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b. Nigeria's industrial development plans will soon be
fully realized
c. Nigeria is likely to have no oil reserves left by the year 2000
d. Nigeria will continue to enjoy large revenues
Real depression cannot be as easily overcome as some people often suppose. It generally passes
with time-but the time can seem endless. Activities giving companionship and a new interest
can help. However for the sufferer to talk, again and again, about the
causes of the depression
helps most. People with depression need to be listened to and encouraged to find their own
solutions, not made to feel yet more inadequate by good advice. They might need professional
counselling as well as the support of family and friends.
1. According to the passage, in overcoming depression the support of friends and family ...........
.
a. can best be directed into giving good advice
b. is the only solution
c. may cause more harm than good
d. is not always sufficient
2. The author suggests that people with depression ............. .
a. should not be allowed much social activity
b. should rely solely on professional counselling
c. need, more than anything else, someone to listen to them
d. ought to remain alienated from society for
a long time
3. It is understood from the passage some people .............. .
a. seem to underestimate how difficult it is to get over depression
b. suffer from depression over long periods of time
c. refuse to get professional counselling
d. suffering from depression have been cured through the good advice of
friends
Several art museums and galleries and many individuals in the art world faced financial
problems in 1975 as the effects of world recession deepened. On the surface things seemed to
continue as before, with important exhibitions in major museums attracting large crowds. But
smaller galleries, and the artists whose work was shown by their resourceful proprietors, fared
less well, and over the long term it is the work of young artists that determines the
course of art
for the future.
4. According to the passage; the point made in the passage is that the recession in the 1970s
............. .
a. forced many young artists to give up their profession
b. led to the immediate closure of several major museums in the West
c. was one of the most serious in economic history
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