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Spring 2020-2021 A Week 13
THE DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES

FROM FISSION REACTORS
Read the following questions and then scan the passage to find the answers. Give
SHORT answers.
1. According to the writer what are any two advantages of burying radioactive wastes from
nuclear power stations in deep rock?
a. _____________________________
b. _____________________________
2. State the names of any two of the gaseous pollutants emitted by coal-fired power plants.
a. _____________________________
b. _____________________________
3. What makes it possible to use highly advanced disposal procedures for nuclear waste?
_____________________________
4. State any one of the sources of information about the effects of radiation on the human
body.
_____________________________
5. Which two substances in the “spent fuel” are not considered “high level” waste?
a. _____________________________
b. _____________________________
6. The containers with nuclear waste are not buried close to each other to spread out
_____________________________.
7. What are two important effects of radioactive waste on people?

a. _____________________________
b. _____________________________
8. Radioactive wastes can enter the human body by means of

_____________________________ and _____________________________.
9. What are the two important geological characteristics that a burial site for nuclear wastes
should have?
a. _____________________________
b. _____________________________
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SOCIAL MOBILITY
Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.
1. What do social mobility studies mainly investigate?

____________________________________________
2. Read paragraphs 3 and 4. Which of the statements about horizontal and vertical mobility
below is TRUE?
a. In both types of mobility one’s position in the status scale changes.
b. In vertical mobility there is a significant change in one’s social standing
c. In both types of mobility one’s geographical location changes.
d. In horizontal mobility one’s social position changes for the better.
3. Richard Marsten grew up in a working-class family in a small town with his stepfather,
who was a gambler and an alcoholic. However, he was a good student in school. He went
to Law School on a scholarship and became a successful lawyer. How would you
describe the type of social mobility in this example?
a. Horizontal / Intergenerational
b. Horizontal / Intragenerational
c. Vertical / Intergenerational
d. Vertical / Intragenerational
4. In the 1960’s, rapid expansion of tourism in the Canary Islands drew large proportions of
poor agricultural workers to service jobs in the coastal areas. As a result of this
development, farm workers in the Canary Islands moved up in the social scale. What
kind of mobility does this refer to?
____________________________________________
5. Read paragraphs 10-14. Match the statements below with the results of the study/studies
given in the box. (Write the number of the studies or the name(s) of the researcher(s)).
Use each study only once. There is one extra.
1. Lipset & Bendix (1959) 4. Goldthorpe et al (1980)
2. Blau & Duncan (1967) 5. Brynner et al (1997)
3. Thernstrom (1974) 6. Blanden, Gregg & Machin (2005)
a. Some European countries have a higher level of social mobility compared to the United
States.
____________
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b. It was less frequent for white-collar people to move downward in the United States.
____________
c. Social mobility is not a result of equal opportunities offered in the occupational structure.
____________
d. Vertical mobility is possible for workers in the United States if they come from a
working-class family.
____________
e. There is no difference among the developed countries in the processes involving growth
in the number of office workers/professionals/employees.
____________
6. Blanden, Gregg, and Machin compared the rates of social mobility among eight countries
and found that the two countries that had the lowest rate of social mobility were
__________________________________. Their findings indicated that although
__________________________________ increased in Britain, ___________
_______________________ had remained unequal. Consequently, the chances of
upward mobility were much greater for ______________________________
References
1. one (par. 1) __________________________________
2. that (par. 6) __________________________________
3. such societies (par. 6) __________________________________
4. those (par. 15) __________________________________

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BU YADYOK P1

Spring 2020-2021 A Week 13

THE DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES

7. What are two important effects of radioactive waste on people?

8. Radioactive wastes can enter the human body by means of

1. What do social mobility studies mainly investigate?

1. Lipset & Bendix (1959) 4. Goldthorpe et al (1980)

2. Blau & Duncan (1967) 5. Brynner et al (1997)

3. Thernstrom (1974) 6. Blanden, Gregg & Machin (2005)

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