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SECTION III: READING

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

      Why did you decide to read, and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand every single part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight’s (56) ­­­________ ? Common sense (57) ­­­________ that the answers to these questions depend on “readability”- whether the (58) ­­­________ matter is interesting, and the argument clear and the (59) ________ attractive. But psychologists are trying to (60) ­­­________ why people read – and often don’t read certain things, for example technical information. They also have examined so much the writing as the readers.

      Even the most technically confident people often (61) ­­­________ instructions for the video or home computer in favor of hands- on experience. And people frequently take little notice of consumer information, whether on nutritional labels or in the small print  of contracts. Psychologists researching reading (62) ________ to assume that both beginners and competent readers read everything put in front of them from start to finish. There are (63) ­­­________ among them about the role of eyes, memory and brain during the process. Some people believe that fluent readers take in very letter or word they see; other (64) ­­­________ that reader rely on memory or context to carry them from one phrase to another. But they have always assumed that the reading process is the same: reading starts, comprehension (65) ­­­________, then reading stops.

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Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

      Some animal behaviorists argue that certain animals can remember part events, anticipate future ones, make plans and choices, and coordinate activities within a group. These scientists, however, are cautious about the extent to which animals can be credited with conscious processing.

      Explanations of animal behavior that leave out any sort of consciousness at all and ascribe actions entirely to instinct leave many questions unanswered. One example of such unexplained behavior: Honeybees communicate the sources of nectar to one another by doing a dance in a figure-eight pattern. The orientation of the dance conveys the position of the food relative to the sun’s position in the sky, and the speed of the dance tells how far the food source is from the hive. Most researchers assume that the ability to perform and encode the dance is innate and shows no special intelligence. But in one study, when experimenters kept changing the site of the food source, each time moving the food 25 percent father from the previous site, foraging honeybees began to anticipate where the food source would appear next. When the researchers arrived at the new location, they would find the bees circling the spot, waiting for their food. No one has yet explained how bees, whose brains weigh four ten-thousandths of an ounce, could have inferred the location of the new site.

      Other behaviors that may indicate some cognition include tool use. Many animals, like the otter who uses a stone to crack mussel shells, are capable of using objects in the natural environment as rudimentary tools. One researcher has found that mother chimpanzees occasionally show their young how to use tools to open hard nuts. In one study, chimpanzees compared two pairs of food wells containing chocolate chips. One pair might contain, say, five chips and three chips, the other four chips and three chips. Allowed to choose which pair they wanted, the chimpanzees almost always chose the one with the higher total, showing some sort of summing ability. Other chimpanzees have learned to use numerals to label quantities of items and do simple sums.

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Read the text and think of one word which best fits each gap.

                                                           KANGAROOS

The kangaroo is (76) …………………………. of the Australia’s most iconic animals. Kangaroos of different types live in all areas of Australia, from cold climate areas and desert plains (77) …………………………. tropical rainforests and beaches.

          Kangaroos are herbivorous, eating a range of plants and, (78) …………………………. some cases, fungi. Different kangaroo species inhabit different habitats. Some, for example, make nests on the ground while tree-kangaroo live above the ground. Larger (79) …………………………. of kangaroo tend to shelter under trees or in caves.

          Most kangaroos are distinguished from (80) …………………………. animals by the way they hop on their strong back legs. A kangaroo’s tail is used to balance while hopping and as a fifth climb when moving slowly.

Kangaroos have long (81) …………………………. important to the survival of Australia’s indigenous people, (82) …………………………. have hunted them for tens of thousands of years, using (83) …………………………. the meat and the skins. When Europeans arrived in Australia in the late eighteenth century, they too hunted kangaroos for survival. Kangaroos continue to be used as a resource, but only (84) …………………………. strict government controls. Nowadays only the four most abundant species of kangaroo may be commercially harvested for export, and then only by licensed hunters in accordance (85) …………………………. an approved management plan.

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What did the tour guide recommend for more experienced walkers?

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Câu 4:

What is mentioned about the transport in the park?

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Câu 6:

What should the visitors do before they go to the restaurant?

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Câu 10:

Jack made me _______ him next week.

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Not only _______ to speak to him, but she also vowed never to see him again.

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–“Would you like another coffee?”  – “____________.”

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My mother asked me _____

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What does the passage mainly discuss?

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Which of the following is NOT discussed as an ability animals are thought to have?

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What is the purpose of the honeybee at a site?

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What did researchers discover in the study of honeybees discussed in paragraph 2?

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It can be inferred from the passage that brain size is assumed to ___________.

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Câu 65:

Why are otters and mussel shells included in the discussion in paragraph 3?

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Scientists concluded from the experiment with chimpanzees and chocolate chips that chimpanzees __________.

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