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Question1
A. Wal-Mart shoppers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck, typically shop in bulk at the beginning of the month when their paychecks come in.
B. ”We’re seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure,” Duke said at an event in New York. “There’s no doubt that rising fuel prices are having an impact.”
C. Wal-Mart’s core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried, CEO Mike Duke said Wednesday.
D. Lately, they’re “running out of money” at a faster clip, he said.
Answer: CBAD
Question2
A. As you practice you can start to think your way through the conscious competence stage. As driving the stick shift becomes a habit for you, eventually you can drive without thinking, shifting gears effortlessly while you think about other things is known as unconscious competence.
B. Competence is a cluster of related abilities, commitments, knowledge, and skills that enable a person or an organization to act effectively in a job or situation.
C. Because each level of responsibility has its own requirements, competence can occur in any period of a person’s life or at any stage of his or her career.
D. When you first learn how to drive a stick shift, you can learn very quickly that you don’t know how to do it is known as conscious incompetence.
E. Competence indicates sufficiency of knowledge and skills that enable someone to act in a wide variety of situations.
Answer: BECDA
Question3
A. Another common mistake is to ignore or rule out data which do not support the hypothesis.
B. Ideally, the experimenter is open to the possibility that the hypothesis is correct or incorrect.
C. Sometimes, however, a scientist may have a strong belief that the hypothesis is true (or false), or feels internal or external pressure to get a specific result.
D. In that case, there may be a psychological tendency to find “something wrong”, such as systematic effects, with data which do not support the scientist’s expectations, while data which do agree with those expectations may not be checked as carefully.
E. The lesson is that all data must be handled in the same way.
Answer: ABCDE
Question4
A. Over the years many human endeavours have had the benefit of language.
B. Now music could be communicated efficiently, and succeeding generations would know something about the music of their ancestors.
C. But it is difficult to describe music in words, and even more difficult to specify a tune.
D. It was the development of a standard musical notation in the 11th century that allowed music to be documented in a physical form.
E. In particular a written language can convey a lot of information about past events, places, people and things.
Answer: AECDB
Question5
A. Researchers have developed a system that can 3-D print the basic structure of an entire building.
B. Ultimately, the scientist say, this approach could enable the design and the construction of new buildings that would not be feasible with traditional building methods.
C. Even the internal structure could be modified in new ways; different materials could be incorporated as the process goes along.
D. Structure built with this system could be produced faster and less expensively than traditional construction methods allow.
Answer: ADCB
Question6
A. Yet whenever he was hungry he got up and propelled himself straight to the kitchen to get something to eat.
B. Every day he was asked where the kitchen was in his house, and every day he didn’t have the foggiest idea.
C. In 1992 a retired engineer in San Diego contracted a rare brain disease that wiped out his memory.
D. Studies of this man led scientists to a breakthrough: the part of our brains where habits are stored has nothing to do with memory or reason.
E. It offered proof of what the US psychologist William James noticed more than a century ago – that humans “are mere walking bundles of habits”.
Answer: CBADE
Question7
A. Volkswagen shares trade at about nine times the 2002 estimated earnings, compared to BMW’s 19 and are the second cheapest in the sector.
B. A disastrous capital hike, an expensive foray into truck business and uncertainty about the reason for a share buyback has in recent years left investors bewildered.
C. The main problem with Volkswagen is the past.
D. Despite posting healthy profits, Volkswagen shares trade at a discount to peers due to bad reputation among investors.
E. Many investors have been disappointed and frightened away.
Answer: DBCEA
Question8
A. Professor Fitzgerald and his team studied more than 47000 women.
B. He convinced Professor Fitzgerald of the University of Hill to set up a study into this matter.
C. Doctor Byron has long held that there is a link between diet and acne.
D. No link was found between acne and traditionally suspect food such as chocolate and chips.
E. The women were asked to fill in a questionnaire about the diet and about their suffering from acne.
Answer: CBAED
Question9
A. Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith’s transpacific flight the following year.
B. One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.
C. By the beginning of World War II, many towns and cities had built airports, and there were numerous qualified pilots available.
D. The war brought many innovations to aviation, including the first jet aircraft and the first liquid-fueled rockets.
Answer: ABCD
Question10
A. Today, many years later, many believe that evolution has progressed at the same steady rate and that the absence of transitional forms can be explained by Darwin’s argument that there are huge gaps in the fossil record and that transition usually occurred in one restricted locality.
B. Paleontologists still argue about the origins of major groups, though new fossil finds since Darwin’s time have cleared up many of the disparities in the fossil record. Even during Darwin’s lifetime, some transitional forms were found.
C. Others, however, believe that the fossil evidence suggests that, at various stages in the history of life, evolution progressed rapidly, in spurts, and that major changes occurred at these points.
D. An evolving group may have reached a stage at which it had an advantage over other groups and was able to exploit new niches in nature. Climate change may also have produced a “spurt”, as might the extinction of other groups or species, leaving many niches vacant.
Answer: BACD
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