41. The T.V station stop…………because of the strike. 1. playing 2. broadcasting 3. show 4. to broadcast
42. She………………from ten to one on the night of the 31st December. 1. counts down 2. counts on 3. is keen on 4. is fond of
43. The car company has recently…………..the new model of city car. 1. replayed 2. released 3. refreshed 4. reloaded
44. Tourists appreciate the great…………of the people in Chiang mai. 1. furiousness 2. hostility 3. hospitality 4. insincerity
45. Bruce is very……………. He never talks to other people about his wealth. 1. rude 2. selfish 3. weak 4. humble
46. Every first year student has to complete the……46……….courses before taking ………47………courses. 1. advanced 2. professional 3. fundamental 4. senior
47. The servant’s…………..of your house is bigger than my bedroom. 1. quarters 2. service 3. pantry 4. roof
48. The temperature is rising…………….because of the Green House Effect 1. slowly 2. rapidly 3. structurally 4. equally
49. If the climate of the Earth changes suddenly, animals and plants will become………… 1. extinct 2. distinct 3. increased 4. establish
50. From that accident, his…………was slowly healed step by step. 1. innate 2. injury 3. innocent 4. inability
51. Water…………in drought makes it necessary for people to cut down their use of water. 1. abundance 2. probability 3. hospitality 4. scarcity
52. It has been raining so hard that all the crops were………….. 1. dry 2. flooded 3. proved 4. demoralized
53. ……………the police suspected many people were involved in the crime, they couldn’t find any solid evidence against anybody. 1. Also 2. But 3. Because of 4. Although
54. It is…………….for student to copy while taking the exam. 1. right 2. correct 3. forbidden 4. fair
55. The new low cost airlines have enabled more moderate income people to benefit from their marketing ………………. 1. retirement 2. requirement 3. amusement 4. strategies
56. The……….to the bank robbery disappeared from his house. 1. police 2. witness 3. crime 4. Adult
57. Cars, motorcycles and buses all are……………… 1. vehicles 2. measurement 3. weakness 4. politics
58. The engine of the car……………carbon monoxide. 1. omit 2. emit 3. permit 4. progress
59. Kanebo food has…………a new kind of candy and gum that help breakdown alcohol after drinking. 1. released 2. replayed 3. reloaded 4. renamed
60. The actress wore a/an………….dress to the party. 1. elephant 2. elegant 3. humble 4. current
Records show that the average temperature of the planet is climbing rapidly. Climate researchers predict the Earth’s temperature will continue to rise over the next one hundred years. Scientists believe this global warming is human-generated. Warmer temperatures may lead to severe droughts and floods in some places. Animal species may not be able to survive. Vegetation will not be able to adapt fast enough to find new habitats when heat encroaches its existing homes. Widespread famine will result in numerous deaths. Natural disasters will be as plentiful as rain. Global catastrophe is eminent. We are all going to die.
Global Warming, aside from pollution is one of scientists biggest concerns. Global Warming is caused by the Greenhouse Effect. There are 4 steps in the Greenhouse effect; 1-Sunlight radiates from the sun, through space, to Earth atmosphere. 2- The sunlight enters the atmosphere and hits Earth. Some of it turns into heat energy in the form of infrared light. The heat gets absorbed by surrounding air and land, which in turn makes it warm. 3- Infrared rays, that are remitted into the atmosphere are trapped by greenhouse gases. 4- The gas then absorbs the light and is remitted back to the earth surface and warms it even more. Some of the naturally occurring greenhouse gases are Methane and carbon dioxide. This is the way the Earth keeps itself warm enough for humans to live on it.
In brief, we are now facing an invisible enemy called "Global Warming". This process causes the temperature in every part of the world to rise, causing climate changes and higher sea levels which leads to flooding in the lowlands. Since humans are the main cause of global warming, everyone on the earth must help solve this problem by using the "3 of R" - reduce ,reuse and recycle. - Reducing our Carbon footprint is the simplest way to solve this problem. There are several ways to reduce the use of natural resources. In regard to transportation, or even clean energy vehicles, e.g. bicycles or walk are good ways to help reduce energy consumption and pollution. - Reuse products is another good way to solve this crisis. Plastic bags should be used again an again until they not able to be used anymore. - Recycle is a process that needs scientific knowledge and energy to change or to rebuild things. Wastepaper can be collected and sent to recycling factories to make lower quality papers.
This problem is not easy to cope with but it’s not too hard to solve. Will you help us? It’s now or never!
61. What is the topic of this passage? 1. Global Warming 2. Trash recycling 3. Pollution 4. Virgin Nature
62. What could happen when the temperature is rising? 1. There are more animals and plants. 2. There are more animals and fewer plants. 3. There is enough food for everyone. 4. Many species become extinct.
63. From the passage, we can say that…………. 1. Human causes global Warming. 2. Global Warming is caused by nature. 3. Global Warming is good for plants in Europe. 4. Global Warming is not dangerous.
64. What is not the effect from the Global Warming? 1. There will be a lack of food. 2. There may be a severe drought and flood 3. Animals and plants will be in danger. 4. Global catastrophe will be decreased.
65. According to the passage, besides the Global Warming, what is the other main concern of the scientists all over the world? 1. Pollution 2. Over population 3. Obesity 4. People’s health
66. How does the Greenhouse Effect make our world warm? 1. The greenhouse gas traps the infrared rays and send it back to Earth’s surface. 2. The greenhouse gas burns Methane and carbon dioxide. 3. The greenhouse gas remits the infrared rays back to the space. 4. The greenhouse gas doesn’t let the sun’s ray pass to Earth’s surface.
67. From the solutions to the problem above, which one is the most common way to do to help out? 1. The “reduce” 2. The “reuse” 3. The “recycle” 4. The “reproduction”
68. According to the passage, which one is the way to reduce the release of carbon monoxide? 1. Anna stops driving to school. She takes a walk instead. 2. Laura rides her motorbike to the market. 3. Tony never uses the public transportation. He drives his own car. 4. Peter stops walking to school and asks his mother to buy him a new Honda Accord.
69. The main idea of this passage is to….. 1. help people to understand clearer about nature. 2. suggest the solution to the biggest problem of the Earth. 3. complain about the use of greenhouse gas. 4. vote for the new way to solve the problem.
70. This passage is ….. 1. narrative 2. informative 3. indifferent 4. ridiculous
READING 2 Your eyes are about three inches apart. That's more than trivia -- it's the reason you see the world in three dimensions. The separation gives your eyes two slightly different views of every scene you encounter. In the brain's visual cortex, these views are compared, and the overlap is translated into a stereoptic picture. To estimate relative distances, your brain takes a reading of the tension in your eye muscles. But you only see in 3-D up to about 200 feet. Beyond that, you might as well be one-eyed -- your eyes aren't far enough apart to give two very different views over long distances. Instead, you rely on experience to judge where things are; the brain looks for clues and makes its best guess. For example, it knows that near objects overlap far ones; that bright objects are closer than dim ones; and that large objects are nearer than small ones. These "monocular cues" are what painters use to trick us into thinking a flat canvas is three-dimensional and miles deep. That's why paintings are much more convincing if you close one eye: Your brain hunts down all the clues the painter has dropped. But when both of your eyes are open, the brain gets more information and mixed signals. The paint may say miles, but the muscles in your eyes say inches. All of this fancy eyework is second nature to us, but it is learned. "Other cultures don't perceive pictures the same way we do," says J. Anthony Movshon, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at New York University. "For example, primitive people don't always think bigger means nearer. It's our Western way of seeing things, and it's a way of seeing that we've learned."
71. The primary purpose of the passage is to explain 1. how we see in three dimensions. 2. the difference between Western and primitive cultures. 3. the use of 3-D paintings. 4. why your eyes are three inches apart.
72. As used in the passage, stereoptic means 1. reversed. 2. three-dimensional. 3. monocular. 4. upside-down.
73. 3-D vision would be most useful in looking at which of the following? 1. a distant mountain range 2. a flower arrangement 3. clouds 4. paintings
74. The author mentions cultural differences in perception to support his point that 1. bigger means nearer. 2. fancy eyework is second nature. 3. we get mixed signals from paintings. 4. perception is learned.
75. The language used in this passage can best be described as 1. argumentative. 2. humorous. 3. impersonal. 4. informal.
READING 3 A wool sock, a toilet seat, Oriental silk -- out of a millennium of mud comes proof that the globe-traveling Vikings weren't the ravaging rovers historians made them to be. "The old English image of the Vikings as simply blood-thirsty bands of pillagers vanished with these finds," says Richard Hall, an archaeologist. "We dug down and found a cocoon of water-logging, a time capsule of everyday life," said Hall, who led a tour Wednesday through a muddy concrete hall fashioned out of the hole left from the excavation. Hall was one of some 400 people who, for five years, dug up the leftovers of the lives of an estimated 30,000 Vikings. Workers discovered the sophisticated settlement when a central district of York was leveled for rebuilding. Starting April 14, 1984, electric cars will carry tourists through a tunnel of time that goes back to 866 A.D., when the Vikings came to York, 188 miles northwest of London. Archaeologists are eager to display what they found in a $3.9 million reconstruction of Jorvik, the Anglo-Saxon name for the settlement. "We have skeletons, 15,000 objects, a quarter-of-a-million pieces of pottery, some of the best preserved Viking-age buildings ever discovered and five tons of animal bones," Hall said. The digs revealed intimate details of Viking life. There is a toilet seat, keys, tools, games counters, the seeds in the blackberries they picked and a knitted woolen sock. "They were a great trading nation with a sophisticated monetary system," Hall said. "We will show the range of products in which they traded -- silk from the Far East, amber from the Baltic, pottery from the Rhineland, cowrie shells from the Indian Ocean."
76.The primary purpose of the passage is to describe 1. a new archaeological discovery about the Vikings. 2. a new tourist attraction. 3. the intimate details of Viking life. 4. the process of archaeological research.
77.As used in the passage ravaging means 1. destructive. 2. hungry. 3. thirsty. 4. traveling.
78.The Viking settlement was discovered by 1. archaeologists looking for a settlement. 2. builders reconstructing Jorvik. 3. tourists looking for buried objects. 4. workers leveling parts of a city.
79 .According to the passage, the Vikings are best characterized as 1. democratic. 2. sophisticated. 3. violent. 4. uncivilized.
80 .In the last paragraph, the word "they" refers to the 1. archaeologists. 2. English. 3. tourists. 4. Vikings.