Academic reading practice test 19

Academic Reading Practice Test 19 ( Passage 1 Hybrid Solar Lighting, Passage 2 The Rise of Adjuncts, Passage 3 Good parenting )

Academic Reading Practice Test 19 ( Passage 1 Hybrid Solar Lighting, Passage 2 The Rise of Adjuncts, Passage 3 Good parenting )

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Passage 1 HYBRID SOLAR LIGHTING — Light the interiors of Buildings with Sunlight!

Hybrid solar lighting is a system that captures sunlight on a rooftop and uses optical fibers to channel it directly into a building. The only power needed to operate it is a 9-volt battery and the energy cost reduction, worker productivity, and health benefits are immense.
It was originally developed by the US Department of Energy at its Oak Ridge National Laboratory and licensed to a company called Sunlight Direct.

It has already been installed in a large number and a wide range of buildings in the USA including higher education institutions, museums, department stores, and other specialty stores, initial reports declare that retail sales increase by as much as 40% when the switch is made from fluorescent lighting to hybrid solar. Furthermore, there is a major improvement in the attention spans and academic attainment of undergraduates in classrooms or lecture theatres lit by hybrid solar. It is to be hoped that technology can soon be made financially feasible for households as well as commercial buildings.

Passage 2 The Rise of Adujncts

A.Academia is often thought of as an occupation with immense job security. The traditional image is one of a middle-aged professor with his own once, his own car park, and a cozy job with a middle-class salary that remains unaffected by upturns and downturns in the ‘real’ business economy. But in the United States today only a minority of professors have anything resembling this lifestyle. For the vast majority, the actual conditions of their employment are very different.

They scrape by with low pay, short-term contracts, and few or no employee benefits. Many even qualify for food stamps. This shift in employment conditions has far-reaching consequences not only for academics, but also for students and the quality of education they receive, and for academic freedom more generally.

Academic Reading Practice Test 19 ( Passage 1 Hybrid Solar Lighting, Passage 2 The Rise of Adjuncts, Passage 3 Good parenting )

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