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I. Grammar and Vocabulary
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. (1*20)
1.There _______ no colorful night life like going to pubs or going to cinema, people living in the countryside usually go to bed early.
A. is B. be C. to be D. being
2.____________, I would have chosen not to tell him on his birthday that he had failed the final exam.
A. Was I given another chance B. Given another chance
C. Had I given another chance D. Had I been given another chance
3.To feed the planet’s seven billion people, farmers will need crops that they can grow in saltier soils and an atmosphere _______ more carbon dioxide and ozone.
A. to be filled with B. filling with
C. being filled with D. filled with
4._____________________, all the athletes competing at the 2012 London Olympic Games, were treated as heroes when they returned to the country.
A. Whatever brilliant achievement they made or not
B. However brilliant achievement they made or not
C. However brilliant they made achievement or not
D. They made whatever brilliant achievement or not
5.Feminist sociolinguists, over the course of the last few decades, have conducted studies _____ they believe support the conclusion _____ women are routinely discriminated against in English-speaking society.
A. what…which B. what…that C. which…what D. that…that
6.Human beings get goose bumps and chills when we are scared for the same reason ______ cats fluff up when they’re threatened.
A. as B. that C. why D. like
7.The amount of digital data available to us _______ every year, but the amount of time and energy we can devote to understanding it remains the same.
A. much doubles B. more doubles
C. more than doubles D. more doubles than
8.The Sumerians, an ancient people of the Middle East, had a story _______ the invention of writing more than 5,000 years ago.
A. to explain B. to have explained C. explaining D. explained
9.Not only ______________, but they affect our everyday language—there are a lot of “cats” and “dogs” in English, including proverbs, sayings, idioms and other expressions.
A. domestic animals are men’s companions
B. men’s companions are domestic animals
C. are domestic animals men’s companions
D. men’s companions domestic animals are
10.The history of cheerleading __________ the late 1880s.
A. goes back as far in B. goes far back as
C. goes as far back as D. goes as far back as in
11.In daily life, imitation can hurt us if we ________________ hold poor models.
A. deliberately B. conspicuously
C. subconsciously D. conscientiously
12.In the ________ earlier this year, various treatments, like drugs to fight the virus, were delivered to patients in that country.
A. illness B. epidemic C. sickness D. disease
13.It has proved that separation from the parents during the sensitive “attachment” period from birth to three may ________ a child’s personality in later life.
A. smash B. strain C. scar D. strip
14.New Zealand lays claim to approximately 700 species of seaweed, some of which have no _________ outside that country.
A. representative B. representation C. presentation D. representing
15.At the Olympic level, where athletes are in roughly the same physical condition, the difference between victory and defeat often _______ their mental status.
A. boils down to B. dwells on C. attributes to D. contributes to
16.Some 98 percent of working climate scientists agree that the atmosphere is already warming __________ human greenhouse-gas emission.
A. in view of B. in accord with
C. in line with D. in response to
17.Because of climate-change-induced environmental degradation, scientists ________ that tens of millions of people will move into today’s small and medium-size cities.
A. preach B. project C. propose D. pledge
18.Teenagers often focus on what they’d like to do and ______ other considerations.
A. brush around B. turn over C. keep off D. set aside
19.When we walk, instead of turning all calories into lift or forward motion, we turn most of them into heat that’s quickly _________.
A. dispatched B. dissected C. dissipated D. diverged
20.The surface of the earth has not always looked as it does today; it is moving __________ and has done so for billions of years.
A. consistently B. circularly C. continentally D. continuously
II. Cloze
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. (1*20)
(A)
With children and their development, nothing is more important than imagination to help with the growth of thought processes and creativity. Children that are able to get away from it all and place themselves, ___21___, in another world are more likely to be able to think “outside the box” and produce more creative results when learning and working. For this reason, the importance of imagination cannot be ___22___ and should be encouraged when raising children.
Parents know the importance of curiosity in children. Curiosity holds an important place in the minds of kids because it helps provide them with the ___23___ to explore objects and places that they do not know. Children become curious from a very young age and begin to wonder about various ___24___ in this broad universe, but it is imagination that helps carry the child beyond the boundaries of imagination and into a new world of ___25___.
It is imagination that begins to develop and occupy a very vital place in a child’s mental world. With imagination, a child can move mountains, transport himself to a distant world, make himself smaller or larger, or disappear from sight. Imagination allows children to form new ideas and explore old ideas, all at once. For children with more to escape in their ___26___ realities, such as abuse victims or children with separated parents, imagination plays an even more critical role in development as it ___27___ with coping.
As parents, it is critical to promote imagination through various activities and ideas. ___28___ children to fantasy worlds through books and television shows. Discuss these ideas together and explore your children’s ideas. Don’t judge them for the ideas they think of, but rather explore them together and ask questions to promote more thought through imagination. This will help children flesh out and ___29___ ideas through their imagination, leading to the building blocks of creative thinking.
When children get scared, it is important to show them compassion and belonging. This can be accomplished through the use of imagination ___30___. Any toy or activity that promotes imagination is a tremendous asset for preparing children for the world and allowing them the space in which to truly and safely grow up.
21. A. intelligently B. physically C. mentally D. actually
22. A. challenged B. underestimated C. overestimated D. measured
23. A. ability B. advantage C. will D. chance
24. A. notions B. species C. concepts D. findings
25. A. expansion B. daydreaming C. thought D. discovery
26. A. unavoidable B. unfortunate C. unreliable D. unbelievable
27. A. aids B. combines C. fixes D. compares
28. A. Throw B. Expose C. Take D. Allow
29. A. identify B. justify C. modify D. solidify
30. A. at play B. at work C. at home D. at school
(B)
Although people may not agree on a definition of charisma, they can generally agree on who has it and who doesn’t. Ask people to list charismatic ___31___ figures and John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama are commonly and frequently mentioned. Ask about charismatic people from the world of entertainment and Oprah Winfrey ___32___ the list.
On the surface, charismatic individuals, such as Bill Clinton, Mohandas Gandhi, and Oprah Winfrey seem to have ____33____ in common (besides being in positions of influence and leadership). But they all are ____34____ as having that “something special” that is charisma.
What is charisma? This question has been studied for more than 30 years and some people have a good understanding of the personal ___35____ that can make any individual “charismatic.” This “personal charisma” is not the same as charismatic leadership, but charismatic leaders possess most, if not all, of the ____36____ building blocks of personal charisma.
Personal charisma is a constellation of complex and sophisticated social and emotional skills. They allow charismatic individuals to affect and influence others at a ___37____ emotional level, to communicate effectively with them, and to make strong interpersonal 38 .
Charismatic individuals express their feelings spontaneously and genuinely. This allows them to affect the moods and emotions of others. We all know charismatic people who seem to “light up the room” when they ___39____. They typically express positive effect, but they can also stir up others when they are angry or irritated.
Truly charismatic individuals have the ability to control and regulate their emotional displays. They are good emotional actors, who can ____40____ the charm when they need to.
Charismatic people are skilled and entertaining conversationalists. They certainly affect us with their emotional expressiveness, but there is also power in their words. Nearly all charismatic leaders are effective public speakers.
31. A. presidential B. public C. democratic D. charitable
32. A. ranks B. overwhelms C. tops D. dominates
33. A. much B. nothing C. little D. something
34. A. recognized B. recommended C. bestowed D. received
35. A. characters B. characteristics C. intelligence D. qualities
36. A. basic B. utmost C. general D. solid
37. A. surface B. reasonable C. deep D. substantial
38. A. responses B. interactions C. association D. connections
39. A. talk B. think C. enter D. depart
40. A. turn on B. put out C. show off D. depend on
III. Reading
Section A
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A) (2*3)
Awesome Achievement
Your college graduation
Fills us with love and pride.
We always knew that you could do
Whatever you really tried.
It’s a long and challenging journey
To get a college degree,
But you wouldn’t quit it, you just went and did it,
And we’re beaming affectionately.
Your achievement is awesome, my kid;
You’ve worked hard and you’ve passed the test.
We love you so, and we want you to know,
We think you’re the very best!
By Joanna
___________
Mom, from the time I was really young,
I realized I had someone...you,
who always cared,
who always protected me,
who was always there for me no matter what.
You taught me right from wrong,
and pushed me to do the right thing,
even when it was hard to do.
You took care of me when I was sick,
and your love helped make me well.
You had rules,
and I learned that when I obeyed them,
my life was simpler, better, richer.
You were and are
the guiding light of my life.
My heart is filled with love for you,
my teacher, my friend, my mother.
By Karl
41. The two ______ are taken from a famous website for kids reading.
A. novels B. poems C. advertisements D. journals
42. Joanna shows ______.
A. her great pride to her son’s graduation
B. her gratitude to her mom after graduation
C. her happiness in passing the final exams
D. her joy in the hard and challenge journey
43. ______ is most suitable title for Karl’s works.
A. Guiding Light Mom B. When I was young
C. No matter what D. The rules to follow
(B) (2*4)
It’s raining bacteria....
For clouds to form so it can rain or snow, tiny droplets of water or ice crystals must attach themselves to even smaller particles in the air, known as cloud seeds. Until now scientists have said that these cloud seeds that help make it rain have been mostly things like soot, dust and sea salt.
Now, however, research has found that living things may be much more important cloud seeders than first thought. Climate scientists looked at snow and ice samples from all over the world and found that every one of them had at least some micro-organisms such as bacteria in them.
Bacteria finds its way into the air after being disturbed off plants growing on farms, and it is at least one source responsible for making it rain or snow.
This discovery means that researchers are better able to make links between the living world and our climate. Some researchers also say this new information may help scientists bring rain, artificially, to dry areas.
44. In the past, scientist regarded all the things except ______ as cloud seeds.
A. soot B. smaller particles C. bacteria D. dirt
45. What does the word “disturbed” in Paragraph 3 most probably mean?
A. interrupted B. moved C. worried D. broken
46. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Micro-organisms are more important in rain-form than first thought.
B. Smaller articles are vital in the process of clouds and rain forming.
C. Soot, dust and sea salt are normally cloud seeds.
D. Dry areas need more bacteria to get sufficient rain dropping.
47. The findings will help researchers ______.
A. understand the creatures and climate better
B. find a new way to prevent the rain pouring
C. realize the importance of bacteria in nature
D. know that there must be bacteria in raindrops
(C) (2*5)
CATHOLIC COLLEGE BENDIGO
HOMESTUDY AND HOW TO STUDY—SOME SUGGESTIONS
Before you begin:
✧Make a set time for study.
✧If possible, set up a permanent study area. (If this is not possible, find privacy in a quiet area. You need to be alone.) Do not try to work with TV, radio or conversation to distract you.
✧Organise your books so that they are in order and you know where they are.
✧Keep your work space clear of materials and objects.
✧When you are studying, have with you only the books and notes you require. This will avoid distraction.
✧Use a good light which is not in a position to shine in your eyes.
✧Allow fresh air into your room.
✧Use a comfortable chair with a good back support.
Time Management:
(Use your diary for time management)
At the beginning of each week:
✧List before and after school activities such as sport, practice sessions, music lessons, homestudy.
✧List the tests to be done that week and on which day.
✧List the assignments and essays due and on which day.
✧Check your progress on a long term assignments. Do a small amount regularly.
✧Set time for study.
✧Allow time fro revision.
✧Check what you need for the next day.
✧Make sure you have done due assignments.
✧Pack your bag with books and equipment you will need.
✧List the books etc. you will need to bring home for tomorrow night’s homestudy (Use your diary for reminders).
What homestudy time is used for:
✧To prepare for lessons (collect what is needed research etc).
✧To complete the work (such as assignment).
✧To complete work not finished in class.
✧To revise and understand work done in class.
✧To write down questions about what you can’t understand.
✧Read for relaxation and enjoyment.
Work Habits:
✧Do the hardest subject/assignment first while you are fresh.
✧Take a 10-minute break every hour.
✧Use your time at school effectively. It will cut down home study time.
✧Revision of work done in class before commencing set homestudy will help to make revising for tests easier.
Notes:
✧Have a separate folder for each subject.
✧Use plenty of headings.
✧Use sub-headings.
✧Be neat in your layout. It is easier to read.
✧Organise your notes by colour highlighting them.
✧Numbering the points can be useful.
✧Leave wide margins for comments.
✧Date the notes.
✧Store the notes in order.
Researching Your Assignments:
1. CHOOSE your topic:
—what is it exactly that I need to know?
—what questions do I have to answer?
2. FIND the relevant book/s and write down the title/s in your folders. RECORD the information for bibliography NOW (See point 10).
3. Use the
(a) Index
(b) Table of contents to find your facts easily and quickly
4. READ the information in the book/ articles.
5. USE the vertical file which is in ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
6. TAKE NOTES by reading a paragraph at a time and writing brief points i.e. a)… b)…
7. MAKE USE OF MAPS, DIAGRAMS AND TABLES
8. USE headings and sub-headings to highlight your points.
9. JOIN the points together in your own words.
10. BIBLIOGRAPHY—in alphabetical order, by author’s surname, e.g. Smith, John Industrial Revolution, Ringwood: Penguin, 1983. Pages 13, 16-19, 58. Record this information as you go (see Point 2). If you can follow these points assignments will be easier.
48. The passage is most probably taken from ______.
A. a student guidance B. an enrollment
C. a new product brochure D. a college calendar
49. Before you begin, students should do all the following EXCEPT ______.
A. set up a permanent study area
B. make adjustment of desk lamp
C. eliminate distractions from learning
D. check what you’ll do next day
50. On Mondays, students should ______.
A. ensure which day is the deadline for assignments
B. make a list of hardest subjects of the whole week
C. finish the long term assignments in this term
D. set a definite time for self-learning after school
51. When you take notes, you should ______.
A. set aside empty space at the side of page to make comments
B. take down what the professors have mentioned in class
C. put all the learning materials into one big folder
D. put the folder in alphabetical order
52. Which section will teach you how to put a collection of resource materials in order?
A. Time Arrangement B. Work Habits
C. Before You Begin D. Researching Your assignments
Section B (3*7)
Directions: Read the following passages with the same topic. They are followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
Topic: Sleep yourself thin. Really?
① Modern society is becoming more sleep-deprived and fatter, but are the ‘epidemics’ related? Tim Olds and Carol Maher take a closer look at the evidence.
② The key to maintaining a healthy weight may not be about how much you sleep, but when you sleep.
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③ The idea of ‘sleeping yourself thin’ has a lot of appeal. So much nicer than the cold morning jogs and the low-calorie lentil soup. “Just another half hour, darling, I'm trying to lose weight.”
④ And for once, science seems to be on our side. Insufficient sleep has been associated with everything from suicide to memory loss, hyperactivity to failure at school, immune problems to … obesity.
⑤ Short sleepers are fatter. Most population studies find a U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and the likelihood of being overweight or obese, the risk being lowest in normal (seven to eight hours per night) sleepers, and higher for those sleeping less than five hours or more than nine hours a night.
⑥ Studies in the lab have helped to identify some possible mechanisms. When people are sleep-deprived, blood sugar levels are elevated, sympathetic nervous system activity is higher, and levels of leptin and ghrelin (hormones which respectively suppress and stimulate appetite) are tilted in favour of over-eating. All of this would be expected to lead to fat accumulation.
⑦ What’s more, it seems that the obesity epidemic has coincided with an epidemic of sleep loss. Our work has shown that over the last 100 years, globally, kids have lost 75 minutes of sleep a day, although Australia has gone against the trend, with Australian kids sleeping longer than before. About half of all adults say they need more sleep, the average perceived sleep deficit being about 25-30 minutes per night.
Wait a minute ...
⑧ All seems right for a sleep-led recovery from the obesity epidemic. But we should treat these studies with caution.
⑨ For a start, Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill not withstanding, fewer than eight people in a hundred regularly sleep less than five hours a night. And they believe while kids may be sleeping less, historical trends in adult sleep are less clear. One recent study found no significant change between 1992 and 2006 in Australian adults, and UK data show a similar pattern. Furthermore, laboratory studies typically use extreme sleep deprivation in artificial environments (no drugs, no caffeine, no physical activity, artificial light-dark cycles), so it’s not at all clear how these findings translate into real-world situations.
⑩ As sleep expert Jim Horne points out, extending sleep, even with the use of sleeping pills, would take years to have any noticeable effect on obesity, and the extra time spent sleeping would be better used just going for a walk. Although short sleepers are fatter than normal sleepers, the differences are very small (for example, the extra two hours’ sleep normal sleepers get over five-hour-a-nighters reduces their waist girth by only two centimetres over many years), and may not have important health consequences.
⑪ We should also be open to alternative explanations of these associations between short sleep and weight.
⑫ In a recent study with kids, our group found that bedtime explained differences in weight. Even when adjusted for sleep duration, late bedtimes were associated with greater risk of obesity, lower levels of physical activity and higher levels of television viewing, as well as with less favourable dietary patterns (less fruit and vegetable consumption and more snack foods). It may be that late retirees and late risers just miss out on the good things of life (healthy breakfasts, morning jogs) and cop all the bad stuff (television, fast food, late night snacks).
⑬ Sleep lobby groups and public health experts are constantly advising us to get more sleep. The notion of sleeping ourselves thin is appealing, but the evidence is mixed.
⑭ And consider this: in our review of sleep recommendations for children since the end of the 19th century, we found that experts have always recommended that kids get about 30 minutes more sleep than they actually get, no matter how much sleep they were getting. So while the actual sleep duration of children fell by more than an hour over the last century, recommended sleep duration fell at exactly the same rate.
⑮ It seems that for many of us, we can just never get enough sleep.
53. The mention of ‘morning jogs’ and ‘lentil soup’ is to show______.
A. sleep is more effective in losing weight
B. jogging in the morning is terribly cold to people
C. too much sleep will lead to obesity
D. lentil soup sometimes accounts for memory loss
54. ‘Our side’ (in Para. 4) refers to the belief that ______.
A. all the terrible things come from insufficient sleep
B. lack of sleep is the causes of several illnesses including overweight
C. the more you sleep, the more likely you are to be overweight
D. five hours’ sleep is the normal standard for most people
55. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a result of insufficient sleep?
A. Big appetite. B. Lower blood sugar levels.
C. Immune problems. D. Poor academic performance.
56. Margaret and Winston would ______ the idea of ‘sleeping yourself thin.’
A. come up with B. partly support
C. disagree with D. show no interest in
57. Which of the following statements is TURE according to Paragraph 9?
A. The study of children sleeping deprivation in the lab isn’t reliable.
B. Only eight percent of people have the normal sleeping duration.
C. Explanations of sleeping and overweight are very ridiculous.
D. Late bedtimes are associated with greater risk of obesity.
58. The author believes that ______.
A. we should reconsider the explanations of the link between sleep duration and weight
B. the explanations of the link between sleep duration and weight are reliable
C. more time of sleep will have no noticeable effect on those people who suffer from overweight
D. UK data show the significant change in children sleep duration between 1992 and 2006
59. It can be inferred from the last sentence ‘It seems that for many of us, we can…’ that ______.
A. we need more sleep to stay healthy and keep fit
B. sleep recommendation is more than actual needs
C. many people suffer from lack of sleep
D. people slept more over the last century
Section C(3*5)
Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
A. List your priorities for each day.
B. Write down all the things
C. Don’t be a perfectionist.
D. Schedule less.
E. Take action instead of waiting.
F. Keep track of your time.
Five time management tips for creating more time
Once we’ve decided what’s really important to us we still need some practical suggestions to help us organize our time more efficiently. That’s the purpose of the following 5 time management tips.
60. ______
In order to avoid getting sidetracked and distracted, we need to know which activities deserve the lion’s share of our focus each day. The only way to stay on track is to write these things down according to their order of importance. Once an item is completed, check it off and move on. Unfinished items get carried over to the next day’s list.
61. ______
To find out where your time is going, try keeping a time log for a week or two. How much time is being lost on unimportant activities? Where do most of your interruptions come from? Do they occur during certain time periods or on specific days of the week? Once you have this information it will be easier to eliminate time wasting activities along with distractions and interruptions.
62. ______
If you cram too much into your schedule you will always feel rushed and frustrated, and in the end you won’t get much done. Try to be realistic about how many things you schedule into your day. An ounce of accomplishment is better than a pound of frustration.
63. ______
In all honesty, I struggle with this one. I can spend endless amounts of time trying to get something just exactly perfect. Don’t spend 90% of your time trying to make a 3% improvement. It’s important that we know when it is time to move on to the next activity. Learn to let good be good enough.
. ______
Sometimes the best approach is to just start working on the project. Don’t get too weighed down planning every little detail and end up never getting started. Once you start working you will discover what needs to be done. Even if you wind up having to backtrack a little bit, you will still be ahead of the game because you are taking action instead of waiting.
