Test reading Passage 1 mount everest and hillary

A.
12.
+ 
Take a look at the second sentence of the third paragraph, “
One obvious way 
people try to be accepted into a group
” can be understood as “
method people 
consciously use to obtain membership
”, and it’s to “
portraying yourself in the best 
possible light
”/“
convey the best parts
” or in short, do their best

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+ A and D are nowhere to be found; C is incorrect because they’d describe how they’re 
important to the group
, not 
how the group will be important to their lives.
+ Therefore, the answer here should be 
B 
13.
+ Upon understanding the whole article, we can have couple of ideas for this 
question: the article showed us the need to belong, how grouping works in the past 
and the present, experiments about being accepted and rejected, then the 
unconscious drive
behind the need to belong
+ Although there were rejections, the fifth, sixth and seventh paragraph tell us what 
people 
do
when they face rejection, not how they 
feel
+ B is incorrect because the main idea throughout the passage is about being in a 
group, not 
go it alone
+ D is just a small part from the second paragraph
+ Therefore, 
C
should be the correct answer
 
14.Note
The needed words to fill in the blank should be a noun, which can be something that fits inside 
our ears. According to the
 second section
in the passage, the author mentions “old-fashioned 
headphones
have been 
replaced with smaller ones that fit neatly into the ear”. It means that 
new, smaller headphones have been produced to replace for old-fashioned, bigger ones . 
Therefore,