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Questions 1-4 are based on the following text

A group of frogs were travelling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and ﬁnally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.

1. What happened to the two frogs while they were travelling?
a. The two frogs could not jump higher than others.
b. The two frogs skipped into a deep pit.
c. The two frogs jumped into a deep pit.
d. The two frogs fell into a deep pit.
e. The two frogs played in a deep pit.

2. What did the other frogs do when the two frogs tried to jump up out of the pit?
a. They helped the two frogs.
b. They yelled at the frogs to give up.
c. They ignored the two frogs.
d. They asked for a help from other frogs.
e. They jumped into the deep pit.

3. Why did one frog stop trying and give up?
a. because the other frogs kept telling that they were as good as dead
b. because he was tired of jumping
c. because he broke his leg
d. because the pit was too deep
e. because the other frogs kept encouraging him

4. Which is the best lesson suited to the story?
a. There is power of life and death in the tongue.
b. Be careful of what you say.
c. Don’t judge the book from its cover.
d. Early bird catches the worm.
e. A great talker is a great liar.

Questions 5-7 are based on the following text

Insecticide is a substance that kills insects. Insecticides are sometimes called pesticides.
Farmers and gardeners usually use insecticides to protect plants and animals. Apple trees must be sprayed, or many of the apples will become "wormy" with moth larvae (young). Many livestock owners spray their livestock or dip them in an insecticide solution to protect them from flies, lice, mites, and ticks. These pests spread such diseases as cattle fever and sheep scab. Diseases such as malaria and typhus can be controlled by using insecticides to treat the breeding places of the insects that spread the diseases.
Agricultural pesticides prevent a monetary loss of about $9 billion each year in the U.S. For every $1 invested in pesticides, the American Farmer gets about $4 in return. These benefits, however, must be weighed against the costs to society of using pesticides, as seen in the banning of ethylene dibromide in the early 1980s. These costs include human poisonings, fish deaths, honey bee poisonings, and the contamination of livestock products. The environmental and social costs of pesticide use in the U.S. have been estimated to be at least $1 billion each year. Thus, although pesticides are valuable for agriculture, they also can cause serious harm.

5. What is insecticide?
a. A substance that kills weeds.
b. A substance used to kill insects.
c. A substance used to eradicate malaria and typhus.
d. A substance used to fertilize land.
e. A substance used to kill human being.

6. Apple trees must be sprayed, or many of the apples will become "wormy" with moth larvae. Wormy means…..
a. Be like worms
b. Eaten by worms
c. Killed by worms
d. Full of worms
e. Looks like worms

7. What is the ratio of the cost and the benefit of the using of pesticides?
a. The ratio is 1:4.
b. The ratio is 1:9.
c. The ratio is 4:1.
d. The ratio is 9:1.

Questions 8-10 are based on the following text

Many controversies have sprung around rock music. Those who can not tolerate with this kind of music consider it a negative influence on young people. They do not approve of the way rocker dress and behave. Take for example, Ozzy Osbourne, a famous rock star. He often bit the head of small animals and drank their blood on stage. Such an act is affiliated with Satanism.
There also occasions where teens commit suicide after going to the rock concert or listening to the music. I think such cases show that heavy metal music, underground music or rock music is truly a bad influence.
I feel that we must concern with our young generation. I am appealing the music and entertainment promoters not to invite rockers or give rock concerts, because rock concerts usually present wild impacts on young generation.

8. What is the type of text above?
a. Analytical exposition
b. Hortatory exposition
c. Discussion
d. Explanation
e. Description

9. Which of the following is not true about rock music, according to the text?
a. Rock music is usually associated with Satanism
b. Rock music often leads people to commit a suicide after listening to it
c. Ozzy Osbourne was a famous rock star
d. Rock concerts usually leads people to do brutalism and vandalism
e. Rockers dress appropriately when they are on stage

10. Why did the writer concern with the rock music?
a. Because rock music has caused many controversies
b. Because rock music gives a negative influence on young people
c. Because the writer does not agree with the way rockers dress
d. Because ozzy Ousbourne often drank the blood of small animals
e. Because rock music can encourage the spirit of youth

Questions 11-14 are based on the following text

Europe Breaks Barriers in Fighting Terror

BERLIN: Europe countries are starting to break down the barriers between intelligence and police agencies, sweeping aside concerns about civil rights abuses in hopes of combating terrorism more effectively.
The agencies are starting to cooperate in what are being called “war rooms”, state-of-the-art-communication centers that allow police and intelligence agencies to meet and share information, such as live wiretaps, video or satellite pictures.
The moves have been in the works for more than a year but have taken on a new urgency since terrorist attacks in Spain in March and the killing of Dutch film director, Theo Van Gogh.
Next month, Germany will open its “Terrorism Information and Analysis Center”, according to Jorg Ziercke, the president of the German Federal Police.

11. Combating terrorism more effectively is European countries’ …….
a. Intelligence
b. Cooperation
c. Expectations
d. Barriers
e. Rights

12. “The moves have been in the works for more than a year but have taken on a new urgency….”
The underlined words refer to…
a. War rooms
b. Communication center
c. Police and intelligence agencies
d. Wiretaps and video
e. Satellite pictures

13. What is the type of text above?
a. Report
b. News Items
c. Discussion
d. Explanation
e. Description

14 Why does the writer want to write the text above?
a. Because the writer wants to inform the readers about events of the day
b. Because the writer wants to amuse and entertain the readers
c. Because the writer wants to discuss something occurred
d. Because the writer wants to criticize somebody’s work
e. Because the writer wants to describe specific things

Questions 15-21 are based on the following text

Whales are the largest animals on earth. Bigger than elephants, they may grow 95 feet long, and weigh 150 tons. A baby blue whale, just born, can be 23 feet long and weigh 3 tons. They usually live from 20 – 30 years.
Although whales live in the oceans and swim like fish, they are not fish. They are mammals, like cows and elephants. Unlike fish they bear young alive, not as eggs. Their babies live on their mother’s milk. They breathe through their lungs and hold their breath when they go under water. They are warm-blooded. Fish, however, lay eggs, breathe oxygen in the water, and are cold-blooded.
Whales live in all oceans. In the winter some of them go to warm waters to breed and in the summer most of them go to cold waters to breed and feed. There are two kinds of whales, whales with teeth (toothed whales) and whales without teeth (baleen whales). The toothed whales eat fish and squid, which they can catch with their teeth, although they swallow their food without chewing it. The baleen whales eat plankton (small sea animals and plants). When they find plankton, they open their mouths and swim into the plankton. When they close their mouth they squeeze out the water and swallow the plankton.

15. The difference between whales and fish is that whales….
a. Do not have to come to the surface to get the fresh air
b. Deliver their young like elephants do
c. Will die if they can not get oxygen in the water
d. Are mammals that are cold-blooded
e. Can easily breathe when they are under water

16. A suitable title for the text is…
a. Large animals on earth
b. Difference between whales and elephants
c. Whales, the biggest animals on earth
d. Similarity between fish and whales
e. The life of whales in the oceans

17. Which of the following is true about whales?
a. Whales are generally 95 feet long and weigh 150 tons.
b. A new-born baby whale may weight one-fiftieth of its mother.
c. They are warm-blooded.
d. Like fish, whales can live in all kinds of waters.
e. Their life span is usually longer than human beings.

18. Whales occasionally live in warm waters….
a. To get more food
b. For reproduction
c. To avoid winter
d. For fresh air
e. To feed their babies

19. From the text we may conclude that….
a. A whale can eat both squid and plankton
b. Toothed whales chew their food before swallowing it
c. The two types of whales live in different waters
d. Baleen whales swallow the water containing plankton
e. Each type o whale eats a specific kind of food

20. What is the type of text above?
a. Report
b. News Items
c. Discussion
d. Explanation
e. Description

21. The first paragraph of the text is called a / an….
a. Identification
b. General Classification
c. Orientation
d. Issue
e. Introduction

22. Question 22 is based on the following text

RULES FOR BUS PASSENGERS

1. No smoking.
2. No eating or drinking.
3. All passengers are not allowed to stand in the front of the doorways.
4. Do not talk to distract the bus driver.
5. No objects are to protrude outside windows.
6. No standing or climbing over seats.
7. Do not alight from a moving vehicle.
8. Tickets must be ready for inspection.

Which are the following statements is not mentioned in the rules above?
a. Passengers are not allowed to make a conversation with the driver.
b. Passengers may not put their arms outside the windows.
c. Food and drink cannot be consumed on the bus.
d. Passengers are permitted to leave a moving vehicle.
e. Standing in front of the doorways is prohibited.

Questions 23-26 are based on the following text

Many of us still believe that in order to be healthy we must have eight hours of sleep a night. Otherwise, if we sleep poorly over a period of time, we’ll get lines in our faces, bags under our eyes, a worn look, and the worst of all, be unable to perform our daily tasks effectively.
On the other hand, the thing that we believe is untrue said Dr. Alice Kuhn Schwartz, psychologist and co-author of Somniquest. “You may look awful to yourself, but except for the first hour or so in the morning when you probably will be puffy-eyed due to the depletion of a certain hormone that’s the result of lack of sleep, you’ll soon look like you usual self and perform normally. If you do feel worn , the cause is stress. Also, there is no number of hours you must sleep to maintain good health. Some people get along beautifully on four and a half an hour, others sleep nine hours. Anywhere within that range is normal.

23. “You may look awful to yourself” in paragraph 2 implies that….
a. Others do not look awful
b. You do not see that you look awful
c. Others find that you look awful
d. You think that others do not look well
e. You may look well to others

24. The issue of the txt is….
a. The people’s health
b. How to have a good sleep
c. The process of sleep
d. The controversy of sleep
e. Sleep disorders

25. Which of the following statement is not true according to Dr. Schwartz?
a. Lack of sleep may lead to the depletion of a certain hormone.
b. Some people need more sleep than others.
c. If people do not enough sleep, they will work inefficiently.
d. Stress is the cause of insomnia.
e. Health does depend on the hours of sleep.

26. The communication purpose of the text is….
a. To analyze something worthy in an issue.
b. To explain the readers by persuading.
c. To describe that something should or should not be in the case.
d. To present information and opinions about more than one side issue.
e. To persuade the readers by presenting arguments.

Questions 27-29 are based on the following text

Gardens by Hok
PO BOX 687
1103 Lisbon, Portugal
January 11, 2010
Guy Williams
Landscape Design Magazine
Ottho Heldringstraat 2
1066 AZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Dear Mr. Williams

Thank you for sending the advertising information. We have decided not to place an adv in the December issue, but we will consider placing one in the next issue in March.
We will be in touch. Again thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely yours,

Sov Hok
Landscape Architect

27. What is Sov Hok business?
a. Designing Skyscrapers
b. Designing Gardens
c. Selling Advertising
d. Marketing
e. Manager

28. What did Mr. Hok write this letter?
a. To ask Mr. William for a subscription.
b. To get a job.
c. To place an ad in December.
d. To say he wasn’t interested in placing ad now.
e. To order an ad.

29. How often does the magazine come out?
a. Weekly
b. Monthly
c. Bi-monthly
d. Quarterly
e. Annually

Questions 30-33 are based on the following text

The Office Writer’s Handbook

It is necessary reference work for anyone who has to write for business purposes. It states the rules of English grammar accurately and clearly, and shows you how to apply them to your writing. It also gives approved formats for business letters, reports, and even charts. A special section covers the most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them

30. Who is not a targeted buyer of this book?
a. Students
b. Legal assistants
c. Hotel managers
d. Airline executives
e. Secretary

31. How does the book describe the rules of English Grammar?
a. Clearly and correctly
b. Slowly and carefully
c. Quickly and easily
d. In great deal
e. Obviously

32. What material is covered in the special section?
a. A sample charts
b. Writing formats
c. Sample business letters
d. Common mistakes
e. Vocabulary

33. The above text is in the form of a / an…
a. Explanation
b. Announcement
c. Advertisement
d. Brochure
e. Message

Questions 34-35 are based on the following text

Artist: Leslie Feist
Album: Let It Die
In the age of excess, it takes more than just courage to embrace simplicity and a stripped down approach to the music. For a Canadian indie pop singer, Leslie Feist, a minimalist approach are warmth and excellent. With a touch of jazz and trip hop around the edges, her music really kicks off.
Armed only with an acoustic guitar, drum loops, thin-sounding, keyboards and jazz-tinged vocals, Feist triumphantly assembled a recors of 13 flawlessly sunny pop songs bearning with simple beauty.
Over thin layer of ethereal soundscape, Feist croons fluid vocals that feel like drops of morning dew falling from a pine tree, as in now at Last and Lover’s Split. In fact, Feist’s vocals alone could send listeners swooning.
Feist’s craft here hides a wilder past. She was a member of a punk outfit in Calgary called Placebo that once opens the Ramones. The only elements of punk that still remain are spontaneity and naturalness.

34. Which statement is correct according to the text?
a. It is easy to embrace a simple idea and stripped down approach to music.
b. In her new album, Leslie Fist only plays an accoustc guitar.
c. It is a sophisticated album armed with an acoustic guitar, drum loops, and thin-sounding keyboard.
d. ‘Let It Die’ is an album with 13 pop songs sung by a Canadian indie pop singer, Leslie Feist.
e. Lover’s spit was a unk band in Calgary that once opened for the Ramones.

35. The reviewer comments that ‘Let It Die” by Feist is….
a. Awful
b. Uninteresting
c. Great
d. Natural
e. Boring