Read the following advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6.
Dirty body - healthy body
Do you like to be clean? An (1)______thinks it could be making you sick. "Bathing removes our natural protection (2)______germs," said Dr. Giancarlo Pagnozzi. "Nature gives us protection, but we keep (3)_______it away."
For seven years, researchers studied 300 people. One half (4)______a bath or shower every day using soap. The other half washed once a week in plain water. The super-clean team had several minor illnesses, (5)_______876 colds, 167 cases of flu, 49 sore throats, and (6) ______skin diseases. The dirty group had only 29 colds, 3 cases of mild flu, and 1 sore throat - but no friends. Read the following advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.
An announcement of Doe Elementary school
We are pleased to announce that Jane Doe of Doe Elementary School is the winner of our essay contest, "What the Constitution Means to Me." We received a large (7)______of essays from elementary students all over the city and her entry was chosen out by our respectable judges.
Jane, a fifth-grader, is the daughter of John and Mary Doc of Springfield. (8)______a free trip to Disney Land, she will receive a $50 savings bond, and her essay will (9)_______in the magazine Springfield Herald Sunday, July 6. Congratulations, Jane! We also want to congratulate all of the students who entered; we received many (10)_______essays. Our only regret is that there can only be one winner. (11)_______student who entered will receive a (12)_______of participation. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct arrangement of the sentence to make a meaningful paragraph/letter in each of the following questions.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.
Galileo Galilei, one of the first modem scientists, (18)________. About twenty years later, he attended the University of Pisa. At first, he studied philosophy, but later he studied mathematics and astronomy. He was interested in the way the earth and other planets move around the sun. He made the telescope (19)______. He also started a new way of working in science. Before Galileo, scientists did not do experiments. They just guessed about how something happened. Galileo was different. He did not just make guesses. (20)_______.
Galileo was famous for his study of how things fall. He was the first person to do experiments about this problem. Before that, people thought that heavy things always fell faster than light things. He found out that this was not true. He took a heavy ball and a light ball, and he dropped them both from a high place. They fell at the same speed. This meant that weight is not important. This is the law of failing bodies. (21)_______. The life of the scientist was not always easy in the 1500 s. For example, having incredible scientific ideas, (22)_______. His ideas were not the same as the religious ideas at the time.
Many religious people did not agree with him. During his whole life, he had to worry about this. He even went to prison for a while. But no one could stop him from thinking. He continued to look for scientific answers to his questions about the world.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 23 to 30.
In Viet Nam festivals often take place during the three months in spring and in autumn when people have a lot of leisure time. In addition, the climate in spring and autumn is especially suitable for holding festivals and for festivals goers to enjoy.
Traditional festivals constitute a form of cultural activities, a spiritual product which the people have created and developed during the course of history. From generation to generation, the Vietnamese people preserve the fine tradition of "remembering the source while drinking water." Festivals are events which represent this tradition of the community as well as honor the holy figures named as "gods" - the real persons in national history or legendary persons. The images of gods converge the noble characteristics of mankind. They are national heroes who fought against foreign invaders, reclaimed new lands, treated people, fought against natural calamities, or those legendary characters who affect the earthly life.
Accordingly, first and foremost, festivals are events when people pay tribute to divinities that rendered merits to the community and the nation. These are occasions when people come back to either their natural or national roots, which form a sacred part in their mind. Furthermore, festivals represent the strength of the commune or village, the local region or even the whole nation. Worshipping the same god, the people unite in solidarity to overcome difficulties, striving for a happy and wealthy life.
Moreover, festivals display the demand for creativity and enjoyment of spiritual and material cultural values of all social strata. Festivals become a form of education under which fine traditional moral values can be handed from one generation to the next in a unique way of combining spiritual characters with competition and entertainment games.
Festivals are also the time people can express their sadness and worries in a wish that gods might bestow favor on them to help them strive for a better life.
(Adapted from: Overview of Traditional Festival - Vietnam, Country and People)
Read the following passage about and mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 31 to 40.
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero, a Florentine notary and landlord, but lived on the estate and was treated as an illegitimate son.
In 1483, Leonardo da Vinci drew the first model of helicopter. It did not look very much like our modern day "copter," but the idea of what it could do was about the same. Leonardo was an artist and sculptor. He was very interested in motion and movement and tried to show it in his art. In order to show movement, he found it helpful to study the way things moved.
One subject he liked to study was birds and how they flew. He spent many hours watching the birds and examining the structure of their wings. He noticed how they cupped air with their wings and how the feathers helped hold the air. Through these studies, Leonardo began to understand how birds were able to fly
Like many other men, Leonardo began to dream of the day when people would be able to fly. He designed a machine that used all the things he had learned about flight, and thus became the first model of a helicopter.
Poor Leonardo had only one problem, however. He had no way to give the necessary speed to his invention. You see, motors had not yet been invented and speed was an important part of the flying process. It would be another four hundred years before the engine was invented and another fifty years before it was put to the test in an airplane.
Leonardo's dream of a helicopter finally came to pass in 1936. The Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, Leonardo died on May 2, 1519, and was buried in the cloister of San Fiorentino in Amboise.
(Adapted from: Overview of Traditional Festival - Vietnam, Country and People)
