Are the following statements true, false, or not given in the text?
1. Most Britons think that the Government wants to change people’s behaviour.
2. By the year 2050 the Government will have imposed higher green taxes.
3. The survey predicts that it will be difficult to change people’s dependence on
cars.
4. The Prince of Wales believes that most businesses are not sustainable.
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Exercise 68: Paragraph headings
Match two of the following headings with the paragraphs below.
1. Rapid sales of printing presses.
2. The revolutionary impact of the printing press.
3. New information and ideas.
4. The printing boom.
From a single point of origin, Mainz, Germany, printing spread within several
decades to over two hundred cities in a dozen European countries. By 1500,
printing presses in operation throughout Western Europe had already produced
more than twenty million volumes. In the 16th century, with presses spreading
further afield, their output rose tenfold to an estimated 150 to 200 million copies.
The operation of a press became so synonymous with the enterprise of printing
that it lent its name to an entire new branch of media, the press.
In Renaissance Europe, the arrival of mechanical movable type printing introduced
the era of mass communication which permanently altered the structure of society.
The relatively unrestricted circulation of information and ideas transcended borders
and threatened the power of political and religious authorities. The sharp increase
in literacy broke the monopoly of the literate elite on education and learning and
bolstered the emerging middle class.
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