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Directions:For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the four choices given below. Mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. .2:\:H~3
Exercise can be a time-consuming affair for people who lead busy lives. Some merely use it as an excuse to _21_ their personal fitness responsibilities, but others really do face a dilemma. Successful business executives often do not have much time for _22_ workouts. And whenever they do have the time, they usually don’t feel up to it. 4ne5=YY *
It is a fact of modern life that time equals money. However, time _23_ equals health! It is no use having all the riches in the world _24_ poor health won’t allow us to enjoy it. Our health is a priceless commodity. _25_ how much money we spend on state-of-the-art fitness equipment, expensive nutritional supplements _26_ trendy health club memberships, our personal fitness will always be a long-term _27_ that requires a minimum amount of time and effort. n vq3*
_28_ research suggests that exercise does not have to take up much of your day. Moderate activities done at _29_ throughout the day can be as beneficial as demanding, serious workouts. Forget the rigid workout schedules. Do whatever you can _30_ you can, as long as you do it on a regular basis. Short bits of exercise can be just as _31_ as long workouts. Traditional recommendations stated that people had to exercise _32_ for at least 30 minutes at least three times a week to obtain health benefits. More _33_ recommendations state that short bouts of activity of at least 10 minutes _34_, several times a day, can be just as effective. Try to _35_ 30 minutes or more a day of moderately strenuous activities on most days of the week. It all adds up in the end! G=/k >@Di
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Section A (60 minutes, 30 points) uXZg1 F)
Directions: Below each of the following passages you will find some questions or incomplete statements. Each question or statement is followed by four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Read each passage carefully, and then select the choice that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark the letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. \}*k )$r
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Not long ago, I stood on a corner near my home and watched as some of the 42,000 men, women and children participating in Boston’s Walk for Hunger strode by. Their 20-mile round-trip trek was a success, raising $3.6 million for food banks. It was as if, by burning calories, they were feeding the hungry. XFw Lz
Still, the logic that united the walkers, the donors and the hungry mystified me. After years of witnessing such events I still wonder why we must be a nation in motion to secure aid for the needy. Why are benefactors moved by the sight of urban hordes headed for the suburbs and back? Why do such exertions trigger the charitable impulse? wD \ZOn_J
What I saw that morning in Boston was a resource diverted from its true purpose. Imagine those 210,000 man-hours (42,000 times a five-hour walk) put into direct service to benefit the poor. Think of the houses that might be built, roofs repaired, gardens planted and harvested, public spaces improved, and meals delivered to shut-ins. ,T{<vRj7_
In the charitable ritual that has evolved, two sides expend energy, but only the sponsors’ efforts directly aid the poor. The others’ is pure sweat equity that goes nowhere but down the necks of the participants. Consider, too, the public resources expended: the rescue squads and medics along the way, the police sealing off urban arteries, the snarling of traffic. I do not question the sincerity of the participants, but in these mass mobilizations I see many lost opportunity costs. I recognize the value of exercise and companionship, but question why society values these schemes. ?,knit2 x
The easy explanation, of course, is that there would be no giving—or not nearly so much—without the walks. Fund-raisers recognize that the nobility of giving is often stimulated by activities that conjoin the selfless with self-interest. For giving, we often offer value received. Raffles and auctions and naming rights are among the inducements used to win support. But that’s not what’s going on here. J1ON,&[J
Those who oversee such fund-raising spectacles argue that there is more to these events than meets the eyes—mine included. These walks and runs are incubators for future volunteers and donors. They constitute a public proclamation that others matter. They make the invisible visible. More to the point, it is easier to get relatives, friends and colleagues to open their pocketbooks than it is to win over the largess of strangers. . )XP\ m\
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