38. The word      outstripped      in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to __________.
(A) surpassed
(B) surprised
(C) surmised
(D) survived

39. According to the passage, which of the following is most likely to be the reason that people in Africa or Pakistan or Chile study English as the obvious foreign language? (A) English is the property of a number of English speaking countries. (B) English has immediate connection with the economic or political supremacy. (C) English provides the quickest access to the bulk of world trade. (D) English is the most beautiful language ever spoken in the history of mankind. 

40. What is the main idea of the passage? (A) The relation between the amount of money in circulation and the amount of goods and services being produced. (B) The relation between the prices of the goods and services and the number of idle factories and people. (C) The relation between the amount of money in circulation and the degree of deflation in a country. (D) The relation between different economic systems and the amount of money in circulation.

41. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is NOT the effect of a depression? (A) Economic activity is reduced. (B) Factories and people become idle. (C) Unemployment becomes a social problem. (D) The prices of all goods and services rise.

42. The word      unemployment       in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to __________. (A) the condition in which people have no money (B) the condition in which people are out of work (C) the situation in which the prices of goods drop (D) the situation in which money circulation rises

43. According to the passage, which of the following is      NOT TRUE      about inflation or recession? (A) In recession, business activity sometimes slows down. (B) The prices of the goods and services rise in inflation. (C) Inflation and recession are recurring economic problems. (D) Recession may be bad for a country, but inflation is not.

44. According to the passage, what is the greatest problem for every economic system? (A) The problem of how to use machines in place of people to create productivity. (B) The problem of determining the policies that will meet the goals of the people. (C) The problem of keeping the prices of the goods and services always in decline. (D) The problem of how to increase money circulation to boost business activities. 

45. What is the main idea of this passage? (A) How Americans express various emotions through pictures. (B) The facial expressions of basic emotions are universal. (C) Most of the Fore had never seen Western faces before. (D) Emotion is the most plastic part of the brain.

46. According to the passage, which of the following is      NOT TRUE     ? (A) The emotions such as anger, happiness, sadness, disgust, and fear and surprise are universal. (B) That a sudden invasion of your field of vision triggers fear is a universal phenomenon. (C) Knowing what triggers our various emotions has no connection with the refractory period. (D) Charles Darwin claimed that the facial expressions of basic emotions are universal.

47. According to the passage, the shorter the refractory period, the more likely we are to __________. (A) force ourselves to work long hours in an unpleasant situation (B) deal quickly with happy circumstances in our daily life (C) learn to manage our time in the hustle of modern life (D) reconsider whether our emotion is appropriate to the situation

48. The phrase      conjure up      in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to __________. (A) produce (B) despise (C) discuss (D) prohibit

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