Reading passages

100
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The author of the passage states that…… .
A) Prohibition only helped increase the consumption 
of alcoholic drinks 
B) Prohibition could have stopped people from 
drinking alcohol, had it been applied effectively 
C) drinking alcohol is the cause of most crime and 
violence 
D) there were fewer prisons in the United States after 
l920 
E) drinking alcohol was the main reason for the 
emergence of slum areas 
101-It is clear from the passage that…….. .
A) the law had the opposite effect from what was 
intended 
B) the number of Americans who obeyed the law was 
smaller than those who didn't 
C) the best way to stop people from doing something 
is to make a law against it 
D) Prohibition was the main cause of the existence of 
slums in the 1920s 
E) Americans in general like drinking alcohol 
102- When the law was introduced, ………. .
A)no one thought that it would eliminate organised 
crime groups 
B)the USA was the leading country in terms of the 
amount of alcohol consumed 
C)some people were bold enough to fight against it 
D)there were people who believed that it would really 
work 
E)a noticeable decline was observed in the number of 
crimes committed by slum-dwellers 
Around 8000 B.C. agriculture was developed. People 
had never before eaten so well, and a population 
increase followed. But this also meant that people 
had to give up their free, nomadic life, and remain 
tied to a single place. It also meant hard labour. 
Nomadism did not disappear, of course. Those who 
retained the old wandering way of life continued to 
regard themselves as freer and more noble than 
settled peoples, whom they would often raid. These 
divisions and conflicts between nomad and settled 
farmer continue in many parts of Africa and Asia 
right up to the end of the 20th century.