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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.            For many American university students, the weeklong spring break holiday means an endless party on a sunny beach in Florida or Mexico. In Panama City Beach, Florida, a city with a permanent population of around 36,000, more than half a million university students arrive during the month of March to play and party, making it the number one spring break destination in the United States.          A weeklong drinking binge is not for anyone, however, and a growing number of American university students have found a way to make spring break matter. For them, joining or leading a group of volunteers to travel locally or internationally and work to alleviate problems such as poverty, homelessness, or environmental damage makes spring break a unique learning experience that university students can feel good about.          During one spring break week, students at James Madison University in Virginia participated in 15 “alternative spring break” trips to nearby states, three others to more distant parts of the United States, and five international trips. One group of JMU students traveled to Bogalusa, Louisiana, to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Another group traveled to Mississippi to organize creative activities for children living in a homless shelter. One group of students did go to Florida, but not to lie on the sand.  They performed exhausting physical labor such as maintaining hiking trails and destroying invasive plant species that threaten the native Florida ecosystem.          Students who participate in alternative spring break projects find them very rewarding. While most university students have to get their degrees before they can start helping people, student volunteers are able to help people now. On the other hand, the accommodations are far from glamorous. Students often sleep on the floor of a school or spend the week camping in tents. But students only pay around $250 for meals and transportation, which is much less than some of their peers spend to travel to more traditional spring break hotspots.          Alternative spring break trips appear to be growing in popularity at universities across the United States. Students cite a number of reason for participating. Some appreciate the opportunity to socialize and meet new friends. Others want to exercise their beliefs about people’s obligation to serve humanity and make the world a better place whatever their reason, these students have discovered something that gives them rich rewards along with a break from school work.Question:The word “binge” in the second paragraph probably means______.

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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 following questions.American humor and American popular heroes were born together. The first popular heroes of the new nation were comic heroes, and the first popular humor of the new nation was the antics of its hero-clowns.The heroic and the comic were combined in novel American proportions in popular literature. The heroic themes are obvious enough and not much different from those in the legends of other times and places: Achilles, Beowulf, Siegfried, Roland, and King Arthur. The American Davy Crockett legends repeat the familiar pattern of the old world heroic story: the pre-eminence of a mighty hero whose fame in myth has a tenuous basis in fact; the remarkable birth and precocious strength of the hero; single combats in which he distinguished himself against antagonists, both man and beast; vows and boasts; pride of the hero in his weapons, his dog, and his woman. Davy Crockett conquered man and beast with a swaggering nonchalance. He overcame animals by force of body and will. He killed four wolves at the age of six. He hugged a bear to death; he killed a rattlesnake with his teeth. He mastered the forces of nature. Crockett’s most famous natural exploit was saving the earth on the coldest day in history. First, he climbed a mountain to determine the trouble. Then he rescued all creation by squeezing bear-grease on the earth’s frozen axis and over the sun’s icy face. He whistled, “Push along, keep moving!” The earth gave a grunt and began moving. Neither the fearlessness nor the bold huntsman’s prowess was peculiarly American. Far more distinctive was the comic quality, all heroes are heroic; few are also clowns. What made the American popular hero heroic also made him comic. “May be”, said Crockett, “you’ll laugh at me and not at my book”. The ambiguity of American life and the vagueness which laid the continent open to adventure, which made the land a rich storehouse of the unexpected, which kept vocabulary ungoverned and the language fluid----this same ambiguity suffused both the Crockett legends were never quite certain whether to laugh or to applaud, or whether what they saw and heard was wonderful, awful or ridiculous.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a heroic theme?

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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.            For many American university students, the weeklong spring break holiday means an endless party on a sunny beach in Florida or Mexico. In Panama City Beach, Florida, a city with a permanent population of around 36,000, more than half a million university students arrive during the month of March to play and party, making it the number one spring break destination in the United States.          A weeklong drinking binge is not for anyone, however, and a growing number of American university students have found a way to make spring break matter. For them, joining or leading a group of volunteers to travel locally or internationally and work to alleviate problems such as poverty, homelessness, or environmental damage makes spring break a unique learning experience that university students can feel good about.          During one spring break week, students at James Madison University in Virginia participated in 15 “alternative spring break” trips to nearby states, three others to more distant parts of the United States, and five international trips. One group of JMU students traveled to Bogalusa, Louisiana, to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Another group traveled to Mississippi to organize creative activities for children living in a homless shelter. One group of students did go to Florida, but not to lie on the sand.  They performed exhausting physical labor such as maintaining hiking trails and destroying invasive plant species that threaten the native Florida ecosystem.          Students who participate in alternative spring break projects find them very rewarding. While most university students have to get their degrees before they can start helping people, student volunteers are able to help people now. On the other hand, the accommodations are far from glamorous. Students often sleep on the floor of a school or spend the week camping in tents. But students only pay around $250 for meals and transportation, which is much less than some of their peers spend to travel to more traditional spring break hotspots.          Alternative spring break trips appear to be growing in popularity at universities across the United States. Students cite a number of reason for participating. Some appreciate the opportunity to socialize and meet new friends. Others want to exercise their beliefs about people’s obligation to serve humanity and make the world a better place whatever their reason, these students have discovered something that gives them rich rewards along with a break from school work.Question:The article is mainly about______.

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 46I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena. Coming from a (36)______country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder than I had ( 37) ______. But after a few days I soon got used to (38) ______there. The people were very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how beautiful the countryside was.One of my job was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk (39) _____, and the women used to spend a long time every day ( 40)_______heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (41 ) _____some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It wasn’t perfect there were a few (42) _____but it made a great difference to the villagers, (43 )______had never had running water before. And not (44 ) ____did we have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (45) ____ in the sun all day.All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. I would recommend it to anyone who was planning to work for a charityĐiền vào ô 40

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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 following questions.American humor and American popular heroes were born together. The first popular heroes of the new nation were comic heroes, and the first popular humor of the new nation was the antics of its hero-clowns.The heroic and the comic were combined in novel American proportions in popular literature. The heroic themes are obvious enough and not much different from those in the legends of other times and places: Achilles, Beowulf, Siegfried, Roland, and King Arthur. The American Davy Crockett legends repeat the familiar pattern of the old world heroic story: the pre-eminence of a mighty hero whose fame in myth has a tenuous basis in fact; the remarkable birth and precocious strength of the hero; single combats in which he distinguished himself against antagonists, both man and beast; vows and boasts; pride of the hero in his weapons, his dog, and his woman. Davy Crockett conquered man and beast with a swaggering nonchalance. He overcame animals by force of body and will. He killed four wolves at the age of six. He hugged a bear to death; he killed a rattlesnake with his teeth. He mastered the forces of nature. Crockett’s most famous natural exploit was saving the earth on the coldest day in history. First, he climbed a mountain to determine the trouble. Then he rescued all creation by squeezing bear-grease on the earth’s frozen axis and over the sun’s icy face. He whistled, “Push along, keep moving!” The earth gave a grunt and began moving. Neither the fearlessness nor the bold huntsman’s prowess was peculiarly American. Far more distinctive was the comic quality, all heroes are heroic; few are also clowns. What made the American popular hero heroic also made him comic. “May be”, said Crockett, “you’ll laugh at me and not at my book”. The ambiguity of American life and the vagueness which laid the continent open to adventure, which made the land a rich storehouse of the unexpected, which kept vocabulary ungoverned and the language fluid----this same ambiguity suffused both the Crockett legends were never quite certain whether to laugh or to applaud, or whether what they saw and heard was wonderful, awful or ridiculous.Achilles, Beowulf, and other heroes are mentioned in paragraph 2 to_________.

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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.            For many American university students, the weeklong spring break holiday means an endless party on a sunny beach in Florida or Mexico. In Panama City Beach, Florida, a city with a permanent population of around 36,000, more than half a million university students arrive during the month of March to play and party, making it the number one spring break destination in the United States.          A weeklong drinking binge is not for anyone, however, and a growing number of American university students have found a way to make spring break matter. For them, joining or leading a group of volunteers to travel locally or internationally and work to alleviate problems such as poverty, homelessness, or environmental damage makes spring break a unique learning experience that university students can feel good about.          During one spring break week, students at James Madison University in Virginia participated in 15 “alternative spring break” trips to nearby states, three others to more distant parts of the United States, and five international trips. One group of JMU students traveled to Bogalusa, Louisiana, to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Another group traveled to Mississippi to organize creative activities for children living in a homless shelter. One group of students did go to Florida, but not to lie on the sand.  They performed exhausting physical labor such as maintaining hiking trails and destroying invasive plant species that threaten the native Florida ecosystem.          Students who participate in alternative spring break projects find them very rewarding. While most university students have to get their degrees before they can start helping people, student volunteers are able to help people now. On the other hand, the accommodations are far from glamorous. Students often sleep on the floor of a school or spend the week camping in tents. But students only pay around $250 for meals and transportation, which is much less than some of their peers spend to travel to more traditional spring break hotspots.          Alternative spring break trips appear to be growing in popularity at universities across the United States. Students cite a number of reason for participating. Some appreciate the opportunity to socialize and meet new friends. Others want to exercise their beliefs about people’s obligation to serve humanity and make the world a better place whatever their reason, these students have discovered something that gives them rich rewards along with a break from school work.Question:How many university students travel to Panama Beach City every March for spring break?

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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 following questions.American humor and American popular heroes were born together. The first popular heroes of the new nation were comic heroes, and the first popular humor of the new nation was the antics of its hero-clowns.The heroic and the comic were combined in novel American proportions in popular literature. The heroic themes are obvious enough and not much different from those in the legends of other times and places: Achilles, Beowulf, Siegfried, Roland, and King Arthur. The American Davy Crockett legends repeat the familiar pattern of the old world heroic story: the pre-eminence of a mighty hero whose fame in myth has a tenuous basis in fact; the remarkable birth and precocious strength of the hero; single combats in which he distinguished himself against antagonists, both man and beast; vows and boasts; pride of the hero in his weapons, his dog, and his woman. Davy Crockett conquered man and beast with a swaggering nonchalance. He overcame animals by force of body and will. He killed four wolves at the age of six. He hugged a bear to death; he killed a rattlesnake with his teeth. He mastered the forces of nature. Crockett’s most famous natural exploit was saving the earth on the coldest day in history. First, he climbed a mountain to determine the trouble. Then he rescued all creation by squeezing bear-grease on the earth’s frozen axis and over the sun’s icy face. He whistled, “Push along, keep moving!” The earth gave a grunt and began moving. Neither the fearlessness nor the bold huntsman’s prowess was peculiarly American. Far more distinctive was the comic quality, all heroes are heroic; few are also clowns. What made the American popular hero heroic also made him comic. “May be”, said Crockett, “you’ll laugh at me and not at my book”. The ambiguity of American life and the vagueness which laid the continent open to adventure, which made the land a rich storehouse of the unexpected, which kept vocabulary ungoverned and the language fluid----this same ambiguity suffused both the Crockett legends were never quite certain whether to laugh or to applaud, or whether what they saw and heard was wonderful, awful or ridiculous.What is the main point the author makes in the passage?

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 46I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena. Coming from a (36)______country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder than I had ( 37) ______. But after a few days I soon got used to (38) ______there. The people were very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how beautiful the countryside was.One of my job was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk (39) _____, and the women used to spend a long time every day ( 40)_______heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (41 ) _____some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It wasn’t perfect there were a few (42) _____but it made a great difference to the villagers, (43 )______had never had running water before. And not (44 ) ____did we have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (45) ____ in the sun all day.All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. I would recommend it to anyone who was planning to work for a charityĐiền vào ô 41

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 46I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena. Coming from a (36)______country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder than I had ( 37) ______. But after a few days I soon got used to (38) ______there. The people were very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how beautiful the countryside was.One of my job was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk (39) _____, and the women used to spend a long time every day ( 40)_______heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (41 ) _____some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It wasn’t perfect there were a few (42) _____but it made a great difference to the villagers, (43 )______had never had running water before. And not (44 ) ____did we have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (45) ____ in the sun all day.All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. I would recommend it to anyone who was planning to work for a charityĐiền vào ô 39

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 46I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena. Coming from a (36)______country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder than I had ( 37) ______. But after a few days I soon got used to (38) ______there. The people were very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how beautiful the countryside was.One of my job was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk (39) _____, and the women used to spend a long time every day ( 40)_______heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (41 ) _____some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It wasn’t perfect there were a few (42) _____but it made a great difference to the villagers, (43 )______had never had running water before. And not (44 ) ____did we have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (45) ____ in the sun all day.All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. I would recommend it to anyone who was planning to work for a charityĐiền vào ô 38

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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.This rapid transcontinental settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19th century were accompanied by the development of a national literature of great abundance and variety. New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century.As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York in the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. No longer was it produced, at least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South; no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives; no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times; no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression; no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle class women.In sum, American literature in these years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for in 1867 in describing Leaves of Grass: it treats, he said of his own major work, each state and region as peers "and expands from them, and includes the world ... connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations." At the same time, these years saw the emergence of what has been designated "the literature of argument," powerful works in sociology, philosophy, psychology, many of them impelled by the spirit of exposure and reform. Just as America learned to play a role in this half century as an autonomous international political, economic, and military power, so did its literature establish itself as a producer of major works.The word “it” in the second paragraph refers to______________

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 46I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena. Coming from a (36)______country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder than I had ( 37) ______. But after a few days I soon got used to (38) ______there. The people were very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how beautiful the countryside was.One of my job was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk (39) _____, and the women used to spend a long time every day ( 40)_______heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (41 ) _____some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It wasn’t perfect there were a few (42) _____but it made a great difference to the villagers, (43 )______had never had running water before. And not (44 ) ____did we have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (45) ____ in the sun all day.All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. I would recommend it to anyone who was planning to work for a charityĐiền vào ô 37

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 46I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena. Coming from a (36)______country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder than I had ( 37) ______. But after a few days I soon got used to (38) ______there. The people were very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how beautiful the countryside was.One of my job was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk (39) _____, and the women used to spend a long time every day ( 40)_______heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (41 ) _____some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It wasn’t perfect there were a few (42) _____but it made a great difference to the villagers, (43 )______had never had running water before. And not (44 ) ____did we have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (45) ____ in the sun all day.All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. I would recommend it to anyone who was planning to work for a charityĐiền vào ô 36

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