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Q7. The look detective Mason gave to Holmes when he discovered that the 
gun was made in the US was that of … 
A) astonishment and admiration. 
B) confusion and uncertainty. 
C) respect and agitation.
D) doubt and mistrust. 
 
Q8. Detective MacDonald suggests that detective Mason … 
A) is wrong to think that the victim was killed with an American weapon. 
B) should definitely consider the possibility of the murderer being a foreigner. 
C) seems to be too quick to jump into conclusions. 
D) must take all the details into account. 
 
Q9. The gun was made shorter … 
A) in order to make it compact. 
B) lest it should give murderer away. 
C) so as to get rid of manufacturer‘s name. 
D) so that he could fool the investigators. 
 
Q10. Why does Detective MacDonald refuse to believe that someone from 
outside committed the crime?
A) There is not enough evidence to assume this. 
B) Butler Ames is not a reliable source.
C) Manor House is too well-protected. 
D) Mr. Douglas was himself an American.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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PART 2 
Answer the questions 11-20 on the following texts. 
Experts have been predicting the death of newspapers for over 50 years. Television 
was supposed to kill them off, and it did have some small effect. The sales of some 
papers began to decline from the middle 1950s, when commercial television 
started, and a few went out of business. But other papers prospered and new ones 
were launched, some thriving so much that they sold several million copies a day. 
So, those who thought television would finish off the Press were wrong. It is 
difficult, though, to be so sure the same will be true of the Internet.

Almost every 

daily and Sunday national newspaper in this country is selling fewer copies than it 
was five years ago. In some cases, the decline has been dramatic. 
The Internet, of course, is not the only factor. The natural markets for some papers, 
those aimed at industrial workers for instance, was already shrinking in the late 
20th century. What has been happening since then is that the Internet has further 
reduced the circulation of those papers that were already struggling, and it has hurt 
even the healthy ones.

The consequence has been a general attempt to make big 

savings by cutting costs wherever possible. 
A disaster, then? Some people argue that the decline in readership of newspapers 
does not matter because many of us, and perhaps a majority of those under 30, are 
reading them online. All national newspapers are reporting greatly increased web 
traffic, and some claim to have between 25 and 30 million ‗unique users‘ a month, 
many of this age group.

So, if one adds all the readers of newspapers on the 

Internet to those who prefer a newsprint version, there may be as many, if not 
more, people looking at the national Press as there were ten or 15 years ago.
There will, they say, still be lots of publications offering a wide variety of views 
and articles, as well as plenty of opportunities for writers. Indeed, one of the 
world‘s most successful media bosses recently predicted that newspapers would 
reach new heights in the 21
st
century. He added that the form of delivery may 
change, but the potential audience would multiply many times over.
This sounds sensible, and I hope it is right, but I find it difficult to be quite so 
optimistic. The problem is that no one has yet figured out a way to make much 
money out of the Internet. A regular reader of an online version of a newspaper is 
worth 10p a month to the publisher. Someone who buys his paper at the 
newsagent‘s every day, however, generates 30 or 40 times as much income as that.

Also, the hard copy that he reads attracts much more advertising than the Internet 

version.
Most newspapers obtain over half their income from copies sold. And, so far at 
least, advertising rates on the Internet are comparatively low for newspapers. One 
reason they are cheap is the way the readership is so spread out geographically.

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Up to 70% of the readers of many online papers are abroad, usually dotted around 
several countries, and there are huge problems in persuading advertisers to pay to 
reach such widely-scattered markets.
In other words, online papers are living off their newsprint parents. Newsprint is 
where the money is. It follows that, as increasing numbers of readers swap their 
daily paper for a few minutes online, the breadth and quality of what they read will 
gradually go down. For example, newspapers are having to cut back on foreign 
correspondents and reporters.

When I buy a newspaper, I support expensive and 

ambitious journalism; if I read it online, I do not.