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12. It is advantageous to allow wildlife populations to flourish because they attract paying tourists and provide a source of income stronger than the ailing livestock industry.

(1) Paying tourists and the ailing livestock industry will provide a better source of income so it is beneficial for wildlife populations to be allowed to flourish. (2) An increase in wildlife populations will lead to an ailing livestock industry and this will in turn attract paying tourists who will provide a source of stronger income. (3) Attracting paying tourists will be advantageous because the ailing livestock industries will then receive a higher source of income and the wildlife populations will be allowed to flourish. (4) Wildlife populations attract paying tourists and fetch better returns than the ailing livestock industry so they should be encouraged to flourish.

Reading Comprehension This part consists of two passages, each followed by several related questions. For each question, choose the most appropriate answer based on the text .

Text I (Questions 13-17)

The Canadian province of Ontario is discovering that paying women the same wages as men is less simple than it sounds. This month Ontario extended the world's toughest pay equity law to include all of the 8,000 firms and government agencies in the province which employ more than 100 workers. The year-old law had previously applied only to employers of 500 or more, but even among big employers it has sown confusion. The law will be 5 extended over the next two years to factories , offices and shops with as few as ten workers. Employers covered by the law must draw up plans for paying the same wages to men and women for work of comparable value . The law has already brought handsome benefits to thousands of women. Hospitals and schools have made the biggest adjustments. The province's 224 public hospitals set aside 10 C$50 million in 1990 for pay-equity wage hikes. They expect to budget similar amounts for the next three or four years. Individual pay increases of 30-35% are common. In a less tangible sense, the law has created a greater awareness of the value of many jobs done by women. Brigid O'Reilly, the province's pay-equity commissioner, points to a school which raised its secretary's salary by about C$300 a month after determining that her job had the 15 same value as that of the audio-visual technician. She also notes that "it has brought home to people that the decisions which clerical , administrative and secretarial staff make are often quite complex." Exercising the pay-equity law has led many companies to revise their entire job-evaluation and compensation systems. But pay-equity has also soured relations between some employers and their workers, and even opened rifts among workers 20 themselves.

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