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C. it is attracted by blood

The piranha is a little fish found in the D. it is found in the seas as well as rivers rivers of South America. It is considered to be more dangerous than the shark and it can rip E. it is very dangerous fish, reptiles, and human belongs with its needle-like teeth. On one occasion I was going3. The swimmer began to fear that up the Amazon River with two natives. We A. he would be drowned landed on a n island one day and when we B. he would be attacked came back to the spot where the canoe had been tied up, we found it had disappeared. C. he would bleed to death After a while we saw the canoe drifting along about three hundred yards downstream. D. the river current was too swim It was necessary to swim for it but the Indians were rather hesitant about going into the E. he was unable to swim water. I was puzzled as there were no I was just asking the other man about alligators in that part of the river. At last one of4. the men slipped into the water and swamit (Paragraph 2) suggests that the author rapidly off. After he had gone about a quarter wondered of the distance, to my surprise he turned back. A. if there were dangers in the river I was just asking to the other man about it when the swimmer gave a how and I saw a B. if the man had forgotten something look of agony come into his face. At the same C. why the man was returning time I noticed that the water about him was rippling with fish. The poor man lifted an arm D. if the man had understood the authors to which I saw a crowd of little piranhas order clinging by their teeth. Then he went down and I never saw him again. His companion E. if the man was brave enough explained to me what must have happened. While swimming he must have scratched a5. The author had witnessed limb against a sharp rock, causing a slight A. a test of strength wound. Knowing his danger he had at once turned back but it was too late. Even a tiny B. an exciting episode drop of blood turns the piranha into a fierce demon. C. a fearful 1. Which one of the following is the most suitable title for the passage? A. Adventure in South America
B. The Lost Canoe C. The Deadly Piranhas D. a horrifying scene E. a thrilling fight

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The threat to our health from environmental poisons, and specifically heavy D. Terror Strikes in the River metal; is increasing every day. Lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, and copper poisoning are E. The Deadly Swimmer and the Piranhas becoming epidemic. Lead and Mercury come 2. All of the following statements aboutmostly from polluted air plus industrial and medical uses, such as lead-containing the piranhas are true except amalgam dental fillings. Contaminated fish are A. its teeth are very sharp also a common source of mercury poisoning. B. it is a small-sized fish

Copper enters our bodies usually from copper7. It can be inferred that motorbike riders water pipes, commonly used in plumbing. without masks may inhale Heavy metal poisoning is difficult to A. Copper threat. Chelation treatment is the only known B. Cadmium medical treatment that is effective in detoxifying the body of heavy metal. Now, the C. Lead Japanese study conducted by Dr. Ikezoe and Kitahera, shows that Kyolic, a raw garlic D. Etal Arsenic extract developed in Japan, is effective in E. Amalgam protecting the body from the toxic effects of heavy metal poisoning. Dr. Kitahara and hisco-workers, Ikozoe and Yamada, conducted controlled studies on8. Which of the following is TRUE according animal (rabbits) and human. The method ofto the passage? the study was: observation of release of potassium and hemoglobin by heavy metals A. Chelation treatment is not the only from erythrocyte membrane. The conclusion possible method to protect our body of the study was that garlic preparation from heavy metal poisoning prevented the poisoning effect arising from B. The only thing we can do to protect heavy metals and protected the erythrocyte our body from metal poisoning is by membrane. The conclusion of the study was way of chelation treatment preparation prevented the poisoning effect arising from heavy metals and protected the C. Chelation treatment is the only erythrocyte membrane from destruction. possible medical treatment to detoxify In another study, conducted in Russia, the body of heavy metal a drug made from garlic extract was given to workers in industrial plant who were suffering D. We can do nothing to protect our body from chronic lead poisoning. The daily doses from heavy poisoning of garlic improved the symptoms of chronic E. Kyolic is the only possible treatment to lead poisoning and lowered in the high detoxify our body from heavy metal potphytin levels in the urine. The preparation poisoning also normalized the elevated blood pressure in the majority of workers. Russian researchers believe that efficacy of garlic preparation is9. The word contaminated in paragraph 1 due to garlics high content of sulfurcan best be replaced by A. Poisoned compounds. 6. The passage tells us about which of the following? A. The problem of heavy metals in everyday life
B. The increasing number of heavy metals B. Polluted C. Rotten D. Dead E. Unhealthy

C. The threat of heavy metals to our10. Which of the following is TRUE according

health
D. Heavy metal poisoning and garlic E. Environmental poisoning

to the passage? A. Dr. Ikezoe and Kitahara developed a raw garlic extract
B. Dr. Ikezoe and Kitahara were probably

not the person who developed Kyolic

C. It was Dr. Kitahara and his co-workers

B. Use C. Consumption D. Result E. Strength

who developed Kyolic

D. Chelation treatment was developed by

Dr. Ikozoe and Kitahara

E. Both Chelation treatment and Kyolic

originated from Japan 11. Which of the following is TRUE according 15. What make Russian researchers to the passage? recommend the use of garlic is that it A. The erythrocyte membrane is important to protect us from heavy metal poisoning A. is inexpensive B. Heavy metal may harm the erythrocyte B. is available everywhere membrane
C. The damage of erythrocyte membrane C. is suitable D. contains certain chemical compounds E. has a lot of functions

is harmful to human beings

D. The erythrocyte membrane is immune

to heavy metals
E. The

erythrocyte indestructible

membrane

is

12. Who reported the use of garlic to help workers in industrial plants suffering from chronic lead poisoning? A. The Japanese government Text 3 B. Dr. Ikezoe and Kitahara Theres growing agreement among exercise that the intense physical activities C. Dr. Kitahara, Ikezoe, and Yamada offered by most health cubs is not the only- or even necessarily the best- path to better life. In D. The Russian Government fact, the best thing most of us can do, say E. Russian researchers experts, may be to walk. 13. According to the passage, the use of Garlic Yes, walk. Not run or jog or sprint. Just A. may increase blood pressure walk, at a reasonably energetic speed (3 m.p.h.- 4 m.p.h) for half an hour or so, maybe B. may decrease high blood pressure five or six times a week. You may not feel the benefits all at once, but the evidence suggests C. regulates blood pressure that over the long term, a regular walking D. maintain normal blood pressure routine can do a world of preventive good, from lowering your risk of stroke, diabetes E. is good to elevate blood pressure and osteoporosis to treating arthritis, high 14. The word efficacy in last sentence in blood pressure and even depression. paragraph 4 is the closest meaning to which of Walking, in fact, may be the perfect the following? exercise. For starters, its one of the safest A. Effectiveness things you can do with your body. Its much

easier on the knees than running and, beyond D. Almost half of the adults do not do an occasional stitch in the side, doesnt trigger any exercises unpleasant side effects. Regular physical E. They do not prevent themselves from activity is probably as close to a magic bullets diseases as we will come in modern medicine, says Dr. Joann Manson, chief of preventive 19. The phrase If everyone in the U.S. were medicine at Harvards Brigham and Womens to walk briskly 30 minutes a day... (Last Hospital. If everyone in the U.S were to walk sentence of paragraph 3) means that... briskly 30 minutes a day, we could cut the A. Americans are used to running incidence of many chronic diseases 30% to 40%. B. Americans are used to walking If Americans want to do that, they have C. Americans walk slowly a long way to go. Fewer than a third of adults D. Americans do not walk regularly in th U.S get the recommended amount of exercise each day, and 40% are almost E. Americans run too fast completely inactive. The result, as reported by the Surgeon General last month: a nation in 20. The kind of text can usually be found in which obesity may soon overtake cigarettea.... smoking as the leading cause of preventable A. youth tabloid death. B. scientific journal 16. The best title of the text above is
A. Walking: The Finest Exercise B. A Good Way to Prevent Diseases C. Walking is Better than Running D. Preventing is Better than Curing E. Walking: The Least Risking Exercise C. newspaper D. medical textbook E. socioeconomic report

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The real reasons why bombs were dropped on two heavily populated cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are not altogether clear. A number 17. The word path (paragraph 1) means of people in 1944 and early 1945 argued that A. Action the use of nuclear weapons would be unecessary, since American Intelligence was B. Line aware that some of the most powerful and C. Lesson influential people in Japan had already realized that the war was lost, and wanted to D. Course negotiate a Japanese surrender. It was also argued that, since Japan has few natural E. Way resources, blocade by the American navy 18. All of the following statement are true would force it to surrender within five weeks, about Americans today, EXCEPT that... and the use of nuclear weapons would thus A. Obesity is the second highest cause of prove unnecesary. If a demonstration of force death was required to end the war, a bomb could be dropped over an unpopulated area like a B. They do not walk regularly every day desert, in front of Japanese observers, or over an area of low population inside Japan, such as C. Less than a third of adults

forest. Opting for this course of the action keeping our harmones in balance and helping might minimize the loss of further lives on all to maintain our immune system. sides, while the power of nuclear weapons would still be adequately demonstrated. 21. The topic of the passage is ...
A. The unnecesary use of the nuclear

23. The topic of the texts is.......

A. The usefulness of vitamin B6 B. The effect of a lack of vitamin B6 C. The manufacture of vitamin B6 D. The nutrients needed by our body E. The chemical reaction in our body

bombs in Japan by American

B. The reasons why American dropped

nuclear bombs in Japan

C. Minimizing the loss of life when

Americans used nuclear weapons

D. Nuclear

demonstration by the American Navy to end World War II Asia during World War II

E. Japanese loss and American victory inof vitamin B6?

24. Which of the following is not the function

A. To help maintain the immune systems B. to help produce protein in the body C. to break down foods stored in our body D. to keep the harmones in our body in

22. The preceding paragraph discusses...

A. The creation of nuclear weapon B. Loss and gain in war C. The demonstration of force in Japan D. The bombing of Japan E. The reasons why Americans were

balance
E. to help release energy from the food

involved in war

Text 6

Scientists have discovered the bones of what may be the largest meat-eating dinosaur ever to walk the earth. The discovery was Vitamin B6 is one of our hardest working made by a team of researchers from Argentina nutrients, being involved in over 100 chemical and North America in Patagonia, a desert on reactions which take place in our bodies. the eastern slopes of the Andes in South However, it has been found that early one America. Beside the interesting fact that the third of people do not have as much vitamin dinosaurs was huge and borrifying, it is even B6 as their bodies need. This is because it is more astounding that the bones of a number of very easily broken down during food the dinosaurs were found togather. This processing, storage, and cooking, and it cannot discovery challenges the prior theory that the be stored in our bodies. Among its many biggest meat-eaters lived as loners and instead functions are; manufacturing amino acids, the indicates that they may have lived and hunted building blocks which make proteins; in packs. The Tyrannosaurus Rex live in North producing neurotransmitters, the chemicals America and was believed to hunt and live which send nerve messages around our bodies, alone. helping to release anargy from the we eat; Text 5

The newly discovered meat-eater appears to be related to the Giganotosaurus family, being as closely related to it as a fox would be to a dog it is actually not of the same famaly at all as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, being as different from it as a cat is from a dog.

D. They used to live in groups E. They were not as huge as other

dinosaurs

28. The bones of the dinosaurs discovered The fossilized remind indicate that the recently shows that the newly-discoreved animals lived about 100 milion years ago. dinosaurs... With needle-shape noses and razor sharp teeth, they were larger than the Tyrannosaurus Rex, A. Are closely related to those living in although their legs were slightly shorter, and North America their jaws were designed to be better able to B. Have the same bone structure as those cut the body of their prey into pieces quickly of foxes and dogs and precisely.
C. Eat their prey in neat pieces due to the

25. The main information of the text is about.....

A. The discovery made in Patagonia B. The research in dinousaurs C. The bones of dinosaurs D. The types of dinosaurs E. The meat-cating dinosaur

shape of their jaws

D. Lived a hundred million years earlier

than other dinosaurs

E. Belong to the same famaly and origin

as the Giganotosaurus

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To be good consumers it is necessary for us to understand why prices and productions of goods are always changing. 26. The rescarchers found the bones of a new This following information is simple law to help us understand it. When prices are low type of dinosaur in.... people will buy more, and when prices are A. Argentina high they will buy less. Every one knows this. But at they same time, producers want higher B. North America prices for their goods when they make more goods. How can we find the best price for the C. East Patagonia good? The law low supply and demand is the answer to this question. D. The Andes forests
E. South America

277. Which of the following is TRUE about the newly discovered dinosaurs?
A. They are called Tyrannosaurus Rex B. They liked living as loners C. They are called Giganotasaurus

According to the law changes in the prices of good causes change in supply and demand. And increase in the price of goods causes an increase supply the number of goods that producers make. Producers will make more good when they can have higher prices for the goods. At the same time an increase i the prices of the goods causes a decrease in demand-the number of good the consumer buy. This is because people buy less when the

price is high. Convensely, a decrease in the price causes an increase in demand and a decrease in supply. Business firms at both supply and demand when they make decisions about prices and production. They look for the equilibrum point where supply equals demand. The equilibrum point where the supply curve and the demand curve intersect. At this point the number of good produced will all be bought by the consumers at a certain price. This is called the equilibrum price. If the producers increase the price or if they produce more, the consumers will not buy all of the goods. The producers will have a surplus more supply than demand so they must decrease the price in order to sell all of the goods. On the other hand, if they make fewer goods, there will be a shortage more demand than supply and the price will go up. According to the Law of Supply and Demand, the equilibrum price is the best price for the goods. The consumers and the producers will agree on this price because it is only price that help them both equally.

B. Producers make fewer goods when

prices are low

C. Producers make more goods when

prices are high

D. Consumers buy more goods when

prices are low

E. Consumers buy goods even if the price

is high

29. Why does an increase in price cause an increase in supply ?

A. Consumers buy more good when

prices are high.

B. Producers make more good when

prices are high.

C. Producers want to sell all of their

goods.
D. Consumers will not buy all the goods. E. Consumers will buy all of the goods.

30. Why does a decrease in prices cause an increase in demand ?

A. Consumer buy fewer goods when

prices are low