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I. Mark the letter A,B,C,or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions. Question 1: A. competition B. residential C. expectation D. traditional Question 2: A. tennis B. between C. country D. into Question 3: A. pretend B. command C. leisure D. secure Question 4: .A. marvellous B. family C. attractive D. industry Question 5: A. discovery B. difficulty C. simplicity D. commodity II. Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answe r sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of...

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I. Mark the letter A,B,C,or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions. Question 1 : A. competition B. residential C. e xpectation D. traditional Question 2 : A. tennis B. between C. country D. into Question 3 : A. pretend B. command C. leisure D. secure Question 4 :
A. marvellous B. family C. attractive D. industry Question 5 : A. d iscovery B. difficulty C. s implicity D. commodity II. Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answe r sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following sentences. Question 6 : It is a basic requirement in t he modern world to be able to d eal with figures. A. The world requires us to have a basic understanding o f figures. B. Being able to deal with figures is a b asic requirement in t he modern world. C. Dealing with t he modern world requires a basic k nowledge o f figures. D. Dealing with figures r equires a basic k nowledge o f t he modern world. Question 7 : The way to get t he best o ut o f me is to make me work very hard. A. Don't make me work hard or I can’t make t he best o ut o f me. B. I work best when I a m under pressure. C. M y work is under consideration, so I do my best.
D. If you make me work hard, I can't get t he best. Question 8 : Their c hances o f s uccess a re s mall. A. They have no c hances o f being s uccessful. B. It’s possible t hat t hey will achieve s uccess. C. They will c ertainly be s uccessful. D. It’s not very likely t hat t hey will s ucceed. Question 9 : I found myself a t a loss to understand my c losest friend’s words. A. I found my c losest friend's words q uite incomprehensible. B. I understood my c losest friend’s words completely. C. I lost heart a nd d idn't understand my c losest friend's words. D.I found my c losest friend's words easy to understand. Question 10: “Be careful! Don't do t hat a gain,” he s aid. A. He e ncouraged me to do t hat a gain. B. He advised me to be c areful a nd do t hat a gain. C. He told me to be careful, so I d idn't do t hat a gain. D. He warned me not to do t hat a gain.
III. Read the following passage and mark t he letter A, B, C, o r D o n your a ns wer s heet to indic ate the correct a nswe r to e ach of t he questions from 11 to 20. For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming back to an empty house .Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called “latchkey children”. They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a subject of concern. Lynette Long was once the principal of an elementary school. She said, “We had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids have chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to p ut the keys inside shirts. There were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they meant.” Slowly, she learned that they were house keys. She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned of the effect working couples and s ingle parents were having on their children. Fear was the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being frightened. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety. The most common way latchkey children deal with their fear is by hiding. They may hide in a shower tall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get statistics on latchkey children, the Longs have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they leave their children alone. Question 11 : The p hrase “an e mpty house ” in t he passage mostly means ______. A. a house with nothing inside B. a house with no people inside
C. a house with too much space D. a house with no furniture Question 12: One t hing t hat t he c hildren in t he passage s hare is t hat ______. A. t hey a ll watch TV B. they a ll wear jewelry C. t hey spend p art o f each day a lone D. they a re from s ingle- parent families Question 13: The p hrase “latchkey children” in t he passage means c hildren who ______. A. look a fter t hemselves while t heir parents are not at home B. close doors with keys a nd watch TV b y t hemselves C. are locked inside houses with latches a nd keys D. like to carry latches a nd k eys with t hem e verywhere Question 14: The main problem o f latchkey c hildren is t hat t hey ______. A. watch too much television d uring t he d ay B. are growing in numbers C. s uffer a lot from being left a lone D. are a lso found in middle- class families
Question 15: W hat is t he main idea o f t he first paragraph? A. Bad condition o f latchkey c hildren. B. Children’s activities a t home. C. How k ids spend free t ime. D. Why k ids hate going home. Question 16: W hy d id a lot o f k ids have c hains around t heir necks with keys attached? A. Schools d idn’t a llow t hem to wear jewelry, so t hey wore k eys instead. B. They would use t he k eys to e nter t heir houses when t he y came home. C. They were fully grown a nd had become independent D. They had to use t he keys to open school doors. Question 17: W hat do latchkey c hildren s uffer most from when t hey are at home a lone? A. Fear. B. Tiredness. C. Loneliness. D. Boredom. Question 18: Lynette Long learned o f latchkey c hildren’s problems b y ______. A. talking to t hem B. visiting t heir homes C. interviewing t heir parents D. delivering q uestionnaires
Question 19: W hat is t he most common way for latchkey c hildren to deal with fears? A. Talking to t he Longs. B. Hiding somewhere. C. Lying under a TV. D. Having a s hower. Question 20: It’s d ifficult to find o ut t he number o f latchkey c hildren because ______. A. t hey hide t hemselves in s hower stalls o r under beds B. they do not give information about t hemselves for s afety reasons C. t here are too many o f t hem in t he whole country D. most parents are reluctant to admit t hat t hey leave t heir c hildren a lone. VIII. Read the following passage and mark t he letter A, B, C, o r D o n your a ns wer s heet to indic ate the correct a nswe r to e ach of t he questions from 21 to 30. It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today c hildren interrupt their education to go to school. The d ifference between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. Education is much more open- ended and all- inclusive than schooling. Education has no limits. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in the kitchen or on a 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 child to a famous scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, e ducation 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, 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 county, children arrive at school at abo ut the same t ime, 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 alphabet or an understanding of the workings of governments, have b een limited by the subjects being taught. For example, high school students know that t hey are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their society or what the newest filmmaker are experimenting with. There are clear a nd undoubted conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling. Question 21: This passage is mainly a imed a t ______. A. listing a nd d iscussing several educational problems B. telling t he d ifference between t he meaning o f two related words C. telling a story about e xcellent teachers D. giving e xamples o f d ifferent schools Question 22: I n t he passage, t he e xpression “children i nterrupt t heir e ducation to go t o s chool ” mostly implies t hat ______. A. schooling prevents people d iscovering t hings B. schooling takes p lace e verywhere C. a ll o f life is a n education D. education is totally r uined b y schooling
Question 23: The word “all-inclusive ” in t he passage mostly means ______. A. including e verything o r e veryone B. going in many d irections C. involving many school s ubjects D. allowing no e xceptions Question 24: According to t he passage, t he doers o f education are ______. A. o nly respected grandparents B. mainly politicians C. mostly famous scientists D. almost a ll people Ques tion 25: W hat does t he writer mean b y s aying “education quite often produces s urprises ” ? A. It’s s urprising t hat we k now little about o ther religions. B. Educators o ften produce s urprises. C. I nformal learning o ften brings about unexpected results. D. Success o f informal learning is predictable. Question 26: W hich o f t he following would t he writer s upport? A. Our education s ystem needs to be c hanged as soon as possible. B. Going to school is o nly part o f how people become educated. C. Schooling is o f no use because students do s imilar t hings e very day.
D. Without formal education, people won’t be able to read a nd write. Question 27: The word "they " in t he last paragraph r efers to ______. A. newest filmmakers B. political problems C. workings o f governments D. high school students Question 28: Because t he general pattern o f schooling varies little from o ne setting to t he nex t, school c hildren t hroughout t he country ______. A. are taught b y t he same teachers B. have t he same abilities C. do s imilar t hings D. have s imilar s tudy conditions Question 29: From t he passage, we can infer t hat a high school teacher ______. A. is free to c hoose a nything to teach B. is not a llowed to teach political issues C. is bound to teach p rogrammed s ubjects D. has to teach social issues to a ll c lasses Question 30: W hich o f t he following is TRUE according to t he passage? A. The b est s chools teach a variety o f s ubjects. B. Students benefit from schools, which require long hours a nd homework.
C. Education a nd schooling are q uite d ifferent e xperience. D. The more years s tudents go to school, t he b etter t heir education is IV. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answe r sheet to indicate the correct ans wer to each of the questions from 31 to 40. In the West, cartoons are used chiefly to make people laugh. The important feature of all these cartoons is the joke and the element of surprise which is contained. Even though it is very funny, a good cartoon is always based on close observation of a part icular feature of life and usually has a serious purpose. Cartoons in the West have been associated with political and social matters for many years. In wartime, for example, they proved to be an excellent way of spreading propaganda. Nowadays cartoons are often used to make short, sharp comments on politics and governments as well as on a variety of social matters. In this way, the modern cartoon has become a very powerful force in influencing people in Europe and the United States. Unlike most American a nd European cartoons, however, many Chinese cartoon drawings in the past have also attempted to educate people, especially those who could not read and write. Such cartoons about the lives and sayings of great men in China have proved extremely useful in bringing education to illiterate and semi- literate people throughout China. Confucius, Mencius and Laozi have all appeared in very interesting stories presented in the form of cartoons. The cartoons themselves have thus served to illustrate the teachings o f the Chinese sages in a very attractive way. In this sense, many Chinese cartoons are different from Western cartoons in so far as they do not depend chiefly on telling jokes. Often, there is nothing to laugh at when you see Chinese cartoons. This is not t heir primary aim. In addition to commenting on serious political and social
matters, Chinese cartoons have aimed at spreading the traditional Chinese thoughts and culture as widely as possible among the people. Today, however, Chinese cartoons have an a dded part to play in spreading knowledge. They offer a very attractive and useful way of reaching people throughout the world, regardless of the particular country in which they live. Thus, through cartoons, the thoughts and teachings of the old Chinese philosophers and sages can now reach people who live in such countries as Britain, France, America, Japan, Malaysia or Australia and who are unfamiliar with the Chinese culture. Until recently, the transfer of knowledge and culture has been overwhelmingly from the West to the East and not vice versa. By means of cartoons, however, publishing companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore are now having success in correcting this i mbalance between the East and the West. Cartoons can overcome language barriers in all foreign countries. The vast increase in the popularity of these cartoons serves to illustrate the truth of Confucius's famous saying "One picture is worth a thousand words." Question 31: W hich of the following clearly characterizes Western cartoons? A. Originality, freshness, and astonishment. B. Humour, unexpectedness, and criticism. C. Enjoyment, liveliness, and carefulness. D. Seriousness, propaganda, and attractiveness. Question 32: Chinese cartoons have been useful as an important means of______. A. educating ordinary people
B. spreading Western ideas C. political propaganda in wartime D. amusing people all the time Question 33: The major differences between Chinese cartoons and Western cartoons come from their ______. A. purposes B. nationalities C. values D. styles Question 34: The pronoun "this " in paragraph 4 mostly refers to ______. A. a propaganda campaign B. a piece of art C. an educational purpose D. a funny element Question 35: The passage is intended to present ______. A. a contrast between Western cartoons and Chinese cartoons B. an opinion about how cartoons entertain people C. a description of cartoons of all kinds the world over D. an outline of Western cartoons and Chinese cartoons
Question 36: W hich of the following could be the best title for the passage? A. A Very Powerful Force in Influencing People B. Cartoons as a Way of Educating People C. Chinese Cartoons and Western Cartoons D. An Excellent Way of Spreading Propaganda Question 37: I n general, Chinese cartoons are now aiming at ______. A. illustrating the truth of Chinese great men's famous sayings B. bringing education to illiterate and semi- literate people in the world C. spreading the Chinese ideas and cultural values throughout the world D. disseminating traditional practices in China and throughout the world Question 38: The word "imbalance" in paragraph 6 refers to ______. A. the mismatch between the East cartoons and the West cartoons B. the influence of the East cartoons over the West cartoons C. the dominant cultural influence of the West over the East D. the discrimination between the West culture and the East culture Question 39: W hich of the following is most likely the traditional subject of Chinese cartoons? A. The stories and features of the lives of great men the world over.
B. The illiterate and semi- literate people throughout China. C. Jokes and other kinds of humour in political and social matters. D. The philosophies and sayings of ancient Chinese thinkers. Question 40: According to the passage, which of the following is true? A. Western cartoons always have a serious purpose. B. Cartoons will replace other forms of writing. C. Cartoons can serve various purposes. D. Language barriers restricted cartoons.