General Training Reading 2025-02 Test 4

A Most of us take it for granted that our home is a safe and secure place, but a few moments' thought will reveal the dangers that lurk there, especially for children and the elderly or infirm. We at Safe haven TM have your safety uppermost in mind, and in this leaflet we aim to give you a sample of our tips and warnings and introduce ways to help you and your loved ones avoid injury or worse. B Kitchens: Kitchens are full of appliances, sharp objects, and often contain chemicals, but the major hazard here is fire risk, so extinguishers are essential. Most of us are aware of the well-known dangers but there are some slightly less obvious pointers to keep you and your loved ones safe: avoid connecting too many appliances to one outlet with extension cords and double adaptors. A better option is a safety power board. Using Safe haven TM safety closures on drawers and cupboards with knives and sharp appliances will keep out young fingers. C Bathrooms: Children under 5 are involved in almost 70% of bathroom injuries, with many cases relating to scalds or near drowning incidents. All age ranges are at risk of slipping on wet surfaces, and the safe storage of cleaning agents or disinfectants is often overlooked in bathrooms. Young children have more sensitive skin, and therefore tend to burn more deeply and quickly when scalded. D Water temperatures not exceeding 50°C are recommended. Lower the water temperature control of your water heating system, or have Safe haven TM anti-scald devices fitted to water taps: they will prevent the tap being turned to maximum flow. Fit Safe haven TM power point covers to prevent children from attempting to use appliances. E Lounge room: Even though fewer accidents occur in living rooms, householders should not be complacent and should check furniture, fittings and appliances for hazards. For homes where both the very young and the elderly live together, small toys left in the lounge can be a hazard for the elderly. In general, traffic areas should be kept clear and furniture reduced for ease of movement and turning. Also, avoid furniture with sharp edges and corners; fit SafehavenTM protective foam edges if possible. Always use a toy box (our boxes have breathing holes) for small toys and make a tidy-up into a game with your children to encourage them to do it themselves. Avoid cable clutter from entertainment appliances by tucking cables away behind furniture or inside cable conduits. F These are just a few of the many tips we can provide on home safety — but do you have the time to assess your own home and make changes? If you value your loved ones, call SafehavenTM now (0456778021) for an assessment and product recommendations!

A report gathered information and comments about how bus and train operators were responding to the cleanliness and hygiene concerns that have increased in the spreading of H1N1 flu virus. RapidKL, being the main service provider of public transportation in the Klang Valley, has been taking steps to deal with the pandemic. They have taken many steps such as forming a special task force to deal with the problem. They also issued a communiqué to their staff on the pandemic and apart from that RapidKL is also in the process of getting pharmaceutical companies to supply sanitizers for LRT stations. All front liners of RapidKL and all security officers are provided with gloves and masks. For operations staff, sanitizers are provided at RapidKL offices, bus depots and bus stops. Every morning before the start of duties, the body temperature of the staff is taken to ensure that their workers are healthy. If they have a fever they will be asked to go to a clinic for a checkup immediately. This report in the Star Talks reports about how restrooms in KL Central station have been provided with anti-bacterial soap and a hygiene awareness campaign will be taking place over a month in response to the increased number of travelers. There is also a similar report in the New Straits Times. At TRANSIT they hope and expect that the vigilance and attention to cleanliness and hygiene lasts long beyond the H1N1 hype and the busy month. As always, TRANSIT reminds public transport users to exercise awareness about cleanliness and hygiene while using public transport. Although it may be hard to avoid physical contact with people due to crowding, users can prevent contamination of surfaces and transmission of germs, viruses and bacteria by doing all of the following: • Use tissues, handkerchiefs or gloves when touching surfaces; • Use tissues to sneeze or cough and dispose of these tissues as quickly as possible; • Use the Touch 'N' Go card to reduce the need to touch surfaces - at the ticket vending machines, ticket counter, etc. - and avoid touching paper money or coins; • Carry a small bottle of hand sanitizer and use it regularly (e.g. after touching surfaces) or whenever necessary.

Having art in your home enhances the ambiance in a very special way. And the great thing is, given the sheer range in art styles and genres, even the most finicky buyers can find something or the other to their liking and budget. You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars, consult an art adviser, or restrict yourself to high-brow art. What you like is the main thing, it is after all your home and the art in it ought to be the sort that gives you joy. So follow your intuition and choose works that you find inspiring or those that evoke wonderful memories. Enjoy the process of finding, choosing, and buying art for your home. Let's take a look at some of the things you need to consider: Have an idea about your style: Usually, your overall sense of style will influence your choice in art as well. For example, if you have a very modernist slant in clothing, furniture, and home decor, you might find abstract or modernistic paintings and sculptures interesting. Consider also the mood you'd like to create: Peaceful, restful, soothing, inviting, vibrant, and so on. Acquaint yourself with different art forms, genres, and styles. It always helps to know what you're getting into, what's out there, and how to differentiate between priceless, good, or plain chaff. Familiarity with art history as well as the current art scene is a plus. Refer to art books, art magazines, and online art sources. Visit art galleries, museums, and art shows. Talk to artists, art dealers, and art curators. The more you know, the easier it will be for you to zero in on your choice. Know where to buy and how to buy art: You can buy art directly from the artist, at art galleries, art shows, art dealer stores, art fairs, flea markets, roadside stalls, antique shops, and auctions. Attend art auctions to know how they work. Selling and buying art online has made life easier for everyone, but do exercise caution. Inquire about artwork provenance (provenance documents help establish authenticity and come in handy if you decide to resell later) and artwork condition. Request detailed photos of front and back, and ask about payment and shipping procedures. Research current art prices and do have a definite budget. Decide if you want original art or reproductions: Original artworks are more expensive than reproductions. Reproductions prints or exact copies in actual materials (not made by the original artist) are great if you have a limited budget, or if the art you absolutely want is absolutely beyond your reach (like in a well-guarded museum). Decide if you are going to buy art by artist, genre, theme, or media: Bear in mind that most artists produce quite an uneven body of work. In short, every work won't be a masterpiece. Buy on the strength of the work, not because the artist is happening. Similarly, when it comes to genre (Impressionism, Expressionism, Realism, etc.), theme (landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes, figural, etc.), or media (water-color, oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, etching, lithography, etc.), let it boil down to personal choice, not the current trend; unless you intend to keep changing the art with the changing season. Consider what suits your home and your lifestyle: If you have a rambunctious household filled with kids and pets, there might be safety issues with displaying glass figurines or sharp-edged bronze sculptures. Decide if you're going to buy for personal pleasure or investment: Get the best original art you can afford, if buying for investment; only original art has serious resale value. For personal pleasure, both original art and reproductions can do. In either case, buy art you can live with. That way, even if the work doesn't appreciate in the future, you'll still have a winner. Take your home design into account: Do you plan on displaying art throughout the house or in specific rooms? What kind of space do you have? Large or small? Choose art according to area size. Large canvases or sculptures stand out spectacularly in large areas and small artworks are more effective in small areas. Go for art that is appropriate to the purpose of the room - you don't have to hang still-life works of food in the kitchen, but you'd be surprised how well they work there!

Art is anything that people add to their 'output' which is not functionally necessary and is other than the default properties of that output. The word "art" has been derived from the Latin word 'ars', which, loosely translated, means "arrangement" or "to arrange". This is the only universal definition of art, that whatever it is was at some point arranged in some way. There are many other colloquial uses of the word, all with some relation to its etymological roots. This word comes from the Greek technic meaning art. Art and science are usually treated diagonally opposite to each other. While science means some phenomenon resulting in truth, which is objective in nature. In other words, scientific findings can be repeated under the same set of circumstances anywhere in the world at any given point of time. The same cannot be said of art. Art, on the other hand is purely subjective in nature. Take for example, a painting - while one calls it a masterpiece, the same feelings cannot be expected from other individuals. Art can roughly be divided into two, namely philosophical art and aesthetic art. The philosophical type of art involves human figures for some purposeful actions. In other words, philosophical art depicts human condition. Aesthetic art, on the other hand, shows the perceived frame of mind. Two examples will help illustrate these two points of view - a Mona Lisa painting is philosophical art, while a demon being killed by a super human is aesthetic. These two categories are also called classical and modern art respectively. There are other ways of classifying art - major among them being architecture, design, painting, music, drawing, literature, performing art, etc. While these have been (and still are) traditional forms of art performed by human kind, newer forms of art have emerged with the advent of technology. Some of the later era art forms are games, animation, movie, computer art, shooting, etc. Two of the most researched areas of interest to artists, critiques and archaeologists has been the art movement (or art history) and art school. An art movement is a typical style or tendency in art with a specific common philosophy, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time (which ranges from a few months to years or decades). Art school is any educational institute offering education to its students on various forms of art. The birth of art gave rise to another group of individuals - art critics. Art critics study and evaluate a piece of art. Their main purpose is to rationalize the evaluation of art, and ridding of any personal opinion affecting the work of art. Art criticism today deploys systematic and formal methods to evaluate the piece of art. Museums are known to nurture and store work of arts across the world. Early era museums were patronized by the then kings and emperors. Today these are maintained by governments or private trusts with or without public money. Three major museum institutes are British Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Galerie des Offices in France.

22. A clear distinction between art and science is that the latter is ________. 23. 'Drawing' can be defined as a ________ form of art. 24. An art movement is defined by its ________. 25. The period of time an art movement covers ________ considerably. 26. An art critic ________ different systems in their evaluations of art. 27. Museums today are sometimes financed by ________ bodies.

A Until very recently a newspaper could be defined as mass-produced printed sheets of paper containing up-to-date news and editorial opinions created by a team of journalists and editors, and supplemented with material from international news agencies. Newspapers have been printed on massive printing presses since the middle of the nineteenth century, and since the 1990s on recycled paper. They are delivered to newsagents through a complex distribution system and are available to the public either very early in the morning or in the late evening, depending on the publication. The major newspapers are published on a daily or weekly basis and are considered disposable items, to be thrown away after being read in readiness for the next issue. Newspapers themselves generally have a very low cover price to encourage regular purchase and are usually funded by advertisements that are displayed on its pages. There are two types of advertisements, display ads, which feature large visually appealing promotion throughout the newspaper, and smaller classified advertisements which are generally only text and are found in a dedicated section of the paper where smaller companies and individuals can offer goods, services and information. B Newspapers survived the introduction of radio and TV, mainly because they were able to offer greater variety and deeper analysis in their news stories. So despite the immediacy of TV and radio, they were able to co-exist. However, the introduction of smartphones in 2007 saw the decline in sales of printed newspapers, which had been forecast when the Internet was introduced. Newspapers were one of the first industries to go online, but have generally still continued to print paper versions, as this is where the profits are still to be made. There is much lower revenue from online advertising compared to print. For around 15 years, newspapers have been investigating how they can make profits from online news. Readers over the age of 65 are less likely to make the switch to digital news, but if long-term markets are to be established, publishers have to recognize that the younger sections of the population prefer to find their news online. C A large number of newspapers have taken the risk of introducing subscriber only online versions in the last five years. In general, the higher quality newspapers (in terms of their factual reliability and depth of information) have been the newspapers that have made the switch. It would seem that as readers had not been paying to react online versions of newspapers, insisting on subscriptions would mean more revenue. However, charges for advertising are based on circulation, so a subsequent drop in readership means less income from advertising. Newspapers are still finding it difficult to sustain profits, and quite a number of publications have discontinued their printed version and others have had to shut down entirely, with small local publications being the most common victims. D As news is constantly updated in online newspapers, rather than meeting daily print deadlines. It has the immediacy of radio and TV, both of which are also under threat from the internet. The non subscription newspapers are able to survive if they have enormous readership, and they can charge more for online advertising. However, much of the layout and production is done with fast computer programmes, their faster communication means that one journalist can produce numerous articles and stories in one day, instead of just one or two as was done downsizing, with ever staff and computer programs and algorithms taking over roles such as proofreading, tact checking and design, which means that a newspaper can be produced with quite a small staff. E There are some fears that the quality of news is deteriorating as a result of these changes. Newspaper stories written for an app on a smartphone tend to be shorter and less detailed due, both, to the size of the screen, and the current cultural preference for reading short blocks of information rather than detailed analyses. Journalists have less time to investigate stories in much depth and many stories have more of a magazine style content than a serious news focus. Some newspapers include advertorial, which are advertising features disguised as newspaper articles. Newspapers with subscriptions are more likely to have a larger number of journalists and greater credibility in terms of the news that they produce. This is one of the factors that subscription newspapers suggest when they are trying to attract subscribers. Only time will tell if print newspapers manage to survive the new digital generation. It probably only depends on whether publications are still able to make some kind of profit from them, rather than for reasons of nostalgia.

LIST OF HEADINGS i. Making people pay for online news ii. A refusal to move online iii. Changing content leads to questions of quality iv. Printed versions destined to disappear v. A new form of communication means a drop in sales vi. The traditional meaning of newspaper vii. Functioning with fewer people

Articles are 37. ________ differently for smartphone applications than for traditional printed newspapers. They aren't as long because the 38. ________ on a smart phone is small, these days people prefer reading shorter stories and journalists have greater time constraints. The types of articles are changing too, with many structured like those in a magazine, and sometimes even in the ambiguous form of 39. ________. The content of paid-for online newspapers is often considered more reliable. If printed newspapers are still able to make a 40. ________.