Text for 1-3.
The number of e-cigarettes sold is
Electronic cigarettes: Are they safer
than tobacco? Or are they a high-tech way to
hook a new generation on a bad nicotine
habit?
Research into the effect of e-cigarettes
lags behind their popularity. But ready or
not, the era of e-cigarette is here. It‟s a
booming, billion-dollar industry - on track to
outsell tobacco products within a decade.
The number of teens and tweenagers
(children between the ages of about 10 and
14) using these products doubled between
2011 and 2012.
1. What does the passage say about the
effects of e-cigarettes? The passage …
a. says that the effects are popular.
b. says that the research of the effect of
e-cigarettes is still insufficient
c. says that the effects are good for teens
and tweenagers.
d. says that the effects are high-tech.
e. provides no information about the ef-
fects.
2. From the passage above, which sentence
is a prediction?
a. Electronic cigarettes: Are they safer
than tobacco? Or are they a high-tech
way to hook a new generation on a
bad nicotine habit?
b. Research into the effects of e-
cigarettes lags behind their popularity.
c. It‟s a booming, billion-dollar industry
- on track to outsell tobacco products
within a decade.
d. The number of teens and tweenagers
(children between the ages of about 10
and 14) using these products doubled
between 2011 and 2012.
e. Nothing.
3. Which one is TRUE according to the
text?
a. Electronic cigarettes are safer than to-
bacco.
b. E-cigarette effects are unpopular.
c. The number of people using e-
cigarettes has double between 2011-
2012.
d.
greater than that of normal tobacco
products.
e. Some teens use e-cigarettes.
Text for 4-8.
Marie Curie was a Polish-born French
scientist who, with her husband, Pierre Curie
(1859-1906). was an early investigator of
radioactivity. From 1896. the Curies worked
together. building on the results of Henri
Becquerel. who had discovered radioactivity
from uranium salts. Marie Curie discovered
that thorium also emits radiation and found
that the mineral pitchblende was even more
radioactive than could be accounted for by
any uranium and thorium content. The
Curies then carried out an exhaustive search
and in July 1898 announced the discovery of
polonium, followed in December of that year
with the discovery of radium. They shared
the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics with
Becquerel for the discovery of radioactivity.
The Curies did not participate In
Becquerel‟s discovery but investigated
radioactivity and gave the phenomenon its
name. Marie Curie went on to study the
chemistry and medical applications of
radium, and was awarded the 1911 Nobel
Prize for chemistry in recognition of her
work in isolating the pure metal.
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Marie Curie helped to equip ambulances
with X-ray equipment and drove the
ambulances to the front lines. The
International Red Cross made her head of its
Radiological Service. She taught medical
orderlies and doctors how to use the new
technique. By the late 1920s. her health
began to deteriorate: continued exposure to
high energy radiation had given her
leukemia. She entered a sanatorium and died
on July 4. 1934.
Throughout much of her life, Marie
Curie was poor. and the painstaking radium
extractions were carried out in primitive
con-ditions. The Curies refused to patent any
of their discoveries, wanting them to benefit
everyone freely. They used the Nobel Prize
money and other financial rewards to
finance further research. One of the
outstanding applications of their work has
been the use of radiation to treat cancer, one
form of which cost Marie Curie her life.
4. Which one is TRUE according to the
passage?
a. Marie Curie and her husband
discovered radioactivity from uranium
salts.
b. Marie Curie got only one Nobel Prize
for physics.
c. The Curies had worked together with
Becquerel in a research.
d. Marie Curie financed her researches
with their patent money.
e. Marie Curie participated in the World
Wars
5. Why didn‟t the Curies patent their
discoveries?
a. They already had some money from
Nobel Prize.
b. They were considered wealthy at that
time.
c. They wanted their research to be used
freely.
d. They were already famous.
e. Becquerel had already patented their
discoveries.
6. The phrase “the pure metal” (paragraph
1) refers to …
a. uranium.
b. radiation.
c. thorium.
d. radium.
e. polonium.
7. From the text we know the following,
EXCEPT …
a. A research of the Curies was based on
a Becquerel‟s research.
b. Marie Curie passed away after Pierre
Curie had passed away.
c. The curies had discovered polonium
before radium.
d. The mineral pitchblende was more
radioactive than thorium content.
e. Nobel Prize only recognized Marie
Curie and Becquerel for the discovery
of radioactivity.
8. What is the best title of the passage?
a. How Radioactivity Changed the
World.
b. Science and its applications.
c. The Discoveries of Marie Curie.
d. The Competition between Marie Curie
and Henri Becquerel.
e. The History of Radioactivity.
Text for 09-15.
Between 13,000 and 12,600 years ago,
members of the Clovis culture appeared in
North America, where they made and used
distinctive stone-tipped spears to hunt
mammoth, bison and mastodon. Until
recently, all that archeologists knew about
the Clovis people came from studying their
tools, which have been unearthed at wide-
ranging sites across the country. Now, DNA
analysis of a single human skeleton-that of a
one-year-old boy buried in a rocky field in
modern-day Montana - has allowed
scientists to link the Clovis culture to Native
Americans throughout the Western Hemi-
sphere.
Construction crews first discovered the
ancient remains of an infant in 1968 on
private property owned by the Anzick family
in western Montana. Dubbed Anzick-1, the
one-year-old boy is the only human skeleton
that has been identified as a member of the
widespread, sophisticated Ice-Age culture
known as Clovis. Now, a team of scientists
has succeeded in mapping the infant‟s DNA,
in the oldest genome sequence of an Ameri-
can individual ever performed. According to
their findings, published in the journal Na-
ture in February 2014, the Clovis people are
direct ancestors of many Native Americans
now living in North America, and can be
linked to many native peoples in Central and
South American as well.Up to this point, all
scientists studying the Clovis culture had to
go on where the stone and bone tools have
been found at sites ranging from Washington
State to Flor-ida, along with many states in
between. By sequencing the genome of the
infant recov-ered a t the Anzick s i te, the
international team of researchers gained the
most vivid insight yet about who these
people might actually have been. They
compared the DNA of the Clovis infant to
several different genomes, including a
24,000 -year-old sample from a young man
buried on the banks of Lake Baikal in
Siberia, a 7,000-year-old sample from Spain
and a 4,000-year-old sample from
Greenland. The Clovis DNA showed the
most similarity with that of the Siberian
youth, whom scientists genetically linked
with today‟s Native Ameri-cans late last
year.
The new study adds to existing
archeological evidence that Native American
descended from humans who migrated to
North America from Asia through Siberia
around 15,000 years ago. They are believed
to have made the voyage across the Bering
land bridge, which connected Asia with
North America during the last Ice Age.
According to archeologist Michael Waters of
Texas A&M University, a member of the
team who conducted the new study, the
genetic evidence “strongly suggests that
there was a single migration of people into
the Americas … [T]hese people were
probably the people who eventually gave
rise to Clovis.”
Such evidence casts doubt on other
theories arguing that Clovis‟ ancestors came
from Europe, rather than Asia. Such
hypotheses rely partially on the fact that the
“Clovis points” found on their tools and
weapons are so similar to the flint tools used
by the Solutrean culture, which flourished in
Spain and France during the Ice Age.
While Anzick-1 showed the most
genetic similarities with Native Americans
in North America, the study also revealed
ties with the indigenous peoples of Central
and South America. The team‟s data
indicates that sometime between 13,000 and
24,000 years ago, the same ancient people
that arrived from Asia split into two
lineages: One gave rise to Clovis and
today‟s Native Americans of North
America, and the other became the ancestors
of Central and South American tribes.
The scientists studying Anzick-1 have
worked closely with Native American tribes
in Montana, sharing the results of the study
with them and ensuring that the remains
were treated appropriately. The infant will
be reburied later this year, on the same
property from which he was unearthed. For
their part, the tribes have shown little
surprise at the scientists‟ conclusions. Shane
Doyle, a professor of Native American
History at Montana State University and co-
author on the study, is also a member of the
Crow tribe. As he told NBC News, after
conversations with more than 100 tribe
members, the main reaction was “We have
no reason to doubt that we‟ve been here for
this long.”
9. What was Clovis?
a. a widespread. sophisticated Ice Age
culture in North America.
b. a culture that existed in Greenland
about 4.000 years ago.
c. a culture that flourished in Spain and
France during the Ice Age.
d. a culture that gave rise to Central and
South American tribes.
e. a skeleton found in Montana.
10. The text describes a possible
sequence of human descent. At the end of
the sequence are Native Americans. What
people are at the beginning of the
sequence?
a. People who migrated from Asia to
North America about 15,000 years
ago.
b. Tribes living in Central and South
America today.
c. People who were living in Greenland
about 4,000 years ago.
d. People who were living in Spain about
7.000 years ago.
e. The Crow Tribe.
11. The Clovis people descended from
humans who migrated to North America
from Asia through Siberia around 15,000
years ago.
What evidence supports this theory?
a. the similarity between DNA of a
Clovis infant and the DNA of a
member of the Crow tribe.
b. the similarity between the DNA of a
Clovis infant and the DNA of a person
from Iceland who lived 4,000 years
ago.
 c. the similarity between the DNA of a
Clovis infant and the DNA of a person
from Spain who lived 7,000 years ago.
d. the similarity between the DNA of a
Clovis infant and the DNA of a
Siberian youth who lived 24,000 years
ago.
e. the similarity between the DNA of a
Clovis infant and the DNA of all
European people.
12. What is the main idea of the
passage?
a. Construction crews discovered the
ancient remains of an infant in 1968 in
western Montana.
b. Similarities exist between the tools of
the Clovis people and the tools used
by members of the Solutrean culture.
c. DNA analysis of an ancient infant‟s
remains has allowed scientists to link
the Clovis culture to Native
Americans.
d. Scientists studying the remains of an
ancient infant worked closely with
Native American tribes in Montana to
ensure that the remains were treated
appropriately.
e. DNA analysis of an ancient infant‟s
remains has been approved by
scientists.
13. The Clovis people descended from
humans living in Europe.
What evidence supports this theory?
a. the similarity between the tools of the
Clovis people and the tools of people
in Siberia.
b. the similarity between the tools of the
Clovis people and the tools of people
in Montana.
c. the similarity between the tools of the
Clovis people and the tools of people
in France and Spain.
d. the similarity between the tools of the
Clovis people and the tools of people
in Greenland.
e. the similarity between the tools of the
Clovis people and tools of people in
the Crow tribe.
14. Read this sentence from the text.
„According to their findings, published
this week in the journal Nature, the
Clovis people are direct ancestors of
many Native Americans now living in
North America. and can be linked to
many native peoples in Central and South
America as well.‟
What does the author mean by writing
that the Clovis can be linked to many
native peoples in Central and South
America?
a. The author means that many native
peoples in Central and South America
could communicate with the Clovis
people.
b. The author means that many native
peoples in Central and South America
are related to the Clovis people.
c. The author means that the Clovis
people used the same technology as
many native peoples in Central and
South America.
d. The author means that the Clovis
people got along well with many
native peoples in Central and South
America.
e. The author means that the Clovis
people went to war with many native
peoples in Central South America.
15. Read these sentences from the text..
„While Anzick-1 showed the most
genetic similarities with Native
Americans in North America. the study
also revealed ties with the indigenous
peoples of Central and South America.
The team‟s data indicates that sometime
between 13.000 and 24,000 years ago, the
same ancient people that arrived from
Asia split into two lineages: One gave
rise to Clovis and today‟s Native
Americans of North America, and the
other became the ancestors of Central and
South American tribes.‟
What word could bet replace While in the
first sentence?
a. Currently.
b. Although.
c. Consequently.
d. Finally.
e. If.
Text for 16-20
L.L Zamenhof would later say that he
had dreamed of a world language since he
was a child. At first he considered a revival
of Latin , but after learning it in school he
decided it was too complicated to be a
common means of in-ternational
communication. When he learned English,
he realized that verb conjugations were un-
necessary, and that grammatical systems
could be much simpler than he had expected.
He still had the problem of memorizing a
large vocabu-lary, until he noticed two
Russian signs labeled Швейцарская –
from швейцар, which means porter’s house
and porter, respectively – and
Кондитерская – from кондитер, which
mean a confectioner’s shop and
confectioner, respectively. He then realized
that a judicious use of affixes could greatly
decrease the number of root words needed
for communication.
He chose to take his vocabulary from
Romance and Germanic , the languages that
were most widely taught in schools around
the world and would therefore be
recognizable to the largest number of people.
Zamenhof taught an early version of the
lan-guage to his high-school classmates.
Then, for several years, he worked on
translations and po-etry to refine his
creation. In 1895 he wrote, "I worked for six
years perfecting and testing the language,
even though it had seemed to me in 1878
that it was already completely ready." When
he was ready to publish, the Czarist censors
would not allow it. Hampered, he spent his
time in translating works such as the Bible
and Shake-speare . This enforced delay led
to continued improvement. In July 1887 he
published his first book Unua Libro, a basic
introduction to the lan-guage. This was
essentially the language spoken today.
16. Who is L.L Zamenhof as stated in
passage?
a. He was a language teacher.
b. He was the creator of Esperanto.
c. He translated many languages to Espe-
ranto.
d. He was a fan of the Bible and Shake-
speare.
e. He worked for a publishing company.
17. Which one id NOT TRUE
according to paragraph 2?
a. Zamenhof created the early Esperanto
in high school.
b. Zamenhof had ever worked as a
transla-tor.
c. Because of a censorship policy.
Zamen-hof’s publication had been
delayed.
d. Esperanto is spoken today.
e. The first Zamenhof book Unua Libro
has yet to be published.
18. Why did Zamenhof decide to take
his vo-cabulary from Romance and
Germanic lan-guages? Because….
a. Romance and Germanic languages had
difficult grammar.
b. Romance and Germanic languages had
greater exposure to people.
c. Romance and Germanic languages had
a lot of strong vocabulary.
d. Romance and Germanic languages had
many affixes(IMBUHAN KATA).
e. Romance and Germanic language
learn-ing were still limited.
19. What can be inferred from paragraph
1?
a. L.L Zemenhof thought that Latin was
too complicated to use globally.
b. Latin language was not quite used by
people anymore.
c. English was a global language.
d. Russian language had a larger number
of root words.
e. Verb conjugations in English was al-
ready much simpler.
20. What is the topic of the passage?
a. the revival of Latin.
b. the early creation of Esperanto
c. L.L Zamenhof as a child
d. Esperanto versus English
e. the vocabulary of Esperanto
Text for 21 -26
When parents have high hopes for their
children’s academic achievement, the
children tend to do better in school, unless
those hopes are unrealistic, in which case the
children may not perform well in school,
according to re-search published by the
American Psychological Association.
Our research revealed both positive and
negative aspects of parents’ aspiration for
their children’s academic performance.
Although pa-rental aspiration can help
improve children’s aca-demic performance,
excessive parental aspiration can be
poisonous,‖ said lead author Kou Mura-
yama, PhD, of the University of Reading.
The study was published in the Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology®.
Murayama and his colleagues analyzed
data from a longitudinal study from 2002-07
of 3,530 secondary school students (49.7
percent female) and their parents in Bavaria,
Germany. The study assessed student math
achievement as well as parental aspiration
(how much they want their child to earn a
particular grade) and expectation (how much
they believe their child can achieve a certain
grade) on an annual basis.
They found that high parental aspiration
led to increased academic achievement, but
only when it did not overly exceed realistic
expecta-tion. When aspiration exceeded
expectation, the children’s achievement
decreased proportion-ately.
To reinforce the results, the researchers
at-tempted to replicate the main findings of
the study using data from a two-year study
of over 12,000 U.S. students and their
parents. The re-sults were similar to the
German study and pro-vided further
evidence that parents’ overly high
aspirations are associated with worse
academic performance by their kids.
Previous psychological research has
found the association between aspiration and
academic achievement, but this study
highlights a caveat, said Murayama.
Much of the previous literature
conveyed a simple, straightforward message
to parents — aim high for your children and
they will achieve more,‖ said Murayama. In
fact, getting parents to have higher hopes for
their children has often been a goal of
programs designed to improve academic
performance in schools. This study suggests
that the focus of such educational pro-grams
should not be on blindly increasing paren-tal
aspiration but on giving parents the informa-
tion they need to develop realistic
expectations.
Unrealistically high aspiration may
hinder academic performance. Simply
raising aspiration cannot be an effective
solution to improve suc-cess in education,‖
he said.
21. Which one is TRUE according to the
text?
a. parental aspiration may decrease stu-
dents academic achievement
b. children do better in school whather
parental aspiration is high or not
c. the US study has rebutted the german
study
d. the academic achievement measured
in the german study involves german
and math achievements
e. ambitious parents always lead to
ambi-tious and more intelligent
students
22. Which data are collected in the
German re-search?
a. Math achievement and parental mathe-
matical performance.
b. Some positive and negative aspects of
parental aspiration.
c. Students’ math achievement, parental
aspiration, and parental expectation.
d. Students’ math achievement, hope,
and ambition.
e. How parental aspiration can influence
children’s academic performance.
23. What is the goal of the US study as
shown in paragraph 5?
a. to measured parental aspiration
b. to change the results of the german
study
c. to support the results of the aforemen-
tioned German study
d. to tackle the problems of low
academic achievement in students
e. to create an environment where stu-
dents can achieve higher in learning
24. What make the German and Us
studies dif-ferent from much of the
previous literature? (paragraph 7)
The German and the US studies ….
a. analyze academic achievement only
from math subject, while the
previous literature analyze academic
achievement from numerous school
subjects.
b. find that aspirations of parents may
not always result in good academic
perform-ance.
c. provide association between parental
aspiration and students’ academic
achievement.
d. used data from Germany and the
United States, while the previous
literature used data from the rest of
the world.
e. propose that parents should lower
their aspiration toward students’
grades.

25. The passage mostly tells us that ...

a. parents should not involve in
children’s academic performance
b. parents should copy the experiment
in Germany
c. parents expecting too much may
harm a child academic achievement
d. a student must not take parental
advice to be a better performer at
school
e. parents need to aim higher for their
chil-dren

26. The underlined word ―hinder‖ (last

para-graph) is mostly similiar to ...
a. Hamper
b. Facilitate
c. Affect
d. Increase
e. enlarge