If you were to ask 20 people the meaning of physical fitness, you would get 20 different answers. Fitness is all things to all people, a precious commodity which enables us to live our lives to the full yet is really cherished only when it begins to fade away. To an older person, it might be the feeling of youthful vigour, to an athlete the capacity to run a mile in four minutes, to a stenographer ability to type for eight hours at a stretch without developing aching shoulder muscles. To a coach it is something which comes with training, to a physician, it is a functional state of the body defined in technical terms.
It is all these things and more. It is strength, flexibility, ability, power, speed, and muscular and cardiovascular endurance. It is the ability to enjoy our daily lives and to achieve our goals without undue fatigue or stress. It is having a reserve of physical stamina and strength for safety and the enjoyment of leisure activities. It is protection against degenerative diseases and feeling physically youthful even when we are growing old. Fitness is active, not passive. Yet recent decades have seen a quantum leap in the number of devices which help us to avoid effort and movement, the two key ingredients in physical fitness. We can no longer take fitness for granted, as could people of an earlier era, because the automatic movements which should maintain its walking, carrying, pushing, running, jumping, digging, lifting are gradually becoming unnecessary. We don't have to get to our feet to change television programmes. It's only human to take advantage of shortcuts. But even though many of us are beginning to recognise the need to combat the rising toll of degenerative diseases and the decrease in capacity for activities which require effort, all too often we still look for a button to push. We want to get fit without having to work at it and without making changes in our lifestyles. This is not possible.
According to the passage, what has negatively affected our physical fitness?
Walking, carrying, pushing, running, jumping, digging, lifting
A quantum leap in the number of devices which help us to avoid effort and movement
Both (A) and (B) are correct
Both (A) and (B) are incorrect
If you were to ask 20 people the meaning of physical fitness, you would get 20 different answers. Fitness is all things to all people, a precious commodity which enables us to live our lives to the full yet is really cherished only when it begins to fade away. To an older person, it might be the feeling of youthful vigour, to an athlete the capacity to run a mile in four minutes, to a stenographer ability to type for eight hours at a stretch without developing aching shoulder muscles. To a coach it is something which comes with training, to a physician, it is a functional state of the body defined in technical terms.
It is all these things and more. It is strength, flexibility, ability, power, speed, and muscular and cardiovascular endurance. It is the ability to enjoy our daily lives and to achieve our goals without undue fatigue or stress. It is having a reserve of physical stamina and strength for safety and the enjoyment of leisure activities. It is protection against degenerative diseases and feeling physically youthful even when we are growing old. Fitness is active, not passive. Yet recent decades have seen a quantum leap in the number of devices which help us to avoid effort and movement, the two key ingredients in physical fitness. We can no longer take fitness for granted, as could people of an earlier era, because the automatic movements which should maintain its walking, carrying, pushing, running, jumping, digging, lifting are gradually becoming unnecessary. We don't have to get to our feet to change television programmes. It's only human to take advantage of shortcuts. But even though many of us are beginning to recognise the need to combat the rising toll of degenerative diseases and the decrease in capacity for activities which require effort, all too often we still look for a button to push. We want to get fit without having to work at it and without making changes in our lifestyles. This is not possible.
'All too often we still look for a button to push' means
We love to do physical work
we get on to our feet to change television programes
We accept the need for fitness and make it a personal commitment
We want to get fit without having to work at it and without making changes to our lifestyles
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a slow learner?
Limited vocabulary
Short attention span
Abstract thinking
Limited range of interests
C.
Abstract thinking
Slow learners can't develop the tendency to think in an abstract manner at an early age.
Passengers must switch off their mobile phones. What does the underlined auxiliary 'must' suggest?
expectation
compulsion
obligation
None of these
The English Language Teaching Method that refrains from using the learners' native language and just uses the target language is
the audio-lingual method
the grammar-translation method
communicative language teaching
the direct method
Choose the correct indirect form of the sentence.
The policeman said, "Please move this car."
The policeman commanded me to move the car.
The policeman requested me to move the car.
The policeman suggested that I move the car.
The policeman advised me to move the car.
Choose the correct passive construction of the sentence.
'Someone sells tickets at the box office.'
Tickets are sold at the box office.
Tickets are being sold at the box office.
Tickets were sold at the box office by somebody.
At the box office, tickets were sold by somebody
How can language be best acquired?
Reading, writing, speaking, listening
Listening, speaking, reading, writing
Writing, reading, listening, speaking
Speaking, listening, reading, writing