ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ Α ΛΥΚΕΙΟΥ

Fill each gap in sentences 1-10 with the correct option. Use each option only once.

ΘΕΜΑ 1. ΚΑΤΑΝΟΗΣΗ ΓΡΑΠΤΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ
Read the text and choose the correct option (A, B or C) for items 1-10.

Before you start your shopping at the January sales with those amazing deals, think about the impact of fast fashion on the environment. Fast fashion focuses on speed and low costs in order to create frequent new collections inspired by catwalk looks or celebrity styles. But it is particularly bad for the environment, because the low cost and the fast production means that the environment is probably not protected. Cloth colouring is the second largest polluter of clean water globally, after agriculture. Greenpeace’s recent Detox campaign has been helpful in pressuring fashion brands to take action to remove toxic chemicals from their suppliers, after it tested a number of brands’ products and confirmed the presence of harmful chemicals. Many of these are not allowed in various countries because they are toxic, bad for hormones and carcinogenic. Polyester is the most popular fabric used for fashion. But the problem is that when we wash polyester clothes in our washing machines, microfibers are created and that increases the level of plastic in our oceans. These microfibres are very very small and can easily pass into our water resources, but because they do not naturally break into pieces, they represent a serious threat to water life. Small creatures such as plankton eat the microfibres, which then make their way up the food chain to fish and shellfish eaten by humans. (227 words)

ΘΕΜΑ 1. ΚΑΤΑΝΟΗΣΗ ΓΡΑΠΤΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ
Read the text and choose the correct option (A, B or C) for items 1-10.

Research agencies have ordered UK scientists to improve the way they use animals in experiments. The organisations have warned that too often poorly designed projects testing new medicine for strokes, cancer and other conditions have produced meaningless results while wasting animals’ lives. In some cases, researchers have undervalued the importance of the number of animals needed to test a new medicine in an effort to control the costs of their study. As a consequence, their small scale studies have lacked the power to identify biological effects in the drugs under investigation.
These unreliable results mean that the lives of the animals involved have been wasted, along with scientists’ time and resources. In other words, the overuse of animals in experiments has led to unnecessary as well as pointless loss of their lives.
The problem of poorly designed studies has been under investigation for two years and culminated last week when the Research Councils announced changes to guidelines for those carrying out research using animals. Scientists will now have to show that their work will produce physiological insights as well as generate statistically valid data; otherwise they will lose their funding.
A neuroscientist of Edinburgh University pinpointed that these guidelines should be welcomed by the scientific community, although it has taken a long time to introduce them, adding that there has been an increasing awareness that the results of some animal experiments are not in fact very strong.
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