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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28. We now spend more time than ever before on the internet, thanks to mobile devices and social media. According to The Economist (2010), if Facebook were a country, it would rank third in terms of population. Thus, it should come as no surprise that experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, and (24)_____are eager to share their views on the detrimental effects this is having on our society. One major argument against social media is the fact that young people are abandoning their offline friends in favor of those they may find online, (25)____may not be able to offer the same level of personal connection or emotional support. A large body of evidence, however, disproves these claims. Adolescents with good social adjustment are more likely to have a networking profile, according to research by Allen et al. (2010). People are not replacing their offline friends with online companions, but rather using them to (26)_____their offline relationships, according to one study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (2009). (27)______, the study discovered that social networks facilitate conversations with a far more diversified group of people compared to the real world, (28)_____us to exchange knowledge with individuals hailing from a multitude of backgrounds. Question 24: A. other B. another C. the others D. others Question 25: A. whom B. who C. which D. whose Question 26: A. depress B. carry C. bolster D. teased Question 27: A. Furthermore B. However C. Because D. Besides Question 28: A. enabling B. preventing C. apologizing D. persuading Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 29 to 33. Last year, news broke all over the place about how guidebook sales are plummeting as a direct result of the rise of the Internet and mobile phones. It is reasonable. When you can just bring your phone and peruse the cathedral at your leisure, there's no need to lug around a big book. The gratifying but rare task of penning a fresh book on a location is on the decline. In an already saturated market, publishers are more worried about updating existing publications than releasing new ones. This makes sense, given that the moment a handbook hits the market, it becomes obsolete. The information in it might be three years old by the time the reader puts it into practice; after all, the research might have been done a year before printing and the book could have stayed on the shelf for another year or two. That some publishers are spending nearly as much time revising and redesigning their books as they did writing them is, however, not shocking. These days, new authors can get their feet wet by updating guides. Will printed guidebooks continue to be relevant in the future if information can be delivered just as quickly and cheaply over mobile Internet as it was in the past? Unlike other books you would read at home, a travel guide is designed to be a quick reference when you're in a pinch for lodging or food. A "paperless holiday" is now within the reach of any tourist with a contemporary cellphone. Do you need to know when the