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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions.
People used to know more or less how their children would live. Now things are changing
so quickly that they don’t even know what their own lives will be like in a few years’ time. What
follows is not science fiction. It is how experts see the future. You are daydreaming behind the
steering wheel; is it too dangerous? No! That’s no problem because you have it on automatic pilot,
and with its hi-tech computers and cameras, your car “knows” how to get home safe and sound.
What is for lunch? In the old days you used to stop off to buy a hamburger or a pizza. Now you use
your diagnostic machine to find out which foods your body needs. If your body needs more
vegetables and less fat, your food-preparation machine makes you a salad.
After lunch, you go down the hall to your home office. Here you have everything you need
to do your work. Thanks to your information screen and your latest generation computer, you
needn’t go to the office any more. The information screen shows an urgent message from a co-
worker in Brazil. You can instantly send back a reply to him and go on to deal with other matters.
Question 26: What does “its” in line 5 refer to?
A. Your car. B. Your home.C. The future. D. The steering wheel.
Question 27: Which of the following statement is true about life in the future?
A. People will go to work as they do today.
B. Hi-tech equipment will be out of the question.
C. It will be dangerous to drive cars because they are too fast.
D. People can have balanced diets for their meal.
Question 28: According to the passage, what do people use a diagnostic machine for?
A. To make food for them. B. To sell food for humans.
C. To provide them with food. D. To find out which foods their body needs.
Question 29: The word “urgent” in the last paragraph probably means________.
A. expected B. pressing C. unnecessary D. hurry
Question 30: Which of the following is NOT true about life in the future?
A. Eating is a problem because food contains too much fat.
B. There’s no need to concentrate much when people are driving.
C. Contacts between people are almost instant.
D. Getting information is a matter of just a few seconds.
Question 31: What is “reply” CLOSEST in meaning to?
A. answer B. request C. replay D. question
Question 32: What is the main idea of the passage?
A. What foods people will eat in the future. B. The role of the computer in future life.
C. What life is like in the future. D. Life in the future will be the same as life at present.
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct word or phrase that best fits each o f the numbered blanks.
Many American customs will surprise you; the same thing happens to us when we
(33)_______ another country. People from various cultures handle many small daily things
differently. What a dull world it (34)_______ be if this were not true! Some differences are minor,
and people soon become accustomed to them. At (35)_______ , for example, some foreign women
may be startled at the idea of (36)_______ their hair cut or styled by men. Visitors maybe amazed to
see men wearing wigs. People may find the transitory quality of much American life odd, for
example, one (37)_______ rent art by the week or the entire furnishings of an apartment, from sofa
and bed to the last spoon, on less than eight hours’ notice. “Package” living is part of today’s
American scene.
Question 33:A. arrive B. travel C. visit D. come
Question 34:A. would B. can C. may D. will
Question 35:A. least B. first C. all D. last
Question 36:A. having B. giving C. showing D. taking
Question 37:A. shall B. must C. should D. can
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions.
Bees, classified into over 10,000 species, are insects found in almost every part of the
world except the northernmost and southernmost regions. One commonly known species is the
honeybee, the only bee that produces honey and wax. Humans use the wax in making candles,
lipsticks, and other products, and they use the honey as a food. While gathering the nectar and
pollen with which they make honey, bees are simultaneously helping to fertilize the flowers on
which they land. Many fruits and vegetables would not survive if bees did not carry the pollen
from blossom to blossom. Bees live in a structured environment and social structure within a
hive, which is a nest with storage space for the honey. The different types of bees each perform a
unique function. The worker bee carries nectar to the hive in a special stomach called a honey
stomach, other workers make beeswax and shape it into a honeycomb, which is a waterproof mass
of six-sided compartments, or cells. The queen lays eggs in completed cells. As the workers build
more cells, the queen lays more eggs.
All workers, like the queen, are female, but the workers are smaller than the queen. The
male honeybees are called drones; they do no work and cannot sting. They are developed from
unfertilized eggs, and their only job is to impregnate a queen. The queen must be fertilized in
order to lay worker eggs. During the season, when less honey is available and the drones is of no
further use, the workers block the drones from eating the honey so that they will starve to death.
Question 38: Which of the following is the best title for this reading?
A. The Honey Bee - Its Characteristics and Usefulness B. Making Honey
C. The Many Species of Bees D. The Useless Drone
Question 39: According to the passage, the drone_________.
A. comes from eggs fertilized by other drones B. collects less honey than workers
C. mates with the queen and has no other purpose D. can be male or female
Question 40: The author implies that_________.
A. bees are unnecessary in the food chain B. drones are completely dispensable
C. drones are never females D. the queen can be a worker
Question 41: It can be inferred from the passage that beeswax is_________.
A. absorbent B. complex in structure C. pliable D. sweet
Question 42: The word “species” in the first sentence probably means_________.
A. enemies B. mates C. killers D. varieties
Question 43: It is stated in paragraph 2 that a hive is_________.
A. a storage space B. a nest C. a type of bee D. a type of honey
Question 44: The word “They” in the last paragraph refers to_________.
A. queens B. workers C. honeybees D. drones
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Question 45: According to the passage, honey is carried to the hive in a honey stomach by
the_________.
A. workers B. males C. drones D. queens
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines
each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 46: You must read the instructions. You won’t know how to use this machine without
reading them.
A. Reading the instructions, so you will know how to use this machine.
B. You will know how to use this machine unless you read the instructions.
C. Unless you read the instructions, you won’t know how to use this machine.
D. Without reading the instructions, the use of this machine won’t be known.
Question 47: The book is very interesting. My brother bought it yesterday.
A. The book which is very interesting my brother bought yesterday.
B. The book which my brother bought it yesterday is very interesting.
C. The book my brother bought yesterday is not interesting.
D. The book which my brother bought yesterday is very interesting.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in
meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 48: “Are you waiting for your exam result?” she said
A. She asked me if I was waiting for my exam result.
B. She asked me was I waiting for my exam result.
C. She asked me whether was I waiting for the exam result.
D. She asked me whether I was waiting for your exam.
Question 49: They arrived late, so they didn’t have good seats.
A. However late they arrived, they had very good seats.
B. The late arrivers still had good seats.
C. Unless they arrived early, they wouldn’t have good seats.
D. If they had arrived earlier, they might have got good seats.
Question 50: He couldn’t come to the conference because he was seriously ill.
A. Although he was ill, he came to the conference.
B. His illness was very serious that he couldn’t come to the conference.
C. Because of his serious illness, he couldn’t come to the conference.
D. He couldn’t come to the conference, so he became seriously ill.
_________THE END________
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