Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following
passage. Vegetarianism is the theory or practice of living
solely upon vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts—with or without the
(47) of milk products and eggs — generally for ethical,
environmental or (48) reasons. All forms of flesh (meat,
fowl, and seafood) are (49) from all vegetarian diets, but
many vegetarians use milk and milk products. In the early 21st
century, vegetarianism has become decidedly mainstream. The number of
vegetarians is difficult to determine, but a 2006 (50) of
1,000 U.S. adults by the Vegetarian Resource Group found that 6.7 percent of
respondents never ate meat, and 1.4 percent of those were vegan. A British
survey the same year found that 12 percent of respondents called themselves
"vegetarian". Many of today vegetarians came to the practice because they
(51) with sentiments about the immorality of eating animals
who suffered to become someone’s dinner. Others are (52)
concerned about health; many studies have demonstrated the health (53)
of vegetarian and vegan diets, particularly in the prevention and
(54) of heart disease and in the lesser incidence of some
form of cancer. In later century the history of vegetarianism
diverged significantly. In Indian itself, though Buddhism gradually
(55) , the ideal of harmlessness, with its corollary of
fleshless diet, spread steadily in the 1st millennium AD until many of the upper
classes and even some of the lower, had (56) it. Beyond
Indian it was carried with Buddhism, northward and eastward as far as China and
Japan. A) adopted B) hazards
C) nutritional D) poll
E) support F) agree
G) primarily H) reversal
I) included J) addition
K) benefits L) minor
M) excluded N) declined
O) demonstrated