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Choose A, B, C, D, or E for the correct answer.

Text 1: for question 1

ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear Sue,
The Niagara Branch of the Canadian Authors
Please accept our sympathies on your
Association is pleased to announce the finalists of our
daughter's death, Linda.
Ten Stories High Eighth Annual Short Story
Our thoughts and prayers are with you
Competition. We would like to thank each and every
during this difficult time.
one of our entrants for making our contest such an
Please know that we are here for you.
ongoing success!
With love, Agnes, Kathy, and Bruce. We will be officially launching our latest edition of Ten
Stories High in the Mills Room at the Public Library on
1. What is the message about? Saturday, September 29 from 2 to 5 p.m. This gala
A. Expressing condolences event will feature readings by this year's winning
B. Expressing happiness contestants as well as refreshments. We will also be
C. Expressing surprise offering copies of our anthology for sale at that time.
D. Expressing prayer The Niagara Branch of the Canadian Authors
E. Expressing love Association wishes to congratulate the winners of our
Ten Stories High Eighth Annual Short Story
Text 2 : for questions 17 18
Competition. Our top ten winners are:
First Prize
Dear Peter, Colette Maitland
"Until Death Do We Part"
Jane informed me this morning that Mr. Second Prize
Darta, a local importer of local electrical goods,
has ordered two hundreds Electric washing Ruth Taylor
machines, Model Number E7, one hundred "At the Corner of Petapa and Thirty-first"
Electric Quickmix electric mixers, Model Third Prize
Number M3, fifty electric fans, Model Number Alison McCabe
F2, and twenty five air-conditioners, Model "Until Recently"
Number Ac 1. Since this is a big order, he asked "
for 20% discount. I'm waiting for your Once again, we wish to thank all the entrants who
confirmation. participated in our contest this year and congratulations
David to our winners!

2. Since this is a big order, he asked for 20%

discount. 4. What is the announcement about?
Which word is not the synonym of the underlined? A. The Niagara Travel
A. Because B. The Canadian Authors Association
B. During C. The Short Stories Competition
C. Due to D. The Finalist of Short Stories Competition
D. For E. Ten Stories
E. As 5. What is the event of the announcement?
3. Jane informed me this morning that Mr. Darta, A. The public library
. (line 1) B. Refreshment
What does the underlined word refer to? C. The Canadian authors association
A. Messenger D. Copies of our anthology
B. Mr. Darta E. Short stories competition
C. Reader
D. David
E. Jane
Text 3 : for questions 4 - 5 Text 3: for questions 21 23
 9. The text is about .
Feel out of touch? Just because youre in a taxi, on a A. some trees in protected area
plane, or in a line, doesnt mean that you are cut off B. the increase of illegal logging in South Sulawesi
the world. As a business executive, you know how C. the increase of police patrols in protected forest
important it is to maintain communication with your areas
office and with your clients. You know that if you D. police investigation to hunt a suspected illegal
arent talking to your customers, your competition logging boss
will be E. eight people questioned by the police for illegal
We have the solution. The logging cases
portable SE-543 mini-phone
fits easily into a pocket. Its 10. The police confiscated the logs .
all digital, so your A. before the logs were sent to the factory
communication is secure. B. right after the logs had just been cut down
And you can plug it into any C. on the way as they were being transported on
phone jack to pick up your trucks
e-mail. It has a 56.6 Kbps D. after the trucks bringing them passed the police
built in modem and 1 MB office
memory for storing both E. while the police was conducting a regular patrol
voice mail and e-mail in a protected forest
messages. 11. What did the police do in relation to the case?
A. They arranged a trap.
Stay ahead of the pack. Stay B. They questioned the owner of the logs.
in touch with our Se-543. C. They banned all trucks to enter forest area.
D. They cased the trucks drivers who brought the
logs.
6. Who is the advertisement aimed at? E. They questioned eight people, including the
A. People who are lonely trucks driver.
B. People who dress well
C. People who work short hours 12. Richard said illegal logging was rife in the area
D. People who communicate a lot by phone . (Last paragraph)
E. People who need the newest model of The underlined word means .
A. spread rapidly
phone B. rapidly developed
7. According to the advertisement, why is it important C. strongly protected
to be in touch? D. reduced drastically
A. To compete with your competitors E. located close to each other
B. To maintain good client relations Text 5 : for questions 13 -16
C. To learn about your competitors
D. To work out a solution Mr. Richards family was on vacation. They are
E. To use a fast modem Mr. and Mrs. Richard with two sons. They went to
London. They saw their travel agent and booked their
8. Its all digital, so your communication is secure. tickets. They went to the British Embassy to get visas to
(Paragraph 2) enter Britain. They had booked fourteen days tour. This
The underlined word can be best replaced by includes travel and accommodation. They also included
A. comfortable tours around London.
B. easy They boarded a large Boeing flight. The flight
C. safe was nearly fourteen hours. On the plane the cabin crews
D. nice were very friendly. They gave them news paper and
E. free magazine to read. They gave them food and drink. There
Text 4: for question 9 - 12 was a film for their entertainment. They had a very
pleasant flight. They slept part of the way.
MAKASAR: Luwu Timur Police in South On arrival at Heathrow Airport, they had to go to
Sulawesi has confiscated 740 logs which they suspect Customs and Immigration. The officers were pleasant.
cut illegally, and questioned eight people in relation to They checked the document carefully but their manners
the case. were very polite. Mr. Richard and his family collected
The logs were confiscated last week in two raids their bags and went to London Welcome Desk. They
as they were being transported on trucks from protected arranged the transfer to a hotel.
forest areas. The hotel was a well-known four-star hotel. The
Police Chief Adj. Comr. Richard Nainggolan room had perfect view of the park. The room had its own
said some of the logs were seized in protected forest bathroom and toilet. Instead of keys for the room, they
areas. The carrier did not have the necessary inserted a key-card to open the door. On the third floor,
documents. The driver said the owner of the logs had the there was a restaurant serving Asian and European food.
documents, Richard said. We are currently looking for They had variety of food.
the owner of the logs, he added. The two week in London went by fast. At the
Richard said illegal logging was rife in the area end of the 14-day, they were quite tired but they felt very
and the police had increased the frequency their patrols. happy.
JP.
13. Which one is not the facility in the hotel where Mr. B. The air stream is in normal
Richard stayed? C. The air steam can be heard
Bathroom and toilet D. The air steam can not be heard
Perfect view of the park E. The movement of air steam run slowly
A key-card to open the door 20. What makes the our stream vibrate?
Newspaper and magazine to read A. The air we exhale
Restaurant of European and Asian food. B. A series of puffs
C. The vocal cords
14. The main idea of the second paragraph is .
D. The puffs
A. they had variety of food.
E. A buzz
B. they slept part of the way.
21. Like all sound production speech production
C. they had a very pleasant flight.
requires a source of energy.
D. Mr. Richards family was on vacation.
What does the underlined word mean?
E. they also included tours around London.
A. Wears
15. How was the service got by the Richards in their B. Needs
vacation? C. Uses
A. It was free of charge D. Produces
B. It was disappointed E. Utilizes
C. It was bad
Text: for questions 22 - 24
D. It was terrible
E. It was satisfied. Have your say!
16. They checked the document carefully but their Each month in Have your say! We ask you to tell
manners were very polite. (paragraph 3). us what you think on an important science and
The underlined word means . technology issue. This months issue is : Should we be
A. matters spending millions on the Search for Extraterrestrial
B. opinion Intelligence (SETI)? We had a terrific response, with
C. behavior readers divided equally on the question. Have you made
D. position up your mind yet?
E. feelings I definitely believe that we should be spending
millions looking for extraterrestrials. I know some
Text : for question 17 - 21
people think it is a waste of money because there are
A Brief Summary of Speech Production
many things on your own planet we could spend the
Speech production is made possible by the
money on, but I do not think that this stop our question
specialized movements of our vocal organs that generate
for knowledge. Here are my arguments.
speech sounds waves.
Firstly, if there is another kind of form out there,
Like all sound production, speech production
we need to know about it. Imagine what would happen if
requires a source of energy. The source of energy for
aliens just suddenly arrived on Earth and we were not
speech production is the steady stream of air that comes
prepared for them. It would be a disaster, even if they did
from the lungs as we exhale. When we breathe normally,
not mean to hurt us. The film E.T : The Extra- Terrestrial
the air steam is inaudible. To become audible, the air
shows how things could go wrong. The only way to be
stream must vibrate rapidly. The vocal cords cause that
prepared for contact with aliens is to find them first.
air stream to vibrate.
Secondly, if we find life on another planet it
As we talk, the vocal cords open and close rapidly,
might help the human species survive. For example, if
chopping up the steady air stream into a series of puffs.
Earth becomes impossible to live on because of global
These puffs are heard as a buzz. But this buzz is still not
warming, the hole in the ozone layer or some other
speech.
environmental problem, we might be able to go to that
To produce speech sounds, the vocal tract must
planet to live.
change shape. During speech we continually alter the
Thirdly, finding life on another planet might
shape of the vocal tract by moving the tongue and lips,
make humans behave better. It might make us be nicer to
etc. these movements change the acoustic properties of
each other because we would see we were all part of the
the vocal tract, which in turn produce the different
one species. We would also have to stop believing that
sounds of speech.
the universe was ours, and this might make us take better
care of our own planet.
17. What does speech production need?
To sum up, I think we should spend as much
A. Speech sound waves
money as we can on searching for extraterrestrial for the
B. Steady stream of air
good of all human. Beside, I think there must be
C. A source of energy
something out there and I would really like to know
D. The vocal cord
what it is and where it is. Wouldnt you?
E. Speech sounds
18. What does the text mainly tell us about?
A. The process of making speech production
B. How to generate speech sounds waves
C. The movement of our vocal organs
D. What we need to produce sounds
22. What is the text about?
E. The air stream is inaudible
Preparing for contact with aliens
Spending million dollars.
19. What does it happen if we breathe normally?
Surviving human beings
A. The air steam runs
Saving million dollars.
Searching something. Artist : BLUE OCTOBER
Album : Foiled
23. It is important for us to waste much money for the
Genre : Rocks
following, except ....
Cool Tracks : Hate Me,
A. helping the human species
Congratulations, Let it
survive
Go
B. making humans behave better
Label : UMI
C. looking for extraterrestrials
D. contacting with aliens What do you say to a love song that contains an f-
E. saving our money word? Vulgar? Inappropriate? Somehow, BLUE
24. ... spend as much money as we can on searching OCTOBER can convey the gloomy mood perfectly
for extraterrestrial .... (par.6) in such song Hate me. You will appreciate the
The underlined word has the same meaning with .... depth of the lyrics, as they sound great and have truly
discovering for something to say. This band is headed by brothers
finding for
Justin and Jeremy Furstenfeld. Justin is the vocalist
looking at
taking for with is smiliar to Michael Hutchences of INXS.
looking for Jeremy handles the drums. CB Hudson and Matt
Noversky play the guitar and bas, respectively.
Text 8: for questions 25 - 26
Listening further to other songs, you will realize they
Continued progress in advanced technology is not will go to any length to make the songs sound
necessary. Already the technical progress in our world unique. There is wailing sound ala LINJIN PARK,
has caused severe pollution in the air and in the water.
Although the technical progress in previous years has Britpop influence ala PULP, choir-like background
been helpful, recent technology has significantly vocal, emotional lyrics, solo violin, and some disco
increased pollution. beat here and there. In Congratulations, a female
Another reason to stop technical progress is that voice (by singer Imogen Heap) gives a refreshingly
many inventions which were developed for good causes different color. Overall, the songs on this album are
are now also used for powerful weapons or have been very cool to listen to and analyze. Try this album, and
found to have serious side effects. For example, pesticide
you wont get foiled.
put inside particle board to prevent termites has now
been found to be toxic to human life.
Technology does not always bring good effects; for 27. The text is a review of a / an
example, computers do much work faster than man, but A. Art D. Album
then man loses his job to a machine. Because no man B. Play E. Movie
can guarantee that technology will have only good C. book
effects and will be used only for the benefit of man, we 28. What is the purpose of the text?
should delay the continued development of technology. A. To critique an art work
B. To inform about an album
25. The authors purpose in writing this paragraph is C. To entertain the reader with the story
A. To make people implement advanced technology D. To present two point of view about an rock
B. To describe pollution caused by advanced album
technology E. To persuade the reader that to buy an rock album
C. To have people stop developing advanced
technology 29. How many people in Blue October?
D. To explain what further inventions in technology A. 2 D. 5
should be made B. 3 E. 6
E. To show how advantageous advanced C. 4
technology is for human being 30. Which of the following is not true according to the
text ?
26. Advanced technology has made peoples lives more A. The songs on this album are very cool.
comfortable, nevertheless . B. The songs on this album are inappropriate.
A. it is useful and beneficial to people C. The songs on this album have unique sounds.
B. many people are no longer unemployed D. The songs on this album have wailing sounds.
C. it is causing a lot of damage to the environment E. The songs on this album will give you different
D. it help people to kill termites through pesticides color.
E. many inventions were developed for good
causes 31. BLUE OCTOBER can convey the gloomy mood
perfectly in a song Hate me. The underlined
word is opposite to .
A. sad
B. angry
C. emotional
D. gorgeous
Text 9 : for questions 27-31 E. cheerful
Homework, I Love You
(Kenn Nesbitt)
 Homework, I love you. I think that youre
great.
Its wonderful fun when you keep me up late.
I think youre the best when Im totally
stressed,
preparing and cramming all night for a test.
Homework, I love you. What more can I say?
I love to do hundreds of problems each day.
You boggle my mind and you make me go
blind,
but still Im ecstatic that you were assigned.
Homework, I love you. I tell you, its true.
Theres nothing more fun or exciting to do.
Youre never a chore, for its you I adore.
I wish that our teacher would hand you out
more.
Homework, I love you. You thrill me inside.
Im filled with emotions. Im fit to be tied.
I cannot complain when you frazzle my
brain.
Of course, thats because Im completely
insane.
32. What is the poetry about?
A. school life
B. home
C. love
D. work
E. politics291
33. How many stanzas does the poem have?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four
E. five
34. ...Its wonderful fun when you keep me
up late...
the bold word has same meaning,
except___
a. Great
b. Amazing
c. Fantastic
d. Sad
e. Awesome
You Raise Me Up
(Josh Grobhan)
Intro:
When I am down and oh my hearts so weary
When troubles come and my heart burden be
But I am still and wait here for silence
Until you come and sit a while with me
Chorus:
You raise me up so I can stand on mountain
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas
I am strong when I keep on your shoulder
You raise me up to more than I can be
(back to intro and Chorus)
35. What is the song about?
A. friendship
B. journey
C. politics
D. sailing
E. economy
36. What does the word so weary (line 1) mean?
A. very scared
B. very tired
C. very hard
D. very sleepy
E. very okay
Text 10: for questions 37-40
Before deciding whether watching television is a
waste of time, it is important to look at both sides of the
argument.
There are many good things about television.
There are shows that give us information for improving
our houses such as Better Homes and Gardens.
Another thing is that television is instructive because of
the news. Another thing is shows such as A Current
Affair and Sixty Minutes. They give us good
information about what is going on in the world. Another
thing to support the view that television is not a waste of
time is Channel 2. It has lots of educational programs.
Another thing is that shows such as The Great Outdoor
and Getaway teach us about nice places to travel to.
Another thing is shows such as Play School and
Sesame Street that help teach young children how to
count and read. Another thing is that Professor Smith
said television has helped us to learn more about the
world than any other invention.
There are reasons for saying watching television is
a waste of time. Professor Nguyen has said that if people
read as much as they watch television, they would learn
ten times as much. Another thing is that watching
television makes us lazy. When we are sitting watching
television we are not doing anything useful. Another
thing is the hopeless shows on television such as
Melrose Place and Baywatch. These teach us nothing
and just waste our time.
It can be seen that there are two sides to this
discussion. After looking at both, I think watching
television is not a waste of time.
37. What is the main idea of paragraph two?
A. The benefits of watching TV
B. The disadvantages of watching TV
C. TV has lots of educational programs
D. There are many good things about TV
E. TV helps the children to read and count
38. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To critique the TV programs
B. To present the TV programs
C. To describe the important of TV
D. To inform some kinds of TV programs
E. To present the arguments about TV Programs
39. The word instructive in line 4 means .
A. Giving available information
B. Giving hard instruction
C. Giving new program
D. Giving good shows
E. Giving lots news
40. Which one of the TV program containing negative
influence for watcher?
A. Better Homes and Gardens
B. The Great Outdoor
C. Sesame Street
D. Melrose Place E. Play School