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16. What is the objective of the text?


(A) to inform the U.S patent
8,786,133
(B) to describe the
implementation of the tech-
nology
(C) to announce ‟‟ Smart and Scalable
Invert-
ers‟‟
(D) to explain the U.S
patent
(E) to advertise
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17. Why has the company been


awarded?
(A) it successfully used
alternative energy re- source
(B) it successfully implemented
the new tech-
nology
(C) it successfully improved the
technology of
power inverters
(D) it successfully modified the
energy systems
(E) it successfully changed
power systems

18. CyboInverter is the


equipment for .... (A)
energy saving
(B) alternative
energy
(C) power
Dear day‟s newspaper?
Sir/Madam (A) to present information based
I am writing to complain about on fact
an article in last Monday newspaper, (B) to conduct more research
”Schools fail low income children”. As the (C) to fixed information given
head teacher of one of the largest (D) to explain more about that
juniors high schools in the city, i school
fell strongly that the article does (E) to be responsible for the report
not describe our school.
My school has children from
many diferent eco- nomic
background, but a large
percentage come from lower-
income families. Nevertheless,
our test show that the children
do well and benefit from the
excellent works our teacher do.
Last year our school moved from
24th to 5th place ac- cording to
the oficial assessment by the
state government. This is clearly not the
“failure” that the article suggest.
I would strongly recommend that
more careful research should be
conducted in the future so that
your newspaper will more
realistically de- scribe the true
situation in our schools.
Your
sincerely,
Juan
Gonzales

19. The letters shows Mr. Gonzales‟s


disagreement with the newspaper‟s claim
that ....
(A) children from low-income
families do not perform well
in the official assessment
(B) the poor students in her
school fair in the national
examination
(C) her school only admit
students from eco- nomically
advantaged families
(D) many of her students fail
because of their
parent‟s low-income
(E) low-income children are not as
good as high
-income children

20. What is expected by Joan


Gonzales from Mon-
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the n you that the button
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steps: ; ready the timer
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the Finally, alert
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(3) Don‟t the text on progress
forget to press about? (D) it alerts
start button to you that
heat (A) the this is
the food; steps to the time
(4) Wait cook in a to enjoy
for the microwave your
beep (B) the
food
sounds, it steps to use
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the
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h steps to
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e heat food in
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flag-
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in North
Sumatra
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residents
conserve
their river
by holding
flag-raising
ceremony
(C) the bad
condition of
their river had
become
Aurvillage
residents
concern
(D) the flag-
raising
ceremony
in
Aurvillage
is needed
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conserve
the river
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t when
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their fangs
snakes are (C) they scare also do not
their enemies have
cold-
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blooded live with
stretch out
they .... (A) their skin their own
like sucking (E) they eat kind.
the other We should
the cool
animal ban the use
blood of animals
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bathing to their
skins Circuses their
(C) never sun Should Not confinement
bathe in the Use Animals there.
warm weather Animals
(D) live on the 37. Why does
should not
ground in the writer
be used in
deserted consider
burrows (E) circus. The
environtment circus
require the sun‟s inappro-
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perform and priate place
their to live for
bodies their living
conditions animals?
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inapproriate. the animal‟s
know natural habitat
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from the example, (B) it is the
text that which place where
naturally live the animals
snakes ...
in are tortured
. (A) do (C) it is the
wilderness,
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claws perform public
(B) do not like tricks on a amusement
sunlight narrow (D) it
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legs and claws spend their animals bad
(D) use their lifetime in food
legs to climb the (E) it costs
small cage.
tree animal ill
Besides,
(E) use their condition
the living
claws to slither
condition of
along the
the circus
ground
animal are
poor. They
36. How do
live in a
flying cramped
snakes condition
protect most of the
time. They
themselves?
actually
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away space to
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(B) Tigers s easy way of
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d
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s Many people more
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to their shops writer present become the
and they sell source of
two sides of
more goods. information
opinion of
On the advertisemen
other hand, 42. “Ads us up a lot
t?
some people space and a lot of
argue that (A) S/he wants
effort has to
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be put in (B) S/he wants make the ads
newspapers to be in the
and eye-catching”.
afirmative side
megazines for (C) S/he uses The
these various opinions to underlined
reasons.
emphasize word is
Firstly, ads
cost the her own
closest in
shopekeepers stance
(D) S/he wants meaning to
a lot of
money to the readers .... (A)
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paper. Also some opinion (B) subtle
people don‟t like about the (C) plain
finding junk issue (D) impressive
mail in their (E) S/he
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wants to
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influence
the
people to buy readers to
items they don‟t understan
need and can‟t d her
really afford. stance
Ads use up a
lot of space 41. The writer
and a lot of influences the
effort has to readers by
be made to
repeatedly
make the ads
eye- catching.
saying that ....
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looking at only garbage
both sides of (B) the ads
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we should not unimporta
have nt
advertisement
business
s because
they cost a lot informatio
of money and n
take up a lot (C) the ads
of room in the promote
papers. I don‟t unnecessary
think i find some service
of them products (D)
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into gut ofered by researcher
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H. s
devour the text
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nutrients about?
the team when rats
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hungry with a one- ed to the be good
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groups: the and against
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the correct -
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and (
meaningful g ) 1
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4
full of 5
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when the e -
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happened. c E
5
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C
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47. Rearrange the following 49. ....
sentences into the correct and (A) to
meaningful procedure! (B) at
(1) Wrap the casualty in a sheet (C) on
which has been dampened with (D)
cold water. into
(2) Move the casualty to a cool (E)
place, loosen or remove any with
tight or heavy clothing.
(3) Make sure the sheet stays wet 50. ....
and fan the casualty to keep (A)
them cool. pointed
(4) Check the casualty‟s temperature (B)
regurarly. asked (C)
(5) Once it has fallen to a safer shouted
level (under (D)
400C), remove the wet sheet sorted (E)
and stop the cooling process. turned
(A) (4)-(5)-(1)-
(3)-(2) (B) (4)-
(5)-(2)-(3)-(1)
(C) (2)-(1)-(4)-
(5)-(3) (D) (2)-
(1)-(3)-(4)-(5)
(E) (2)-(3)-(4)-
(1)-(5)

One day, young hunter saw a


magnificent deer and chased it
through the woods. After a long
pursuit, he arrived at a little
house hidden in the midle of the
forest and there the deer
tranformed into a/an (48) ...
witch.
“You‟ve fallen into my trap,” said the
witch, pointing a gnarled finger at him.
“Now i am going to change you into an
animal.”
Terrified, the young hunter
turned to escape, then the witch
changed into a black raven,
which flew at the hunter to
touch him and complete the evil
spell.
But before the raven could
reach him, a butterfly landed (49) ...
the young man‟s shoulder and that
was enough to break the witch‟s
spell. The butterfly changed herself into
a beautiful hunter with drawn
bow and arrow (50) ... at the
raven.

48. ....
(A)
old (B)
kind
(C) passionate
(D) wise
(E) considerate

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