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Restatements (Questions 9-12)

This part consists of several sentences, each followed by four possible ways of restating the main
idea of that sentence in different words. For each question, choose the one restatement which best
expresses the meaning of the original sentence.

9. Businesspeople in Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea hope to benefit from the region's special

tariff-free status and proximity to Western Europe.

(1) Many businesspeople have moved to Kaliningrad, located on the Baltic Sea, and have
become wealthy by trading with countries in Western Europe.

(2) Kaliningrad's location on the Baltic Sea and special status have encouraged many
businesspeople from Western Europe to invest money there.

(3) Kaliningrad's businesspeople hope to gain financially from the fact that there are no tariffs
imposed on goods there and from the region's closeness to Western Europe.

(4) Businesspeople in both Kaliningrad and Western Europe hope to reach an agreement
concerning tariff-free trade between them so that they can increase their profits.

10. The political situation in Hong Kong changed abruptly in April 1992 with the appointment of

Chris Patten, who succeeded David Wilson as governor of Hong Kong.

(1) Conditions in Hong Kong improved dramatically after April 1992, when David Wilson
was replaced by Chris Patten – a more successful governor.

(2) David Wilson, who was governor of Hong Kong until Chris Patten was appointed to the
position in April 1992, made many drastic changes.

(3) Due to the rapidly changing situation in Hong Kong, Chris Patten became governor in
April 1992 instead of David Wilson.

(4) When Chris Patten replaced David Wilson as governor in April 1992, the political
situation in Hong Kong suddenly changed.

11. Descartes and Galileo – two of the seventeenth century's most prominent thinkers – made a

sharp distinction between the physical reality observed by scientists and the subjective reality
of the soul, which they considered to be outside the scope of scientific research.

(1) Descartes and Galileo thought that the subjective reality of the soul could not be
researched scientifically, and they believed it was completely different from the physical
reality which scientists observe.

(2) The view held by Descartes and Galileo – that physical reality and scientific observation
are of greater importance than the subjective reality of the soul – was not very popular in
the seventeenth century.

(3) Because they could not research the subjective reality of the soul scientifically, Descartes
and Galileo preferred to concentrate on the distinctions made by scientists when
observing physical reality.

(4) What distinguished Descartes and Galileo from other seventeenth-century scientists was
their insistence that scientific methods be used in studying everything from physical
reality to the subjective reality of the soul.

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