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. 
103-The passage states that one result of the development of agriculture was that