Rabu, 17 November 2010
Belive
Children sleeping, snow is softly falling
Dreams are calling like bells in the distance
We were dreamers not so long ago
But one by one we all had to grow up
When it seems the magic's slipped away
We find it all again on Christmas day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Trains move quickly to their journey's end
Destinations are where we begin again
Ships go sailing far across the sea
Trusting starlight to get where they need to be
When it seems that we have lost our way
We find ourselves again on Christmas day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Just believe
english exercise
1.
Simple photographic lenses
cannot.....sharp, undistorted images over a wide field.
a.
to form
b. Are formed
c. Forming
d. Form
2.
Of all the factors affecting
agricultural yields, weather is the one.....the most.
a. In influences farmers
b.
That
influences farmers
c. Farmers that it influences
d. Why farmers influences it
3.
Beverly Sills, ..... assumed
directorship of the New York City Opera in 1979
a.
Be a star soprano
b.
Was a star soprano
c.
A star
soprano and
d.
A star soprano
4.
..... of tissues is known as
histology
a. Studying scientific
b.
The scientific
study
c. To study scientifically
d. That is scientific studying
5.
With the exception of mercury,
.... at standard temperature and pressure
a. The metallic elemant are solid
b. Which is solid a solid metallic elemant
c.
Metallic
elements being solid
d. Since the metallic elements are solid
6.
Potential dehydration
is.........that a land animal faces
a.
The often
greatest hazard
b. The greatest often hazard
c.
Often the
greatest hazard
d. Often the hazarad greatest
7.
By tracking the eye of hurricane,
forcasters can determine the speed at which.....
a. Is a storm moving
b.
a storm is moving
c. is moving a storm
d. a moving storm
8.
The grapes of wath, a novel about
the depression years of the 1930’s, is one of John Steinbeck’s.......books.
a.
Most famous
b. The most famous
c. Are most famous
d. And most famous
9.
Technology will play a key role
in......future life-styles
a. To shape
b.
Shaping
c. Shape of
d. Shaped
10.
The computer has dramatically
affected...........photographic lenses are constructed.
a. Is the way
b. That the way
c. Which way do
d.
The way
11.
The early railroads were.....the existing
arteries of transportation:roads, turnpikes,canals, and other waterways.
a. Those short lines connected
b. Short lines that connected
c.
Connected by
short lines
d. Short connecting lines
12.
..........as a masterpiece, a work
of art must transcend the ideals of the period in which it was created
a. Ranks
b. The ranking
c. To be ranked
d.
For being
ranked
13.
Jackie Robinson,...........to play
baseball in the major leagues, joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
a.
The Black
American who first
b. The first Black American
c. Was the first Black American
d. The first and a black American who
14.
During the flood of 1927, the Red
Cross..........out of emergency headquarters Mississipi, set up temporary
shelters for the homeless.
a. Operates
b. Is operating
c.
Has operated
d. Operating
15.
In bacteria and in other organisms,......is
the nucleic acid DNA that provides the generic information.
a. Both
b. Which
c. And
d.
It
Written Expression
Directions : in questions 16-40 each sentences has for underlined words
of phrases. The for underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C),
and (D). Identify the one underlined answer sheet, find the number of the
questions and fill in the space that correspons to the letter of the answer you
have chosen.
Look at the following example :
Example I
Guppies are sometimes call
rainbow fish because of the males’ bright colors.
A B C D
The sentence should read, “Guppies are sometimes called rainbow fish
because of the males’ bright colors.” Therefore, you should choose ( A ).
Example II
Serving
several term in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important
United
A B C
States politician.
D
The sentence should read. “Serving several terms in Congress, Shirley
Chisholm became in important United States politician.” Therefore, you should
choose ( B ).
Now begin work on the questions.
16.
Twenty to thirty year after
a mature forest is cleared away, a nearly impenetrable thicket o trees and
A B C
shrubs develops.
D
A B C
shrubs develops.
D
17.
The first national park in world. Yellowstone National Park, was
established in 1872.
A B C D
18.
Because it does not have a blood supply, the cornea takes their
oxygen directly from the air.
A B C D
19.
Magnificent mountains and coastal
scenery is British Columbia’s chief tourist attractions A B C D
20.
Scientists at universities
are often more involved in theoretical research than in practically research.
A B C D
21.
John Rosamond Johnson he
composed numerous songs, including Lift Every Voice and
A B C
Sing,
for which his brother, James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words.
D
22.
Nylon, a synthetic done
from a combination of water, air, and a by-product of coal, was
first
A B C
introduced in 1938.
D
23.
Ornithology, the study of birds,
is one of the major scientific fields in which amateurs play
a A B C
role in accumulating, researching, and publish data.
D
24.
Animation is a technique
for creativity the illusion of life in inanimate things.
A B C D
25.
The nonviolent protest advocated by
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr proving highly effective in
A B
an age of expanding television news coverage.
C D
26.
On
December 7, 1787, Delaware became a first state to ratify
the Constitution.
A B C D
27.
Nutritionists believe what diet affects how one feels physically
and emotionally
A B C D
A B C D
28.
Mealii Kalama, creator of over
400 Hawaiian quilts, was granted a National Heritage
A B
bellowship in 1985 for herself contributions to folk art.
C D
29.
A jetty serves to define
and deepen a channel, improve navigate, or protect a harbor.
A B C D
30.
Minoru Yamasaki is an American
architect which works departed from the austerit A B
frequently associated with architecture
in the United States after the Second World War.
C D
31.
Chemical research provides
information that is useful when the textile industry in the A B
C
creation of synthetic fabrics.
D
32.
Jane Addams, social worker,
author, and spokeswoman for the peace and women’s suff A
movements, she received the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1931 for her humanitarian achievements.
B C D
33.
Bromyrite crystals have a
diamond-like luster and are usually colorless, but they dark to
A B C
brown when exposed to light.
D
34.
Stars in our universe vary in temperature,
color, bright, size, and mass.
A B C D
35.
Ice is less denser than
the liquid from which it is formed.
A
B C D
36.
The 1983 Nobel Prize in Medicine was
awarded to Barbara McClintock for her experiments
A B
with maize and her discoveries regardless
the nature of DNA.
C D
37.
In
1866 to 1883, the bison population in North America was reduced from an estimated
13
A B C
million to a few hundred.
D
38.
Most of the damage property
attributed to the San Fransisco earthquake of 1906 resulted
A B C
from the fire that followed.
D
39.
James Baldwin’s plays and short
stories, which are to some degree autobiographical A B
established them as a leading figure in the United States
civil rights movement.
C D
40.
Thunder can be listened
from a maximum distance of about ten miles except under unusual A B C D
atmospheric conditions.
As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni
indians of North america were building with adobe – sun-baked brick plastered
with mud. There homes looked remarkably like modern apartement houses some were
four stories high and contained quartersfor perhaps thousand people. Along with
store rooms for grain and other goods. This building were usually put up
against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense against
enemies. They were really villages in them selves as later spanish explorers
must have realized since they called them “pueblos”, which is spanish for
towns.
The people of the pueblos raised what are called ”the three
sister”—corn, beans, and squash. They made excellent pottery and wove marvelous
baskets, some so fine that they could hold water. The Southwest has always been
a dry country, where water is scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought water from
streams to their fields and gardens through irrigation ditches. Water was so
important that it played a major role in their religion. They developed
elaborate ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain.
The way of life of les-settled groups was simpler and more strongly
influenced by nature. Small tribes such as the Shosone and Ute wandered the dry
and mountainous lands between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. They
gathered seeds and hunted seals, walruses, ang the great whales. They lived
right on the frozen seas in shelters called igloos built of blocks of packed
snow. When summer came, they fished for salmon and hunted the lordly caribou.
The Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Sioux tribes, known as the Plains
Indians, lived on the grassland between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi
River. They hunted bison, commonly called the buffalo. Its meat was the chief
food of these tribes, and its hide was used to make their clothing and the covering
of their tents and tipis.
1.
What does the passage mainly
discuss?
(A) The architecture of early American Indian buildings
(B) The movement of American Indians across North America
(C) Ceremonies and rituals of American Indians
(D)
The way of
life of American Indian tribes in early North America
2.
According to the passage, the Hopi
and Zuni typically built their homes
(A)
In valleys
(B) Next to streams
(C) On open plains
(D) Agains cliffs
3.
The word “They” in line 6 refers
to
(A) Goods
(B)
Buildings
(C) Cliffs
(D) enemies
4.
It can be inferred from the passage
that the dwellings of the Hopi and Zuni were
(A) very small
(B)
highly
advance
(C) difficult to defend
(D) quickly constructed
5.
The author uses the phrase “the
three sisters” in line 8 to refer to
(A) Hopi women
(B)
Family
members
(C) Important crops
(D) Rain ceremonies
6.
The word “scarce” in line 10 is
closest in meaning to
(A)
Limited
(B) Hidden
(C) Pure
(D) necessary
7.
which of the following is true of
the Shoshone and Ute?
(A)
They were
not as settled as the Hopi and Zuni
(B) They hunted caribou
(C) They built their homes with adobe
(D) They didn’a have many religious ceremonies
8.
According to the passage, which of
the following tribes lived in the grassland?
(A) The Shoshone and Ute
(B)
The Cheyenne
and Sioux
(C) The Hopi and Zuni
(D) The pawnee and Inuit
9.
Which of the following animals was
most important to the Plains Indians?
(A) The Salmon
(B) The Caibou
(C) The seal
(D)
The buffalo
10.
Which of the following is NOT
mentioned by the author as adwelling place of early North Americans?
(A)
Log cabins
(B) Adobe houses
(C) Tipis
(D) Igloos
11.
The author gives an explaination
for all of the following word EXCEPT
(A) Adobe
(B) Pueblos
(C)
Caribou
(D) Bison
12.
The author groups North American
Indians according to their
(A)
Tribes and
geographycal regions
(B) Arts and crafts
(C) Rituals and ceremonies
(D) Date of apperanmce of the continent
Marianne
Moore (1887-1972) once said that her writting could be called poetry only
because there was no other name for it. Indeed her poems appear to be extremely
compressed essays that happen to be printed in jagged lines on the page. Her
subjects were varied: animals, labores, artist, and the craft of poetry. From
her general reading came quotations that she found striking or insightful. She
included these in her poems, scrupulously enclosed in quotation marks and
sometimes identified in footnotes. Of this practice, she wrote, “ ‘why the many quotation marks?’ I am asked. .
. when a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why
paraphrase it?Hence my writting is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of
collection of flies in amber.” Close observation and consentration on detail
are the methods of her poetry.
Marianne
Moore grew up in kirkwood, Missouri, near St. Louis. After graduation from Bryn
Mawr College in 1909, she taught commercial subjects at the Indian school in
Carlisle, Pennsylvannia. Later she became a librarian in New York City. During
the 1920’s she was editor of The Dial,
an importan literary magazine of the period. She lived quietly all her life,
mostly in Brooklyn, New York. She spent a lot of time at the Bronx Zoo,
fascinated by animals. Her admiration of the Brooklyn Dodgers – before the team
moved to Los Angeles- was widely known.
Her first
book of poems was published in London in 1921 by a group of friends associeted
with the imagist movement. From that time on her poetry has been read with
interest by succeeding generations of poets and readers. In 1952 she was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected
Poems. She wrote that she did not write poetry “for money or fame. To earn a living is needful,
but it can be done in routine ways. One writes because one has a burning desire
to objectivy what it is indispensable to one’s happiness to express...”
13.
What is the passage mainly about?
(A)
The
influance of the imagist on Marianne Moore
(B) Essayists and poets of the 1920’s
(C) The use was quotations in poetry
(D) Marianne Moore’s life and work
14.
Which of the following can be
inferred about Moore’s poems?
(A) They are better known in Europe than the United States
(B)
They do not
use traditional verse forms
(C) They were all published in The
Dial
(D) They tend to be abstract
15.
According to the passage Moore
wrote about all of the following EXCEPT
(A) Artists
(B) Animals
(C)
Fossils
(D) workers
16.
What does Moore refer to as “flies in amber” (line 9)?
(A) A common image in her poetry
(B) Poetry in the twentieth century
(C) Concentration on detail
(D)
Quotations
within her poetry
17.
The author mentions all of the
following as jobs held by Moore EXCEPT
(A)
Commercial
artist
(B) Teacher
(C) Magazine editor
(D) Librarian
18.
The word “period” in line 13 is
closest in meaning to
(A) Movement
(B) School
(C) Region
(D)
time
19.
Where did Moore spend most of her adult life?
(A) In Kirkwood
(B) In Brooklyn
(C) In Los Angeles
(D)
In Carlisle
20.
The word “succeeding” in line 19
is closest in meaning to
(A)
Inheriting
(B) Prospering
(C) Diverse
(D) later
21.
The word “it” in line 21 refers to
(A) Writing poetry
(B) Becoming famous
(C)
Earning a
living
(D) Attracting readers
22.
It can be inferred from the
passage that Moore wrote because she
(A) Wanted to win award
(B) Was disatisfied with what others wrote
(C)
Felt a need
to express herself
(D) Wanted to raise money for the Bronx Zoo
Questions 23-30
What makes it rain?Rain falls from clouds the same reason anything
falls to Earth. The Earth’s gravity pulls it. But every cloud is made of water
droplets or ice crystals. Why doesn’t rain or snow fall constantly from all
clouds? The droplets or ice crystals in clouds are exceedingly small. The
effect of gravity in them is minute. Air currents move and lift droplets so
that the net down ward displacement is zero, even though the droplets are in
constant motion.
Droplets and ice crystals behave somewhat like dust in the air made
visible in a shaft of sunlight. To the casual observer, dust seems to act in a
totally random fashion, moving about chaotically without fixed direction. But
in fact dust particles are much larger than water droplets and they finally
fall. The average size of a cloud droplest is only 0,004 inch in diameter. It
is so small that it would take sixteen hours to fall half a mile in perfectly
still air,and it does not fall out of moving air at all. Only when the droplet
grows to a diameter of 0,008 inch or larger can it fall from the cloud. The
average raindrop contains a million times as much water as a tiny cloud
droplet. The growth of a cloud to a size large enough to fall out is the cause
of rain and other forms of precipitation. This important growth is called”
coalescence”.
23.
What is the main topic of the
passage?
(A)
the mechanics
of rain
(B) the weather patterns of North America
(C) how Earth’s gravity affects agriculture
(D) types of clouds.
24.
The word “ minute “ in line 4 is closest in meaning to which of the
following?
(A)
Second
(B)
Tiny
(C)
Slow
(D)
Steady
25.
The word “ motion “ in line 5 closest in meaning to..
(A) Wind
(B) Change
(C)
Movement
(D) humidity
26.
Ice crystals do not immediately
fall to Earth because,
(A)
they are
kept aloft by air currents
(B)
they combine with other chemicals
in the atmosphere
(C)
most of them evaporate
(D)
their electrical charges draw them
away from the earth.
27.
The word “ random “in line 7 is
closest in meaning to..
(A)
Unpredictable
(B)
Perplexing
(C)
Independent
(D)
abnormal
28.
what can be inferred about drops
of water larger than 0,008 inch in diameter?
(A)
they never occur
(B)
they are not affected by the force
of gravity
(C)
in still air
they would fall to earth.
(D)
in moving air they fall at a speed
of thirty-two miles per hour.
29.
how much bigger drop than a cloud
droplet?
(A) 200 times bigger
(B) 1000 times bigger
(C) 100000 times bigger
(D)
1000000
times bigger
30.
in this passage, what does the
term “ coalescence” refer to?
(A)
the
ghatering of small clouds to form larger clouds
(B) the growth of droplest
(C) the effect of gravity on precipitition
(D) the movement of dust particles in the sunlight
Questions 31-40
People
appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early
and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical
maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they
can set the table with impressive accuracy – one plate, one knife,one spoon,
one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of nothing that
they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table and, a bit later,
that this amounts to fivteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered
addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect
that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrevied seven
years later, he or she could enter a second – grade mathematics class without
any serious problems of intellectual adjusment.
Of
course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive
psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which
intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly
grasped-or, as the case might be, bumped into-concept that adults take for
granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged
as water pours from q short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists
have since demonstrated that young children asked to count the pencils in a
pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into
finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments if
mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested
that the very concept of abstract numbers- the idea of oneness, a twoness, a
threeness taht applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing
anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table- is itself from
innate.
31.
what does the passage mainly
discuss?
(A) trends in teaching mathematics to children.
(B) the use of mathematics in child psychology
(C)
the
development mathematical ability in children
(D) the fundamental concepts of mathematic that children must learn.
32.
it can be inferred from the
passage that children normally learn simple counting?
(A)
soon after
they learn to talk
(B) by looking at the clock
(C) when they begin to be mathematically mature
(D) after they reach second grade in school.
33.
the word “ illuminated “ in line
11 is closests in meaning to..
(A) illustrated
(B) accepted
(C) clarified
(D) lighted
34.
the author implies that most small
children believe that the quantity of water changes when it is transfered to a
container of a different..
(A) color
(B) quality
(C) weight
(D)
shape
35.
According to the passage , when
small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils they..
(A)
counted the
number of pencils of each color.
(B) guessed at the total number of pencils.
(C) counted only the pencils of their favorite color.
(D) subtracted the number of red pencil from the number of blue pencils.
36.
the word “ they “ in line 17
refers to
(A) mathematicians
(B) children
(C) pencils
(D)
studies
37.
the word “ prerequisite “ in line
19 is closest in meanin g to..
(A) reason
(B) theory
(C)
requirement
(D) technique
38.
the word “itself “ in line 20
refers to ..
(A) the total
(B)
the concept
abstract numbers
(C) any class of objects
(D) setting a table
39.
with which of the following
statements would the author be LEAST likely to agree?
(A) children naturally and easily learn mathematics.
(B)
children
learn to add before they learn to subtract
(C) most people follow the same pattern of mathematical development
(D) mathematical development is subtle and gradual.
40.
where in the passage does the
author give an example of a hypothetical experiment?
(A)
lines 3-6
(B) lines 7-9
(C) lines 11-14
(D) lines 17-20
Questions
41-50
Botany,
the study of plants,occupies a peculiar position in the history of human
knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about
which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible
to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from
what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exists, a detailed
learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. This is
logical. Plants are the basis of the food piramid for all living things, even
for other plants. They have always been enormously important to the welfare of
people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons,
tools,dyes,medicines,shelter,and a great many other purpose. Tribes living
today in the jungles of the Amazon recognize literally hundreds of plants and
know many properties of each. To them botany,as such,has no name and is
probably not even recognized as a special branch of “ knowledge” at all.
Unfortunately,
the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct contact
with plants, and the list distinct our knowledge of botany grows. Yet everyone
comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people
will file to recognize a rose,an apple,or an orchid. When our Neolithic
ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10.000years ago, discovered that
certain grasses couls be harvested and their seeds planted for richers yields
the next season, the first great step in a new association of plants and humans
was taken. Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of
agriculture : cultivated crops. From then on, humans would increasingly take
their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than
getting a little here and a little their from many varieties that grew wild-
and the acculumulated knowledge of tens
of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wile would
begin to fade away.
41.
which of the following assumptions
about early humans expressed in the passage?
(A) they probably had extensive knowledge of plants
(B)
they divided
knowledge into well-defined fields
(C) they did not enjoy the study of botany
(D) they placed great importance on ownership of property
42.
the word “ peculiar” in line 1 is
closest in meaning to ...
(A) clear
(B) large
(C)
unusual
(D) important
43.
what does the comment “ this is
logical” in lines 5-6 mean?
(A) there is no clear way to determine the extent of our ancestors
knowledge of plants
(B) it is not suprising that early humans had a detailed knowldege of
plants
(C)
it is
reasonable to assume that our ancestors behaved very much like people in
preindustrial societies
(D) human knowledge of plants is well organized and very detailed.
44.
the phrase “properties of each” in
line 10 refers to each..
(A) tribe
(B) hundred
(C)
plant
(D) purpose
45.
according to the passage,why has
general knowledge of botany declined?
(A) people no lorger value plants as a useful resource
(B)
botany is
not recognized as a special branch of science
(C) research is unable to keep up with the increasing number of plants
(D) direct contact with a variety of plants has decreased
46.
in line 15, what is the author’s
purpose in mentioning a rose,an apple,or an orchid”?
(A) to make the passage more poetic
(B) to cite examples of plants that are attractive
(C)
to give
botanical examples that most readers will recognize
(D) to illustrate the diversity of botanical life.
47.
according to the passage, what was
the first great step toward the practise of agriculture?
(A) the envention of agricultural implements and machinery
(B) the development of a system of names for plants
(C)
the
discovery of grasses that could be harvested and replanted
(D) the changing diets of early humans
48.
the word “ controlled”in line 19
is closest in meaning to..
(A) abundant
(B)
managed
(C) required
(D) advanced
49.
the relationship between botany
and agriculture is similar to the relatiinship between zoology ( the study of animals)
and...
(A) deer hunting
(B) bird watching
(C)
sheep
raising
(D) horseback riding
50.
where in the passage does the
author describe the benefits people derive from plants?
(A) line 1
(B)
line 6-8
(C) line 10-11
(D) line 13-15
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