SECTION 1

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Time: Approximately 30 minutes 50 questions

PART A

In Part A , you will hear short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a third voice will ask a question about what was said. The question will be spoken just one time. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible anwers and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and mark your answer.

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PART B

DIRECTION

In Part B, you will hear longer conversation, after each conversation, you will be asked some question. The conversation and question will be spoken just one time. They will not be written out for you, so you will have to listen carefully in order to understand and remember what the speakers says.

When you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your test book and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

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PART C

DIRECTION

In Part C, You will hear several talks. After each talk, you will be asked some questions. The talks and questions will be spoken just one time. They will not be written out for you, so you will have to listen carefully in order to understand and remember what the speaker says.

When you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your test book and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have choosen.

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1. The teacher…………two interesting stories yesterday.

2. They always ……… cups of tea every day.

3. We were watering this plant yesterday morning. Anne……….. the flower at the same time tomorrow.

4. Both Max and his friend have breakfast every morning, …………?

5. Ms. Jean was very thirsty. She ……… 3 glasses of water.

6. James didn’t go anywhere. He just stayed at home…………..

7. They did the task seriously, ………. ?

8. The man …….a new car last night.

9. Yesterday morning a cake …………… by my mom.

10. ………….was late caused a lot of trouble.

11. Jimmy is……………up Mary’s dirty socks

12. I like fresh air and like to have the windows open, but he………….the windows.

13. The police jumped up and down and………she heard the news.

14. With the coming of spring, the river…………….several villages.

15. The airplane departed at six and ………. at eight.

16. Mr. William has trouble with his car yesterday, so he was late to go to course at the time.

17. Coffee usually is drinking by Ollie everyday but this morning he drank a cup of milk.

18. We had a wonderful dinner last night to celebrate our 25^th wedding anniversary, hadn’t we?

19. When we was looking in on the baby Last night, He was sleeping. I think He dreamt about something nice because he smiled.

20. The more you study hard without caring of everything, better you get the yield of what you did.

21. My uncles would be at the airport if the plane was there in time.

22. Another cars are coming to this country as the president’s request.

23. Humor can easing the trials and tribulations of life.

24. Jane had asked you many times to not take a part in that convoy.

25. Based on the research, a dog is more easy to teach than a cat.

26. I can not see clear if you block the television.

27. Mr james would like to invite both his neighbour or even his family.

28. The weather in the southern states get very hot during the summer.

29. The results of Dr. Noll’s experiment was published in a scientific journal.

30. The most we dream, the closer we reach our dream.

31. Each student in the class have to have a book.

32. Mrs. Hoover gave a present to each children in this village.

33. Tonight I have to read 20 pages in my history book, do 30 problems in algebra, and writing a composition for my English teacher.

34. Ann took three suitcase, a shoulder bag, and a cosmetics case.

35. They have a rusty car without a engine, broken chairs, and an old refrigerator in their front yard.

36. The Mississippi, the Amazon, and the Nile are well-known river in the world.

37. I like to listening to operas, symphonies, and folk songs.

38. In the last couple of years, I’ve go to France, India, and the Soviet Union.

39. My sister is sewing either my mom’s grown nor my dad’s sarong.

40. I put some bananas peel, rotten food, and broken bottles in the waste can.

DIRECTIONS

In this section, you will read a number of passages. Each one is followed by approximately ten questions about it. For 1-50, chose the one best answer, (A), (B), (C), and (D), to each question. Then, find the number of the question on your answer sheet, and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have choosen. Answer all of the questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated in that passage.

Question 1- 9

Around the year 1500, hunting people occupied the entire northern third of North America. They lived well from the animals with whom they shared these lands. Hunters of sea mammals had colonized the Arctic coasts of Canada and Greenland between four and five thousand years before. Land-hunting people had lived throughout much of the northern interior for at least 12,000 years. Northern North America is part of a larger circumpolar ecological (1) domain that continues across the narrow Bering Strait into Siberia and northern Europe. The overall circumpolar environment in the 1500’ s was not very different from the environment of the present. This vast landmass had a continental climate and was dominated by cold arctic air throughout a long winter and spring season. Summer temperatures ranged from near freezing to the mid-20's Celsius, while winter temperatures were often as low as 40 degrees below zero Celsius.

Geographers divide the overall circumpolar domain into two zones, the Arctic and below it, the Subarctic. They refer to the landforms of these areas as tundra and taiga, respectively. Temperatures in the northern lands were below freezing for eight or nine months of the year. Subsurface soil in the Arctic's tundra remained permanently frozen. Even when summer temperatures were above freezing and the top inches of earth became (4) saturated with water, the soil below remained frozen into a permafrost, as hard as rock.

When water flowed upon the surface of permanently frozen tundra, it made overland travel extremely difficult. Summer travel in the boggy lands, or muskeg country, of the Subarctic's taiga was also slow and (5) arduous. Tracking animals was more difficult than it was during the winter when the swampy ground was frozen solid and covered with snow. In both tundra and taiga, hordes of mosquitoes and biting flies bred in the (6) standing pools of water. Clothing lost its thermal efficiency when it became damp. Northern people looked forward to the turn of the season to bring the easier traveling conditions associated with cold weather. In the Arctic, they could haul food and supplies by dogsled while in the Subarctic, people could travel quickly and efficiently by snowshoes and toboggan.

1. The word domain in the text is closest in meaning to

2. Which of the following terms is used to describe the landforms of the Arctic region?

3. For how many months of the year were temperatures below freezing in the circumpolar region?

4. The word saturated in the text is closest in meaning to

5. The word arduous in the text is closest in meaning to

6. The word standing in the text is closest in meaning to

7. All of the following are mentioned as having made travel in the summer difficult EXCEPT

8. The subsurface soil in the Arctic's tundra is most comparable to which of the following?

9. Where in the passage does the author mention a means by which people traveled in the northern lands?

Questions 10-19

Social parasitism involves one species relying on another to (11) raise its young. Among vertebrates, the best known social parasites are such birds as (12) cuckoos and cowbirds; the female lays an egg in a nest belonging to another species and leaves (13) it for the host to rear.

(14) The dulotic species of ants, however, are the supreme social parasites. Consider, for example, the unusual behavior of ants belonging to the genus Polyergus. All species of this ant have lost the ability to care for themselves. The workers do not forage for food. feed their brood or queen, or even dean their own nest. To compensate for these deficits, Polyergus has become specialized at obtaining workers from the related genus Formica to do these chores.

In a raid, several thousand Polyergus workers will travel up to 500 feet in search of a Formica nest, penetrate it, drive off the queen and tier workers, capture the pupal brood, and transport it back to their nest. The captured brood is then reared by the resident Formica workers until the developing pupae emerge to add to the Formica population, which maintains the mixed-species nest The Formica workers forage for food and give it to colony members of both species. They also remove wastes and (16) excavate new chambers as the population increases.

The true extent of the Polyergus ants' dependence on the Formica becomes apparent when the worker population grows too large for the existing nest. Formica scouts locate a new nesting site, return to the mixed-species colony, and (17) recruit additional Formica nest mates. During a period that may last seven days, the Formica workers carry to the new nest all the Polyergus eggs, larvae, and pupae, every Polyergus adult, and even the Polyergus queen.

Of the approximately 8,000 species of ants in the world, all 5 species of Polyergus and some 200 species in other genera have evolved some degree of parasitic relationship with other ants.

10. Which of the following statements best represents the main idea of the passage?

11. The word raise in the text is closest in meaning to

12. The author mentions cuckoos and cowbirds in the text because they

13. The word it in the text refers to

14. What does the author mean by stating that The dulotic species of lifts... are die supreme social parasites (in the text) ?

15. Which of the following is a task that an ant of the genus Polyergus might do?

16. The word excavate in the text is closest in meaning to

17. The word recruit in the text is closest in meaning

18. What happens when a mixed colony of Polyergus and Formica ants becomes too large?

19. According to the information in the passage, all of the following terms refer to ants belonging to the genus Formica EXCEPT the

Questions 20-29

The Winterthur Museum is a collection and a house. There are many museums (21) devoted to the decorative arts and many house museums, but rarely in the United States is a great collection displayed in a great country house. Passing through successive generations of a single family, Winterthur has been a private estate for more than a century. Even after the extensive renovations made to it between 1929 and 1931, the house remained a family residence. This fact is of importance to the atmosphere and effect of the museum. (23) The impression of a lived-in house is apparent to the visitor; the rooms look as if they were vacated only a short while ago whether by the original owners of the furniture or the most recent residents of the house can be a matter of personal interpretation. Winterthur remains, then, a house in which a collection of furniture and architectural elements has been (24) assembled. Like an English country house, it is an organic structure; the house, as well as the collection and manner of displaying (25) it to the visitor, has changed over the years. The changes have coincided with (26) developing concepts of the American arts, increased knowledge on the part of collectors and students, and a progression toward the achievement of a historical effect in period-room displays. The rooms at Winterthur have followed this current, yet still retained the character of a private house.

The concept of a period room as a display technique has developed gradually over the years in an effort to present works of art in a context that would show them to greater effect and would give them more meaning for the viewer. Comparable to the habitat group in a natural history museum, the period room represents the decorative arts in a lively and interesting manner and provides an opportunity to assemble objects related by style, date, or place of manufacture.

20. What does the passage mainly discuss?

21. The phrase devoted to in the text is closest in meaning to

22. What happened at Winterthur between 1929 and 1931?

23. What does the author mean by stating The impression of a lived-in house is apparent to the visitor (in the text)?

24. The word assembled in the text Is closest in meaning to

25. The word it in the text refers to

26. The word developing in the text is closest in meaning to

27. According lo the passage, objects in a period room are related by all of (he following EXCEPT

28. What is die relationship between the two paragraphs in the passage?

29. Where in the passage does the author explain why displays at Winterthur have changed?

Questions 30-39

The modem comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared in January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today's Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst's rival New York paper, the Morning Journal.

Both were immensely popular, and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the Yellow Kid, the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, (33) Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The Yellow Kid was in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and (34) it introduced the speech balloon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters' heads.

The first strip to (36) incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks's Katzenjammer Kids, based on Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The Kids strip, first published in 1897, served as the (37) prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of most earlier comics.

Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black and-white strips were not far behind. They first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and white comic strips had become a (38) staple of daily newspapers around the country.

30. What does the passage mainly discuss?

31. Why does the author mention Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?

32. The passage suggests that comic strips were popular for which of the following reasons?

33. To say that Richard Outcault had been lured away from the World by Hearst (in the text) means which of the following?

34. The word it in the text refer to

35. According to the passage, the Yellow Kid was the first comic strip to do all of the following EXCEPT

36. The word incorporate in the text is closest in meaning to

37. The word prototype in the text is closest in meaning to

38. The word staple in the text is closest in meaning to

39. In what order does the author discuss various comic strips in the passage?

Questions 40-50

Every drop of water in the (40) ocean, even in the deepest parts, responds to the forces that create the tides. No other force that affects the sea is so strong. Compared with the tides, the waves created by the wind are surface movements (41) felt no more than a hundred fathoms below the surface. The currents also seldom involve more than the upper several hundred fathoms despite their impressive sweep.

The tides are a response of the waters of the ocean to the pull of the Moon and the more distant Sun. In theory, there is a gravitational attraction between the water and even the outermost star of the universe. (42) In reality, however, the pull of remote stars is so slight as to be obliterated by the control of the Moon and, to a lesser extent, the Sun. Just as the Moon rises later each day by fifty minutes, on the average, so, in most places, the time of high tide is (44) correspondingly later each day. And as the Moon waxes and wanes in its monthly cycle, so the height of the tide varies. The tidal movements are strongest when the Moon is a sliver in the sky, and when it is full. These are the highest flood tides and the lowest ebb tides of the lunar month and are called the spring tides. At these times the Sun, Moon, and Earth are nearly in line and the pull of the two heavenly bodies is added together to bring the water high on the beaches, to send its surf upward against the sea cliffs, and to draw a high tide into the harbors. Twice each month, at the quarters of the Moon, when the Sun, (46) Moon and Earth lie at the apexes of a triangular (47) configuration and the pull of the Sun and Moon are opposed, the moderate tidal movements called neap tides occur. Then the difference between high and low water is less than at any other time during the month.

40. The word ocean in the text is closest in meaning to

41. What is the main point of the first paragraph?

42. The word felt in the text is closest in meaning to

43. The words In reality in the text are closest in meaning to

44. It can be inferred from the passage that the most important factor in determining how much gravitational effect one object in space has on the tides is

45. The word correspondingly in the text is closest in meaning to

46. What is the cause of spring tides?

47. The word moon in the text is closest in meaning to

48. The word configuration in the text is closest in meaning to

49. Neap tides occur when

50. According to the passage, all of the following statements about tides are true EXCEPT: