Paragraph 1 Mines are perhaps the most terrible weapons of modern wars because they kill soldiers during wartime and because they can kill or injure innocent civilians in peacetime. When the war in Bosnia ended in 1996, people were happy but they knew that they were still in danger since there were about six million mines hidden in ex-Yugoslavia. A lot of these mines have now been found and removed: but doing this is very dangerous. A person may be walking along a path through the fields, and suddenly, the ground explodes under his feet Sometimes mines are found by chance bby young children, who start playing with them as if they were toys. The consequences can be fatal. 1. What is the topic of the paragraph? (rent 2. What is a "land mine"? (poi) 3. Why do children sometimes play with them? = 4. Why can the consequences be fatal? pst) 5. What does by chance mean? >)Paragraph 2 At2 pm on 5 December 1945, five US bombers took off fiom Fort Lauderdale in the USA for a ‘raining fight in perfect weather Shortly afterwards, the pilots radioed that their flight instruments ‘were all malfunctioning. Two hours after take-off, all contact with the planes was lost. A. reconnaissance plane was immediately dispatched to search for the missing planes. Within 20 ‘minutes, radio contact with it had also been lost. No trace of any of the planes was ever found. In all, six planes and 27 men had vanished into the air. The disappearance of the six planes was far from being the first mysterious incident in the ares: for years, navigational problems and strange magnetic forces had been reported. The disappearance was uot even the greatest disaster within the Bermuda Triangle. The Cyclops, a 19,000-ton US vessel was sailing from Barbados to Norfolk ‘Virginia. In March 1918, when it vanished with its crew of 309 from the surface of the ocean ‘without making a distress call and without the slightest wreckage ever being found 1. What is the main idea of the paragraph? (20s) 2. Avcording tothe passage, what happened to the planes? 7 >= 4, Whatis The Cyclops? == 5. What does “a distess call” mean? 2°59‘Paragraph 3 elf a billion people in Asia and AGica depend on bananas, Bananas provide the largest source of calories and are eaten daily. Its name is synonymous with food. But the day of reckoning may be coming forthe Cavendish and is indigenous kin. Black Sigatska afoagal disease, has become a alotal epidemic since its fst appearance in Ft in 1963. Left to sl, black Sigatoka ~ which ‘uses brov wounds oa loves and premature fruit sipening- ents fruit yields by 50 0 70 percent and reduces the productive lifetime of banana plants from 30 years tas litle as? or 3. Commercial rowers keep black Sieatoka at bey by a massive chemical assault. Forty sprayings of fangicide a year is typical. But despite the fungicides, diseases such as black Sigatoka are geting more and ‘mere difficult to contol. “As soon as you bring in anew fungicide, thes develop resistance.” says Frson. “One thing we canbe sure of i that back Sieataka won't oxe an this bate” Door farmers, ‘who cannat afford chemicals, have it even Worse, They ean do hntle mote than watching thes plants die. "Most ofthe banara fields in Amazonia have already een destrayed by the disease,” says Luadiz Gasparcto, Brazil's leading banana pathologist with the government research agency EMBRAPA. Production is likely to fall by 70 pr ceat asthe disease spreads, he predicts. The only option wil be to finda new variety 1. Whats the passage mainly about? Gm) 2. What problem does the black Sigatoka cause? == 3. Why ace the diseates geting more and more dificult to control? @r) 4. What docs the word “pathologist mean? =) The word “they” refers to? romParagraph “The clits sadet and ansar movements of te 150s and 1860s peace lage ‘nunbercyomng neuen ate Lie een nh en stot seme {hese acts sled suntan totem equa fw Amence Tithe 1560 a ‘Splint adeancesn the ngs of women Responding ois tying by wae, Presiden oka F Keanedy sa 1961, ceil « Commsion on fv sate of ome. The cmmisoa ert pe) csc Tt athe oes conte ob cod cas (learn Anes de oie vacant of sass conamirone Lo 166, ‘ety Eredar aon, of ti bes Tie Pembina tig, eda aor oa (he Sat port ional fix xgizuson ia Amaia since Seas B. Autos ‘Neen Nome» Sage Ansocianon The ar egininion we calle oe Non (Cegantatoa fe Wosnas SOW) Eve ods scotia a Ue aoc and ile fee Jn Amaia on sachisoessyeqelemplymsne porn fr eamen Tn 1967, premces ‘by NOW, Lyndoa Zohan fomaly pokes sex dsisngin ia feral enpleymect. ‘Reuse dead thsowed he sien ave sea progress omens gh ene {qe emis te se. 1 Womisbe passage maint abou? (pois) "Ntuthad ety Fiedan doe cate the empomemnet of remen's its? pint) 4 uate bent oe te at tuteet on the parr? a