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INSTRUCTION: Read following text carefully and choose the right answer for each question. (1-5)
The Monkey and the Crocodile One day, there was a monkey. He wanted to cross a river. There he
saw a crocodile so he asked the crocodile to take him across the other side of the river. The crocodile
agreed and told the monkey to jump on its back. Then the crocodile swam down the river with the
monkey on his top.
Unluckily, the crocodile was very hungry, he stopped in the middle of the river and said to the
monkey, “My father is very sick. He has to eat the heart of the monkey. So he will be health again.”
At the time, the monkey was in dangerous situation and he had to think hard. Then he had a good
idea. He told the crocodile to swim back to the river bank. “What’s for?” asked the crocodile. “Because I
don’t bring my heart,” said the monkey. “I left it under a tree, near some coconuts in the river bank.”
The crocodile agreed and turned around. He swam back to the bank of the river. As soon as they
reached the river bank, the monkey jumped off the crocodile’s back. Then he climbed up to the top of a
tree. “Where is your heart?” asked the crocodile. “You are foolish,” said the monkey to the crocodile.
“Now I am free and I have my heart.”
1. What did the monkey want?
A. Cross the river
B. Eat some bananas
C. Drink in the river
D. Met the crocodile
E. Took a rest
ANS: A
2. What did the monkey see at the river?
A. Crocodile
B. Fish
C. Wolf
D. Goat
E. Farmer
ANS A
3. According to the crocodile, how to make the crocodile’s father healthy?
A. Eat the heart of the monkey
B. Go to the doctor
C. Take a rest
D. Went to the therapy
E. Eat the monkey’s heart
ANS: A
4. What is the character of the crocodile?
A. Smart
B. Stupid
C. Cheerful
D. Calm
E. Contentious
ANS: B
5. “The crocodile agreed and turned around.’ The underlined word has the opposite meaning to …
A. behave
B. need
C. reject
D. accept
E. collect
ANS : C
INSTRUCTION: Read following text carefully and choose the right answer for each question. (6-10)
Edward Jenner was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire on 17 May 1749, the son of the local vicar. At
the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon and then trained in London. In 1772, he returned to
Berkeley and spent most the rest of his career as a doctor in his native town.
In 1796, he carried out his now famous experiment on eight-year-old James Phipps. Jenner inserted
pus taken from a cowpox pustule and inserted it into an incision on the boy's arm. He was testing his
theory, drawn from the folklore of the countryside, that milkmaids who suffered the mild disease of
cowpox never contracted smallpox. Jenner subsequently proved that having been inoculated with
cowpox Phipps was immune to smallpox. He submitted a paper to the Royal Society in 1797 describing
his experiment, but was told that his ideas were too revolutionary and that he needed more proof.
Undaunted, Jenner experimented on several other children, including his own 11-month-old son. In
1798, the results were finally published and Jenner coined the word vaccine from the Latin 'vacca' for
cow.
Jenner was widely ridiculed. Critics, especially the clergy, claimed it was repulsive and ungodly to
inoculate someone with material from a diseased animal. A satirical cartoon of 1802 showed people
who had been vaccinated sprouting cow's heads. But the obvious advantages of vaccination and the
protection it provided won out, and vaccination soon became widespread. Jenner became famous and
now spent much of his time researching and advising on developments in his vaccine. Jenner carried out
research in a number of other areas of medicine and was also keen on fossil collecting and horticulture.
He died on 26 January 1823.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
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