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When we moved to our new house near the sea, I was eight years old. Even before that I had spent every summer messing about on boats. My dad had taught me to sail before I learnt to ride a bike so I knew how I wanted to spend my time at the new house- I was going to get my own boat and sail it everyday. The house was only a few meters from the water's edge, and in rough weather the waves would come crashing into the front garden. I used to sit with my nose pressed to the glass, fascinated by the power of the ocean. I grew up watching the skies to see if it was going to rain; would I be going sailing that afternoon or not? Of course I sometimes wished I could live in the town like my friends. I used to get angry with my parents, who had taken early retirement because they seemed incapable of getting anywhere on time. Dad drove me the eight miles to school everyday, but I was often late because he had been walking on the cliffs earlier in the morning and had lost track of time. When I was taking my university entrance exams, I used to stay over at a friend's in town, just in case. All in all, I was lucky to grow up by the sea and I still love to sail. Growing up by the sea, the writer felt ............
A. excited
B. angry
C. unlucky
D. lucky
The writer learnt to sail .................
A. When he/ she was eight
B. when his family moved to a new house
C. before going to school
D. before learning to ride a bike
When taking the university entrance exams, ..............
A. the weather was terrible
B. the writer's family moved to a new house by the sea
C. the writer had to live in a friend's house
D. the writer's father drove him/ her to university
The phrase "All in all "in the passage is closest in meaning to .............
A. In all
B. In the whole
C. On general
D. On the whole
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions Mr. Faugel was convinced that students’ nervousness had affected their scores; to reduce the anxiety of these students who had already been tested, he gave 22 of them a beta blocker before readministration of the test. Their scores improved significantly. The other 8 students (who did not receive the beta blockers) improved only slightly. Secondtime test-takers nationwide had average improvements which were similar to those in Faugel's non-beta blocker group. Beta blockers are prescription drugs which have been around for 25 years. These medications, which interfere with the effects of adrenalin, have been used for heart conditions and for minor stress such as stage fright. Now they are used for test anxiety. These drugs seem to help test-takers who have low scores because of test fright, but not those who do not know the material. Since there can be side effects from these beta blockers, physicians are not ready to prescribe them routinely for all test-takers. The word “reduce” in paragraph 1 most nearly means .................
A. build up
B. lessen
C. increase
D. maximize
The word “interfere” in paragraph 2 most nearly means ..........
A. prescribe
B. aid
C. help
D. hinder
Why are beta clockers not prescribed regularly?
A. Students are expected to do poorly.
B. They cause test anxiety.
C. The drugs are only 25 years old.
D. There are side effects.
According to the passage, ..................
A. all people can take beta blockers.
B. beta blockers are widely prescribed.
C. beta blockers work only to improve test scores if the test-taker truly knows the material.
D. beta blockers work only on test anxiety.
The expression “readministration” in this passage refers to ................
A. giving the test again to both groups after beta blockers have been administered to one group.
B. giving the test again to people without administering beta blockers.
C. giving the beta blockers without retesting.
D. giving the test to both groups of test-takers and then giving them beta blockers.
What possible use for beta blockers was NOT discussed in this passage?
A. Pain relief
B. Anxiety test
C. Heart conditions
D. Minor stress
Beta blockers work on some physical and emotional symptoms because they ...........
A. interfere with the side effects of adrenalin
B. primarily change human thought processes
C. produce side effects worse than the symptoms
D. fool a person into a healthier stance
Faugel’s research showed that beta blockers given to his sample ...............
A. increased scores the same as the national average.
B. decreased scores.
C. increased scores less than the national average.
D. increased scores much more than the national average.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions Today I’d like to begin a discussion on the problem of the heating up the earth. First, we’ll touch on the relationship between fluorocarbons and the ozone layer. You probably remember that the ozone layer is the protective shield around the earth. It is important to all life, because it filters out harmful ultraviolet light from the sun. Ozone itself, a form of oxygen, is regularly made by the action of the sun in the upper atmosphere. It is also regularly destroyed by natural chemical processes. The problem now is that too much of the ozone layer is being destroyed. Scientists suspect that certain chemicals, such as fluorocarbons, are contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer. And how do we use fluorocarbons? The most common uses are in spray cans and cooling systems. The chemical pollution from these fluorocarbons can account for some of the ozone losses that have been reported. There are, however, new studies linking the sun itself to the depletion of the ozone layer. We’ll go into that new study more next time. Who is the most likely speaker?
A. A mechanic
B. A chemist
C. A professor
D. A doctor
What does the word “filters out” in paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. prevents
B. separates
C. keeps
D. stops
What is the most important purpose of the ozone layer?
A. Shielding the sun
B. Protecting the earth
C. Destroying chemicals
D. Providing fluorocarbons
What does the word “depletion” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. deletion
B. deployment
C. departure
D. destruction
What is the ozone layer made of?
A. Oxygen
B. Shields
C. Ultraviolet light
D. Fluorocarbons
The speaker’s main topic is ...................
A. air-conditioning systems
B. fluorocarbons and the ozone layer
C. ultraviolet light
D. the use of spray cans
What will the speaker probably discuss next?
A. The make-up of the ozone layer.
B. The sun as a cause of ozone layer depletion.
C. How to make air conditioners with fluorocarbons.
D. Harmful effects of ultraviolet light.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions A lot of advice is available for college leavers heading for their first job. In this article we consider the move to a second job. We are not concerned with those looking for a second temporary position while hunting for a permanent job. Nor are we concerned with those leaving an unsatisfactory job within the first few weeks. Instead, we will be dealing with those of you taking a real step on the career ladder, choosing a job to fit in with your ambitions now that you have learnt your way around, acquired some skills and have some idea of where you want to go. What sort of job should you look for? Much depends on your longterm aim. You need to ask yourself whether you want to specialize in a particular field, work your way up to higher levels of responsibility or out of your current employment into a broader field. Whatever you decide, you should choose your second job very carefully. You should be aiming to stay in it for two or three years. This job will be studied very carefully when you send your letter of application for your next job. It should show evidence of serious career planning. Most important, it should extend you, develop you and give you increasing responsibility. Incidentally, if you are interested in traveling, now is the time to pack up and go. You can do temporary work for a while when you return, pick up where you left off and get the second job then. Future potential employers will be relieved to see that you have got it out of your system, and are not likely to go off again. Juliette Davidson spend her first year after leaving St. Aldate’s College working for three lawyers. It was the perfect first job in that “ OK ... they were very supportive people. I was gently introduced to the work, learnt my way around an office and improve my word processing skills. However, there was no scope for advancement. One day, I gave my notice, bought an air ticket and traveled for a year.” Juliette now works as a Personal Assistant to Brenda Cleverdon, the Chief Executive of business in the Community. “In two and a half years I have become more able and my job has really grown”, she says. “ Right from the beginning my boss was very keen to develop me. My job title is the same as it was when I started but the duties have changed. From mainly typing and telephone work, I have progressed to doing most of the correspondence and budgets. I also have to deal with a variety of queries, coming from chairmen of large companies to people wanting to know how to start their own business. Brenda involves me in all her work but also gives me specific projects to do and events to organize.” Who is intended to benefit from the advice given in the article?
A. students who have just finished their studies
B. people who are unhappy with their current job
C. those who are interested in establishing a career
D. people who change jobs regularly
According to the writer, why is the choice of your second job important?
A. It will affect your future job prospects.
B. It will last longer than your first job.
C. It will be difficult to change if you don’t like it.
D. It should give you the opportunity to study.
“It” in the passage refers to .................
A. first job
B. second job
C. application
D. career
If you have a desire to travel, when does the writer suggest that you do it?
A. straight after you have left college
B. when you are unable to find a permanent job
C. after you have done some temporary work
D. between the first and second job
What does the phrase “you have got it out of your system” in passage mean?
A. You have planned your career sensibly.
B. You are an experienced traveler.
C. You have satisfied your wish to travel.
D. You have learned to look after yourself.
How did Juliette Davidson benefit from the experience of her first job?
A. It was good introduction to working in an office.
B. She met a variety of interesting people.
C. It enabled her to earn enough money to travel.
D. She learnt how to use a word processor.
In what way is Juliette’s current job better her first job?
A. She has a more impressive job title.
B. She now know how to start her own business.
C. She has been able to extend her skills.
D. She is more involve in the community
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The difference between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no limits. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in the kitchen or on the tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in school and the whole universe of informal learning. The agent (doer) of education can vary from respected grandparents to the people arguing about politics on the radio , from a child to a famous scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People receive education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term; it is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one’s entire life. Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at about the same time, take the assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The pieces of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of governments, have been limited by the subjects being taught. For example, high school students know that they are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their society or what the newest filmmarkers are experimenting with. There are clear and undoubted conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling. In the passage, the expression “children interrupt their education to go to school” mostly implies that ..........
A. schooling prevents people discovering things
B. schooling takes place everywhere
C. all of life is an education
D. education is totally ruined by schooling
What does the writer mean by saying “education quite often produces surprises”?
A. Educators often produce surprises.
B. Informal learning often brings about unexpected results.
C. Success of informal learning is predictable.
D. It’s surprising that we know little about other religions.
Which of the following would the writer support?
A. Without formal education, people won’t be able to read and write.
B. Going to school is only part of how people become educated.
C. Schooling is of no use because students do similar things every day.
D. Our education system needs to be changed as soon as possible.
According to the passage, the doers of education are .............
A. only respected grandparents
B. mostly famous scientists
C. mainly politicians
D. almost all people
Which of the following is TRUE according to passage?
A. Education and schooling are quite different experience.
B. The best schools teach a variety of subjects.
C. Students benefit from schools, which require long hours and homework.
D. The more years students go to school, the better their education is.
The word “they” in the last paragraph refers to ............
A. workings of governments
B. newest filmmarkers
C. political problems
D. high school students
The word “all-inclusive” in the passage mostly means ............
A. including everything or everyone
B. going in many directions
C. involving many school subjects
D. allowing no exceptions
This passage is mainly aimed at .................
A. telling the difference between the meaning of two related words “schooling” and “education”
B. telling a story about execellent teachers
C. listing and discussing several educational problems
D. giving examples of different schools
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions In the 1960s, The Beatles were probably the most famous pop group in the whole world. Since then, there havebeen a great many groups that have achieved enormous fame, so it is perhaps difficult now to imagine how sensational The Beatles were at that time. They were four boys from the north of England and none of them had any training in music. They started by performing and recording songs by black Americans and they had some success with these songs. Then they started writing their own songs and that was when they became really popular. The Beatles changed pop music. They were the first pop group to achieve great success from songs they had written themselves. After that it became common for groups and singers to write their own songs. The Beatles did not have a long career. Their first hit record was in 1963 and they split up in 1970. They stopped doing live performances in 1966 because it had become too dangerous for them - their fans were so excited that they surrounded them and tried to take their clothes as souvenirs! However, today some of their songs remain as famous as they were when they first came out. Throughout the world, many people can sing part of a Beatles song if you ask them. The passage is mainly about ...............
A. why the Beatles split up after 7 years
B. the Beatles' fame and success
C. many people's ability to sing a Beatles song
D. how the Beatles became more successful than other groups
The four boys of the Beatles .................
A. came from the same family
B. were at the same age
C. came from a town in the north of England
D. received good training in music
The word “sensational” is closest in meaning to .............
A. notorious
B. shocking
C. bad
D. popular
The first songs of the Beatles were ............
A. written by black American
B. broadcast on the radio
C. paid a lot of money
D. written by themselves
What is NOT TRUE about the Beatles?
A. The members had no training in music.
B. They became famous when they wrote their own songs.
C. They had a long stable career.
D. They were afraid of being hurt by fans.
The Beatles stopped their live performances because .............
A. they had earned enough money
B. they did not want to work with each other
C. they spent more time writing their own songs
D. they were afraid of being hurt by fan
The word “they” in line 10 refers to ..........
A. the first
B. the singers
C. the songs
D. the performances
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions In the history of technology, computers and calculators were innovative developments. They are essentially different from all other machines because they have a memory. This memory stores instructions and information. In a calculator, the instructions are the various functions of arithmetic, which are permanently remembered by the machine and cannot be altered or added to. The information consists of the numbers keyed in. An electronic pocket calculator can perform almost instant arithmetic. A calculator requires an input unit to feed in numbers, a processing unit to make the calculation, a memory unit, and an output unit to display the result. The calculator is powered by a small battery or by a panel of solar cells. Inside is a microchip that contains the memory and processing units and also controls the input unit, which is the keyboard, and the output unit, which is the display. The input unit has keys for numbers and operations. Beneath the key is a printed circuit board containing a set of contacts for each key. Pressing a key closes the contacts and sends a signal along a pair of lines in the circuit board to the processing unit, in which the binary code for that key is stored in the memory. The processing unit also sends the code to the display. Each key is connected by a different pair of lines to the processing unit, which repeatedly checks the lines to find out when a pair is linked by a key. The memory unit stores the arithmetic instructions for the processing unit and holds the temporary results that occur during calculation. Storage cells in the memory unit hold the binary codes for the keys that have been pressed. The number codes, together with the operation code for the plus key, are held in temporary cells until the processing unit requires them. When the equals key is pressed, it sends a signal to the processing unit. This takes the operation code-for example, addition-and the two numbers being held in the memory unit and performs the operation on the two numbers. A full adder does the addition, and the result goes to the decoder in the calculator's microchip. This code is then sent to the liquid crystal display unit, which shows the result, or output, of the calculation. The word "innovative" in line 1 could best be replaced by ...............
A. recent
B. important
C. revolutionary
D. complicated
What can be inferred about machines that are not calculators or computers?
A. They can not store information in a memory.
B. They are less expensive than computers.
C. They have simple memory and processing units.
D. They are older than computers.
In what part of the calculator are the processing and memory units?
A. the battery
B. the solar cells
C. the output unit
D. the microchip
According to the passage, one function of the memory unit is ...............
A. to control the keyboard
B. to store temporary results during calculation
C. to send codes to the display unit
D. to alter basic arithmetic instructions
The word "This" in paragraph 5 refers to .................
A. the plus key
B. the processing unit
C. the memory unit
D. the equals key
The word "contacts" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ..............
A. commands
B. codes
C. locations
D. connections
Which of the following could NOT be said about calculators?
A. The calculator's "thinking" takes place in the processing and memory units.
B. Calculators require a lot of instructions to operate quickly.
C. Calculators and computers are similar.
D. Pressing a key activates a calculator.
What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To discuss innovative developments in technology
B. To compare computers and calculators with other machines
C. To summarize the history of technology
D. To explain how a calculator works
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions Facebook is a for-profit online social media and social networking service. The Facebook website was launched on February 4th, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates. Since 2006, anyone age 13 and older has been allowed to become a registered user of Facebook though variations exist in minimum age requirement, depending on applicable local laws. Over 25 million people in the Uk use Facebook. That’s 45% of population! And on average, each user spends over six hours a month on Facebook. Though not the highest this is a considerable number. Is Facebook is a dangerous obsession or just harmless fun? Seventeenyear-old Bethan has written on her blog about what it was like to stop using Facebook. I think I am a Facebook addict. I log on to Facebook everyday to chat to my friends real friends and loads of online friends. Sometimes I have ten conversations going at the same time. I upload photos and update my Facebook profile all the time. But recently I’ve started to feel worried if I am offline for more than a few hours. And then last week I forgot to meet a real friend because I was online! I’ve realised I could have a problem. So I’ve decided to give it up for a while. I found it really hard. Facebook and my friends demanded to know why I had left. I spent the first few evenings wondering what everyone was chatting on Facebook. I even phoned a couple of friends to find out. The fourth night I wasn’t quite so bad. I actually concentrated on my homework better and I had more time to watch my TV programmes. And I spoke to my friends during the day at school. At the end of the first week, I reactivated my account, I think Facebook is fun and it’s useful for posting messages to friends and sharing photos. But I’ll try not to spend so much time on it in the future. Which of the following is NOT true about Facebook users in UK?
A. 45% of the country’s population used Facebook.
B. More than 25 millions of Brits use Facebook.
C. The amount of time British users spent on Facebook is highest.
D. Averagely, 6 hours per month are spent by British users.
