Question Text 1:
Introverts (or those of us with introverted tendencies) tend to recharge by spending time alone. They lose energy from being around people for a long period of time, particularly in large crowds. Extroverts, on the other hand, gain energy from other people. Extroverts actually find their energy is sapped when they spend too much time alone. They recharge by being social.
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Question Text 2:
Global warming is defined as an increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. This trend began in the middle of the 20th century and is one of the major environmental concerns of scientists and government officials worldwide. The changes in temperature result mostly from the effect of increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
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Question Text 3:
This finding is understandable in certain cases in spite of its high significance; because the energy efficiency of building operation just represents a single aspect of sustainability.
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Question Text 4:
Akimbo, this must be one of the odder-looking words in the language and puzzles us in part because it doesn’t seem to have any relatives. What’s more, it is now virtually a fossil word, until recently almost invariably found in arms akimbo, a posture in which a person stands with hands-on-hips and elbows sharply bent outward, one signalling impatience, hostility, or contempt.
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Question Text 5:
Ever since I remembered, father woke up at five-thirty every morning, made us all breakfast and read a newspaper. After that, he would go to work. He worked as a writer. It was a long time before I realized he did this for a living.
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Question Text 6:
A young man from a small provincial town — a man without independent wealth, without powerful family connections and without a university education — moved to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, became the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time.
