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TATTOOING: AN ANCIENT TRADITION
Tattooing is an old art. In ancient Greece, people who had tattoos were regarded as members of the (1) __________ classes. On the other hand, tattooing was (2) __________ in Europe by the early Christians, who thought that it was a sinful thing to (3) __________. It was not until the late 18th century, when Captain Cook saw South Sea Islander decorating their bodies with tattoos that attitudes began to change. Sailors came back from these islands with pictures of Christ on their backs and from then on, tattooing (4)__________ in popularity. A survey by the French army in 1881 (5) __________ that among the 387 men (6) __________there were 1,333 designs. Nowadays, not everybody finds tattoos acceptable. Some people thing that getting one is silly because tattoos are more or less permanent. There is also some (7)  __________ about (8) __________ a blood disease from unsterilized needles. Even for those who do want a tattoo, the (9) __________ of getting one is not painless, but the final result, in their eyes, is (10) __________ the pain

Find mistakes among A B C and D and correct

The graphics ability of a computer depend on the speed of its processor and the size  of its RAM.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks: 

Pollution

We are slowly (28)________ the earth. The seas and rivers are too dirty to swim in. There is so much smoke in the air that is unhealthy to live in many of the world’s cities. In one well-known city, for example, (29)________ gases from cars pollute the air so much that traffic policemen have to wear oxygen masks.

We have cut (30)________ so many trees that are now vast areas of wasteland all over the world. As a result, farmers in some parts of America can’t grow enough to eat. In certain countries in Asia, there is too little rice. (31)________, we do not take enough care of the countryside. Wild animals are quickly disappearing. For distance, tigers are rare in India now because we have killed too many for them to survive. We must act now before it is too (32)________ to do anything. Join us now. Save the earth. It is too important to ignore.

Question 30_________

Read the passage below carefully, and then choose the best answer A, B, C or D:

"MANY KINDS OF MICROBES
There are thousands of different kinds of microbes. Microbes called (1) _______ are the smallest living things. Bacteria live almost everywhere: on land, in water, and even (2) _______ you.
Some microscopic life forms are like plants. Tiny diatoms are microbes that live in lakes and the ocean. Diatoms soak up (3) _______ and use its energy to make food, just like plants.
Some microscopic life forms are more (4) _______ animals. Protozoa such as the amoeba and paramecium are animal-like microorganisms. An amoeba can move (5) _______ changing the shape of its body. It sticks out a pseudo pod, or false foot. A paramecium is (6) _______ with tiny hairs. It waves its hairs rapidly to swim.
Viruses are (7) _______ kind of microbe. Viruses sometimes act like living things and other times act like nonliving things. Viruses sometimes live in the cells of plants and animals. (8) _______ a cell, a virus reproduces like a living thing. The virus uses the cell to make many copies of itself. Viruses are (9) _______ small to see with an ordinary microscope. You need a powerful electron microscope to see a virus. Outside of a plant or animal cell, a (10) _______ is like a nonliving thing."

8. (8) _______ a cell, a virus reproduces like a living thing.

Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each of the following questions:
The country is more beautiful than a town and pleasanter to live in. Many people think so and go to the country for the summer holidays though they can not live there all the year round. Some have a cottage built in a village so that they can go there whenever they can find the time.

English villages are not all alike, but in some ways they are not very different from each other. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of which can be seen from many miles around. Surrounding the church is the churchyard where people are buried.

The village green is a wide stretch of grass, and houses or cottages are built round it. Country life is now fairly comfortable and many villages have the water brought through pipes into house.

Most villages are so close to some small towns that people can go there to buy what they can't find in the village shops.

What can be easily seen in most villages?

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(1)___history, women have always aimed for a recognized place in (2)__. Guided by their own (3)___of knowledge and expertise, women like Marie Curie in science, Mary Wollstonecraft in literary writing, Simone de Beauvois in philosophical existentialist debate, and Marie Stopes in medicine, to name a few, have brought about (4)___awareness of the role of women in any walks of life. These women have helped redefine and (5)___the nature of women’s place in society. Today the (6)___of global women's organizations and the impact of women's contributions (7)___society show that progress has been made and the progress in furthering the role of women in society has been some benefits to the (8)___woman. It is true to say that not all women have the same need. The need of the woman who stays at home and (9)___children will differ widely from the woman who works outside. Nonetheless, in the extensive field of equal opportunities, it would be good to know that access is given to both with equal measure according to the true value of respective abilities. It also would be good to know that the woman at home is recognized as a valued (10)____of society just as much as the one who deals with business outside the home.

Choose the letter A, B, C or D the word that has the underlined part different from others.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each question.

Tigers are one of the most powerful and graceful animals in the world. The different species that still exist today, namely the Bengal, Indochina, Siberian, South China, and Sumatra tigers are in danger of becoming extinct. Due to irresponsible hunting, the Bali, Caspian, and Java tigers have already become extinct. This could soon happen to the other species too.

In the past, tigers were considered pests. With a smaller area to hunt, as man had taken up more of the land to build upon, the tigers found less area for themselves to hunt. They thus turned to farms to get their food. Farmers’ livestock were attacked by these tigers. People were then encouraged to hunt and kill these animals with the promise of rewards. Even after the threat of tigers on livestock was over, the man continued to hunt tigers, this time for recreation. Poachers too hunt tigers for their body parts knowing that the skin of tigers is much sought after. Bones and other organs are also used as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine. Although killing is illegal, it is still being carried out unless it is stopped, the remaining species of tigers will soon become extinct too.

There were fewer hunting grounds for the tigers because _____

The three phases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and the long-term memory. This division of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of the memory.
Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory.
Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short-term memory as long as you keep repeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or it moves into long term memory.
Long-term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own.

According to the passage, when will information stay in your short-term memory?

Read the text and decide which answer best fits each space. Circle A, B, C, or D. 
There can be no doubt at all that the Internet has made a huge difference in our lives. Parents are worried that children spend too much time playing on the Internet, hardly ever doing …..(36)…… else in their spare time. Naturally, parents are…. (37)….. to find out ….(38)…. the Internet is so attractive, and they want to know if it can be …..(39)…. for their children. Should parents worry if their children are spending that much time staring at their computers? Obviously, if children are bent over their computers for hours, …..(40)….. in some game, ….(41)….. of doing their homework, then something is wrong. Parents and children could decide how much use the children should …..(42)…… of the Internet, and the child should give his or her word that it won’t interfere with their homework …..(43)….. the child is not holding to this arrangement, the parent can take more drastic steps. Dealing with a child’s use of the Internet is not much different …..(44)….. negotiating any other sort of bargain about behavior. Any
parent ….(45)…. is seriously alarmed about a child’s behavior should make an. appointment to …..(46)….. the matter with a teacher. Spending time in front of the screen does not necessarily affect a child’s performance at school. Even if a child is absolutely crazy ….(47)…. using the Internet, he ….(48)…. she is probably just ….(49)…. through a phase, and in a ….(50)….. months there will be something else to worry about!

41___________

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Most people feel that when they dream, they are (1)________ off to another world. On the (2)________, dreams are often  connected to our daily lives. When our whole (3)_________ is filled with something, when we are either very  upset (4)________ when we are in good spirit, a dream will represent this reality in symbols. It is often (5)_______ that we benefit from dreams because they help the spirit to heal itself when things (6)__________ wrong. Dreams are therefore a kind of escape, almost a holiday from (7)__________ life, with its fears and responsibilities. It is, however, a strange kind of holiday because whether we have a wonderful time or whether it turns (8)_________ to be a nightmare, we quickly forget it. Most dreams disappear forever, (9)_________ you are one of those people disciplined enough to write them down as soon as you (10)_________.

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British families started  going on holiday to the seaside around the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the railways (1) ____ this possible. The first holidaymakers were quite rich and went for their health and education. The seaside was a place to be (2) ____  of illness, and doctors recommended bathing in the sea and drinking sea water. Also to (3) ____ their knowledge, families attended concerts and read books from the library. At that time, ordinary working people had very little time (4) ____ work. However, in 1871, the government introduced four ‘Banking Holiday’ - national holiday days. This (5) ____ people to have a day or two out, which now and then gave them a taste for leisure and the seaside. At first, they went on day-trips, taking (6) ____ of special cheap tickets on the railways. By the 1880s, rising incomes (7) ____ that many ordinary workers and their families could have a week’s holiday at the seaside. Rail fares were reduced and cheap hotels were built to (8) ____ them. Holidaymakers enjoyed being idle, sitting on the beach, bathing in the sea, and eating ice-cream. Cheap entertainment was (9) ____ offer and holidaymakers went to have fun. Today the English seaside (10) ____ popular, with more than 18 million holidays taken there each year

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow by circling the corresponding letter (A, B, C, D) of the correct answers. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
In England boys and girls go to school five days a week. They don't go to school on Saturdays and Sundays. Lessons usually begin at nine o'clock. Each lesson lasts forty five minutes. At fifteen past eleven they have a quarter of an hour's break in which they drink milk. Some pupils eat sandwiches or biscuits which they bring from home. Then they have two lessons more. After that they have a lunch break. Some pupils go home for lunch, but many have it at school. At two o'clock school begins again. These are two more lessons. For the next forty minutes they do some of their homeworks or have a club meeting or play games like football. They go home at about four thirty in the afternoon.  

 What time do they go home?

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Environmental Concerns
Earth is the only place we know of in the universe that can support human life. (1) ______ human activities are making the planet less fit to live on. As the western world carries on consuming (2)_______ of the world's resources while half of the world's population do so just to stay (3)_______ we are rapidly destroying the only resource we have (4)________ which all people can survive and prosper. Everywhere fertile soil is (5)______ built on or washed into the sea. Renewable resources are exploited so much that they will never be able to recover (6)______. We discharge pollutants into the atmosphere without any thought of the consequences. As a (7)______, the planet's ability to support people is being reduced at the very time when rising human numbers and consumption are making increasingly heavy demands on it. The Earth's (8)______ resources are there for us to use. We need food, water, air, energy, medicines, warmth, shelter and minerals to (9)______ us fed, comfortable, healthy and active. If we are sensible in how we use the resources they will last indefinitely. But if we use them wastefully and excessively they will soon (10)_______ and everyone will suffer

Choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to complete the following passage:

Nowadays people are more aware that wildlife all over the world is in danger. Many species of animals will become extinct if we do not (46) ______ an effort to protect them. There are many reasons for this. (47) ______ some cases, animals are hunted for their fur or for other valuable parts of their bodies. Some birds, such as parrots, (48) ______ alive and sold as pets. For many animals and birds the problem is that their habitat - the place where they live - is disappearing.

More land is used for farms, for houses or industry, and there are fewer open spaces than there once were. Farmers use powerful chemicals to help them to grow better crops, (49) _______these chemicals pollute the environment and harm wildlife. The most successful animals on earth - human beings - will soon be the only ones left, unless we can (50) _______ this problem.

(50)........................

Choose the letter A, B, C or D the word that has the underlined part different from others.

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KEEPING FIT
Bodies are made to move! They are not (1)  _________for sitting around in front of the television or reading magazines. Keeping fit doesn’t (2) _________you have to be a super-athlete, and even (3)  ______exercise can give you a lot of fun. When you are fit and healthy, you will find you look better and feel better. You will develop more energy and self-confidence. Every time you move, you are exercising. The human body is designed to bend, stretch, run, jump and climb. (4)  _________it does, the stronger and fitter it will become. Best of alal, exercise is fun. It’s what your body likes doing most-keeping on the (5) _________. Physical exercise is not only good for your body. People who take regular exercise are usually happier, more relaxed and more alert (6)  _________people who sit around all day. Try an experiment-next time you are (7) _________a bad mood, go for a walk or play a ball game in the park. See how much better you feel after an hour. A good (8)  _________of achievement is yet another benefit of exercise. People feel good about themselves when they know they have (9)  _________their fitness. People who exercise regularly will tell you that they find they have more energy to enjoy life. So have (10) _________-you’ll soon see and feel the benefits

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The volume of traffic in many cities in the world today continues to expand. This (1)______many problems, including serious air pollution, lengthy delays, and the greater risks (2) ______accidents. Clearly, something must be done, but it is often difficult to persuade people to change their habits and leave their cars at home. One possible (3)______is to make it more expensive for people to use their cars by increasing charges for parking and bringing in tougher fines for anyone who (4)______ the laws. In addition, drives could be required to pay for using particular routes at different times of the day. This system, (5) ______as “road pricing”, is already being introduced in a number of cities, using a special electronic card (6) ______to windscreen of the car. Another ways of (7) ______with the problem is to provide cheap parking on the outskirts of the city, and strictly control the number of vehicles allowed into the center. Drivers and passengers then use a special bus service for the (8) ______stage of their journey. Of course, the most important (9) ______is to provide good public transport. However, to get people to give up the comfort of their cars, public transport must be felt to be reliable, convenient and comfortable, with fares 10) _______at an acceptable level.

Although management principles have been implemented since ancient times, most management scholars trace the beginning of modern management thought back to the early 1900s, beginning with the pioneering work of Frederick Taylor (1856-1915) Taylor was the first person to study work scientifically. He is most famous for introducing techniques of time and motion study, differential piece rate systems, and for systemtically specializing the work of operating employees and managers. Along with other pioneers such as Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, Taylor set the stage, labeling his philosophy and methods “scientific management”. At that time, his philosophy, which was concerned with productivity, but which was often misinterpreted as promoting worker interests at the expense of management, was in marked contrast to the prevailing industrial norms of worker exploitation.
The time and motion study concepts were popularized by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. The Gilbreths had 12 children. By analyzing his children’s dishwashing and bed making chores, this pioneer efficiency expert, Frank Gilbreth, hit on principles whereby workers could eliminate waste motion. He was memorialized by two of his children in their 1949 book called “Cheaper by the Dozen”.
The Gilbreth methods included using stop watches to time worker movements and special tools (cameras and special clocks) to monitor and study worker performance, and also involved identification of “therbligs” (Gilbreth spelled backwards) - basic motions used in production jobs. Many of these motions and accompanying times have been used to determine how long it should take a skilled worker to perform a given job. In this way an industrial engineer can get a handle on the approximate time it should take to produce a product or provide a service. However, use of work analysis in this way is unlikely to lead to useful results unless all five work dimensions are considered, physical, psychological, social, cultural, and power.

It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ________.

Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Kevin teaches (28) ____ at a high school. He enjoys his teaching very much, and he always feels very self-confident and proud when he is standing on the teaching platform. Some of his ex-classmates have just offered him a chance (29) _____ them in a new company to produce computer software for businesses. Everyone thinks that it (30) ____ very well. Kevin will probably earn more money than he does at the high school. The new company is (31) ____, and the money may be good indeed. (32) ____, Kevin can hardly quit his teaching job! He loves it.

31.__________

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Mobile phones emit microwave radio emissions. Researchers are questioning whether exposure to these radio waves might (1) _______ to brain cancer. So far, the data are not conclusive. The scientific evidence does not (2) _______ us to say with certainly that mobile phones are categorically (3) _______. On the other hand, current research has not yet (4) _______ clear adverse effect associated with the prolonged use of mobile phones. Numerous studies are now going (5) _______ in various countries. Some of the results are contradictory but others have shown an association between mobile phone use and cancer. (6) _______, these studies are preliminary and the issue needs further, long - term investigation. (7) _______ the scientific data is more definite, it is prudent for people to try not to use mobile phone for long (8) _______ of time. Don't think that hands free phones are any safer either. At the moment, research is in fact showing the (9) _______ and they may be just as dangerous. It is also thought that young people (10) _______ bodies are still growing may be at particular risk