UE 2002 Section C 48-67
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48 |
Alarming |
Paragraph 9, line 1, "Many experts note with alarm that in the US?"
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49 |
Children's𠏋 disease |
Paragraph 9, line 2, "Many experts note with alarm that in the US, Europe and Australia, the incidence of children's𠏋 diseases that have a significant environmental component continues to rise. |
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50 |
Ten time as |
Paragraph 4, line 5, "A house with bare floors usually has approximately one-tenth of the dust found in a house with wall-to-wall carpets." |
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51 |
No carpets |
Paragraph 4, line 4, "A house with bare floors usually has approximately one-tenth of the dust found in a house with wall-to-wall carpets." |
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Metals dust |
Paragraph 2, line 6, "A typical sample of household carpet dust sent to an environmental lab would raise a serious alarm for the high concentrations of harmful heavy metals it contains.. |
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Is left in Picks up |
Paragraph 4, line 2, "Normal vacuuming leaves in more dust than it picks up so that, over time, dust accumulates in carpets.? |
Change in tense and context |
| 56 | Take or breathe | Paragraph 3, line 2, "Kilogram for kilogram, for examples, small children inhale 23 times as much air as their parents.? | Context |
| 57 | Their growth or normal growth | Paragraph 3 line 5, "damage their developing nervous systems, retard their growth, disturb their hearing development, or even lead to cancer." | Context |
| 58 | Hearing | Paragraph 3 line 5, "damage their developing nervous systems, retard their growth, disturb their hearing development, or even lead to cancer." | Context |
| 59 | Dog or cat or animal | Paragraph 5 line 9, "Cigarette smoke, cat or dog hair, dust mites and mould add to the load of indoor pollutants." | Context |
| 60 | Smoke | Paragraph 5 line 9, "Cigarette smoke, cat or dog hair, dust mites and mould add to the load of indoor pollutants." | Context |
| 61 | Emit fumes | Paragraph 5 line 6, "Even cooking fumes are loaded with toxins." | Inference |
| 62 | Pesticides | Paragraph 6 line 1, "In the US, 80 to 90 per cent of households use three or four different pesticide products each year". | Inference |
| 63 | Inside and outside | Paragraph 6 line 3, "either inside the house or in the garden". | Inference |
| 64 | Shoes | Paragraph 6 line 4, "Pesticides that cling to shows, and pets' paws get rubbed off on carpeting inside and can raise indoor pesticide levels." | Context |
| 65 | Pets | Paragraph 6 line 4, "Pesticides that cling to shows, and pets' paws get rubbed off on carpeting inside and can raise indoor pesticide levels. | Context |
| 66 | be exposed | Paragraph 7 line 6, "This means that people who use pesticides indoors may expose small children to significant contamination". | Context |
| 67 | is ventilated | Paragraph 7 line11, "then opened the windows to ventilate the rooms for the recommended four hours." | Context |