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4 What is wrong with the books in the black cart?

6.What is Robert's job at the library?

A peopledon't have time to read newspapers

13 The more se ri ous n ews p ape r s have a da pte d t o presen t s i t u ations by _

A covering stories aboutcelebsin theentertainment world

B.keeping readersup todatewithth late te tertaining news

C.attaching updated vis al llustratio s ton ws stories

D concentrating on the criticalevaluatio of news stories

A Heis more or lessin favour ofit

B.He resentsit for professional reasons

C.He doesn't consider it to be real journalism

D.He feels sorry forthe people involved in it

A bloggers want to be professio alwriters

B.access to information sources isinstant

C editing is simpler than itusedto be

16 Harry believes that Internet blogs are _

A unreliablein comparison with conventional journalism

C.as reliable asreports written byprofessionals

D.more and more politically bia ed

17 Harry thinks that the editorialprocess incitizen journalism is _

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around the world who want to find solutions for climate crisis

for all oil coal and gas companies

25.What was Mr.Leonardo DiCaprio introduced as?

II LEXICO-GRAMMAR

2 "Don't make the situation morec mplcated It's notworth hair "

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30 The government has taken t ough measu r es to c orru p t i on in the country

family members is still a tradition among many English people

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freedom to continue my preparation as I wished

A asked no further questions

C.attained no further information

B.took no remarks

39.The new style of window dressing took inspiration from thetheater and the decorative arts which involved

A in chaos

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The relationship between the city and the natural environment has actually been

places for food and water At times, such protective steps sheltered (45)

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O.circular

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III READING

Part 1:For questions 46 - 55,fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the corresponding boxes provided below the passage

Some of the retired competitors go as far as to organize strikes and rallies to voice their protest against any

university level Such an approach should help them find interesting and well-paid jobs once their sports

of the professional athlete as being brainless and unintelligent may eventually be changing to the

Your answers

SPACE TRAVEL AND HEALTH

design and develop a spacecraft large and powerful enough to transport the vast amounts of water

"fat face",together with the contrasting"chicken legs"syndrome as the lower limbs become thinner

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needs t o be done a lot closer t o hom e It is now c l ea r ho w e ve r t h at e ve ry prob l em of space travel has a

space b i omed i ca l research F r instance , the very difficu l t y of tre a ti n g a st r onau t s i n space has led to

way , m in i at u re monito ri ng equi p m e nt , developed to save weight in spa c e c apsules , w i ll even t ua ll y become t in y mon i tors that p atients o Ea rth can we a r w i th o ut d isc o mf o wherever they go

G Neverthel e ss , there is st i ll one ma j or ob stacle to ca rrying out stu d i es i n t o t he effects of space t r avel : how

to do so w i thou t going t o th e e normou s ex p nse o f a c tuall y w o rki n in spa c e To s i mulate cond i tions in

z e r o gravi t y , one t r ied and t ested method is to wo rk un d er wate r bu t t he space b i omedic i ne cen t ers are

fr om pro l o g d inactivity Th i s wou l d inv o lv e volunteers s taying i n b e f or three months , but the center

ly i ng down All in t he name of s c i ence, of c ourse.

LIST OFHEADINGS

i The problemof dealing withemergenciesin space

ii Howspace biomedicinecanhelppatients on Earth

iii Why accidentsare socommonin outer space

v The psychological problems ofastronauts

viii How spacebiomedicine first bega

ix The visible effe ts ofs a etravelon thehuma body

x Why sp ce biomedicine is now necessary

56.Paragraph A 57.ParagraphB 5 Paragraph C 59.Paragraph D

60.Paragraph E _ 61.Paragraph F _ 62.Paragra h G_

As a novelty research area, space biomedicine is receiving excessive financial support as the major obstacles to going far into space are medical rather than (63) Even though physical changes

e perienced by the human bodyin spacetravel are safe, long-term consequences may be life-threatening: the(64) loses its ability to resist diseases, the kidney suffers from (65) dueto theoverload of calcium pumped into the bloodstream, and muscles lose their strength Treating injurie and illnesses in space poses another challenge d e to the lack of space for equipment supposedly adequate for a (66) and possible malfunctioning of medical devices

A number of research topics in the study of spa e biomedicine offer practical solutions to far-ranging problems on Earth These include (a) surgeons' improve capabilty to (67) in distant areas as a

resultof the development of (68) ;(b) techniqu s to (69) in disaster areas derived from those used in the process de igned tosterilize waste water on spacecraft;and (c) the feeling ofcomfort enjoyed by patients wearing monitors with weight-saving (70) apparatuses

The major hurdlein space biomedicine involves cu ing downthe costb stimulatin space-lke (71) for

research on Earth For example, the experiment on the effect of (72) o human bones requires

volunteer participants to liemotionless for twelve weeks

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Part 3:Read the text and answer quest i ons 7 - 80

From man's first steps to the year"0"wasaperiodlike nootherin the history ofinvention.Never again would man's survival be so dependent on hisability toinve tways to solve fundamental problems.And never again would man'stechnological creativity be the most significant factor in his evolution and the establishing of

civilization By the time modern man ( hom o sapiens or"man-the-wise") appeared, probably somewhere in Africa between 100,000 and 250,000 years ago, his forefathers, the early hominids, had already invented

stone tools.Itis possible that they hadalso manufactured crude canoes and shelters However,it would take many more years and a succession of vital inventions for man to evolve from a primitive, nomadic hunter-gatherer to the highly technologically literatecitizen of the time of the Roman Empire

We like to think that we are currently living through a period when technology has an unparalleled hold on society, but it is nothing compared with that of the ancient world, when invention and technology were the most powerful forces shaping civilization.Throughout the ancient world, technology was the one factor that made all the other changes - social, political and cultural - possible Without the inventions of ink and papyrus,many of man'sideas would not have spread as fast nor as widely Without weapons and,later,the wheel,armies would not have conquered new territories as quickly

The single largest step in early man's social evolution came around 10,000 years ago with the invention of

animal husbandry and agriculture This enabled him to progress from living in nomadic communities to settling in villages and small towns The progress was brought about by a combination of climatic change and man's invention of more efficient hunting tools, of a means of controlling and utilizing fire to clear undergrowth and of ways of building lasting shelters It led to a massive growth in population, which in turn

triggered a further rapid increase in technological innovation

Most of this change took place in the eastern Mediterranean,where the climate and the annual flooding of fertile soils favored the development ofagriculture and later of cities such as Babylon.By around 6500 BCE,

Jericho is believed to have beenthe largest city in the world,with a population of 2,500.Four thousand years later,the urban revolution had brought about a momentous cultural transition that in turn generated new needs.These were met by a quantum leapin technological innovation and the establishment of craftsmen and scientists For the first time, manufacturing became established as man invented ways of making textiles, firing ceramics, producing metalwork and processing foodstuffs This prompted barter methods to evolve into more sophisticated trading arrangements,culminating in the invention of tokens or early money

With these technological changes came acorrespondingincreasein the complexity of the social and political organization of human groups,which in turn necessitated the invention of written language,first to keep track

of trading arrangements, then to communicate and record events, processes, philosophies and, of course, inventions

The history of invention is littered with inventions that had little or no purpose and never caught on, but this was still a period of invention for necessity's sake It would be some time before an invention would be greeted with questions as to its role - and even longer until Michael Faraday would retort, "What use is a baby?" when asked what use his dynamohad

It was also a period when science and technology's symbiotic relationship was reversed.Technology, now often the application of scientific discovery and observation, predated science and in this period was empirical and handed down through the generations By the time the city states were flowering in the early centuries BCE,scientist-inventors began to emerge Figures such as Hero,Strato,Ctesibius and Philon used observations and measurements of the physical and natural world to devise inventions However,they were all minnows when compared with Archimedes He was a man of the caliber that the world would not see again until Sir Isaac Newton in the 1thcentury.The inventor hadtruly arrived

7 Creativity varies from one civilization to another

74.Before the arrival of modern man,there were no tools

75.Technology exerts a stronger driving force on the modern society than it did during ancient civilizations

76.The dissemination of ideas would not have been possible had ink and paper not been invented

77.Throughout history,technology has been based on empirical scientific research

78.Archimedes was as outstanding a scientist-inventor as Sir Isaac Newton was

79.Changes in climate were the single key factor for a shift in early man's selection of long-term settlement

80.An increase in population resulted in greater advances in the technology of early man

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For questions 81 - 85,cla s i fy the fo llow ing e v n ts i n o r de r of the i r occurrence and write

Afor"the early evolutio of man"

Bfo r "the early urban period"

Cfor"the period of urba revolutio "

81 The recording of a wide range ofhuman activities

82.The possible production of the first boats

83 Food production as a process

84.The abilitytoconstruct stro g rbuildings

8 The use of tok n

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Part4:Read an extract f r om abook on p hot og r aphy and answer questions 86 - 95

Photography

A Over the past one and a half centuries, photograp yh s been used to record all aspects of human life and activity During this relativelyshort history,themedium has expanded its capabilities in the recording

of time and space,thus allowing human visiontobe abletoviewthe fleeting moment orto visualise both the vast and the minuscule It has bro ght usimagesfromremote areas of the world,distant parts of the solar system, as well as the social complexities and crises of modern life Indeed, the photographic medium has provided one of the mostimportant an influential means of capturing the essence of our being alive Nonetheless, the recording of events by me n of the visual image has a much longer history.The earliest creations of pictorial recording go a far back as the Upper Palaeolithic period of about 35,000 years ago and, although we ca not be sure of the exact purposes of the early cave paintings,pictorial images seemto beine tricably linked tohuman culture as we understandit

B Throughout the history of visual re resentation, questions have been raised concerning the supposed accuracy(or otherwise) of visual ima es,as wellas their status insociety Ideas and debates concerning how we see the world and th status of its pictorial representations have been central, political,

philosophical and psychological issues from the time of Ancient Greece to the present-day technical

revolution of the new media communications Vision and representation have pursued interdependent trajectories, counter-influen ing each other throughout history The popular notion that "seeing is believing"had always afforded special status to the visualimage.Sowhen the technology was invented,

inthe form of photography, the social and c ltural impact was immense Not only did it hold out the promise of providing arecord of vision,but ithad thecapacity to make such representation enduring

C In the mid-nineteenth c ntury, the inventio of photography appeared to offer the promise of

"automatically" providing an accurate visual record I was seen not only as the culmination of visual representation but, quite simply, the camera wa regarded as a machine that could provide a fixe image.And this image was considered to be a very close approximation to that which we actually see

Because of the camera's perceiv d re lism inits ability to replicate visual perception, it was assumed that all peoples would "naturally" beable to understand photographs This gave rise to the question of whether photography con tituted a "universal language" For example, a photograph of the heavens, whetherit showed the sun and moonor the constellations,would immediately be understood in any part

of the world In the face of the rapid increasein globalcommunications, we do need at least to ask to what extent the photographic image can pe etrate through cultural differe ces in understanding

D There are other que tions that arise concerning the roleof photo raphy in society that have aimed to determin whether thecamera operates as a mute, passive recorderofwhat is happening or whether it possesses the voice and power to instigate social change We may further speculate whether the camera provides images that have a truly educational fun tionor if itoperates primarily as a source of amusement In provoking such issues, th photographic debate reflects polarised arguments that traditionally havechara terised much intellectual tho ght

E The last 170 years have witnessed an ever-increasing influence of the visual image, c lminating in the global primacy of television For photography, the new prospects and uncertainties posed by digital

storage and manipulation,andthe transmission ofimages viathe Internetpresent new challenges.It has even been suggested that we nowinhabit the"post-photographicera" where technological and cultural

changes h ve devalu d photography to such an extent that events h ve taken us beyond the photograph's use and value as a medium ofcommunication.Furthermore,perhaps weshould beasking

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if the advent of dig i tal imagery means that photography, in i tially born from painting , has turned full circle and has now returned to emulating paint i ng - i ts progeni t or

For questions 86 - 95, identify where each ofthe following is mentioned and write letter Ato E in

the corresponding numbered box One section may be chosen more than once.

images being interpreted in a similar way by different societies 87. _

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a commonly held view about the r el a t i onship between what is visible and how it is 86 _ interpreted

the ability of photography to provide images t hat will exist for a long time

the contrasts of scale that can be represented i n photography

the possibil i ty that photography can directl y i nf l uence events i n the wo r ld

the possibility that the photographic i mage has become redundant

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91 _ the possibility that the techniques employed i n photography today have taken the 92 _ medium back to where it started

the potential of photography to epitomise th e human condition 93 _ the view that photography was the greatest ach i evement i n the h i story of visual images 94 _ uncertainty as to whether the main purpose of photog r aphy is to inform or to entertain 95 _

IV WRITING

Part 1:Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it Your summary should be about 150 words long You MUST NOT copy the original.

What do we mean by being " talented " or "g i fted " ? The most obvious way is to look at the work someone does and if they are capable of significant success , label them as talented The purely quantitative route

-"percentage definition " - looks not at individuals , but at simple percentages , such as the top five percent of the population , and l abels them - by def i n i tion - as gifted This definit i on has fallen from favor , eclipsed by the advent of IQ tests , favored by lum i naries such as Professor Hans Eysenck , where a series of written or verbal tests of gene r al intelligence leads to a score of inte l ligence

The IQ test has been eclipsed i n turn Most people studying intelligence and creativity in the new millennium now prefer a broader definition , using a multifaceted approach where talents in many areas are recognized rather than purely concentrating on academic achievement If we are therefore assuming that talented ,

creative or gifted i ndividuals may need to be assessed across a range of abilities , does this mean

intelligence can run in families as a genetic or inher i ted tendency? Mental dysfunction - such as schizophrenia - can, so is an efficient mental capacity passed on from p arent to child?

Animal experiments throw some light on this question , and on the whole area of whether it is genetics , the environment or a combination of the two that allows for intelligence and creative abil i ty Different strains of rats show great differences i n i ntelligence or " rat reasoning" If these are brought up in normal conditions and then run th r ough a maze to reach a food goal , the " bright" strains make far fewer wrong turns than the "dull "

ones But if the environment is made dull and boring the number of errors becomes equal Return the rats to

an e xciting maze and the d i screpancy return s as b e fo r e - but is much smaller In other words , a dull rat in a stimulating environment will almost do as w e ll as a bright rat who is bored in a normal one This pr i nciple applies to human too - someone may be born w i th innate intelligence , but their environment probably has the final say over whether they become creat i ve or even a g e nius

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