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e amount ofRWII00.53bi ion was the second highest ever on recOrd The Intemational Trade and Industry Minister repo ed that export growth in

2007emanated fron.b thtraditiona1andemergingrnarkets such as China,Austra a, United Arab E 1irates and Indonesia. Co11ectively,these lmarkets accounted for

RNI101.28bon or16.7%of Malaysh total exports.The1 .5%declhe in

Malaysia s exports to the Us in2007 vas ofse1 in part,by strong growth in aggregate expo s tO emerging markets. This de e1opment is attributed to intensive promotional activities undc aken in new and emerging rnarkets as part ofb a1aysia s Fnarket diversiIlcatiOn initiative,
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Poland,w ch grew by73,3%,Qatar by47.3%and Iran by31.4%,

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export marke1 accounjng for 29.1% of total exports.

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B False
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on For the year2007,Malaysia s total expo s were Valued at RM100.53b

A Tme
B False
C NOtstated
3 In2007,Malaysia showed an i crease in exports to a11thc four regions.

A Tme
B False
C Notstated

4 Bo Ch1andAusialia A Tme
B False
C Notstated

are Malaysia s oml markets,

5 There had been a gradual dec1ine h exports to North ca since 03

A Tme
B False
C Notstated In ,N EastA ia
was Malaysia stop expo market

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A team ofloca1scientists has come up with a miniamre1aborato y which can snifF out bird flu in even the Fnost far- ung1ocauons, The pa11n-size device can te11if a
person Or anhnal has contracted the II5NI foIIII of ev in1ess than30rninutes And it can do so even at the earliest stages ofthe disease,when a icthn has yetto

show any symptoms.

According to e Inst"vte of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology research scienjs1Juergen Pipper,who led the efFort The answers you w l get are AmI
infected? Ifyes,how severe is it?

Wh

sets apart iom others which are a1ready available co

mercia11y is that

it is a self-contained laboratory on a chip It can be used by rnedical or aid workers

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to detect the H5NI virus d tly from throat swab samples.Chicken dropping samp1es can also be tested for e hvs The device uses the gold standard of
tests- Polymerase

Chain Reaction (PC - to make photocopies of geneuc

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mateoa1so that even minute amounts can be detected. Tests have shown that it is around 10ti nes faster than ava ab1e tests, yet

40to100dmes cheape e

researchers s d,because each sample droplet^so minuscu1e that the cost for reagents drops. The research is ti1nely,given that bird

nu ften s es in mral areas such as backyard fams.S d research scientist Lisa Ng ofthe Genome Institutc of Singapore,another teana rnember The device can
be eas y taken to the field,where it w l be able to detect the vims the moment a

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person is infected,ra er than having to wah for10days or so for symptoms to appea This w l a ow the au o ties to act faster, said D Ng

B d iiu is entrenched in the region, o coun es such as Indonesia s ugg ng

to curb it. At least85Indonesians have died frorll the disease,the highest in the

wodd. The Wodd Health Orgaisation,which is coordinating the g1obal response to human cases,has s d that the next influenza panden1ic Ould1ike1y be ofan
avian varle and it could afect some I.5b on people.

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Instimte ofMolecular and Cell Bology princil ,al coordinato Masa:1ImiInoue, one ofthe co authors and the leading inventor ofthe H5NI detection kit currently being used in hospita1s,said that work o ongoing to allow e device to test multlple

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pa ogens at a ne,such as sARS and other respiratory v es.

1ic may not come mere1y flom H5NI,as such vhuses are pande noto`potential ous for mutating and gene reasso nent So,it be cHtical to castthe net
wIder, he sa1d.

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and laboratory rnedicine at Tan Tock Seng l osp a1,said.thatit was exciting work I wOu1d be very 1terested to1Fy it0, he said,

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We are ente ng an era ofunprecedented choice. Butis that a good thing?AmazOn,

iTunes,eBay ofFer vanety on a scale uni1naginable even a decade agO. AmazOn sells rnore than150000videos,600000CDs and near1y three Fn lion books,to say
nothing ofa few million toys,household goods and o er ems.Yet, the variety

expands,so does e gmmbling aboutit,especially iom ose who worry aboutthe

effect ofruna vay consumerisn1on societv and culture.

Paradox of Choice @004)that toO much choice o oppressi

The Fnost influential of these sceptics is Barry Schwartz,who argues in

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The

He c ed a now 10

famous s dy of consumer behavow

a supe1I.. k .Researchers set up one

table with s choces ofjam,and another wi

24ch ces,The more choces

they ofered,the less customers boug,and the less satis ed they were with thcir purchase,The extra options had put em outs e thor jam-selection comfOrt

zone strawberry,b1ueberry
picture.

raspberry

and into the exotic terl to

oflemon
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cwd and organic boysenbe y. Indecision and buyer s remorse began to cloud the

Now con der AmazO .It,too,se11s jam,as it happens,Not si inds,or 24kinds,but Fnore than12001onds Sure1y its visionary Chief Executive Omcer (CEO),JefBezOs, familiar with the1essons ofejam expe ment,Yet he drcw
the oppos e conclusion about choice. l ore is better,he decided And ifthe gro h
ght ofArnazOn is any guide,he was

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What Bezos understands is the diference be een the physical and on ne wOrlds. In a store, the only conslImer guide is the marketing materia1on the package and9possib the advice ofa sales clerk.On1ine, ere are nearly h nite
ways to tap Inarket info1 lation. You can sOrt by p ce,ratings,date,best se11ers

or custOmer reviews, You can compare poces across products,and you can goog1e
endless reading on the product

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So AmazOn has brought Order to choice,The problem with the supe.IIIarket

dsorde a11the goods are shown multaneOus and alI you have to so em d1is whatever brand info. Iation has been lodged in yow brain by expeoencc Or advcrtising,and the marketing1nessages ofthe packaging and she1fplacement. ost ofthe info. Iation on AmazOn-popu1ano prices,etc.- is ava ab1e to supe1 arkets,too But they typ ally don t share it with the customer because
there s

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no good way to do it shortofrnini-screens on each she1

in an on ne store, s impossible in the physical wor1d.

Wh e

that s

easy

The curse of atOms is thatthey can be in only one p1ace at a t ne. Bits,on the

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other hand,can be copied and presented in new ways without 1it. In the b cksand nortar wodd,a custOmers expe ence the same store, Inthe on ne wor1d,it s pOss le for each customer to exper nce a diferent storc,u"quely customised to
his or her profile and preferences. And therein lies the ans ver to the paradox of choice, If you make it easy for

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people to ohoose, ey 1always p k

more v over less.But if rs hard to

choose,they settle for the simp city of1i1n"ed aHeo The paradox of choice is mply an artifact of the mitaton of e phys al World,where e infomaton necessary to Fnake an info1 Ied choice is lost.

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variety alone o not enou we also need i fo. on about at vty

and what other consumers before have done with e same choices. The ose of s seemingly om sc a" ty to order the inft te chaos ofthe Web Google,wi so that what we want comes out on top,showsthe way. Orderit wrong and choice is oppressive;order it right and it s liberating.

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15 The rnain idea ofparagraph1is A today s Web tes offer a wide var ty ofproducts
B C abundant choices encourage consl me sm a lot ofchoices can be a good or bad thing

16 In paragraph2, ejam experi ent proved that A having a wide range ofproducts was not a good thing B customers prefered the more exot types o

am

C with rnore ChoiCes customers vould buy more

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B he learntabout marketing from thejam expmment

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een selng in a store and se1 ng on1ine he knew the diference be

ng is not an advantage ofshopping on ne? 18 Which ofthe o11o

A Productinfo. Iation
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can be custo 1ised.

The p ces ofproducts ofered are cheape

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`hysjc `l/,@rJd product infoI Iation according to customers requests A to prov

tO GOmpare e poces ofsilnilar products in e1market

C to putrnore Fnini-screens on each shelf

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that

A Bary Schwanz
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the critics oftoo rnany choices are wrong

C the paradox ofchoce o uncritically accepted

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online shopping.

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As befits an industrh1oed com

Brit n pub1 -health problems are those of

weal ratherthanpover Butbeneathhead1ines about fat,ogarettes and anational

epidemic ofdrunkenness, o diseases that were be1ieved vanquished decades ago

are re-emerging.Both are lihked to i nLgation.

On December29th,the Department ofHea1d

confi1. ed

what doctors have long

suspected ri0kets seems to be on e se The disease- thought to have been

eradic d in the1950 s-stunt grOMh and defomsthe ske1eton,characteristic ly

causing bowed legs and worse. 3 The other disease is tuberculosis,d n1y remembered as an amicti n f
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dwe11ers and glamorous ` cto an poets Antibiotics and a national-screening

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progra-e had a11but ed out e"sease.Yet cases have been increasing since
the m -1980s,h2000,6323were reported in Britain Oxcludng scotlan

,or

11,7fOr each100000people;by2006that had risen to8112,or14.6per100000,

andthetme nvmber o oughtto be hghe

Mration is involved in the resurgence ofboth conditions,though in difFerent ways, cke o usually caused by a1ack Of"tamin D,which needed to absorb
calcium to bu d bones. l ost itan1in D isrnade when skin is exposed to sun ght.

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NotFnuch sunshine is needed- around151ninutes a day in su11mer- but obtaining itin Bain, o its grey c mate,house-bound ch dren and omcia1warnings about

skin cancer,can be c skin lolIr

matters too

dark-skimed peOp1e require

more sun. What scant data there are suggest that up to1in100children 1on ethnic lino ties may sufer from rickets,

fron sunny countries1nay deve1op rickets after amving in B tt1rin,tuberculo s is a disease that often cO1nes v"th them. Rates of infecjon

Whereas 1igrants

are1owest among natives and highest among i11migrants iom AnHca,where the
disease is coz1mon in part because of the spread of AIDs, whose suferers are
particu1arly suscepjb1e to infection. Tuberculosis is most cO11nnon in the poorer

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areas of B tain cit s,w ch tend tO have high h grant populatons and where pov and depnaton erode re stance to the(i1isease.Newham,a poor east London borough at h home to many immigrant fami1ies,has aro1md100 infections per100000people, e ghest rate in e country and comparable to China figure.
6 In theory,1 ckets is easy to cure ofncial advice is to get rnore sunshine and,for

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pregnant women and young chldren,to take vitamh D supplements(

around a fiIth ofmothers heed ).Tuberculosk o harderto stamp out

ough only

Vaconatons

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which used to be universal, have been re-introduced for ch dren in high- sk areas.I migrants from coun es with e dsease are ofered screenhg when they ive,al ough Ch G m s,a tubercu1osis expe at Queen Mary,University of London,reckons e system too leaky to catch all fthem.Often ose most at
sk are hardestto reach, One drug-resistant strain has been circu1adng in Camden and Is ngton for nve years,especia11y among homeless people and ex-p soners This has prompted suggestions that sufFerers be detained in seclIre hos als a
ctorian response to a` cto an disease.
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berculosis is rnore rampant among the homeless

C tuberculosis suferers need to be confined in hosp als

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A They can be easily cwed B They are migrant-related dseases, C They were eradicated in the1950s
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aummn moming,the dewjust rising from the nelds,dozens ofchildren

streamed into the o-room schoolin this sma11poorvi11age,theirhair freshly o ed, ce used sacks tuCked under their arlns for1ack of chairs to s on. One teacher

showed up90Fninutes late. A secOnd was a no show. The senior-most teacher,the Only one w h a teaching degree,was be e ed to be on of :1cial goverlment dut When they get older,they ll cl rse their teachers, said Amab Ghosh,26,a socia1 worker trying to help the govemment improve its schools,as he stared at clusters ofch dren sitting on the grass, They ll say. We oame every day,and we learned
noJ1ing.

Sixty years after independence,w h40pcr cent of its populauon under18,

India is confronting the per s ofits fa re to educate its citizens,notably thc poo
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MOre Indian ch dren are ih schoo1than e erbefOre,butthe qua ty ofpub c schools has sunk to spectacularly low1e e1s,as goverlment schOols have become reserves ofchildren at e verv bottom Ofthe Indian socia11adde

India has long had a legacy of eak schoohng for the masses of its young,
as it has promoted high qua ty govcr11ment-nnanced universities ]But if in e past,a largely poor and agr an naton could aford to leave m ons ofits peoplc i terate,that o no longerthe case.Not o ly has the rOaring economy hit a sho age ofsh11ed1abour,but the nation s rnany new roads,phones and television
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sets have 1ed newambitions for econo 1ic advancement among its people-and
new expectations or schools to help them achie
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Thatthey rem n l-eq pped to do so is clearly hstratcd by an amual su ey, conducted by Pratham,the organization or which Ghosh orks, Tllc latest survey, canHed out across 16000v lages in2007fOund that h e many more ch dren were sitting in class than before,vast numbers of them cou1d not read,w tc Or perfo1 .basic anthmetic,to say nothing ofthosc who were notin schoo1at a11.
Education experts and on cia1s debate the reasons for the fa lIre. On the one
hand,some argue,the chi1dren ofilliterate parents are1ess1ikely to get help at home,

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more1ike1y to be malnou shed or in poor health,and therefore have a harder ti1ne leaming Others b1ame longstanding neg1ect and insumcient pub c in estment in
education,along with a lack ofrnotivation among teachers to pay special attention to poor,outcaste ch dren,

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Arguments aside,India is engaged in an epic expe rnent tO up ft

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its schoo1s.

`ay1ic1nany hurd1cs,and Ghosh,on his visits to v encounters them a . E her the aides who ha e been h cd tO draw more lage
ch dren into school comp1ain thatthey ha e not reCei ed rnoney to buy educational

lages like this one,

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p ed in the classroon or a parent agrees to e11rol his s

materials,or the schoo1has stopped se ing1unch even though sacks of rice are n in school,but knows that he w 1soOn send the ch d away tO wOrk. Or wOrst of al
frorn Ghosh s perspecti e, a11these sdck~thin, bright-eyed

vith some hope of getting something, Ghosh muttered

give them anything,

ch dren trickle intO school e ery mon1ing and take back so li le,
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begun to set in, An educated person would not only be1nore lkely to find a good
job,parents here reasoned,but also less likely to be cheated in a bad one

my children to do something,to advance themselves' o do atthey must st Ans put it,

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Education in the new India has become a crucial marker ofinequality,Among

o per cent the poorest20per cent ofthe population,ha1fare i1 terate and barely graduate from high schoo1accordi g to goven nent data l3y contrast among the

ochest20per cent of e populatio ,nearly ha1fare high school graduates and only
o per cent are il terate.

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55 The link beb een ge ing your ch dren prepared and being part of this big i,the said Ruhini Bane changing Inma o certain1y there h everyone s minds, research director of Pratham. The question is what s the best way to get there, how muchto do,whatto do?Asa untry Ithink we are trying to ngwe is out.

rwew t 1o er5or10years, she added, ou are gohg to lose m ons

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A the young today need to be educated

weak schoo ng should no1onger be an Indian legacy

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D the poor still cannot afFord to send their children to school

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is not rnenJoned as a reason?

The healu1 fthe ch dren is poo

B Thechi1dren need to help out at home.

C Teachers neg1ect ch &en who are poo

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X yokosan camein Septembe I was surprised tO see sO very nearly a wOman; short,robus1buxon the feFnale counterpart of her fatheL Oka brought her

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proudly to us.

t i 1e asako

hOre` for the first thne to my recoI1ection,he touched1me;he

put h rough fat hand on thetop ofmy head,

is

ery smartin schoo1.She w help

you with your schoo1work,X yoko' he s d, She wOu1d be mysou1rnate; h my mindI had lred a r1ofmy ow11proportion thin and tall,but with e re nement and beauty I ddn yet possess that would sl re1y sOmeday come to e y disappoi11 nent Was keen and apparent. X yoko-san stepped fon ard fore, then retrcated wi a short bow and sma11 ggle,her nnger pressed to her
I have so1ooked fonvard to Kiyoko-san s
aH va1

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mouth y mother took her a vay. They ta1ked for a1ong t ne-about

Japan,about

e Ol1nentin an American schoo1the clothes Kiyoko-san wOuld need,and where to1ook for the best va1ues As I watched them,it occu ed to me that I had becn
deceived this was not a ch d,this was a woman. The s 1i1e pressed behind her

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ngers,the way of her nod,so br 1ike my mother when father scolded he the face was inscmtable,butsome ing maybe her rit- shrank vis 1kea p ce of k h wate I was sapponte K oko-san sou1was b caded in her
unenchanting appearance and the s 1i1e she fenced behind her ngers
She started school fron d1ird grade;one below1 e,and as it tumed ou1she

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qu kly passed me by.There w n t much I could help her wi except to d 11 her on pronunciation- the L and R sounds, Eery Fnoming walking to our rLlra1schoo 1 3 -'Jo , every aRemoon retl rning home DDj r , s That was the extent Of our mmunication; endly but
,

uninteresting.

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One particu1arly cold Novembcr night- the nd outside was icy; I was
sitting on my bed,rny brother s and 1ine,o ing the cracks in my chapped hands

by lamplight someone rapped urgently at otlr doo

straw zor her feet were bare.

It was KiyokO-san;she was hyster al,she wOre nO wrap,her teeth were chattering,and except for e thin
y mother led her to the kitchen,started a pot of

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tea,and gesmred to my bro er and me to retire. I lay very sti11but because ofrny brother s resuess t s ng and my father s sno ng,was unab1e to hear much. I was aware,though,that dmnken and savage brawling had brought KiyOko-san to us Presendy they came to e bedroom.I feigned sleep My mother spoke fiI Ily Tomo ow you w lremm tothe you Fnust not1eave then1again. They are your
people. I could a11nost fee1X yoko-san s short nod,

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dt A11n long I lay cramped and stm,a

h de

into her hu1 ng back.

Two or three umes her y feet jabbed into mi e and quickly retreated.h e moming I found my mother s gow l neady fo1ded on the spare p 1ow X yokosan s

placein bed was co1d

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her eyes were

she never came to weep at olIr hOuse again butI know she c

oRen swollen and red.She stopped much of her gi :g1ing and routinely pressed
her fingers to her mouth. Our da y pronunciajon g 11petered o fron 1ack of th interest, She walked s ently wh her shoulders hunched,grasping her books both anms,and when I spoke to herin my ha1ting Japanese,she absently co my prepos ions 10

ected

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Spng comes ear1y in the Va11ey;in Febmary the skies are clear though the air

owers dotthe desert sti11cold.By1 arch,Winds are vigorous and warm and wi1d floor, cockleblIrs are green and not yet tenacious,the sand is cmsty underfoo1

eve ere

there a sme11ofthings growing and e nrst t matoes green and bald.

are showhg

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As the weather changed,Kiyoko-san became no ceably more cheeral

Oka who hated so to dri e cou1d often be seen steenng his dusty o1d Ford over the road that passes ow house,and X yoko-san sitting in iont would someti1nes

wave gaily to us.Mrs.Oka was never wi them.I thought of these ps as the westemizing of yoko-san with a pe.I.Ianent wave,her straight black hair became
tang1es of tiny JBrantic cwls;be

een her textbooks she carrled copies of Jzbo

P oropJ 1her clothes were gaywithpont andp ing,and she bought a sc

pair ofbrown suede shoes with a11igator tnm.

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38 The wrlter was disappointed with Kiyoko because she

A 1ooked1 her
<

father

behaved like herrnother

C was nottoo CO1mmun ative

D was more mature than she expected
-s so

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s c gcrs. hes23and24)Wh h ofthe follOwing words fits Koko s desc pton? e cr

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D jc

c s j cr c J g V

A L11re ea ng B Unattracj e C Resourceful

D spir ed
40 s cw$s r J ines33and34)because of

A herin i1ity
C

to a

ustto life in the Us

B the quarelin her family

herlack ofrnoney

D theco1d winter
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4I In paragraph2, okas d that Masako rthe w terJ was very smart h which paragraph dd
the w ter say that Kiyoko was in fact sluarte`

A Paragraph4 B Paragraph5 C Paragraph6 D Paragraph7

42 The fonction ofparagraph10is to

A descr1be the pass1ng ofume

B emphasise how hard fe wasin winter

C signal a change to Kiyoko s behaviow

fe was becoming be er forthe famers D show that

43 The descnption ofX yoko in paragraph11implies that she

A wastradtonaI
B had confo1I..ed

C became inhibited D became defens1ve

to Kiyoko,which ofthe fo11owing ls not a characte stic ofbe1ng westemise

44Wi reference

A Reading J%oroprcy

B We ng

brown suede shoes

C Dressing m b ght dothes

D Havings ght

black hak

45 The wHter s intention rnay be desc bed as A narating changes in the vral fe of1igTant fam ies
B contrasting1raditiona1values among rnigrant Japanese fami es

C tracing the a ustments made by Japanese families in the United States

ghling the dference between her fe and o er Japanese immigrants

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