ws fierce opposition. Everyone wants the big, land ª² eating ¡° uglies ¡± to be in someone else ' s backyard. Minneapolis and St.Paul, Minnesota, for example, have been debating about the site of a future airport for years. Yet if a new airport is needed, it will have to go somewhere.

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How do we find our way out of the land ª² used problem? One way might be to reexamine our values, to think in new directions. Does everyone have to have a car

with its need for highways and parking lots? What about developing mass transit systems that use less land? Do suburbs have to sprawl? Can they be designed so

they use less space? Do we have to have more energy? If we do, do we really have to strip ª² mine coal to provide it?

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However difficult they may be to arrive at, choices will have to be made if

we want to preserve the beauty and usefulness of the land. For there is at least

one point on which all of us can agree: The land does have its limits.

31. The word ¡°priorities¡± in the sentence means ____.

ª¤ A) the various needs

ª¤ B) the most important goal

ª¤ C) the number one necessity

ª¤ D) the first thing to be considered

ª¤ 32. ¡°¡­ ,people are becoming more aware of the need for open space. ¡± tells us that ____.

ª¤ A) people are thinking to develop their living space into the sky

ª¤ B) people noticed the need for unoccupied land

ª¤ C) people are struggling to get more land from the space ª¤

D) people are becoming more active on the space issue

ª¤ 33. How do we find our way out of the land use problems?

ª¤ A) One way might be to reexamine our values, to think in new directions.

B) Everyone has to have a car with its need for highways and parking lots.

ª¤ C) We have to have more energy. We need strip ª² mine coal to provide it.

D) We may develop mass transit systems which use less land.

ª¤ 34. ¡° Everyone wants the big, land eating ¡® uglies ' to be in someone else ' s backyard. ¡± shows that ____.

ª¤ A) people don ' t want more big projects

ª¤ B) people don ' t want to live in the neighborhood of the big projects

ª¤ C) people regard the large construction projects are ¡° uglies ¡±

ª¤ D) people don ' t like the undesirable building projects

ª¤ 35. The main idea of this article is ____.

ª¤ A) The Limits of Land

ª¤ B) Land

ª¤ C) Land and Our Life Styles

ª¤ D) Land and Space

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Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:

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Television, or TV, the modern wonder of electronics, brings the world into your own home in sight and sound. The name television comes from the Greek word tele, meaning ¡°far¡±,and the Latin word videre, meaning ¡°to see¡±. Thus, television means¡°seeing far¡±. Sometimes television is referred to as video,from a Latin word

meaning ¡°I see¡±. In Great Britain, the popular word for television is ¡°telly¡±.

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Television works in much the same way as radio. In radio, sound is changed in

to electromagnetic waves which are sent through the air. In TV, both sound and light are changed into electromagnetic waves. Experiments leading to modern television took place more than a hundred years ago. By the 1920s, inventors and researchers had turned the early theories into working models. Yet it took another thirty years for TV to become an industry.