Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning ti the underlined word(s) in each off the following questions.

From an airplane, the grasslands of the western prairie appear almost as uniform as a placid sea

A. noisy

B. calm

C. seedy

D. fake

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 18 to 25.

The three phases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and the long- term memory. This devision of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of the memory.

Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory.

Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short-term memory as long as you keeprepeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or it moves into long term memory.

Long-term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own.

The best title for this pasage would be ______________

A. The difference between sensory and short-term memory

B. How long it takes to memorize

C. The stages of human memory

D. Human phases

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

Few people now realize the reality of global warming and its effects on the world’s climate. Many scientists (31) ______ the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase in the world’s temperatures and are convinced that, more than ever before, the Earth is at (32) ______ from the forces of the wind, rain and sun. According to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts, even more severe and causing sea levels all around the world to rise.

         Environmental groups are putting pressure on governments to take action to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide which is given (33) ______ by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problems at its source. They are in  (34) ______ of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, which could then replace existing power (35) ______. Some scientists, however, believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow, we would have to wait several hundred years to notice the results. Global warming, it seems, is to stay.

Điền vào số (32)

A. danger

B. harm

C. risk

D. threat

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

You must apply yourself to your work more.

A. improve          

B. carry out           

C. do quickly        

D. concentrate on

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

The shop assistant has to break off the conversation to serve a customer.

A. interrupt          

B. hurry      

C. continue           

D. begin

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 18 to 25.

The three phases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and the long- term memory. This devision of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of the memory.

Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory.

Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short-term memory as long as you keeprepeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or it moves into long term memory.

Long-term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own.

All of the following are TRUE about long – term memory EXCEPT that______________

A. it has a very large capacity

B. it can hold information

C. it is possible to put information into it through memorization

D. memorization is the only way that information can get there

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

A mediocre student who gets low grades will have trouble getting into an Ivy League College.

A. excellent          

B. lazy         

C. average  

D. moronic