Which of the following are mentioned as influences on the English landscape garden?
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Solution
Correct Answer: 1, 2, 4
3 is incorrect because the writer says that individual gardens expressed their owners' political affiliations, but
this was not an influence on the English landscape garden.5 is incorrect because no mention is made of gardens from classical Greece and Rome, only of classical Greek and
Roman temples and statues.1 is correct because the speaker says: There then came a backlash against this rigid formality, led by, among others, the poet Alexander Pope. Pope and his allies argued for a more natural nature.
2 is correct because the speaker says: Until the picturesque style emerged as part and parcel of the Romantic
Movement, gardens had been strictly formal ... There then came a backlash against this rigid formality .. ..4 is correct because the speaker says: Lord Burlington was a major figure in the landscape garden movement, and he was famously influenced by ... the picturesque or romanticized landscapes of Italian cln.ssical painting.
Which of these countries still use woodblock printing on fabrics?
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Correct Answer : 2,3,6
1 is incorrect because the technique was used in Japan in the past.4 is incorrect for the same reason.
5 is incorrect for the same reason.
2, 3 and 6 are correct because the speaker says: At the same time, the craft seems to have been widely established, even commonplace, elsewhere: for example, in India, Mexico and Peru, where the same techniques continue to be practised today.
Which of the countries listed below continue to enforce punishments for failure to vote?
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Correct Answer : 2, 4, 5
1 is incorrect because France is mentioned as a country where people who don't vote are punished, not by law, but by having a government llley didn't elect raise tlleir taxes.3 is incorrect for the same reason.
6 is incorrect because the law is no longer acted on in Greece.
2 is correct because the speaker says: ... in Bolivia, non-voters may be banned from using banks or schools for up to three months.
4 and 5 are correct because the speaker says: In Austria, for example, failure to vote results in an automatic fine,
as it does in Australia.