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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers ID: #34846 Short Self-rescue
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Paper mills had the worst of it for years as newspapers reduced pagination, went wholly digital or shut for good. The papers were able to hammer down the cost of newsprint from firms fighting for business as demand declined. Price-taking paper mills suffered in silence. Many hesitated to shut massive machines costing hundreds of millions of dollars. That hesitance has disappeared; mills are taking out newsprint capacity and diversifying. Norske Skog, a Norwegian pulp and paper firm, said in June it would close its 66-year-old Tasman Mill in New Zealand, for example. Many mills are converting machines to make packaging for e-commerce. UPM, a Finnish firm, announced this year the sale of its Shotton newsprint mill in Wales to a Turkish maker of containerboard and packaging. For JCS Volga, a Russian mill, newsprint used to account for 70% of production; now half of what it makes is packaging.

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Option 3: "Paper mills are now reducing the newsprint production."

Explanation: The text states that mills are taking out newsprint capacity, which directly supports the idea that paper mills are reducing newsprint production.

Option 1: "The lower paper price brings higher sales volumes to paper mills."

Explanation: The text indicates that paper mills suffered due to reduced demand and lower prices, which contradicts the idea that lower prices lead to higher sales volumes. Instead, it states that demand declined, leading to price reductions.

Option 2: "Many paper mill bosses are still hesitant about turning the machines off."

Explanation: The text mentions that the hesitance to shut down machines has disappeared, indicating that many paper mill bosses are no longer hesitant about turning the machines off.

Option 4: "Many paper mills have started to use machines to make packaging."

Explanation: The text explicitly mentions that many mills are converting machines to make packaging for e-commerce, confirming that they have started to use machines for this purpose.

Option 5: "Governments will take over the paper mills that have gone bankrupt."

Explanation: There is no mention in the text about governments taking over bankrupt paper mills, making this statement unsupported by the information provided.

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