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Text 1
Mr Biden and Vice-President, Kamala Harris are
expected to be sworn in at a ceremony at the Capitol.
The Biden team had already urged Americans to avoid
travelling to the capital because of the Covid-19
5 pandemic, a call that is now being repeated by local
authorities.
A few weeks before, there was a breach when
thousands of pro-Trump supporters were able to break
into the building where members of Congress were
10 voting to certify the election result.
As the media said, five people died in the riot,
which happened after Mr. Trump repeated
unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the November vote
and encouraged his supporters to march on the
15 Capitol.
Since then, calls for Mr. Trump's resignation,
removal from office or impeachment have grown
among Democrats and some Republicans. Mr. Trump
has made no public statements since he was banned
20 from several social media platforms - including Twitter -
on Friday.
He became the third US president to be
impeached in December 2019 over charges of breaking
the law by asking Ukraine to investigate his rival in the
25 presidential election. The Senate cleared him.
Posts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks
have called for protests on a number of dates, including
armed demonstrations in cities across the country on 17
January and a march in Washington DC on inauguration
30 day itself.
Although the violence at the US Capitol
dominated headlines last week, similar smaller incidents
were also reported elsewhere in the country. Local
police agencies have been told by federal law
35 enforcement to increase security at statehouses. FBI
warnings are in place for all state capitals from 16 to 20
January itself and in Washington DC at least three days
before the inauguration.
40 Companies and social media networks are cracking
down against users and websites seen to be
encouraging violence, including social network
Parler, which said it was suing Amazon for removing it
from its web hosting service.
45 Twitter said it had suspended more than 70,000
accounts that promoted the Q-Anon conspiracy theory
while Facebook said it was banning any content that
refers to Stop the Steal, a slogan associated with Mr.
Trump's claim the election was rigged.
50 The National Park Service announced that it has
closed the Washington Monument to visitors amid
"credible threats" of violence, adding it could also
temporarily close areas of the National Mall and
Memorial Parks.
55 Speaking as he got his second Covid-19 vaccine on
Monday, Mr Biden said he was "not afraid" to take his
oath of office outside despite security fears.
1. The correct statement taken from the passage is …
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A. Mr. Trump accepted the fact that Mr. Biden is the
winner of the election
B. The riot is caused by Mr. Trump accusation of fraud in
November
C. Social media networks do nothing about the riot
D. The violence protest happened in the Capitol only
E. People are still able to visit Washington Monument
2. From the passage, Twitter had suspended accounts that
…
A. Accept the winning of Mr. Biden
B. March to the Capitol on inauguration day
C. Make up conspiracy theories
D. Spread violence and hate crimes
E. Breach into the White House
3. What caused Mr. Trump to become the third president
that was impeached?
A. He joined the armed demonstration
B. He urged Democrats and Republicans to call for
protests
C. He became the third president
D. He was banned from Twitter
E. He asked Ukraine to investigate the presidential
election
4. The word cracking down (line 41) has closest meaning to
…
A. encouraging D. tracking
B. hard E. promoting
C. punishing
Text 2
In March, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,
there was a consensus among health care providers and
public health officials that a vaccine that provided
complete immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that
5 causes COVID-19, would effectively end the pandemic.
At the time, experts suggested that the
development of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine
could be accomplished in 12 to 18 months, even
though vaccine development typically takes about 10
10 years. (In fact, the fastest vaccine ever developed—a
mumps vaccine—still took four years.)
Yet, because of the urgency created by this global
pandemic—and the serious illness and increasing death
rates associated with COVID-19—preclinical and clinical
15 trials to test the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccine
candidates are happening at a rapid, almost frenetic,
pace.
That leaves many Americans concerned about
how safe a COVID-19 vaccine will be. According to
20 a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, the
number of Americans who planned to get a COVID-19
vaccine has fallen from 72% in May to just 51% in
September. What’s more, according to the report, when
asked about the pace of the vaccine approval process,
25 78% say their primary concern "is that it will move too
fast, without fully establishing safety and effectiveness.”
This fear was stoked in early September, when
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the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
told state officials across the country to prepare for the
30 distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine by November 1, just
days before the presidential election. Whether this
vaccine would be granted official licensure from the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or be released by
an emergency use authorization (EUA)—a tool by which
35 the FDA can authorize use of medical products,
including vaccines, that have not completed clinical
trials—is unclear.
Nevertheless, the announcement raised
concerns about undue political influence over the
40 release of a COVID-19 vaccine, leading the chief
executives of nine pharmaceutical companies to publicly
pledge to “make the safety and well-being of vaccinated
individuals” their “top priority,” while stating that they
would only seek approval of a vaccine if a
45 Phase 3 trial establishes that it is both safe and
effective. The pledge aimed to reassure the public that
any vaccine that is approved will have passed all safety
and efficacy checks. But many remain skeptical—and
confused.
5. What caused the preclinical and clinical trials to test the
efficacy and safety of the vaccine to be done rapidly?
A. The urge to develop the mumps vaccine
B. The command from the CDC
C. The need to improve the economy
D. The lack of medical staff globally
E. The rose of the death rates due to COVID-19
6. What mostly caused Americans doubt the efficacy of the
vaccines?
A. The trials of the vaccine that are done too fast
B. The price of the vaccine that is too expensive
C. The fear of COVID-19 virus
D. The urge to end the global pandemic
E. The relation to the presidential election
7. What can be inferred from the text?
A. Public get the vaccine fearlessly only if it is free
B. Public ask the vaccine to be done faster
C. Public are still confused about the vaccine
D. Public really need to vaccine
E. Public want to end the trials of the vaccine
8. In what way is third paragraph related to fourth
paragraph?
A. Third paragraph is the conclusion of the fourth
paragraph
B. Third paragraph explains the cause something
happens in the fourth paragraph
C. Third paragraph is the solution for problem in the
fourth paragraph
D. Third paragraph contradicts the fourth paragraph
E. Third and fourth paragraphs have different argument
Text 3
As the number of coronavirus infections
approaches 100,000 people worldwide, researchers are
racing to understand what makes it spread so easily.
A handful of genetic and structural analyses have
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5 identified a key feature of the virus — a protein on its
surface — that might explain why it infects human cells
so readily.
Other groups are investigating the doorway
through which the new coronavirus enters human
10 tissues — a receptor on cell membranes. Both the cell
receptor and the virus protein offer potential targets for
drugs to block the pathogen, but researchers say it is
too early to be sure.
“Understanding transmission of the virus is key to
15 its containment and future prevention,” says David
Veesler, a structural virologist at the University of
Washington in Seattle, who posted his team’s findings
about the virus protein on the biomedical preprint
server bioRxiv on 20 February.
20 The new virus spreads much more readily than the
one that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome, or
SARS (also a coronavirus), and has infected more than
ten times the number of people who contracted SARS.
To infect a cell, coronaviruses use a ‘spike’ protein
25 that binds to the cell membrane, a process that's
activated by specific cell enzymes. Genomic analyses of
the new coronavirus have revealed that its spike protein
differs from those of close relatives, and suggest that
the protein has a site on it which is activated by a host-
30 cell enzyme called furin.
This is significant because furin is found in lots of
human tissues, including the lungs, liver and small
intestines, which means that the virus has the potential
to attack multiple organs, says Li Hua, a structural
35 biologist at Huazhong University of Science and
Technology in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak
began. The finding could explain some of the symptoms
observed in people with the coronavirus, such as liver
failure, says Li, who co-authored a genetic analysis of
40 the virus that was posted on the ChinaXiv preprint
server on 23 February. SARS and other coronaviruses in
the same genus as the new virus don't have furin
activation sites, he says.
The furin activation site “sets the virus up very
45 differently to SARS in terms of its entry into cells, and
possibly affects virus stability and hence transmission”,
says Gary Whittaker, a virologist at Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York. His team published another structural
analysis of the coronavirus’s spike protein on bioRxiv on
50 18 February.
Several other groups have also identified the
activation site as possibly enabling the virus to spread
efficiently between humans. They note that these sites
are also found in other viruses that spread easily
55 between people, including severe strains of the
influenza virus. On these viruses, the activation site is
found on a protein called haemagglutinin, not on the
spike protein.
Adapted from:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x
9. These are the correct statements about the new virus
and SARS, except …
A. SARS infected more people than the new virus
B. SARS does not infect humans whereas the new virus
does
C. SARS does not spread as readily as the new virus
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D. SARS is caused by furin whereas the new virus does
not
E. SARS cannot be transmitted whereas the new virus can
10. The main idea of 7th paragraph is…
A. There is no specific difference between coronaviruses
B. list of organs that can be infected by the virus
C. the explanation of furin which can cause organs failure
D. the first virus outbreak in Wuhan
E. the dangers of furin in coronaviruses
11. From the passage, it can be inferred that …
A. The new virus and SARS have caused the same damage
B. SARS infected more people than the new coronavirus
C. haemagglutinin causes the organ failure
D. to prevent the virus from spreading, the researchers
have to comprehend the way of transmission
E. the new virus is the same as influenza virus
12. “…the new coronavirus have revealed…”
The word revealed has the closest meaning to…
A. concealed D. made
B. disclosed E. hidden
C. leaked
Text 4
Although hate crime in Canada has been on a slow
rise since 2014, in 2017, it showed a sharp increase —
Statistics Canada says police-reported hate crime in
Canada in 2017 was up 47 per cent over 2016.
5 In terms of actual incidents, police reported 2,073
hate crimes in 2017, compared to 664 in 2016. Incidents
targeting the Muslim, Jewish and Black populations
accounted for most of the national increase, with most
in Ontario and Quebec.
10 Violent hate crimes were down a bit, though. This
jump was largely the result of hate-related property
crimes, such as graffiti and vandalism. Overall
in 2017, 38 per cent of hate crimes were violent, down
from 44 per cent in 2016.
15 The stats further point out that 43 per cent of
2017 hate crimes were motivated by race or ethnicity.
Hate crimes targeting the Black population were up by
more than 50 per cent, and incidents targeting Arab
20 or West Asian populations were up by more than 27 per
cent.
Hate crimes based on religion also grew by more
than 80 per cent, with the biggest rise in incidents
targeting Muslims. While anti-Muslim hate crimes
25 dropped in 2016, the number of reported incidents
more than doubled last year to make a total of 349.
Hate crimes against the Jewish population also
increased for the second consecutive year, rising
from 221 in 2016 to 360 in 2017. Hate crimes against
30 Catholics and other religions also increased last year.
“These attitudes remain prevalent in our society
and this is unacceptable,” stated Brittany Andrew-
Amofah, a board member with the Urban Alliance on
Race Relations, in a statement. “It’s time for political
35 leaders to unequivocally speak out against hate and
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intolerance and in support of a multicultural society
where everyone feels safe to participate and
contribute.”
Despite the large increase, hate crimes in 2017
40 actually represented a small proportion of overall crime
at 0.1 per cent. But this data is only based on hate
crimes reported to the police. Hate crimes are actually
underreported. According to the 2014 General Social
Survey on Canadians’ Safety (Victimization), Canadians
45 self-reported being the victim of over 330,000 criminal
incidents that they perceived as being motivated by
hate, and two-thirds of these incidents were not
reported to the police.
Adapted from:
https://canadianimmigrant.ca/living/community/big-
rise-in-hate-crimes-in-canada-last-year
13. The passage mainly discusses about …
A. the unreported hate crimes in Canada
B. the causes of hate crimes in Canada
C. the increase of hate crimes in Canada
D. the decrease of hate crimes in Canada
E. the victims of hate crimes in Canada
14. These statements are NOT mentioned in the passage,
except…
A. more than half hate crimes are caused by race and
ethnicity
B. Victims of hate crimes reported to police
C. All the hate crimes are caused by vandalism
D. Hate crimes against the Muslims did not increase
E. Hate crimes against the Jewish rose in 2017
15. Which of the following best restates the sentence
“Although hate crime in Canada has been on a slow rise
since 2014, in 2017, it showed a sharp increase —
Statistics Canada says police-reported hate crime in
Canada in 2017 was up 47 per cent over 2016” in
paragraph 1?
A. hate crime in 2016 increased by 47% from 2014
B. hate crime increased by 47% from 2016 to 2017
C. hate crime decreased by 47% from 2016 to 2017
D. hate crime in 2016 was higher than in 2017
E. hate crime in 2014 was higher than in 2016
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