The Impact of Low-Cost Airlines & Other Societal Trends

Posted on Oct 25, 2024 in Medicine & Health

The High Price of Low-Cost Airlines

They have expanded the market, leading to an increase in flights. However, air travel has the most detrimental ecological impact of all transportation methods.

  1. No, only a minority will contribute financially, which isn’t an effective alternative to a political solution.
  2. True: “At first sight … thanks to near-full capacity usage” (Lines 5-6)
  3. True: “A two-day shopping trip … would remain a luxury … without these carriers” (Lines 8-9)
  4. True: “It is still the traveler’s individual responsibility to resist frequent flying” (Line 10)
  5. False: “The coming months will show if EU states … put a stop to cheap flights”

Key terms: Initiative, Hurt, Responsibility, Difference

  1. Instructions were never given to me.
  2. The ticket wasn’t cheap enough for him to afford.
  3. Had brought
  4. Whose luggage did Peter lose at the airport two days ago?

Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Packets

The message conveyed is that tobacco can kill, cause lung diseases, and is extremely harmful to pregnant women and their babies.

  1. Prohibiting smoking in many public places and raising the legal age for tobacco purchase.
  2. True: “The pictures include (…) patients wearing oxygen masks in hospital” (Lines 2-3)
  3. False: “A series of 15 images have been chosen following market research, public consultation and a vote on the most effective warnings” (Lines 11-12)
  4. False: “According to the Cancer Research Institute, smoking accounts for 85% of lung cancers” (Line 14)
  5. True: “International evidence shows that graphic picture warnings lead to greater awareness of the risks associated with smoking and help encourage people to cut down or quit” (Lines 15-16)

Key terms: Goal, Purpose, Intention, Painless, Heart, Kidney, Brain, Spleen, Intestine, Bladder, Savings, Safety

  1. Even though it was a rainy day, they decided to go fishing.
  2. Medical advances have greatly reduced the number of deaths.
  3. Stopped/would stop
  4. How many emails did the Burtons send?

Spain: Immigration Trends

Fewer people emigrated, and unemployment increased. Spain transitioned from sending people abroad to receiving many foreign immigrants.

  1. True: “Later, during the second half of the century, when northern and western European countries began to employ foreign workers” (Lines 2-3)
  2. False: “The country’s membership in the European Union, and its relatively continuous economic growth have made Spain an attractive destination”
  3. False: “Immigrants have helped increase the Spanish population by over 4 million” (Line 12)
  4. False: “Legislation has been modified many times in order to keep pace with this situation” (Lines 12-13)

Key terms: Urban, Domestic, Loan

  1. If he hadn’t been riding his bike…
  2. Mary advised Ellen never to marry again.
  3. Although some non-profit organizations have offered help…
  4. Whose book did they find?

Ultra-Thin Barbie: Body Image Concerns

Girls can feel insecure and dissatisfied with their image, potentially leading to eating disorders.

  1. Educating girls at school about the risks of extreme thinness and the unattainable nature of such a beauty ideal.
  2. True: “Barbie dolls, an icon for many young girls …” (Line 1)
  3. True: “Emme, (is) a new doll whose body proportions represent a larger body shape” (Line 6)
  4. False: “(They)… were more dissatisfied with their shape and wanted more extreme thinness” (Line 10)
  5. False: “For those aged six to seven, the negative effects were stronger” (Lines 11-12)

Key terms: Shape, Choice, Difference, Wish, Want

  1. Have you been playing with Barbies?
  2. She told me she would lend me her doll the following week.
  3. I like to be slim, although I also like eating a lot.
  4. …you had had breakfast.

Virtual or Plastic? The Future of Music Sales

Not necessarily; consumers can choose to pay what they want for downloads, or nothing at all.

  1. Profits will be generated not from digital sales, but from special edition sales.
  2. False: “A short but growing list of recording stars…” (Line 1)
  3. False: “The band also said they expected a conventional CD release of the album” (Line 5)
  4. True: “Old-fashioned plastic CD … with extra new songs and photographs” (Lines 9-10)
  5. False: “Their desire to sell their albums only in their full original form” (Lines 13-14)

Key terms: Benefit, Gain, Rights, Allow, Valuable, Unvaluable, Valueless

  1. How long did some users spend downloading a full music album years ago?
  2. Radiohead’s new record couldn’t be released last December.
  3. Students are used to writing with computers.