As stated in the passage, a flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream tend to ______.




A.be warmly welcomed by the public
B.be treated with equal alarm
C.involve natural and man-made disasters
D.be scarce breaking news

…………orangutans live alone.




A.Near all
B.Almost all
C.The all
D.The most

The movie is……..Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a number of ways.




A.like to
B.alike with
C.similar to
D.same as

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.




A.recognize
B.militant
C.continent
D.memorial

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question.
Cooperation is the common endeavor of two or more people to perform a task or reach a jointly cherished goal. Like competition and conflict, there are different forms of cooperation, based on group organization and attitudes.
In the first form, known as primary cooperation, groups and individuals fuse. The group contains nearly all of each individual’s life. The rewards of the group’s works are shared with each member. There is an interlocking identity of individual, group, and task performed. Means and goals become one, for cooperation itself is valued.
While primary cooperation is most often characteristic of preliterate societies, secondary cooperation is characteristic of many modern societies. In secondary cooperation, individuals devote only part of their lives to the group. Cooperation itself is not a value. Most members of the group feel loyalty, but the welfare of the group is not the first consideration. Members perform tasks so that they can separately enjoy fruits of their cooperation in the form of salary, prestige, or power. Business offices and professional athletic teams are examples of secondary cooperation.
In the third type, called tertiary cooperation or accommodation, latent conflict underlies the shared work. The attitudes of the cooperating parties are purely opportunistic; the organization is loose and fragile. Accommodation involves common means to achieve antagonistic goals; it breaks when the common means cease to aid each party in reaching its goals. This is not, strictly speaking, cooperation at all, and hence the somewhat contradictory term antagonistic cooperation is sometimes used for this relationship.
The word “fragile” is closest in meaning to




A.inefficient
B.easily broken
C.poorly planned
D.involuntary

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
The future of the African elephant depends on man. No (61)…………… can human beings and wild animals live in harmony throughout vast area of the continent as was possible in days gone by, (62)……… man’s needs have increased as well as his numbers. There are regions, such as the Congo forests and the equatorial Sudan, (63)…………. the old relationship may remain for a few more years or even generations, but in general it has gone. Conservation, if it is to be effective, should be a positive, constructive policy, and it is wishful thinking to imagine otherwise, (64)………. in the case of the elephant. And this is not yet true of the whole of Africa, it soon will be, for the (65)……… in the human population is almost universal. Where human beings and wild animals find themselves in competition with each other, the animals will (66)…… Even if there appears to be enough room for both, man will not (67)…… long a situation in which elephants and other (68)……….. make even occasional raids on his fields of food or economic crops. For many years this has been a major cause of (69)…… interests and one of the reasons why so many elephants have been shot to control their (70)………




A.debated
B.conflicting
C.conflicted
D.debating

A.faithful
B.attain
C.certain
D.plain

The Chinese people worship their ancestors.




A.fossils
B.elders
C.forefathers
D.heirs

It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans who traveled to the Massachusetts colony were _________.




A.rather undemocratic
B.rather rich
C.rather well educated
D.rather supportive of the English government

According to the passage, which of the following tribes lived in the grasslands?




A.The Shoshone and Ute
B.The Pawnee and Inuit
C.The Cheyenne
D.The Hopi and Zuni