VII.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
READING PASSAGE 2                                                                                                             
(1) Broad-tailed hummingbirds often nest in quaking, slender deciduous trees with smooth gray-green bark found in the Colorado Rockies of the Western United States. After flying some 2,000 kilometers north from where they have wintered in Mexico, the hummingbirds need six weeks to build a nest incubate their eggs, and raise the chicks. A second nest is feasible only if the first fails early in the season. Quality, not quantity, is what counts in hummingbird reproduction.
(6) A nest on the lowest intact branch of an aspen will give a hummingbird a good view, a clear flight patch, and protection for her young. Male hummingbirds claim feeding territories in open meadows where, from late May through June, they mate with females coming to feed but take no part in nesting. Thus when the hen is away to feed, the nest is unguarded. While the smooth bark of the aspen trunk generally offers a poor grip for the claws of a hungry squirrel or weasel, aerial attacks, from a hawk, owl, or gray jay, are more likely.
(12) The choice of where to build a nest is based not only on the branch itself but also on what hangs over it. A crooked deformity in the nest branch, a second, unusually close branch overhead, or proximity to part of a trunk bowed by a past ice storm are features that provide shelter and make for an attractive nest site. Scarcely larger than a halved golf ball, the nest is painstaking constructed of spider webs and plant down, decorated and camouflaged outside with paper-like bits of aspen bark held together with more strands of spider silk. By early June it will hold two pea-sized eggs, which each weigh one-seventh of the mother’s weight, and in sixteen to nineteen days, two chicks.
 
According to the passage, which of the following is true of the male broad-tailed hummingbird?
A.It protects the nest while the female searches for food
B.It is not involved in caring for the chicks
C.It shares nesting duties equally with the female.
D.It finds food for the female and the chicks

VII.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
READING PASSAGE 2                                                                                                             
(1) Broad-tailed hummingbirds often nest in quaking, slender deciduous trees with smooth gray-green bark found in the Colorado Rockies of the Western United States. After flying some 2,000 kilometers north from where they have wintered in Mexico, the hummingbirds need six weeks to build a nest incubate their eggs, and raise the chicks. A second nest is feasible only if the first fails early in the season. Quality, not quantity, is what counts in hummingbird reproduction.
(6) A nest on the lowest intact branch of an aspen will give a hummingbird a good view, a clear flight patch, and protection for her young. Male hummingbirds claim feeding territories in open meadows where, from late May through June, they mate with females coming to feed but take no part in nesting. Thus when the hen is away to feed, the nest is unguarded. While the smooth bark of the aspen trunk generally offers a poor grip for the claws of a hungry squirrel or weasel, aerial attacks, from a hawk, owl, or gray jay, are more likely.
(12) The choice of where to build a nest is based not only on the branch itself but also on what hangs over it. A crooked deformity in the nest branch, a second, unusually close branch overhead, or proximity to part of a trunk bowed by a past ice storm are features that provide shelter and make for an attractive nest site. Scarcely larger than a halved golf ball, the nest is painstaking constructed of spider webs and plant down, decorated and camouflaged outside with paper-like bits of aspen bark held together with more strands of spider silk. By early June it will hold two pea-sized eggs, which each weigh one-seventh of the mother’s weight, and in sixteen to nineteen days, two chicks.
 
The word “counts" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _____ .
A.numbers
B.estimates
C.weighs
D.matters

VII.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
READING PASSAGE 2                                                                                                             
(1) Broad-tailed hummingbirds often nest in quaking, slender deciduous trees with smooth gray-green bark found in the Colorado Rockies of the Western United States. After flying some 2,000 kilometers north from where they have wintered in Mexico, the hummingbirds need six weeks to build a nest incubate their eggs, and raise the chicks. A second nest is feasible only if the first fails early in the season. Quality, not quantity, is what counts in hummingbird reproduction.
(6) A nest on the lowest intact branch of an aspen will give a hummingbird a good view, a clear flight patch, and protection for her young. Male hummingbirds claim feeding territories in open meadows where, from late May through June, they mate with females coming to feed but take no part in nesting. Thus when the hen is away to feed, the nest is unguarded. While the smooth bark of the aspen trunk generally offers a poor grip for the claws of a hungry squirrel or weasel, aerial attacks, from a hawk, owl, or gray jay, are more likely.
(12) The choice of where to build a nest is based not only on the branch itself but also on what hangs over it. A crooked deformity in the nest branch, a second, unusually close branch overhead, or proximity to part of a trunk bowed by a past ice storm are features that provide shelter and make for an attractive nest site. Scarcely larger than a halved golf ball, the nest is painstaking constructed of spider webs and plant down, decorated and camouflaged outside with paper-like bits of aspen bark held together with more strands of spider silk. By early June it will hold two pea-sized eggs, which each weigh one-seventh of the mother’s weight, and in sixteen to nineteen days, two chicks.
 
According to the passage, in what circumstances do hummingbirds build a second nest?
A.If there is an unusually large supply of food
B.If the eggs are destroyed early in the season. 
C.If the winner is unusually warm
D.If the chicks in the first nest hatch early

VII.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
READING PASSAGE 2                                                                                                             
(1) Broad-tailed hummingbirds often nest in quaking, slender deciduous trees with smooth gray-green bark found in the Colorado Rockies of the Western United States. After flying some 2,000 kilometers north from where they have wintered in Mexico, the hummingbirds need six weeks to build a nest incubate their eggs, and raise the chicks. A second nest is feasible only if the first fails early in the season. Quality, not quantity, is what counts in hummingbird reproduction.
(6) A nest on the lowest intact branch of an aspen will give a hummingbird a good view, a clear flight patch, and protection for her young. Male hummingbirds claim feeding territories in open meadows where, from late May through June, they mate with females coming to feed but take no part in nesting. Thus when the hen is away to feed, the nest is unguarded. While the smooth bark of the aspen trunk generally offers a poor grip for the claws of a hungry squirrel or weasel, aerial attacks, from a hawk, owl, or gray jay, are more likely.
(12) The choice of where to build a nest is based not only on the branch itself but also on what hangs over it. A crooked deformity in the nest branch, a second, unusually close branch overhead, or proximity to part of a trunk bowed by a past ice storm are features that provide shelter and make for an attractive nest site. Scarcely larger than a halved golf ball, the nest is painstaking constructed of spider webs and plant down, decorated and camouflaged outside with paper-like bits of aspen bark held together with more strands of spider silk. By early June it will hold two pea-sized eggs, which each weigh one-seventh of the mother’s weight, and in sixteen to nineteen days, two chicks.
 
What aspect of broad-tailed hummingbird behavior does the passage mainly discuss?
A.Mating habits 
B.Selection of nest sites 
C.Caring for the young   
D.Migration routes

VII.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
READING PASSAGE 2                                                                                                             
(1) Broad-tailed hummingbirds often nest in quaking, slender deciduous trees with smooth gray-green bark found in the Colorado Rockies of the Western United States. After flying some 2,000 kilometers north from where they have wintered in Mexico, the hummingbirds need six weeks to build a nest incubate their eggs, and raise the chicks. A second nest is feasible only if the first fails early in the season. Quality, not quantity, is what counts in hummingbird reproduction.
(6) A nest on the lowest intact branch of an aspen will give a hummingbird a good view, a clear flight patch, and protection for her young. Male hummingbirds claim feeding territories in open meadows where, from late May through June, they mate with females coming to feed but take no part in nesting. Thus when the hen is away to feed, the nest is unguarded. While the smooth bark of the aspen trunk generally offers a poor grip for the claws of a hungry squirrel or weasel, aerial attacks, from a hawk, owl, or gray jay, are more likely.
(12) The choice of where to build a nest is based not only on the branch itself but also on what hangs over it. A crooked deformity in the nest branch, a second, unusually close branch overhead, or proximity to part of a trunk bowed by a past ice storm are features that provide shelter and make for an attractive nest site. Scarcely larger than a halved golf ball, the nest is painstaking constructed of spider webs and plant down, decorated and camouflaged outside with paper-like bits of aspen bark held together with more strands of spider silk. By early June it will hold two pea-sized eggs, which each weigh one-seventh of the mother’s weight, and in sixteen to nineteen days, two chicks.
 
According to the passage, how long does it take for broad-tailed hummingbird egg to hatch?
A.More than six weeks
B.Two to three weeks
C.One month
D.Less than a week

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 51.
A.universally   
B.wide
C.commonly
D.largely

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 60.
A.chance
B.ability
C.luck
D.time

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 59. 
A.already
B.yet
C.still
D.just

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 58.
A.amount
B.number
C.sum
D.total

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 57.
A.excess
B.maximum
C.limit
D.extremity