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25. We can understand from the passage that vitamin C ...

A) is less important for adults than it is for children B) is present in both raw and well-cooked vegetables

C) was once more important than it is now D) is an essential part of a healthy diet

26. It is implied in the passage that scurvy among sailors was caused by ...

A) a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables B) their fondness for fish and biscuits

C) having to work under difficult conditions D) the fact that their journeys were too long

27. According to the passage the best way to ensure having enough vitamin C in one’s diet is to ...

A) include such items as salted and dried food B) eat plenty of salads and citrus fruits

C) thoroughly cook all food to destroy harmful bacteria D) try to avoid diseases affecting bones and teeth
The origins of a written literature can be found in most of the civilizations of the ancient world in India, China and among the Jewish people, whose great work of literature is the Old Testament of the Bible. However, it is the Greeks whose literature is taken to represent the start of Western literature. Their greatest single contribution was drama, a form of literature that has continued undiminished to the present day. Other literary forms that developed from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans onward have been poetry in its many different styles and forms, the essay, biography and autobiography, and the novel. Other types of written work from these periods, dealing with such matters as history, philosophy, politics, religion, science and criticism may also be classified as literature from the point of view of style.