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Test 4
Answer questions 6-11 according to the article.

.רמאמה יפל 6-11 תולאש לע הנע
PART ONE: ACCESS TO INFORMATION FROM WRITTEN TEXTS (25 points)
(תודוקנ 25) ארקנה תנבה :ןושאר קרפ 6. What is the main idea of paragraph I? There has been an increase in (-).
i) the number of articles about food
Read the article below and then answer questions 1-5.
ii) the amount of salt Americans use
.1-5 תולאש לע הנעו רמאמה תא ארק
iii) the number of food companies in America
iv) the amount of food Americans eat
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SHOULD DRIVERS STOP USING A CELL PHONE WHILE DRIVING? (4 points)
by Simon Kerman
7. How did the Campbell Soup Company know that people didn’t like the change? (paragraph II)
I Everyone knows that driving with only one hand on the steering-wheel is dangerous
because the driver doesn’t have enough control over the car. For that reason, many countries ANSWER: ...................................................................................................................................

have made it illegal for drivers to use a cell phone that they hold in their hand. However, .................................................................................................................................................... .
Dr. Susan Parker, a researcher on driving safety, claims that this is not enough. She says it is (4 points)
5 dangerous to use even a hands-free phone – one that allows drivers to keep both hands on the 8. What do we learn about phantom aromas from paragraph III?
wheel. In fact, statistics show that drivers who use a cell phone are four times more likely to
have an accident than other drivers. Dr. Parker explains that when you drive and talk on the ii) They can make our food taste better.
phone, your mind is distracted and you don’t pay attention to the road. ii) They have been used for many years.

iii) They can make us eat too much salt.
II Dr. Parker used a driving simulator* to study the effects of cell phone conversations on
10 drivers. Half of the participants talked on a cell phone, and the other half talked to a passenger iv) They make us think salt is good for us.
in the car. To find out how carefully they drove, the two groups were asked to perform some (4 points)
tasks, like reaching a certain address or driving through busy streets. The researchers also 9. Robert Sobel says that using phantom aromas is "a good start." A good start to what?
checked how fast drivers reacted to problems on the road. (paragraph IV)

III When Dr. Parker compared the results of both groups, she found that talking on a ANSWER: ...................................................................................................................................

15 cell phone is more distracting than talking to someone in the car. This was true for both a .................................................................................................................................................... .
hands-free phone and a hand-held phone. “When you talk to someone sitting next to you, (4 points)
you drive more safely than when you talk to someone on a cell phone,” says Dr. Parker.
10. What does Michael White think the real problem is? (paragraph V)
IV Dr. Parker also checked how talking on the phone affected drivers’ reactions. She found i) Phantom aromas make food taste bad.
out that drivers who talked on the phone looked straight ahead without checking the mirrors.
20 This caused them to be less aware of what was happening around them and to react slowly to ii) There are already too many artificial ingredients in food.
problems on the road. iii) Americans will continue to add salt to their food.
iv) People will not buy food with phantom aromas.
V Dr. Parker concludes that drivers should stop using a cell phone while driving. “It’s not
easy to change driving habits, but I’m optimistic,” she said. “We managed to convince drivers (4 points)

to use seatbelts, and I’m sure we can convince them to change this habit as well.” 11. The main subject of the article is (-).
i) why people have changed the way they eat
* driving simulator - הגיהנ יבצמ תיימדהל רישכמ
ii) why food companies lose customers
(Adapted from “A Problem of the Brain, Not the Hands: Group Urges Phone Ban for Drivers”, iii) how to convince people to buy American food

The New York Times) iv) how researchers can help food companies
(5 points)

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