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3. It's essential for all creatures to keep themselves

1. The degree to which children feel more self-confident clean and free from parasites. _____. Some species
as they grow older depends mainly on their relation are able to clean themselves. For those species that
with their mothers and fathers. Children always need are not, it is obviously vital to find some other animal
to be reassured by their parents. _____. This kind of to perform this cleaning function.
trust is essential in reducing young children's anxiety.
A) Nevertheless, there's no point in doing this
A) They need to believe that their parents will love cleaning process
them no matter what they do B) The vast majority of cleaners are fish at least 45
B) Anxieties are common even in the early years of species are known as cleaners
childhood C) Some fish species are known to change colour
C) They may begin to cry if one of the parents goes while being cleaned
away even for a short while D) Some animals depended on others to do this
D) Any suggestion of forcing children to overcome a E) If they do not, they will probably fall ill from
fear will only make it last longer infected wounds
E) So parents should scold their children whenever
they want

4. _____. Within five years, 4,5 million Americans had

taken it at least once. This was the fastest
Ocean waves may seem like a fanciful source of acceptance ever for a psychiatric drug. It seemed to
2.
energy. _____. In August, a 750-kilowatt power plant go beyond treating illness and actually improve
off the coast of Scotland began delivering ocean - people's lives; a sort of facelift for the character.
wave power for the first time to the local electricity However, reports emerged that some patients
grid. The plant consists of four linked floating actually felt more suicidal on Prozac.
cylinders which use wave motion to drive a hydraulic
pump and turn a turbine. This is such an inexpensive A) There was a very negative reaction towards
and clean process that engineers are quite optimistic pharmacy in the U. S. A
about its future. B) Lawyers in USA claim that even murders can be
A) Engineers, on the other hand, say ocean power is done under the influence of some drugs
far behind wind and solar power C) Technology and medicine have improved so much
B) A recently constructed power plant will change the in Europe that people don't go to the USA any more
perception soon D) Some psychiatric drugs in the U.S.A. were
C) Thanks to the rising and falling water level, its accepted very slowly in the past
cost would be quite low E) Within two years of its introduction, pharmacies in
D) Technicians have already started delivering power the United States were filling 65.000 Prozac
to many electricity networks prescriptions per month
E) Everybody is against plant construction in this
area

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5. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, 7. _____ . In Western medicine, all the ingredients are
which at the time was not the Capital of Russia. single compounds, making it much easier to quality
Dostoevsky's mother died when he was sixteen and control, and the mode of function can be analyzed. In
he became a student in the Military Engineering Chinese medicine, howewer, because it is a mixture
School in the then-capital, St. Petersburg. ----------. that is used, it is very difficult to investigate how it
And therefore, resigned his commission after just works. One of the ways that pharmaceutical
over a year. In later years, he became a radical companies are looking at bringing traditional Chinese
socialist and, after having written two novels and medicine into line with Western Standards is to
some other shorter works, was arrested in 1848 and identifiy the active ingredients in the herbs that are
sentenced to death for his political activities. used.

A) Nevertheless he hated politics all his life A) There may be some leading compounds to be
B) Being a patriot and a devoted member of the discovered in Chinese medicine
army was his greatest ideal B) Modern Chinese medicine rejects using mixtures
C) Dostoevsky was an emotional man so he tried to since it has single compounds
keep away from radical movements C) European medicine is regarded as sophisticated
D) However, after graduating, he preferred the idea but many researchers say that the Americans have
of writing to working in the military proceeded much further
E) His other famous books are “Notes from the D) Pharmaceutical companies have realized that
Underground” and “The Gambler" traditional medicines tend to have a better effect on
their area's local patients
E) In analyzing traditional Chinese medicine and its
Western counterpart, the main difference lies in
6. A virus can be regarded as a self-replicating program identifying the active ingredients in the drugs
that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other
executable code or documents in computer
technology. ______. Extending this comparison, the
insertion of the virus into a program is termed
“infection”, and the infected document or code is 8. The olive is possibly the most important fruit of the
known as a “host”. Mediterranean and Near Eastern region so much that
according to Greek mythology, it helped to give
A) Hackers benefit a lot from entering bank computer Athens its name. This was because when the gods
systems Poseidon and Athena clashed over whose name the
B) Therefore, a computer virus behaves similarly to a city would get, it was decided that the honour would
go to the one who could offer the most precious gift
biological virus, which spreads by inserting itself into to it. _____ . The olive even gets important mentions
living cells in the religious books of the area. According to the
C) The first virus was created by an American in the Bible, after Noah's Ark is left high and stranded on a
mountain, he sent out a dove, and when it returned
20th century with an olive leaf in its mouth, Noah knew that God's
D) Some computer viruses can even do away with wrath had passed.
company or school computer networks
A) Today, the Mediterranean countries of Spain and
E) Nowadays, viruses are also named as worms and
Italy are the world leaders in commercial olive
trojan horses
protection
B) Other important gods and goddesses in the period
were Zeus, Hera, Artemis and Aphrodite
C) Poseidon offered a saltwater spring, but Athena
won with an olive tree
D) And Poseidon won the bet with Narcissus flower
E) But some people think this is just mythology and
people who believe in it must be crazy

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9. Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges was born in 11. Lichens are one of the few kinds of life that can
Buenos Aires on 24 August 1899. His father was a survive in the mountains of Antarctica. These tiny
lawyer, a psychology teacher, and an anarchist who plants live in small holes in the rocks. Outside, the
was part of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and British, extreme cold and strong winds do not allow any life
while his mother was a translator of Spanish and at all. _____. However, much of the time they are
Catalan descent. At his home, both Spanish and frozen. This fact means that the lichen function very
English were spoken. _____. And in fact, he learned to slowly, and live a very long time.
read in English before Spanish. He grew up in a
suburb of Buenos Aires called Palermo, in a large A) Inside the holes, these lichens manage to find
house with a comprehensive library, for which he enough water and warmth to keep alive
began writing stories at the age of 6.
B) Scientists believe that lichen may remain alive for
A) Therefore, from early childhood on, Borges was only several years
effectively bilingual C) Therefore, they never die
B) But before that could happen, however, two D) Because they're among the oldest forms of life on
tragedies had to be lived through earth
C) Borges embarked on his career as a writer there, E) Nevertheless they may not survive another
by publishing poems and essays Antarctic winter
D) As a result, he was married to his Japanese-
Argentinian personal assistant
E) Miquel de Cervantes' Don Quixote has long been
regarded as a masterpiece by the Spanish 12. Sociologists and psychologists have argued for
centuries about how a person's character is formed.
The argument has long been known as “Nature
versus Nurture”, for the two main opposing theories.
The first theory says that character is formed
genetically before birth. _____. The other theory says,
10. The author Alfred Jarry is best known for his play King
Ubu, in which the title character is a gross satire on on the contrary, that a person's character is formed
bourgeois stupidity and greed. In fact, the character after birth.
became so famous at the time that Jarry himself
often pretended he was Ubu, especially in his later A) Therefore, the most important factors are cultural
years. _____. He was, for example, the inventor of an and environmental
“imaginary science” known as “pataphysics” and he B) Since the theoretical approach approves of none
also wrote an essay about a time travel machine.
of them
A) One of his funniest short stories was the slightly C) According to this theory, nature through genetics
scandalous story containing the life and death of determines what a person will be like
Christ D) In this view, it's been claimed an individual's
B) Jarry, however, deserves to be known for other character is formed after he's born
things as well E) As regards this theory; exercise is the best
C) He was an alcoholic throughout all his adult life treatment
D) Pataphysics is the same thing as quantum
mechanics
E) Jarry was thus, an author of French origin

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13. Money has not always been made of metal or paper. 15. Supermarket managers have all kinds of tricks to
In many parts of the world, people have used other encourage people to spend more money. Their aim is
materials. Precious stones, valuable cloth (silk), and to make customers go more slowly through the
rare spices (saffron) have all been used as money at supermarket. _____. They also make the corridors
times. But people have also given special value to near the cash registers more narrow. Then customers
other kinds of objects. For example, in Ethiopia, with large shopping carts will get stuck or have to
blocks of salt have been used as money. _____. In slow down. In some supermarkets, the floor is even
India and in North America, special kinds of shells slightly uphill for people going towards the exits.
have been used
A) In this way, they decide not to buy anything more
A) The trader can lose the money, he invested B) That's why all the customers get angry and go
B) In America, the citizens used to barter one thing home
for another C) They place colourful displays in surprising places
C) Thus, that money was worth at least one dollar to catch the customers' attention
D) Because money is a very important means of D) The supermarket prices are really high in big cities
buying cheap things if you want to rent one
E) In Malaysia, people have used large bronze drums E) But then they realized that things weren't going on
like that

14. _____. This expression can be true in a very literal

sense. The Luo people from Kenya often cook and eat
the leaves of a plant called black nightshade. This 16. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a basketball star in the
plant serves as an effective treatment for many United States. When he was born in New York City in
stomach problems. The Luo eat it regularly from 1947, his parents named him Ferdinand Lewis
childhood and do not suffer any negative effect from Alcindor, Jr. He studied at the University of California
it. However, when one American researcher ate just a at Los Angeles (UCLA) in the late 1960s. At that time,
small amount, she felt quite ill afterwards. In fact, the he led the university's basketball team to three
plant contains a substance called solanine that can championships. _____. He changed his name to
be poisonous. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In 1969, Kareem began his
professional basketball career as a centre on the
A) There is a substance that benefits the digestive Milwaukee Bucks team. Later, in 1975, he joined the
Los Angeles Lakers.
system in great amounts
B) African cuisine resembles to that of Asia in many A) When he retired in 1989, Kareem held several all-
ways time records in basketball
C) Now that pluralism has beaten .£communism, B) He had also been named “most valuable player”
they say the next battle is between Islam and others six times
D) One man's medicine is another man's poison C) He had many difficulties during his childhood in
E) In order to be healthy, you should have more Los Angeles
vegetables in your diet D) He provided a loving and stable home for his
family
E) It was also during his college years that he
converted to the Muslim faith

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17. Making orange juice concentrate from fresh oranges 19. Scientists believe that the earth's climate may be
is done entirely by machines. First, oranges are warming up. This trend probably began thousands of
dumped onto a moving belt. They travel into a years ago. Many areas of the earth used to be
machine that washes them with detergent. Next, covered with ice that has now melted. _____.
they are rolled into juicing machines, where seven Scientists think that part of the reason for this may
hundred oranges per minute are split and squeezed. be carbon dioxide pollution from industry and
Then, the rinds are thrown out the end of a long tube. automobiles. The carbon dioxide mixes with other
_____. Next, the juice goes into another machine gases. This pollution covers the earth like a blanket
called the finisher. And the process is over. and keeps it warmer. Another reason for the warming
may be the fact that the earth is losing its forests.
A) Last, the juice goes into large tanks, where most
of the water is removed A) Forests are an important part of the earth's
B) This hand-made nectar is then manufactured and system for keeping the air temperature cool
put on the market B) Therefore, violent storms cause damage and
C) By the help of detergents and soaps the fruit is deaths all over the world
washed thoroughly C) However, in recent years, the warming trend has
D) At the same time, the juice goes through small speeded up
holes in the bottom of the tube D) It's also important to keep yourself cool by
E) Finally, the seeds and other tiny objects are wearing loose, light clothes
removed E) Now, millions of people live here and suffer from
the floods

18. _____. Some people like to go for long walks in the

forest, where they won't see anyone for days. Others 20. The first guitarist to become known worldwide was
prefer to spend their holiday in an exciting city. There Andres Segovia, born in 1893 in Spain. _____. Most
they can visit museums, theaters, and good people thought that the guitar was suitable only for
restaurants. Still others enjoy the fresh air at the popular music or folk music. Few classical composers
seashore. They can spend their days at the beach wrote music for the guitar, and it was never included
and listen to the ocean waves at night. in classical concerts. But Segovia classical
instrument, and he was a great musician.
A) A few people decide to stay at home and do some
major household projects during the weekend A) Segovia used his genius to prove he could produce
B) People have many different ideas about what beautiful classical music with every instrument
makes a great vacation B) The Spanish were glad to have such a great
C) Life in a small apartment would sound as terrible composer
to many C) Guitar was extremely popular in classical music at
D) There are many similarities between a seaside the time
holiday and camping D) Classical music contributed to guitar positively in
E) Working in a big company has many making it worldwide
disadvantages E) Before the 20th century, the guitar was not taken
very seriously as a classical instrument

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21. Many studies have shown that it is better to wear 23. In the past few years, scientists have found several
your seat belt when you are travelling in a car. Seat new fuels to replace gasoline for automobiles. _____.
belts greatly reduce the risk of death or injury in an It can be used in many cars in almost the same way
accident. This fact is widely recognized and many that gasoline is used. Natural gas is another
governments have passed laws requiring seat belt alternative fuel for cars. However, cars that burn this
use. _____. Researchers have found several reasons fuel must be equipped with special tanks of natural
for this. Some people feel uncomfortable with the gas. A third alternative, and perhaps the best, is
seat belt. They are afraid of being trapped in the car electricity. Cars fueled by electricity have no engine
in an accident. Others do not think that the seat belt at all, though they do have to carry large batteries.
can protect them. They believe that people have no
power over their fate. A) One of these fuels is methanol, a form of wood
alcohol
A) Therefore, people think that wearing a seat belt or
B) Electricity fueled cars are the most striking ones
not will make no difference
C) Unfortunately, there are only two alternatives to
B) On the other hand, fate will decide whether one
gasoline
will have an accident
D) In fact, gasoline was a very efficient form of fuel
C) Some cars must now be equipped with seat belts
for vehicles
D) In this respect, it’s unavoidable for the drivers to
E) Cars fueled by solar energy are also popular,
get injured or die
nowadays
E) However, many people still do not wear seat belts

24. Both New York City and Paris depend on vast subway
22. _____. The main cause of this is loneliness. In the lines to transport their millions of commuters. In both
past, older people usually lived with other members cities, the subways are often crowded, especially at
of the family. They usually had responsibilities around rush hours. Another likeness is the terrible noise level
the home. For example, older women could help take in the trains. A further similarity is that two subway
care of the children. And older men could help their systems both cover a wide area at little expense for
sons at work. These days, married children often commuters. However, the differences between the
prefer to live on their own, sometimes ^ far away two are quite striking. _____. Many of the French
from their parents. Thus, m older people may be cut stations are filled with works of art. In Paris, the
off from p family ties. They may feel cut off from g subway trains are clean. On the other hand, New
the world around them. York's trains can sometimes be less clean.
A) In industrialized countries today, many elderly A) New York trains also run every few minutes
people suffer from depression B) Both trains are unreliable in terms of their rail
B) Some elderly people felt the world has changed system
too quickly C) While subway stations in New York range from
C) The average age of the population of many plain to ugly, Paris stations are generally attractive
countries is getting older D) For example, in New York, passengers are fond of
D) A great many elderly and lovely people would feel eating sandwiches during their journey
pressure on them E) Similarly, French subway stations have less crime
E) Businesses in a country must adjust to older rate
customers

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25. When people move from one city or country to

another, the spread of diseases may result. People
often bring in germs that may not have been present
there before. These new germs can spread quickly
and cause previously unknown diseases. _____. They
become ill more easily and die more often. In turn,
newcomers may catch diseases that were not
present where they came from.

A) If they had gone back, they would have started an

epidemic
B) Such changes may result in enhancing conditions
for people in big cities
C) If a germ is completely new to a region, people
have no natural protection against it
D) Pollution can also lead to the spread of disease
E) This infected bacteria can stick to ships, which
then carry the cholera germs all around the world

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Answer Key:

1: A 14: D
2: D 15: C
3: E 16: E
4: E 17: D
5: D 18: B
6: B 19: C
7: E 20: E
8: C 21: E
9: A 22: A
10: B 23: A
11: A 24: C
12: C 25: C
13: E

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