Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer a, b, c, or d.

As a result of years of research, we know that too much animal fat is bad for our health. For example, Americans eat a lot of meat and only a small amount of grains, fruit, and vegetables. Because of their diet, they have high rates of cancer and heart disease; In Japan, in contrast, people eat large amounts of grains and very little meat. The Japanese also have very low rates of cancer and heart disease. In fact, the Japanese live longer than anyone else in the world. Unfortunately, when Japanese people move to the United States, the rates of heart disease and cancer increase as their diet changes. Moreover, as hamburgers, ice cream, and other high-fat foods become popular in Japan, the rates of heart disease and cancer are increasing there as well. People are also eating more meat and dairy products in other countries such as Cuba, Mauritius, and Hungary. Not surprisingly, the disease rates in these countries are increasing along with the change in diet. Consequently, doctors everywhere advise people to eat more grains, fruit, and vegetables and to eat less meat and fewer dairy products.

Why do the Japanese have low rates of cancer and heart disease?

Read the following passage carefully, and then select the best option A, B, C or D to complete it:

"WORLD WIDE WEB
World Wide Web (WWW), computer-based (1) _______ of information resources that combines text and multimedia. The information on the World Wide Web can be accessed and searched through the (2) _______, a global computer network. The World Wide Web is often (3) _______ to simply as “the Web.” The Web started to become a (4) _______ resource after 1993 when the first widely distributed browser provided a convenient way to (5) _______ a variety of information on the Internet. The Web uses (6) _______, which means that information can be displayed in a wide variety of formats. (7) _______ can read text, view pictures, watch animation, listen to sounds, and even explore interactive virtual environments on the Web. A user can (8) _______ seamlessly from a document or Web page stored on the computer to a document or Web page (9) _______ on another computer. The Web offers a place where companies, universities and (10) _______ institutions, and individuals can display information about their products, services, facilities, or research, or their (11) _______ lives. Only a small percentage of information on the (12) _______ is restricted to subscribers or other authorized users. The majority of Web pages are available to (13) _______ who can access a computer that connects to the Internet. The Web has become a (14) _______ for many companies selling products or services, and a forum for people to exchange opinions and information. Museums, libraries, government agencies, and schools post information on the Web to make it (15) _______ to others."

9. Web page stored on the computer to a document or Web page (9) _______ on another computer.

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the sentences

Which channel do you recommend to someone __________ likes animals?

Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer a, b, c, or d.

Hundreds of thousands of persons each year fall prey to some type of cancer, but new methods of radiation therapy have enabled doctors to save more lives than ever before. Medical researchers have developed several experimental forms of this time-honored cancer treatment that seem effective in fighting the disease.

One promising approach involves exposing cancer cells to radiation by implanting a radioactive source directly into the malignant tissue. This process greatly increases the dosage and thus the effectiveness of the treatment. Another technique uses drugs to make cancer cells more susceptible to the effects of radiation and to make normal cells more resistant. Certain hugs are able to neutralize the genetic framework of cancer cells, thus making them easily affected by radiation. Both techniques have seen some positive results in the treatment of inoperable brain tumors.

These and other methods have helped to raise the recovery rate for cancer victims from 30 percent 40 years ago to around 50 percent today. This is encouraging news for those who fall prey to one of the world’s leading killers.

What is the author’s main purpose?

Read the passage below carefully, and then select the correct option A, B, C or D:

"The World Wide Web was developed by British physicist and computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee as a project within the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee combined several existing ideas into a single system to make it easier for physicists to use data on the Internet. Most important, he added multimedia—the ability to include graphics—to the hyperlink concept found in a previous Internet service known as gopher. Berners-Lee had begun working with hypertext in the early 1980s. An early prototype implementation of the Web became operational at CERN in 1989, and the idea quickly spread to universities in the rest of the world.
Groups at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researched and extended Web technology. They developed the first browser that was used at many sites, named Mosaic, in 1993. To allow the Web to be accessed from a wide variety of computer systems, researchers built multiple versions of Mosaic. Each version was designed to be used with a specific operating system, the software that controls the computer. Within a year, computer programmer Marc Andreessen had formed a commercial company, Netscape Communications Corporation, to build and sell Web technologies."

4/ Which word means “a connection that allows you to move easily between two computer documents or two pages on the Internet”?

Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer a, b, c, or d.

Paper is named for papyrus, a reed-like plant used by ancient Egyptians as writing material more than 5,000 years ago. The Chinese invented the paper that we use 2,000 years ago.

A piece of paper is made up of tiny fibers, not unlike a piece of material. The fibers used in paper, however, are plant fibers, and there are millions of them in one sheet. In addition to the plant fiber, dyes and additives such as resin may be used. Dyes can make the paper different colors; resins may add weight and texture.

Where do these fibers come from? The majority of paper is made from plant fiber that comes from trees. Millions are cut down, but new trees are planted in their place. Paper may be also made from things like old rags, or pieces of cloth. Wastepaper can be turned into recycled paper. This recycling process saves forests and energy and reduces air and water pollution.

What is the main ingredient in the most paper?

Choose the best answer: 
What is pollution? Stinky stuff? Muck? Poison? Yes, all those things... and more. Some is obvious like smoke (1)...........you can see but much of it is not obvious at all. Yet you’re eating it and drinking it and breathing it most of the time. And what is worse is that all this muck (2).............all other life on Earth. You can find pollution made by people just about (3)..........on the planet. Even (4)...........places like the Arctic are badly polluted by nasty Chemicals made by people. The polar bears and seals there have poisonous Chemicals made by people in their bodies and (5)........... _ do the Inuit people who live with them. These nasty things kill many animals and make others sick - including penguins (6).............. the Antarctic. They also kill people and make them ill too. There’s nowhere on the planet (7).............. or high up in the air. with no pollution; (8).............. the bottom of the sea or high up in the air.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

In the first part of the twentieth century, before a television set became an important (1) ____ of entertainment of most households, radio program was different (2) ___ what it is now. Children rushed home from school to listen to “Story Hour”. Someone was reading (3) ____ exciting story or a part of a story while the children’s imaginations provided visual images to fit the spoken ones. People listened to serials or stories (4) ____ were broken into one-hour segments. Because each hour ended with suspense, listeners have to (5) ______ at the same time the next day to find out what would happen.

Families gathered around the radio at night to listen to important news or favorite programs. However, (6) ____ there is the appearance of television, radio programming has changed. Radio stories have become a thing of the past (7)____ the fact that people prefer both to watch (8) ____ to hear. Radio is now a medium that is used more often in a car (9) ______ in a home. Because music and news are (10) ____ types of programs to listen to in a car, they are the most common. Radio, in fact, has become the music medium. It provides music for all tastes.

(7) ___________

Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

Industrialization has provided us with material (51)_______ and modern (52)____. Electrical appliances and efficient gadgets ease our daily (53)______. Yet, there is a heavy price tag (54)______ to this convenience. Large-scale industrialization is killing the world. Today there is a strong emphasis (55)_______ on the halt of CFC usage. CFCs, otherwise known as chloro-fluoro-carbons, are ozone-depleting chemicals. They (56)________ burn a hole in the earth’s atmosphere and we, on earth, suffer from the strong radiation (57)_______ by the sun’s rays. Household (58)_________ like refrigerators, aerosol cans, air-conditioners and styrofoam containers (59)________ ozone-depleting chemicals. The hole in the sky allows harmful radiation to reach the earth. As a result, the temperature on the earth will (60)_________. This is alarming because polar ice caps will melt in the heat. Ocean levels will rise and islands will gradually be flooded.

60__________

Read the passage below carefully, and then select the correct option A, B, C or D:

"The World Wide Web was developed by British physicist and computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee as a project within the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee combined several existing ideas into a single system to make it easier for physicists to use data on the Internet. Most important, he added multimedia—the ability to include graphics—to the hyperlink concept found in a previous Internet service known as gopher. Berners-Lee had begun working with hypertext in the early 1980s. An early prototype implementation of the Web became operational at CERN in 1989, and the idea quickly spread to universities in the rest of the world.
Groups at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researched and extended Web technology. They developed the first browser that was used at many sites, named Mosaic, in 1993. To allow the Web to be accessed from a wide variety of computer systems, researchers built multiple versions of Mosaic. Each version was designed to be used with a specific operating system, the software that controls the computer. Within a year, computer programmer Marc Andreessen had formed a commercial company, Netscape Communications Corporation, to build and sell Web technologies."

5/ Which sentence is not correct?

Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

Getting good results in your studies comes from (51)________ good study habits. The best place to study is a comfortable room with good (52)_______. The best chair for studying should be one which you would be comfortable in, (53)_______ so comfortable that you may fall asleep in it after a while! Before you study, look for a (54)_____ environment with no distractions. If you find your home too noisy for studying, try the library or community center (55)_______. When you study, set realistic (56)_______ for yourself to achieve. For example, do not (57)____ to study five chapters of Geography in one (58).________   when you know that you take more than an hour to read one chapter. Furthermore, remember not to push yourself too (59)_________ . When you have studied for a period of time, (60)______ yourself by taking a short break. You could perhaps take a short walk or listen to music for a while.

53_________

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April, 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization.

The WHO's constitution, states that its objective is "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. "Its major task is to combat diseases, especially key infectious diseases, and to promote the general health of the people of the world. The WHO also sponsors programs to prevent and treat serious epidemics such as SARS, malaria, and AIDS. The WHO supports the development and distribution of safe and effective vaccines, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and drugs. After over 2 decades of fighting smallpox, the WHO declared in 1980 that the disease had been eradicated - the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort.

The WHO is nearing success in developing vaccines against malaria and aims to eradicate polio within the next few years. The organization has already endorsed the world's first official HIV/AIDS Tool kit for Zimbabwe making it an international standard. In addition to its work in eradicating disease, the WHO also carries out various health-related campaigns, for example, to boost the consumption of fruits and vegetables worldwide and to discourage tobacco use.

Experts met at the WHO headquarters in Geneva in February, 2007, and reported that their work on pandemic influenza vaccine development had achieved encouraging progress. More than 40 clinic trials have been completed or are ongoing. Most have focused on healthy adults. Some companies, after completing safety analyses in adults, have initiated clinical trials in the elderly and in children. All vaccines so far appear to be safe arid well-tolerated in all age groups tested.

Which is NOT mentioned in the second paragraph as the tasks of the World Health Organization?

Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

Getting good results in your studies comes from (51)________ good study habits. The best place to study is a comfortable room with good (52)_______. The best chair for studying should be one which you would be comfortable in, (53)_______ so comfortable that you may fall asleep in it after a while! Before you study, look for a (54)_____ environment with no distractions. If you find your home too noisy for studying, try the library or community center (55)_______. When you study, set realistic (56)_______ for yourself to achieve. For example, do not (57)____ to study five chapters of Geography in one (58).________   when you know that you take more than an hour to read one chapter. Furthermore, remember not to push yourself too (59)_________ . When you have studied for a period of time, (60)______ yourself by taking a short break. You could perhaps take a short walk or listen to music for a while.

51___________

Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer a, b, c, or d.

DOWN-TO-EARTH IDEAS

If a big apple and a small one drop from an identical height at the same instant, which one will reach the ground first? Neither! Without air resistance, a large apple will reach the ground no sooner than a small one. Many people find this hard to believe since it seems to contradict “common sense”.

A great Italian mathematician and physicist named Galileo first proved that, without friction, a heavy object and a light one released from the same height will reach the ground at the same instant.

He had begun to suspect that the common notion about heavier objects falling faster than lighter ones was false when he experimented with pendulum. He found that a heavy pendulum swung no faster than a lighter one. Galileo went on to experiment with balls rolling down a sloping plank and proved that heavy balls reached the bottom no faster than light balls.

Galileo’s investigation with the dynamics of motion revealed another important law of physics: that, apart from air resistance, bodies accelerate constantly as they fall. In a vacuum (where there is no air resistance) a heavy object does not fall faster than a light one; the rate of acceleration (32 feet per second) is the same for all objects. Thus any object travels faster at the end of its fall than at the beginning.

One of the results of Galileo’s experiments was that__________ .

Choose the word or phrase (ạ, b, c, or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

There are various types of pollution in the world. The most (51)__________ one is air pollution. It is caused mostly by factories that exclude smoke. This smoke pollutes the atmosphere (52) ________  dust and cinder which can cause various types of diseases like lung cancer, heart failure, and sinus infection (53)________ inhaled. Carbon monoxide from exhaust (54) _________ of vehicles is also very dangerous and can cause instant death when inhaled in (55)_________ amount. Water pollution is the pollution that occurs in rivers, seas, oceans, lakes, and other waterways. Water pollution is normally caused by the (56)____________ of waste like garbage and feces. The marine life in these waters will be affected. Some sea creatures perish while others (57)__________ the toxic extracts of the poisonous waste in their fat glands. When human beings eat these creatures, they will (58)______ fall ill or die. In Japan alone, every year, thousands of people suffer (59)____ strange diseases due to mercury poisoning. Others either lose their mental (60)______ or meet their deaths.

52_________

Choose the word or phrase (ạ, b, c, or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

There are various types of pollution in the world. The most (51)__________ one is air pollution. It is caused mostly by factories that exclude smoke. This smoke pollutes the atmosphere (52) ________  dust and cinder which can cause various types of diseases like lung cancer, heart failure, and sinus infection (53)________ inhaled. Carbon monoxide from exhaust (54) _________ of vehicles is also very dangerous and can cause instant death when inhaled in (55)_________ amount. Water pollution is the pollution that occurs in rivers, seas, oceans, lakes, and other waterways. Water pollution is normally caused by the (56)____________ of waste like garbage and feces. The marine life in these waters will be affected. Some sea creatures perish while others (57)__________ the toxic extracts of the poisonous waste in their fat glands. When human beings eat these creatures, they will (58)______ fall ill or die. In Japan alone, every year, thousands of people suffer (59)____ strange diseases due to mercury poisoning. Others either lose their mental (60)______ or meet their deaths.

54_________

Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer a, b, c, or d.

Paper is named for papyrus, a reed-like plant used by ancient Egyptians as writing material more than 5,000 years ago. The Chinese invented the paper that we use 2,000 years ago.

A piece of paper is made up of tiny fibers, not unlike a piece of material. The fibers used in paper, however, are plant fibers, and there are millions of them in one sheet. In addition to the plant fiber, dyes and additives such as resin may be used. Dyes can make the paper different colors; resins may add weight and texture.

Where do these fibers come from? The majority of paper is made from plant fiber that comes from trees. Millions are cut down, but new trees are planted in their place. Paper may be also made from things like old rags, or pieces of cloth. Wastepaper can be turned into recycled paper. This recycling process saves forests and energy and reduces air and water pollution.

According to the passage, the primary source of the plant fiber used in the paper is_______

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below

We live in a time and age where information is just a button press away. We are swayed by information all around us. We millennials want __________ (6), read, understand and then speak our minds about it. That is where social media comes into play. Social media is one of the biggest __________ (7) that we live with and cannot ignore it.

Social media is collection of websites, applications and other platforms __________ (8) enable us to share or create content and also helps us to participate __________ (9) social networking. Social media is not limited to blogging and sharing pictures, there are lot of strong tools also that social media __________ (10). That is because that the impact of social media is very high and far reaching. It can make or break images.

 We millennials want __________ (6), read, understand and then speak our minds about it. 

Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

One of the most famous statues in the world (36)_______ on an island in New York Harbor. This statue is, of course, the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a woman (37)______ the torch of liberty, and its (38)______ name is the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World’. The statue was a (39)__________ to American people from the French to show the (40)_____ between the two nations. It was (41) ______by Frederic Auguste Bartoldie and completed in 1884 in France, (42) _____ was transported to America and put up in 1886. In the years after the statue was put up, many (43)_________ came to the United States through New York. As they (44)_________ New York Harbor, they saw the Statue of Liberty holding up her torch. She symbolizes a welcome to a land of (45)_______.

44__________