Questions 1 To 6 Are Based On The Following Passage
Questions 1 To 6 Are Based On The Following Passage
Questions 1 To 6 Are Based On The Following Passage
Is talking on a mobile phone dangerous to our health? It is difficult to know for sure.
Some research suggests that heavy users of mobile phones are at a greater risk of developing
brain tumors. However, many other studies suggest there are no inks between cancer and mobile
phone use.
The main problem with the current research is that mobile phones have only been popular
since the 1990s. As a result, it is impossible to study the long term exposure of mobile phone
use. This concerns many health professionals who point out that many cancers take at least 10
years to develop. Another concern about these studies is that many have been funded by those
who benefit financially from the mobile phone industry.
Over three billion people use mobile phones on a daily basis, and many talk for more
than an hour a day. Mobile phone antennas are similar to microwave ovens. While both rely on
electromagnetic radiation, the radio wave in mobile phones are lower-in radio frequency(RF).
Microwave ovens have enough RF to cook food and are therefore known to be dangerous to
human tissues. However, the concern is that the lower frequency radio waves that mobile phones
rely on may also be dangerous. It seems logical that holding a heat source near your brain for a
long period of time is a potential health hazard. Mobile phones and other electronic devices get
hot when they are operated for a long period of time.
Some researchers believe that other types of wireless technology may also be dangerous
to human health, including laptops, cordless phones, and gaming consoles. Organizations that are
concerned about the effects of Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) suggest replacing all cordless
devices with wired ones. They say that many cordle phones emit dangerous levels of EMR even
when they are not in use. They even suggest keeping electronic devices, such as computers and
alarm clocks out of bedrooms, or at least six feet from your pillow. This means that all wireless
technology may be hazardous to our health.
A growing number of health professionals worldwide are recommending that mobile phone
users make mistakes on the side of caution until more definitive studies can be conducted. They
recommend that adults use headsets or speaker phones and that children and teens, whose brain
tissue is still developing, use mobile phones only for emergencies. Concerned medical experts
use the example of tobacco to illustrate the potential risks. Many years ago, people smoked
freely and were not concerned about the effects of cigarettes on their health. Today, people know
that cigarettes cause lung cancer, though it is still unknown exactly how or why. Some doctors
fear that the same thing will happen with devices such as mobile phones
1. Which paragraphs give comparative examples of the danger of mobile phone use in
relation to radiation?
A. 2 and 3
B. 2 and 4
C. 3 and 4
D. 3 and 5
E. 4 and 5
2. Based on the passage, which of the following most likely reflects doctors' concern on the
association between mobile phone use and cancer?
A. Fire and heat
B. Demand and supply
C. Speeding and accident
D. Eyeglass and sight
E. Chef and menu
4. Which paragraph of the passage most effectively illustrates health effects of mobile
phone?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
Researchers have devised a simple way to monitor wide swaths of the landscape without
breaking a sweat :by listening to the "conversations" honeybees have with each other. The
scientists analyses of honeybee waggle dances reported in a journal Current Biology suggest that
costly measures to set aside agricultural lands and let the wild flowers grow can be very
beneficial to bees. "In the past two decades, the European Union has spent E41 billion, on agri-
environment schemes to improve the rural landscape health and are required for all EU-member
states," says Margaret Couvillon at the University of Sussex. "However, there is little evidence
evaluating these schemes. Our work uses a novels source of data the honeybee, an organism that
itself can benefit from a healthy rural, landscape-to evaluate not only the environment, but also
the schemes used to manage that environment."
Couvillon and her colleagues recorded and decoded the waggle dances of bees in three
hives over a two-year period. Bees dance to tell their fellow bees where to find the good stuff:
the best nectar and pollen. The angle of their dances conveys information about the direction of
resources while the duration conveys distance. Researchers can measure those dance
characteristics-in a matter of minutes with a protractor and timer.
In all, the researchers "eavesdropped" on 5,484 dances to find that the best food within
the 94 km2 of mixed urban-rural landscape included in the study-as far as bees and, by
extension, other insect pollinators are concerned-is a place called Castle Hill; which is the only
National Nature Reserve in the area, More broadly, High Level agri-environment schemes were
the best places for bees.
The study shows that honeybees can serve as bio indicators to monitor large land areas
and provide information relevant to better environmental management. It also gives new
meaning to the term "worker bee". Imagine the time, manpower, and cost to survey such an area
on foot to monitor nectar sources for quality and quantity to count the number of other flower-
visiting insects to account for competition, and then to do this and over two foraging years"
Couvillon says. "Instead, we have let the honeybees do the hard work of surveying the landscape
and integrating all relevant, costs and then providing, through their dance communication, this
biologically relevant information about landscape quality."
9. Which reflects the author's attitude towards the topic presented in the first paragraph of
the passage?
A. Caring
B. Critical
C. Playfull
D. Careful
E. Sceptical
10. The paragraph following the passage most likely deals with
A. the accuracy and economy of honeybee landscape surveying
B. the characteristics of angle and duration of honeybee dances
C. the method of honeybee training to become landscape surveyors
D. studies to reveal why honey bess do not visit high level agri-environment
E. the relations between nectar produced by honeybees and environment health
Parents send their children to school with the best of intentions, believing that formal
education is what kids need to become productive, happy adults. Many parents do have qualms
about how well schools are performing, but the conventional wisdom is that these issues can be
resolved with more money, better teachers, more challenging curricula, or more rigorous tests.
But what if the real problem is school itself? The unfortunate fact is that one of our most
cherished institutions is, by its very nature, failing our children and our society.
Children are required to be in school, where their freedom is greatly restricted, far more
than most adults would tolerate their workspaces. In recent decades, we have been compelling
them to spend more time in this kind of setting, and there is strong evidence that this is causing
psychological damage to many of them. And as scientists have investigated how children
naturally learn, they have realized that kids do so most deeply and fully, and with greatest
enthusiasm, in conditions that are almost opposite to those of school.
Compulsory education has been a fixture of our culture now for several generations.
Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Anne Duncan are so enamored of it that they want
even longer school days and years. Most people assume that the basic design of today schools is
emerged from scientific evidence about how children learn, but nothing could be further from the
truth.
Schools as we know them today are a product of history, not of research. The blueprint
for them was developed during the Protestant Reformation, when schools were created to teach
children to read the Bible, to believe Scripture without questioning it, and to obey authority
figures without questioning them. When schools were taken over by the state, made compulsory,
and directed toward secular ends, the basic structure and methods of teaching remained
unchanged. Subsequent attempts at reform have failed because they have not altered basic
blueprint. The top-down, teach and-test method, in which learning is motivated by a system of
rewards and punishments rather than by curiosity or by any real desire to know is well designed
for indoctrination and obedience training but not much else. It is no wonder that many of the
world's greatest entrepreneurs and innovators either left school early (like Thomas Edison) or
said they hated school and learned despite it, not because of it (like Albert Einstein).
15. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word 'qualms' (line 4)?
A. Remarks
B. Requests
C. Doubts
D. Views
E. Beliefs
The modern period of civil rights reform can be divided into several phases, each
beginning with isolated, small-scale protests and ultimately resulting in the emergence of new,
more militant movements, leaders, and organizations. The Brown v. Board of Education case
overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and demonstrated that the activist litigation strategy
could undermine the legal foundations of southern segregationist practices, but the strategy only
worked when blacks, acting individually or in small groups, assumed the risks associated with
crossing racial barriers. Thus, even after the Supreme Court declared that school segregation was
unconstitutional black activism was necessary to compel the federal government to implement
the decision and extend its principles to all 'areas of public life rather than simply in schools.
During the 1950s and 1960s, an increasingly massive and militant social movement of
AfricanAmericans brought about a broad range of social changes.
The initial phase of the black protest activity in the post-Brown period began on
December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white
bus rider, thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of
buses to whites. When she was jailed, a black community boycott of the city's buses began. The
boycott lasted more than a year, demonstrating the unity and determination of blacks in the city,
and inspiring blacks elsewhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr. who emerged as he boycott movement's most effective leader,
possessed unique conciliatory and oratorical kills. He understood the larger significance of the
boycott and quickly realized that the nonviolent tactics used by the Indian nationalist Mahatma
Gandhi could be used by southern blacks. "I had come to see early that the Christian doctrine of
love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons
available to the Negro in his struggle for freedom," he explained. Although Parks and King were
members of the NAACP (National Association for Advancement of Colored people), the
Montgomery movement led to the creation in 1957 of a new regional organization, the clergyled
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with King as its president.
King remained the principal spokesperson for black aspirations, but, as in Montgomery,
it was little-known individuals who initiated most subsequent black movements. On February 1,
1960, four freshmen at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a wave of
student sit-ins designed to end segregation at southern lunch counters. These protests spread
rapidly throughout the South and led to the founding, in April 1960, of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNC). This student-led group, even more aggressive in its use of
nonviolent direct action tactics than King's SCLC, stressed the development of autonomous local
movements in contrast to SCLCs strategy of using local campaigns to achieve rights reforms.
16. In which lines of the text does the author mention the purposes of black activism during
the 1960s?
A. 1-3
B. 8-11
C. 12-17
D. 18-26
E. 28-34
21. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about Montgomery Bus Boycott?
A. The boycott lasted for a year.
B. It was a protest against the incarceration of black woman.
C. Some white people supported this boycott.
D. It marked the early period of black protest in the post-Brown period.
E. It inspired other protests.
Once a man was walking in a park when he came across a penguin. He took him to a
policeman and said, 'I have just found this penguin. What should I do? The policeman replied,
`Take him to the zoo!
The next day the policeman saw the same man in the same park and the man was still
carrying the penguin with him. The policeman was rather surprised and walked up to the man
and asked, 'Why are you still carrying that penguin about? Didn't you take it to the zoo?' I
certainly did, replied the man, 'and it was a great idea because he really enjoyed it, so today I'm
taking him to the movies!"
25. To show the real words of the speakers, the writer uses
A. passive voice
B. direct speech
C. reported speech
D. simple past tense
E. simple present tense
Snow White
Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White She lived with her Aunt and
Uncle because her parents were dead.
One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle
because they both wanted to go to America and they didn't have enough money to take Snow
White.
Snow White did not want he Uncle and Aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if
she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt an Uncle were having
breakfast. She ran away into the woods. She was very tired and hungry. Then she saw this little
cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. The went inside. There they
found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwaris. The dwarfs said,
what is your name? Snow White said, "My name is Snow White.
Doc said. 'if you wish, you may live here with us'. Snow White said. Oh, could I? Thank
you'. Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and Snow White and the seven dwarfs
lived happily ever after.
Meetings can waste a great deal of time. But you can make your meeting run more smoothly
by following a few simple rules. First. have an agenda. This will help keep you focused on what
is important. Next. decide who needs to be involved. More people means less efficient
discussion. Finally. keep the discussion moving. Thank each speaker as he or she finishes and
move on to the next speaker. This encourages people to make their remarks brief. And don't
forget: What happens after a meeting is more important than what happens during the meeting.
The skills used then are more professional and less procedural. So no matter how well you run a
meeting. it is the work that gets done after the meeting this important.
Come and visit our new library. Lots of new books (brand new novels and non-fiction books. are
available. You can also enjoy our newest DVDs collection.
Head of library
Ramadhan
VEGETARIANS
There are many reasons why people become vegetarians, including personal health, the
environment, and the economy.
A vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat, poultry, and fish. Vegetarians mostly eat fruit,
vegetables, legumes, grains, seeds, and nuts. Vegetarians also consume eggs and dairy products,
but they avoid meat products, such as beef, chicken stocks, and gelatin.
According to research, vegetarians have lower risk of heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes,
obesity, and high blood pressure. This may happen due to a healthy vegetarian diet, which has
low fat but high fibre.
However, a vegetarian diet can be high in fat if it includes excessive amounts of fatty snacks,
fried food, whole dairy products, and eggs.
At the same time, a vegetarian diet can be simple and easy to prepare. Therefore, a vegetarian
diet must be well-planned to prevent and treat certain diseases.
40. Why does a vegetarian have a lower risk of many diseases? They . . .
A. Eat vegetables every time.
B. Consumes low fat but high fibre food.
C. Avoid excessive amounts of fatty snacks.
D. Have well-planned agenda of what to eat..
E. Can control their appetite for large portions.
Rowan Atkinson is an English comedian, actor and writer, famous for his title roles in the British
television comedies Blackadder, the Thin Blue Line and Mr. Bean. He has been listed in the
Observer as one of the 50 funniest actors in British comedy. Atkinson is mostly well known as
Mr. Bean.
Rowan Atkinson is a quite thin man. He has fair complexion and black short hair. Some people
considered Atkinson “the man with the rubber face.” In fact, he has really funny face with unique
smile. He is in medium height of European people. He has a pointed nose, big black eyes and
thick eyebrows. His moustache and sideburns are usually well shaved. He usually wears a man’s
suit with shirt, collar, trousers and a pair of shiny shoes.
Rowan Atkinson was born in Consett, County Durham on 6th January 1955. He has two elder
brothers. Atkinson studied electrical engineering at Newcastle University and continued with an
MSc at the Queen’s College, Oxford. Atkinson married Sunetra Sastry in 1990. The couple has
two children, Lily and Benjamin, and lives in England in the Northamptonshire. With an
estimated wealth of $100 million, Atkinson owns many expensive cars.
44. ”Rowan Atkinson is a quite thin man.” (Paragraph 2) The word ‘thin” has the same
meaning as….
A. Stocky
B. Athletic
C. Skinny
D. Chubby
E. Muscular
45. . “The couple has two children, Lily and Benjamin, ….” (Paragraph 3) The underlined
words refer to ….
A. Atkinson and family
B. Lily and Benjamin
C. Atkitson and his children
D. Atkinson and Sunetra Sastry
E. Sunetra Sastry and her children
The sense of taste is one of a person’s five senses. We taste with the help of taste-buds in the
tongue.
There are four main kinds of taste: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. All other tastes are just mixtures
of two or more of these main types.
The surface of the tongue has more than fifteen thousand taste-buds (or cells). These are
connected to the brain by special nerves which send the so-called ‘tastes messages.
When the tongue comes into contact with food of any kind, the taste-buds will pick up the taste.
The nerves then send a message to the brain. This will make us aware of the taste. All this
happens in just a few seconds.
There are four kinds of taste-buds, each of which is sensitive to only a particular taste. These
four groups are located in different parts of the tongue.
The taste-buds for salty and sweet tastes are found round the tip of the tongue and along its sides.
Sour tastes can be picked up only at the sides of the tongue. The taste-buds of the bitter taste are
found at the innermost edge of the tongue. There are taste-buds at the centre of the tongue.
The senses of smell and sight can affect taste. The good smell of food increases its taste.
Similarly, attractive colours can make food appear tastier and more delicious. If food does not
smell good or is dull-coloured, it will look tasty and may not taste good at all.
Very hot or cold sensations can make the taste-buds insensitive. Food that is too hot or too cold,
when placed in the mouth, will have no tastes at all.