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1.
Doctor
Take this medicine for a week and you'll start to feel better.
Patient
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Doctor
Are you sure? It's the best on the market.
Patient
Yes I am. Can you please prescribe another one?
2.
Jake
How did you like the movie you saw last night?
Karen
I can't say it was the best I've ever seen.
Jake
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Karen
Certainly not. Do not waste your time.
B) Hadn't you read the reviews before you went to see it?
3.
Father
What? You crashed the car again?
Son
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Father
I'm sure it wasn't. This is the third accident you have had this year.
Son
You're very angry now, dad. We had better talk about this later on.
A) I do apologize. I promise it won't happen again.
E) Why do you ask? Don't you know it's too late now?
4.
Chuck
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Sue
Why do you think so?
Chuck
Whenever we meet, she pretends not to see me.
Sue
I don't thin k it's because she hasn't got over her anger. She's having
a bad time at work nowadays.
5.
Tom
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Mary
Are you kidding? We are in June.
Tom
So what? What's wrong with June?
Mary
The right time to trim your roses is the beginning of winter, when they
lose their flowers.
A) Are you going to plant those roses in your garden in June or July?
B) Can you help me prune the roses in the garden at the weekend?
D) Have you got any idea what the right time is to shorten rose plants?
A) the level of trust between them will always remain, at best, tenuous
3. You had better take your mobile phone with you ----.
E) in case you may not find one when you are in need of it
4. ---- when they learned that the chairman would not be able to join the meeting.
B) When they realized why they were all there in that early time of the
day
C) It wasnt until they got a phone call about an urgent meeting the next
day
D) However professional they tried to be seen
Find the sentences that are closest in meaning to the one given
1. She realized the danger she had been in only after she had read the
newspaper the following morning.
A) Although she was aware of the danger, she didnt get frightened.
B) She realized what kind of dangers one might have had when he was
reading a paper.
C) When she read the newspaper, she found herself in a danger she had
already realized.
D) She was lucky that she had survived the danger as the papers
expressed.
E) She hadnt been aware of the danger she was in until she read the
newspaper.
4. I had known that my mother was sick as a result of a failing kidney, but I
had not realized how much trouble my parents were having in dealing with that
sickness.
D) I hadnt realized the problems they had to deal with until my parents
told me about my mothers illness.
1.
I was only 4 years old when my dad was working with elephants, lions and tigers. ----.
When I was 14, I was already taking care of and raising baboons and lion cubs, leopard
cats and other animals. At 17, I began working professionally with elephants. I did that
for about 8 years and then gave it up. I have been working in the construction business
since then.
E) They are the type of animal that demands food all the time
2.
You need a total of about 60 minutes of physical activity a day. Here is the good news. --
--. Five or ten minute sessions of physical activities throughout the day are just as good
for you. These may include walking, jogging, running, and riding a bike.
A) It will give you lots of ideas for staying fit and healthy
C) You should turn off that television and get moving instead
3.
----. And they are certainly right. Sunscreen protects your ski n from ultraviolet light
rays. Too much ultraviolet is bad for your skin. If you spend a long time outside without
any sunscreen on, you might get a sunburn because of the ultraviolet rays.
A) Ultraviolet light can get rid of bacteria in eggs and apple and make
them safer to eat
B) Your parents tell you to wear sunscreen when you're outside in the
summer
C) When we are outdoors, we are exposed to pollens and dust, and other
irritants
D) However, they can also trigger asthma attacks, which are more serious
Insects
Insects are found throughout the world except on the poles. Fossil records indicate that many
species exist today in much the same form as they did 200 million years ago. Their enormous
biological success is attributed to their small size, and the remarkable adaptive abilities of the
group as a whole, shown by the enormous variety in body structure and way of life. The
mouth parts may be adapted to chewing, sucking or lapping and the legs for running, jumping
or swimming. Insects may feed on plants or prey upon other small animals or parasitize larger
ones; they may be omnivorous or highly specialized in their diets. They display a remarkable
variety of adaptive shapes and colors that may serve either as camouflage or as warning. So
me have stinging spines or hairs and blistering or noxious secretions, used for defense.
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1. According to the passage, insects ----.
C) cannot swim well enough to live in water so they prefer to live on land
2. We can understand from the passage that insects have achieved to maintain
their existence for a very long time ----.
C) why insects are not able to live in some parts of the world
Practice of Medicine
Modern scientific and technological developments in the practice of medicine and public
health have drawn nursing into new and wider fields of activity, and its functions have
been expanded accordingly. Therefore, nursing is no longer limited mainly to activities
within the hospital, or to what is called curative nursing. It has become also a
community service in which preventive and rehabilitative functions are a vital part of its
program. The modern concept of nursing considers the hospital, however central, as only
one of many health agencies in the community.
C) hospitals are not the only setting where people receive care or support
E) nursing care is not vital to the core competency of hospitals any more
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2. One can infer from the passage that ----.
A) nurses were treating more people in the patient's own home in the past
C) nurses don't see the hospital and clinic as important units in the
community health program
E) nursing shortage has had significant consequences during the past few
years
3. According to the passage, the nurse's function has been expanded because
of ----.
B) hospitals, which are the most common work environments for nurses
C) one should take the necessary medications upon catching the disease
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3. It is pointed out in the reading that ----.
D) one doesn't need to take any medicine if he has a cold or the flu
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. C
6. E
7. C
8. D
9. C
10. E
11. D
12. B
Atmosphere of Venus
Data from the Pioneer spacecraft of NASA apparently prove the theory that the high
surface temperature of Venus is due to an atmospheric greenhouse effect caused mainly
by a blanket of carbon dioxide. Such a greenhouse effect is created when energy in the
form of sunlight easily passes through a planet's atmosphere, warms its surface, and is
converted to heat radiation that is then held in by the atmosphere from top to bottom.
Venus has a relatively thin atmosphere like the Earth's, but Venus' atmosphere consists
of more than ninety percent carbon dioxide, compared to less than four percent in that
of the Earth. Because of its higher percentage of carbon dioxide, Venus' atmosphere
traps much more heat radiation than does the Earth's. Thus, the Venus studies are
believed to be important to the understanding of possible adverse effects on the Earth's
agriculture that could result from the long-term use of fossil fuels, which add carbon
dioxide to the atmosphere.
1. According to the passage, data from the Venus study can be used to ----.
E) is far colder than the atmospheres of other planets in our solar system
C) the more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the warmer the world will
tend to get
D) lack of atmosphere causes a very high surface temperature on Venus
A) know that information is sent from the long term memory to the
hippocampus
B) have found out why some of the information is lost in the hippocampus
C) don't know exactly how the information is transferred from one area of
the brain to another
A) the brain was not considered as a highly complex organ in the past
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7. As we understand from the reading, Vera Petrova ----.
B) is a curious child
8. It is pointed out in the reading that Vera Petrova loses the ability to
perceive objects with her fingers ----.
A) Vera Petrova's father asks her why she keeps the old newspapers in
the locked safe
C) Vera can't perceive objects with her skin unless she is blindfold
A) the wreckages of some ships and planes have been found in the
Bermuda Triangle
C) the ships. and the planes couldn't contact with their base due to the
lack of equipment.
D) most of the missing planes could contact with their base by their own
special means until the very moment of disappearing
Four words or phrases, labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4, are given below the conversation. Choose the
word or phrase that will correctly complete the conversation. Click on the answer you
think is correct.
4. Don't leave your books near the open fire. They might easily _____.
catch to fire
catch the fire
catch on fire
catch with fire
14. The social worker _____ the two old sisters who were ill.
called to the house of
called on the house of
called to
called on
18. Our company didn't pay _____ for that banner advertisement.
much funds
many funds
many money
much money
20. Tom was thrilled to be _____ such a beautiful and interesting lady.
introduced
introduced at
introduced with
introduced to
22. "It is not very cold. I don't think we need these big jackets."
"I don't think so, _____."
anyway
neither
either
too