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WHY I DISLIKE COMPUTERS
Almost everyone says that computers are wonderful and that they are (1)________ our lives for the better by making everything faster and more reliable, but I am not so sure that this is the (2)______.The other day I was standing in a large department store waiting to pay for a couple of films for my camera  (3)______the  assistant  announced  that  the  computer which controlled the till (4)_____ working. I did not think this was a big problem and I (5)_____ to find another counter, but of course, all the machines are part of the same system. So there we were: a shop full of customers, money  at  the  ready,  waiting to (6)______our  purchases,  but  it  was quite  clear  that  none of the assistants knew what to do. They were not allowed to take our money and give to customers a written(7)_______,because the sales wouldn‟t then have been recorded on the computer system. In the end, (8)_______many other people, I left my shopping on the counter and walked out .Don't you think so that's ridiculous? It (9)______ never have happened before computers, and that, for me, is the problem: we are beginning to depend on these machines so completely that we (10)_________cannot manage without them anymore.

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It is relatively easy for computers to speak. A computer that says ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ in the right places is (1) ___ miracle of science ,but recognizing the words that make up normal , continuous human speech is another (2) ___ Not until now have computer been programmed to (3) ___ to a range of spoken commands.Until recently it was thought that computers would have tobe programmed to the accent and speech hahits of each user,and only then would be able to respond (4) ___to their master’s or mistress’s voice.Now rapid progress is being made (5) ______systems programmed to adapt easily to each new speaker. The IBM Tangora system,under development at the end of 1980s was claimed to (6) ______a spoken vocabulary of 20,000 words with 95 percent accuracy. The system includes a processor that can  make informed guesses as to(7)______is a likely sentence.That system has been programmed not only with grammatical rules,but also with an analyssis of a vast quantity of office correspondence.On the (8) _____of this information ,the machine can calculate the probability of one particular word following another. Statistical probability is necessary for computers to interpret not only speech but also (9) ______data. Security systems can distinguish between faces they have been taught to recognize,but never has a computer been able to match a human’s ability to make sense of a three-dimemsional scene (10) ______identifying all objects in it.

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Forgetting something usually mean an inability to retrieve the material that is still stored somewhere in the memory.

THE OLD GATE
In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. They (31) _______ to defend the city, but they also kept out undesirable people, like those with contagious diseases.
Most of London’s gates had been (32) _______ by the end of the eighteenth century. However, by a stroke of luck, the last of them was preserved. This gate is, in actual fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the (33) _______ between the old City of London and Westminster. However, as the (34) _______ of traffic through London increased, Temple Bar became an obstacle to its free flow. In 1878 it was decided to take it down, so its stone were numbered, dismantled and put in storage. A couple of years later a wealthy businessman bought the stones and re-erected them at his house in Hertfordshire.
In the 1970s the Temple Bar Trust was (35) _______ with the intention of returning the gate to the City of London. Much of the money for this project was donations from the Temple Bar Trust. The stonework needed a lot of restoration, which was carried out by the Cathedral Works Organization. Today, Temple Bar stands next to St Paul’s Cathedral.
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POLAR BEARS
Polar bears are in danger of dying out. (1) _________ some other endangered animals, it’s not hunters that are the problem, it’s climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic Circle where the polar bears live has (2) _________ in size by about 30 percent. The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been (3) _________ and this is (4) _________ the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears’ home. The polar bears’ main (5) _________ of food are the different types of seal found in the Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes the seals have (6) _________in the ice. (7) _________ the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in the water. This means that the bears (8) _________ do rely on the ice to hunt.bPolar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can (9) _________ a huge territory and often swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been known to swim up to 100km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further and this can (10) _________ fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drowned in the last few years and scientists believe that it is because they were not able to reach more sea ice before they became too tired and couldn’t swim any further.

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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

Mercury is the smallest member of the sun’s family. It is only 3.100 miles across. It is also the sun’s swiftest planet. Its yearly journey around the sun is only 85 days. Mercury always keeps one side towards the sun. On this side, it is always day, on the other side night. We only see the lighted side. Mercury appears to us like a yellowish-orange star. The nearest planet to the sun is always seen near the sun, either just before sunrise or soon after sunset. People sometimes call Mercury the morning star or evening star.

Mercury is half the size of the earth. Because it is much lighter, it has much less gravity. If you can visit Mercury in a spaceship, you will find it a strange world. Its low gravity makes you feel very light. If your weight on earth is 100 pounds, your weight on Mercury is only 27 pounds. Looking at the sun from Mercury, you can see that it’s much more brilliant than it is seen from the earth. And the yellow center of the sun appears three times bigger than Mercury. On its lighted side, Mercury’s temperature is about 300 degrees centigrade. But the dark side is extremely cold, but 150 degrees below zero so mercury is probably the coldest as well as the hottest of the planets.

Why do we weigh much on the earth than on Mercury? – Because_______.

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A village is a (1) _____place where the influence of the city is not (2)_____ much. It is indeed a very good place for rest and relaxation.

In a village, people do not live very close to one another. Their houses are far (3)_____. Each house, therefore, has a lot of (4)_____ around it. So, almost every house is (5)_____ by flowers and fruit plants and vegetables. All these make the village look (6)_____ and fresh. There are also tall trees everywhere which provide (7)_____ from the sun and keep the village (8)_____.

Some villages are surrounded by paddy fields or mountains. There are also many streams and rivers in many villages. All these (9)_____ great beauty and variety to the village scene.

The village people are friendly and helpful. They work together and live in peace. Living among (10)_____ friendly and simple people, in such a quiet place, is indeed a real pleasure.

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Polyester is now being used for bottles. ICI., the chemicals, and plastics company believes that it is now beginning to the grip of glass on the bottles business and thus take advantage of this huge market.

All the plastics manufacturers have been experiencing hard times as their traditional products have been doing badly worldwide for the last few years. Between 1982 and 1984 the Plastics Division of ICI had lost a hundred and twenty million dollars and they felt that the most hopeful new market was in packaging, bottles, and cans.

Since 1982 it has opened its new factories producing “Melina”, the raw material from which high-quality polyester bottles are made.

The polyester bottle was born in the 1970s when soft drink companies like Coca-Cola started selling their drinks in giant two-liter containers. Because of the build-up of the pressure of gas in these large containers, glass was unsuitable. Nor was PVC, the plastic which had been used for bottles since the 1960s, suitable for drinks with gas in them. A new plastic had to the made.

Glass is still cheaper for the smaller bottles and will continue to be so unless oil and plastic become much cheaper, but plastic does well for the larger sizes.

Polyester bottles are virtually unbreakable. The manufacturers claim they are also lighter, less noisy when being handled, and can be re-used. Shopkeepers and other business people are unlikely to object to a change from glass to polyester since these bottles mean few breakages, which are costly and time-consuming. The bottles with interesting shapes, to try and make them visually more attractive to the public.

The next step could be to develop a plastic that could replace tins for food. The problem here is the high temperatures necessary for cooking the food in the container.

Plastics of various kinds have been used for making bottles__________

The invention of the electric telegraph gave birth to the communications industry. Although Samuel B. Morse succeeded in making the invention useful in 1837, it was not until 1843 that the first telegraph line of consequence was constructed. By 1860 more than 50,000 miles of lines connected people east of the Rockies. The following year, San Francisco was added to the network.
The national telegraph network fortified the ties between East and West and contributed to the rapid expansion of the railroads by providing an efficient means to monitor schedules and routes. Furthermore, the extension of the telegraph, combined with the invention of the steam-driven rotary printing press by Richard M. Hoe in 1846, revolutionized the world of journalism. Where the business of news gathering had been dependent upon the mail and on hand-operated presses, the telegraph expanded the amount of information a newspaper could supply and allowed for more timely reporting. The establishment of the Associated Press as a central wire service in 1846 marked the advent of a new era in journalism.

 It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

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Getting friends and family to pose for photos is hard enough, but how would you cope with a rabbit, an owl or a butterfly that simply (1) _______to keep still? Simon King, wildlife film—maker and photographer, says you don't need any formal (2)_______  to get started. "The whole idea is that photographing wildlife should be fun". Simon offers the following (3)_______Specialize from the start. You're more likely to get good result sooner if you (4)_______  on the type of wildlife - insects for instance - (5)_______  than just going off to the woods or park with your camera and snapping whatever you see. Pick something that isn't hard to photograph. Choosing an animal that's hard to (6)_______ or will run away if it sees you (7) _______ unnecessary problems. How about flowers or a group of birds? Search second-hand camera shops and local papers for quality (8) _______. You don't need to (9) _______ a fortune. Simon started with just a second-hand camera that cost around $30. But you will need a single lens reflex camera. Remember it's the whole photograph that counts, nor just the subject. (10) _______ you're composing a picture and try to be as artistic as possible.

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Andrew is an Indian farmer. He gets ___________ (1) early in the morning. It is quite true to say that an Indian farmer sleeps with the lamb and rises with the lark. Then he goes with ___________ (2) buffalo to the field. The day’s work begins. Slowly the sun ___________ (3) and climbs into the sky. But the heat of the sun cannot drive him away from work. Our tropical sun shows no mercy to the Indian famer even then the latter does not brother about sun and shower.

He ___________ (4) rest for a short while under a shady tree. Then once again he starts his work of ploughing, or harrowing the clods or sowing seeds and leveling the field with the help of the leveler. Or, ___________ (5) the crops are already a few inches high, he may be seen watering the fields or weeding out wild plants. All days, in the life of an India farmer, are alike but a day in the harvesting season is a day of joy in his dull life. It is a day when the Indian farmer reaps the fruits of his labour.

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If you’ve been told by your boss to improve your knowledge of a foreign language you’ll know that success doesn’t come quickly. It generally takes years to learn another language well and constant (1) _____ to maintain the high standards required for frequent business use. Whether you study in a class, with audio cassettes, computers or on your (2) _____ sooner or (3) _____ every language course finishes and you must decide what to do next if you need a foreign language for your career. Business Audio Magazine is a new product designed to help you continue language study in a way that fits easily into your busy schedule. Each audio cassette (4) _____ of an hour-long program packed with business news, features and interviews in the language of your choice. These cassettes won’t teach you how to order meals or ask for directions. It’s (5) _____ that you can do that already. Instead, by giving you an opportunity to hear the language as it’s really spoken, they help you to (6) _____ your vocabulary and improve your ability to use real language relating to, for example, that all-important marketing trip. The great advantage of using audio magazines is that they (7) _____ you to perfect your language skills in ways that suit your lifestyle. For example, you can select a topic and listen in your car or hotel when away on business. No other business course is as (8) _____ and the unique radio magazine format is as instructive as it’s entertaining. In addition to the audio cassette, this package includes a transcript with a business glossary and a study (9) _____. The components are structured so that intermediate and advanced students may use separately or together, (10) _____ on their ability.

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There are thousands of different kinds of microbes. Microbes called bacteria are the smallest living things. Bacteria live almost everywhere: on land, in water, and even inside you. Some microscopic life forms are like plants. Tiny diatoms are microbes that live in lakes and the ocean. Diatoms soak up sunlight and use its energy to make food, just like plants.

Some microscopic life forms are more like animals. Protozoa such as the amoeba and paramecium are animal-like microorganisms. An amoeba can move by changing the shape of its body. It sticks out a pseudo pod, or false foot. A paramecium is covered with tiny hairs. It waves its hairs rapidly to swim.

Viruses are another 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. Inside a cell, a virus reproduces like a living thing. The virus uses the cell to make many copies of itself. Viruses are too 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 virus is like a nonliving thing.

What should be used to see a virus?

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Revising for exams is not as easy as it looks. You will need to work out which routine suits you best, and then stick to it. Some people like studying at night when it’s quiet, whereas others find the early morning is a good time to get things done. You might enjoy ___ (1) ____ to music while you revise, but this can be ___ (2) ___. Can you really concentrate ___ (3) ____ two things at once? So think ___ (4) ____ you turn your radio on. Your ___ (5) ____ is also important while you are revising. This may be a more than usually ___ (6) ____ period of your life, when you should take extra care to eat properly. No missed meals, or junk food, or ___ (7) ____ cups of coffee! Get plenty of exercise as well. If you have got fed up with ___ (8) ____ you’re doing, or find it hard to concentrate, go for a walk to clear your head. ___ (9) ____ exercise will help to keep your body fit and your brain working ___ (10) ____. Finally, you also need to take time off. Go out occasionally, see your friends, make time to relax. Then you will return to your studies fresh and full of enthusiasm.

Amazing Machines!
The deepest diving submarine
The Japanese research submarine Shinkai 6500 can dive deeper than any other submarine. On August 11, 1989, it went down to a depth of 6,526 meters beneath the ocean's surface. The submarine is in 935 meters long, about the size of a bus and can take up to three people. It is used for ocean research all over the world.
The most useful television
The Viera is the name of the world's only digital entertainment device that can go underwater. It is made and sold in Japan. You can listen to your favorite music, or even watch a movie, all from the comfort of your bathtub. And the battery lasts over five hours if you're planning to spend a long time bathing. You can even use headphones with it - all you’ll need is to find a pair that is waterproof!
The smartest monitor
The Japanese company EizoNanao has invented a very special computer monitor, called the FlexScan monitor. The FlexScan monitor can stand up to 23 centimeters high, and it can turn almost 180 degrees left or right. It weighs only 4.3kg. What’s more, it can help save electricity. It senses when you have left your computer and turns itself off when you've been gone for more than 40 seconds. When you come back, it knows to turns itself back on!
The smallest motorcycle
A Swedish man named Tom Wiberg built the world’s smallest motorcycle that can be ridden by a person. He calls it the Small Toe. The front wheel is only 1.6 centimeters wide, and the back wheel is 2.2 centimeters wide. The rider sits barely seven centimeters above the ground. In 2003, Wiberg rode his machine for more than ten meters and set a new Guinness World Record for the smallest rideable motorcycle ever built.

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Tomatoes – the whole truth
Leading scientists have (1)_________ that tomatoes can be of great benefit to our health. A lot of research has been (2)________ out in recent years. It’s the whole tomato (3)_________  may lower cancer risks, not individual compounds, (4)___________ to new research. Experts have discovered that taking the antioxidant lycopene – (5)________ is found in tomatoes, but is increasingly popular (6)_________ a health food suppplement because of its link to a reduced risk of cancer – did not work as (7)_________ as eating whole tomatoes. Scientists believe people (8)________ eat them in pastas, salads, tomato juice and pizza. Recent finding suggests that the risks (9)_________ poor eating habits cannot be reserved with a pill. We shouldn’t (10)________ easy solutions to a complex problem

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After the accident there was a solid line of cars stretched back for several miles.

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Mosquitoes are such fast breeders that it is almost impossible to control them either by draining areas where they breed or to spary them with pesticides.

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Our family has got many books. All the …(1)……… of our family buy books and read them. My mother says that books help us in self-education. In ancient times, books ……(2)…… written by hand. It was difficult to write a book …(3)……… a pen. Then printing came into our life. Printing played an important ……(4)…. in the development of literature and culture. Now there are a lot of books in the shops, there are many books in our flats. But it is difficult to buy all books …(5)……… we want to read. That’s why we get books in public libraries. There are some problems in our life and sometimes it is difficult to ……(6)… them. I think that books can help us. Last year I read a very interesting book “ An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser. This novel was …(7)…… at the beginning of the 20th century. The novel ……(8)……. The tragic fate of a boy and a girl, Clyde and Roberta ……(9)…… name. It is a sad story. This novel was written many years ago, but it is …(10)……… nowadays. Books must be our friends during our life.

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Residents in some cities can call an electrical inspector to have the wiring in their house to be checked