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C1. We’ve just come back exhausted after a two-week holiday in France.
We were
really exhausted. On the last day, we drove non-stop from Marseille to
Calais –we
should have (1) broken our journey in Lyon or Paris. As if that wasn’t
enough, the
sea was so rough in the English Channel that the (2) expedition took
three hours
instead of one and a half. Next year, we plan to book a cheap (3) overall
holiday to
Italy. It sounds marvellous — the cost of the flight, the hotel and all our
meals are
(4) includedin the price. While we’re in Rome, we’ll be going on a
guided (5) tour
to Coliseum. The last time I was (6) in Italy, I was in a business (7) trip.
I couldn’t
see many of the famous tourist (8) sights on that occasion, but my wife
was really
interested (9) in Italy. We have work hard these years to save money for
the next
trips in the (10) next years.
C2. According (1) to computer models that were used to estimate the
running


speeds of dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus Rex would have been able to
outrun a

footballer. The study shows that the dinosaur could reach a top (2) speed
of 8
metres a second, which is (3) fractionally faster than the average
professional
footballer. There has been a lot of controversy (4) about
whether the
Tyrannosaurus Rex was a predator or a scavenger; some believe that its
highly
developed sense of smell indicates that it was a scavenger, (5) while
others say that
its keen eyesight shows that it was a hunter. The (6) latter group will
appreciate the
recent study, as a hunter is more (7) likely to require such speed. The
University of
Manchester study used a powerful supercomputer to calculate the
running speeds of
five meat-eating dinosaurs and used data taken (8) directly from
dinosaur fossils,
(9) rather than referring to previous work on (10) modern animals.
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C3. In 1993, Greg Mortenson took a (1) Trip to Pakistan to climb K2,
the second
tallest mountain in the world. On his way down the mountain, he got
lost. Food and


water were (2) Hard, but Mr. Mortenson found a small village. The
people there

saw that he was (3) Need and helped him. While in the village, Mr.
Mortenson
watched the children write in the dirt for their school lessons. The
village did not
have money to build a school or (4) Pay for a teacher.
Before he left, Mr.
Mortenson (5) Volunteered to return to the village and help them build a
school.
Mr. Mortenson returned to the US and wrote to many (6) Rich people.
That idea
did not work very well, but (7) At last enough people heard about Mr.
Mortenson's
plan and helped him. That was the beginning of the Central Asia
Institute, an
organization that has (8) Succeeded in building or helping to build more
than 130
schools in small villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. With
the help of (9)
Journalist David Relin, Mr. Mortenson wrote the famous book Three
Cups of Tea.
Some people have criticized him, however, Mr. Mortenson was given an
(10) Prize
in 2009 by the government of Pakistan for his work in that country.
C4. Beijing is the capital city of the People’s Federal Republic of China.
“Beijing”


comes from the Chinese words “northern” and “capital” and
follows a(n) (1)
ancient East Asian tradition of naming capital cities literally.

Other similarly
named cities (2) include Nanjing in Southern China which
means “southern
capital”, and Tokyo in Japan, which means “eastern capital”. Beijing is
the political
and cultural (3) centre of China and is world-famous for its
many historical
attractions. Four million people visit Beijing each year to see (4) sights
such as the
magnificent Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and The Great Wall of
China. It is
also one of the world’s great modem metropolises and is (5) full of 21st
century
vitality. Towering skyscrapers, huge shopping malls, and modem
commercial areas
are just as much a (6) part of modern-day Beijing. In 2001, Beijing
celebrated the
news that it had been selected to (7) host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Hundreds of
thousands of flag-waving Chinese poured into Beijing’s streets,
singing and
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cheering. Fireworks (8) glowed up the sky as the city rejoiced. The
morning after
the (9) announcement, the titles of all Beijing’s newspapers were printed
in red —

a special colour in Chinese (10) tradition that is reserved for good and
important
news.
C5. Most people think that the capital of the (1) movie world is
Hollyhood, in the
(2) United States. However, the real movie capital is Mumbai,
in (3) India.
Mumbai used to be known as Bombay, and so the film industry there is
called
“Bollywood.” Bollywood makes twice as many movies each year as
Hollyhood—
more than 800 films a year.
The (4) movies from Bollywood are very different from Hollywood
movies. For
one thing, Bollywood movies are much (5) longer than most Hollywood
movies.
Most Bollywood movies are more than three hours long, and
contain singing,
dancing, action, adventure, mystery, and romance (but usually no
kissing). Because
Bollywood films contain so many different features, this (6)
style of film is


sometimes called a “masala” film. (“Masala” is an Indian word for a
mixture of
spices.)
Another big (7) difference between Bollywood and Hollywood movies
is the way
movies are made. It takes much longer to make a movie in Hollywood

than in
Bollywood. (8) In fact, filming may begin on a Bollywood movie before
the script
even finished. The director and writers can make (9) up the story while
the film is
being made. Sometimes they will even write the script by hand instead
(10) of
taking time to type it.
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C6. There is an old English (1) Saying, “Laughter is the best
medicine”. One
person who certainly would have agreed with this is Norman Cousins.
Norman
Cousins the editor of a magazine called Saturday Review for almost
forty years. He
also wrote and (2) Spoke about world peace and anti-nuclear and antiwar issues,


traveling (3) To many different countries to share his ideas. In the
1960s, after
returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe, Mr.
Cousins
got sick. He discovered he had a rare disease known as that caused
the joints
between his bones to (4) become stiff. In less than a week after he got
(5) Back, he
could not stand. Every move that he (6) Made was painful. He was not

able to
sleep at night. The doctors told Mr. Cousins that they did not (7) Know
how to cure
his problem and he might never get over the illness. Mr. Cousins,
however, refused
to give (8) Up hope. Mr. Cousins thought that the illness could be caused
(9) By
unhappy thoughts. He did not want to (10) Take medicine to cure
himself. Instead,
he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.
C7. Human memory, formerly believed to be rather inefficient, (1) is
really much
more sophisticated than that of a computer. Researchers approaching the
problem
from a variety of (2) Points of view have all concluded that there is a
great deal
more stored in our minds than has been generally supposed. Dr. Wilder
Penfield, a


Canadian neurosurgeon, proved that by stimulating (3) Their brains
electrically, he
could elicit the total recall of complex events in his subjects’ lives. Even
dreams
and other minor events supposedly forgotten (4) For many years
suddenly emerged
in detail. The memory trace is the term for (5) Whatever
forms the internal
representation of the specific information about the event stored in the
memory.

Assumed to have been made by structural changes in (6) The brain, the
memory
trace is not subject to direct observation but is rather a theoretical
construct that is
used to speculate about how information presented at a particular time
can cause
performance at a later time. Most theories include the (7) Strength of the
memory
trace as a variable in the degree of learning, retention, and retrieval
possible for a
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memory. One theory is that the fantastic capacity for storage in the brain
is the
result (8) Of an almost unlimited combination of interconnections
between brain


cells, stimulated by patterns of (9) Activity. Repeated
references to the same
information support recall. Or, to say that another way, improved
performance is
the result of (10) Strengthening the chemical bonds in the memory.
C8. Psychologists generally (1)_____memory into (2)_____least two
types, shortterm and long-term memory, which combine (3)_____form
working memory.
Short-term memory contains what we are actively (4)_____on at any
particular

time, but items are not retained longer (5)_____twenty or thirty seconds
without
verbal rehearsal. We use short-term (6)_____when we look up a
telephone number
and repeat it to ourselves until we can place the call. On the other (7)
_____, longterm memory can store facts, concepts, and experiences after we stop
thinking
(8)_____them. All conscious (9)_____of information, as in problem
solving for
example, involves both short-term and long-term memory. As we repeat,
rehearse,
and recycle information, the memory trace is strengthened,
allowing that
information to move (10)_____ short-term memory to long-term
memory.


C9. I have (1) Returned to my hometown of Wilson Creek after an
absence of 10
years. So many things have changed around here. When I left Wilson
Creek, there
(2) Was a small pond on the right as you left town. They have filled in
this pond
and they have built a large shopping mall (3) There. A new post office
has also
been built just across from my old school. There is a baseball (4)
Stadium on the
outskirts of Wilson Creek which has been changed (5) Completely. They
have now
added a new stand where probably a few thousand people could sit. It

looks really
great. The biggest changes have taken place (6) Place the downtown
area. They
have pedestrianised the centre and you can't drive there anymore. A
European-style
fountain has been (7) Built and (8) Some benches have also been added
along with
a grassy area and a new street cafe. My street looks just the same as it
always has
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but a public library has been built in the next street along. There (9)
Used to be a


great park there but they have cut down all the trees which is a pity. The
library
now has a large green area in front (10) Of it but it's not the same as
when the park
was there.
C10. Philology (1)_____the traditional study of language, especially of
written
languages in their cultural settings. Because philology
(2)_____with the
relationship of languages, it is usually comparative; because these
relationships
evolve (3)_____time, it is typically historical. Languages (4)_____ to
change in the

direction of greater diversity; one language tends to be superseded by
several: a
(5)_____“dead” language preserves evidence of the earlier
forms from which
“living” languages developed. The descendants of Latin have diverged
to the point
that, though Italian is related (6)_____English, they are now foreign to
each other
as is their common “parent” to both. Also cultures change the meaning
and use of
many words. In English, piano is a keyboard (7)_____; in Italian piano
not only
names the instrument, it also means “soft” as opposed to “loud”. The
original name


for the instrument was pianoforte (soft-loud), because it was more (8)
_____of
varying sound volume than instruments like the harpsichord that came
before it.
The special meaning of the Italian phrase results from its
(9)_____context and the
distinctive feature of the instrument it names. But in English and other
languages,
we abbreviate it to piano. The English word still (10)_____the same
instrument but
the abbreviation discards “and loud" from the original Italian phrase and
hence
becomes a name and not a description.
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C11. Edward Patrick Eagan was (1) born April 26, 1897, in Denver,
Colorado, and
his father died in a railroad accident when Eagan was only a year old. He
and his
four brothers (2) were raised by his mother, who earned a small income
from
teaching foreign languages. Inspired (3) by Frank Merriwell, the hero of
a series of
popular novels for boys, Eagan pursued an education for himself as well
as an


interest (4) in boxing. He (5) attended the University of Denver for a
year before
serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery lieutenant during World War I.
After the
war, he entered Yale University and, while studying there, won the U.S.
national
amateur heavyweight boxing title. He graduated from Yale in
1921, attended
Harvard Law School, and received a Rhodes scholarship to
the University of
Oxford (6) where he received his A.M. in 1928. While studying at
Oxford, Eagan
became (7) the first American to win the British amateur boxing
championship.
Eagan won his first Olympic gold medal as a light heavyweight boxer

(8) at the
1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Eagan also fought
at the 1924
Olympics in Paris as a heavyweight but failed to get a medal. Though he
had (9)
taken up the sport just three weeks before the competition, he managed
to win a
second gold medal as a member of the four-man bobsled
team at the 1932
Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Thus he became the only athlete to
(10) win
gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.


C12. Vitamins, taken in tiny doses, (1) are a major group of organic
compounds
that regulate the mechanisms by which the body converts food (2) into
energy.
They should not be confused (3) with minerals, which are
inorganic in their
makeup. Although in general the naming of vitamins followed the
alphabetical
order of their (4) identification, the nomenclature of individual
substances may
appear to be somewhat random and disorganized.
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Among the 13 vitamins (5) known today, five are produced in the body.

Because
the body produces (6) sufficient quantities of some but not all vitamins,
they must
be supplemented in the daily diet.
(7) Although each vitamin has its specific designation and cannot be
replaced by
another compound, a lack of one vitamin can interfere with the
processing of (8)
another.
When a lack of even one vitamin in a diet is continual, a vitamin
deficiency may


(9) result.
The best way for an individual to ensure a necessary supply of
vitamins is to
maintain a balanced diet that includes a variety of foods and provides
adequate
quantities of all the compounds.
Some people take vitamin supplements, predominantly in the (10) form
of tablets.
C13. What has caused these major changes? One reason (1) is economic
necessity.
It may be that the husband has (2) lost his job and the wife must support
the family.
Or even if the husband is working, some families say they can’t survive
on only (3)
one paycheck.
But probably a (4) more important influence has been the
“women’s

liberation movement.” Women are being told in (5) many
magazines and TV
programs: “You can be successful on your own. Don’t be satisfied with
(6) just
being a wife and mother. Use your intelligence and talents to do
something bigger.
And you should be paid (7) as much as a man.”
(8) No doubt this movement has accomplished much good. But it has
also


contributed to a selfish “me first” attitude that is breaking up
many families.
Sometimes women (9) who are happy staying at home feel that working
women
look (10) down on them.
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There are no easy answers to these problems. But certainly
women’s
influence will continue to grow in business, education and politics.
C14. Leisure is generally seen as an (1) event which takes
place outside (2)
working hours. The peak leisure time for most people is between 6.00
pm and
12.00 am, although in recent years there has been an increase in people
working (3)
unreasonable hours and shifts, together with more "flexitime". Leisure

is often
thought of purely as a (4) physical activity, i.e. playing sport. Although
many
people use their (5) free time in this way, there are plenty of other
leisure
opportunities that are more (6) passive in nature, such as of one's lifewatching


television or sunbathing on a beach. It is important to realise
that leisure can
embrace a whole range of experiences and activities, although personal
choice may
be limited due to factors such as age or provision of local (7)_____. The
leisure
emphasis will normally change at different (8) levels cycle.
Different types of
leisure (9) age tend to be popular with varying age groups. It's
probably true,
however, that some members of the older (10)______are more capable
of pursuing
active pastimes than they are sometimes given credit for.
Question 1: A. event B. incident C. affair D.
experience
Question 2: A. labor B. working C. employment D. job
Question 3: A. unsocial B. unreasonable C. unsociable D.
unsuitable
Question 4: A. cultural B. physical C. social D. mental
Question 5: A. rest B. unoccupied C. free D. empty
Question 6: A. passive B. selective C. productive D. creative
Question 7: A. conveniences B. capabilities C. capacities D. facilities

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C1. We’ve just come back exhausted after a two-week holiday in France.
We were
really exhausted. On the last day, we drove non-stop from Marseille to
Calais –we
should have (1) broken our journey in Lyon or Paris. As if that wasn’t
enough, the
sea was so rough in the English Channel that the (2) expedition took
three hours
instead of one and a half. Next year, we plan to book a cheap (3) overall
holiday to
Italy. It sounds marvellous — the cost of the flight, the hotel and all our
meals are
(4) includedin the price. While we’re in Rome, we’ll be going on a
guided (5) tour
to Coliseum. The last time I was (6) in Italy, I was in a business (7) trip.
I couldn’t
see many of the famous tourist (8) sights on that occasion, but my wife
was really
interested (9) in Italy. We have work hard these years to save money for
the next
trips in the (10) next years.
C2. According (1) to computer models that were used to estimate the

running


speeds of dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus Rex would have been able to
outrun a
footballer. The study shows that the dinosaur could reach a top (2) speed
of 8
metres a second, which is (3) fractionally faster than the average
professional
footballer. There has been a lot of controversy (4) about
whether the
Tyrannosaurus Rex was a predator or a scavenger; some believe that its
highly
developed sense of smell indicates that it was a scavenger, (5) while
others say that
its keen eyesight shows that it was a hunter. The (6) latter group will
appreciate the
recent study, as a hunter is more (7) likely to require such speed. The
University of
Manchester study used a powerful supercomputer to calculate the
running speeds of
five meat-eating dinosaurs and used data taken (8) directly from
dinosaur fossils,
(9) rather than referring to previous work on (10) modern animals.
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C3. In 1993, Greg Mortenson took a (1) Trip to Pakistan to climb K2,
the second
tallest mountain in the world. On his way down the mountain, he got

lost. Food and


water were (2) Hard, but Mr. Mortenson found a small village. The
people there
saw that he was (3) Need and helped him. While in the village, Mr.
Mortenson
watched the children write in the dirt for their school lessons. The
village did not
have money to build a school or (4) Pay for a teacher.
Before he left, Mr.
Mortenson (5) Volunteered to return to the village and help them build a
school.
Mr. Mortenson returned to the US and wrote to many (6) Rich people.
That idea
did not work very well, but (7) At last enough people heard about Mr.
Mortenson's
plan and helped him. That was the beginning of the Central Asia
Institute, an
organization that has (8) Succeeded in building or helping to build more
than 130
schools in small villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. With
the help of (9)
Journalist David Relin, Mr. Mortenson wrote the famous book Three
Cups of Tea.
Some people have criticized him, however, Mr. Mortenson was given an
(10) Prize
in 2009 by the government of Pakistan for his work in that country.
C4. Beijing is the capital city of the People’s Federal Republic of China.
“Beijing”

comes from the Chinese words “northern” and “capital” and
follows a(n) (1)
ancient East Asian tradition of naming capital cities literally.
Other similarly
named cities (2) include Nanjing in Southern China which
means “southern
capital”, and Tokyo in Japan, which means “eastern capital”. Beijing is
the political
and cultural (3) centre of China and is world-famous for its
many historical
attractions. Four million people visit Beijing each year to see (4) sights
such as the
magnificent Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and The Great Wall of
China. It is
also one of the world’s great modem metropolises and is (5) full of 21st
century
vitality. Towering skyscrapers, huge shopping malls, and modem
commercial areas
are just as much a (6) part of modern-day Beijing. In 2001, Beijing
celebrated the
news that it had been selected to (7) host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Hundreds of
thousands of flag-waving Chinese poured into Beijing’s streets,
singing and
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cheering. Fireworks (8) glowed up the sky as the city rejoiced. The
morning after
the (9) announcement, the titles of all Beijing’s newspapers were printed
in red —
a special colour in Chinese (10) tradition that is reserved for good and
important
news.
C5. Most people think that the capital of the (1) movie world is
Hollyhood, in the
(2) United States. However, the real movie capital is Mumbai,
in (3) India.
Mumbai used to be known as Bombay, and so the film industry there is
called
“Bollywood.” Bollywood makes twice as many movies each year as
Hollyhood—
more than 800 films a year.
The (4) movies from Bollywood are very different from Hollywood
movies. For
one thing, Bollywood movies are much (5) longer than most Hollywood
movies.
Most Bollywood movies are more than three hours long, and
contain singing,
dancing, action, adventure, mystery, and romance (but usually no
kissing). Because
Bollywood films contain so many different features, this (6)
style of film is


sometimes called a “masala” film. (“Masala” is an Indian word for a

mixture of
spices.)
Another big (7) difference between Bollywood and Hollywood movies
is the way
movies are made. It takes much longer to make a movie in Hollywood
than in
Bollywood. (8) In fact, filming may begin on a Bollywood movie before
the script
even finished. The director and writers can make (9) up the story while
the film is
being made. Sometimes they will even write the script by hand instead
(10) of
taking time to type it.