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Questions 1 – 8 are based on the following passage.

Some research in the 1970s discovered that white blood cells need Vitamin C to destroy bacteria and
viruses. Vitamin C and sugar are similar in their chemical structure. When you eat sugar, it directly competes
for space in your immune cells with Vitamin C. The more sugar in your system, the less Vitamin C can get into
your white blood cells. Sugar does not help your immune system fight infection at all, resulting in weakened
5 defense from infection.
Eating more fresh fruits and vegetables is a great way to get immune boosting benefits from Vitamin C
and other phytonutrient found in fresh raw foods. The colours produced give you a clue of how they help the
immune system. Choose orange fruits and vegetables like carrots to get more beta carotene, the precursor your
body turns into Vitamin A. This nutrient helps your immune system by supporting healthy lungs and lymph.
10 Do not stress about it if you find it easy to completely throw out the sugar and load up on fresh whole
fruits and veggies. Diet changes take time and if you want your new healthy habits to stick, be persistent as you
try switching out a large salad for that fast food sandwich at lunch. If you normally eat sweet processed food
likes donuts for breakfast, try replacing it with mixed fresh fruit and see how much better you feel overtime.
15 Your taste buds will need few weeks to get used to changes in what you are eating. Your body will get over the
cravings, which are actually a symptom of the deficiencies of empty foods until you have nourished your body
well for a time. In the long term, the more fresh whole foods you eat, the more energy you will have and the
stronger your immune system will be.

1. What is the effect of consuming too much sugar? 3. In which lines does the author mention foods to
(A) The need for vitamin C becomes higher. boost the immune system?
(B) The risk of having a primary disorder is (A) 2 – 3
lower than before. (B) 6 – 7
(C) The immune system will not release white (C) 11 – 12
blood cells to fight off invading antigens. (D) 14 – 15
(D) The body could not get rid of illness and help (E) 17 – 18
you feel better.
(E) The immune system becomes weak to fight 4. What topic does the paragraph following the
against infection. passage most likely discuss?
(A) Examples of fresh food as an alternative diet
2. It can be predicted from the passage that our (B) Coping with stress resulting from diet
body’s immune system will get stronger if …. changes
(A) we replace sugar with low sugar diet (C) Calculation of energy produced from fresh
(B) our diet consists of fresh fruits and food
vegetables (D) Illnesses preventable from eating fresh food
(C) our food produces energy to convert (E) The nearest places to get fresh food
nutrients into vitamins
(D) we consume salads to replace sugar and fast
food
(E) we eat low-calorie food

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5. What is the author’s attitude toward the topic of
the passage?
(A) Neutral
(B) Cautious
(C) Persuasive
(D) Objective
(E) Worried
6. Which of the following obviously shows the
author's false idea in the passage?
(A) Vitamin C and sugar are similar in their
chemical structure.
(B) The more sugar in your system, the less
Vitamin C can get into your white blood
cells.
(C) This nutrient helps your immune system by
supporting healthy lungs and lymph.
(D) Do not stress about it if you find it easy to
completely throw out the sugar.
(E) Your taste buds will need few weeks to get
used to changes in what you are eating.
7. The purpose of the author in writing the sentence
‘Choose orange fruits and vegetables like carrots to get
more beta carotene, the precursor your body turns
into Vitamin A.’ In paragraph 2 is to ....
(A) confirm that fruits and vegetables affect our
immune system
(B) uncover the relation between colourful foods
and immune system
(C) show that we can have beta carotene by
consuming certain foods
(D) explain how fruits and vegetables help us to
have a healthy lifestyle
(E) provide an example of the colour of fruits
and vegetables and its function
8. The passage can be best summarized as
follows ….
(A) it is hard to replace sugar with fresh fruit and
vegetables for daily diet
(B) changing diet with salads for daily menu will
strengthen the body immune system
(C) vitamin A and C are the most needed
vitamins by our body to avoid sugar
addiction
(D) fresh fruit and vegetables can increase
vitamin intake to strengthen our immune
system
(E) vitamin C and sugar both taste sweet but
vitamin C contains nutrients needed by our
body

Questions 9 – 15 are based on the following passage.

Making eye contact has long been considered an effective way of drawing a listener in and bringing him
or her around to your point of view. But new research shows that eye contact may actually make people more
resistant to persuasion, especially when they already disagree.
1
"There is a lot of cultural lore about the power of eye contact as an influence tool," says lead researcher
Frances Chen, who conducted the studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. 2"But our findings show that
direct eye contact makes skeptical listeners less likely to change their minds, not more, as previously believed,"
says Chen. 3To investigate the effects of eye contact in situations involving persuasion, Chen and colleagues took
advantage of recently developed eye-tracking technology. 4The technology is used to analyze the layers of the
retina and optic nerve. 5They found that the more time participants spent looking at a speaker's eyes while
watching a video, the less they were persuaded by the speaker's argument – that is, participants' attitudes on
various controversial issues shifted less as they spent more time focusing on the speaker's eyes.
Spending more time looking at the speaker's eyes was only associated with greater receptiveness to the
speaker's opinion among participants who already agreed with the speaker's opinion on that issue.
The University of British Columbia researchers also reported that in the midst of an argument, looking
at the other person in the eye won’t get them to agree with you. It actually may do the opposite.
1
The researchers tested the power of eye contact. 2The researchers used eye-tracking technology to
determine when the participants were maintaining eye contact. 3They asked 20 study participants to share their
opinions of controversial issues such as affirmative action and assisted suicide, and then watch a video of a
speaker chatting about various topics. 4But when the speaker started covering topics the participants disagreed
with, they looked away. 5When the speaker in the video spoke about opinions the participants shared, the
participants maintained eye contact more consistently.

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 9. The author's idea of the relationship between
eye contact and people’s attitude is analogous
with ....
(A) food and health
(B) recipe and knowledge
(C) speed and train
(D) forest and harvest
(E) gloves and feet
10. Which sentence is NOT relevant to the topic
discussed in paragraph 2?
(A) Sentence (1)
(B) Sentence (2)
(C) Sentence (3)
(D) Sentence (4)
(E) Sentence (5)
11. Look at the following sentence!
The new findings are published in Psychological
Science, a journal of the Association for
Psychological Science.
Where would the sentence best fit?
(A) The last sentence of paragraph 1
(B) The first sentence of paragraph 2
(C) The last sentence of paragraph 2
(D) The last sentence of paragraph 3
(E) The last sentence of paragraph 4
12. The word ‘lore’ in paragraph 2 is most similar to
which of the following?
(A) effort
(B) impact
(C) knowledge
(D) modern
(E) frame
13. The underlined words in paragraph 2 should be .....
(A) the less persuaded were they
(B) they were persuaded the less
(C) they the less persuaded were
(D) the less persuaded they were
(E) they were the less persuaded
14. The best arrangement of paragraph 5 is ....
(A) 1 – 3 – 2 – 4 – 5
(B) 1 – 2 – 5 – 3 – 4
(C) 1 – 5 – 2 – 4 – 3
(D) 1 – 3 – 2 – 5 – 4
(E) 1 – 3 – 2 – 5 – 4
15. What is the relation between sentence 1 and 2 in
paragraph 1?
(A) Sentence 2 provides an example of the idea
stated in sentence 1.
(B) Sentence 2 explains the result of a research
introduced in sentence 1.
(C) Sentence 2 provides research finding that
contradicts the idea in sentence 1.
(D) Sentence 2 offers a solution to the problems
stated in sentence 1.
(E) Sentence 2 elaborates the idea explained in
sentence 1.

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