Practice Test 2: Biology & Business Ethics
Strategies of Avian Migration
(Placeholder for Reading Passage) This passage details the physiological preparations birds undergo before long-distance migration, focusing on fat storage, celestial navigation, and the impact of environmental changes on route consistency.
Business & Art History Lectures
1. Conversation: A student meets with a professor to discuss a change in their thesis topic from environmental policy to international trade law.
2. Lecture 1: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): How modern companies balance profit goals with environmental sustainability.
3. Lecture 2: Impressionist Technique: A deep dive into how light and color were used to capture fleeting moments in late 19th-century painting.
Task Prompts
- Task 1: Do you prefer taking risks or staying in your comfort zone? Explain your reasoning.
- Task 2: University proposal: Implementing mandatory "Quiet Hours" in campus dormitories to improve student study conditions.
- Task 3: The concept of "Brand Loyalty" and how companies cultivate it among young consumers.
- Task 4: Professor lecture on "Communication Methods in Nocturnal Animals" (auditory vs. chemical signaling).
Writing Tasks
Task 1: Summarize the lecture discussing the logistical challenges of deep-sea mining and explain how the speaker challenges the claims in the reading passage.
Task 2: Academic Discussion: Is it the responsibility of the government to provide free public transportation in large cities, or should users pay for the service?
