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- According to the text, otohime is ……
- a public women’s room
- a machine that produces the sound
of toilet flushing
- a machines that flushes water
into the toilet
- a Japanese prince
- a men’s restroom
- The following statements are true
EXCEPT ……
- Many Japanese women’s use more
water than necessary when they are using the toilet
- There are two ways to activate
otohime
- Many Japanese men do not need
otohime
- Japanese women like to use
otohime when using the toilet
- Otohime is the name of Japanese
goddess
- Some of the Japanese women prefer
not to use otohime because ……
- it is expensive
- it is difficult to use
- it cannot replace the real sound
of toilet flushing
- it is not always available in
public women’s rooms
- it is an old-fashion device
EXPLANATION
The basic idea of the TV phone is
pretty simple : it’s a cell phone that acts as a TV receiver. TV signals are
just radio signals. Cell phones pick up radio signals all the time-it’s what
they do. In the case of TV phones, they
have the ability to receive radio signal in the TV-allocated frequency bands in
addition to the bands allocated for cell-phone voice data. For instance, a TV
phone in the United States
might tone in to the 2110-to-2170 Mhz band for a conversation and the 54-to-60
Mhz band to pick up channel 2. just like your home TV, a TV phone has the
equipment to extract the audio and video content from radio signals and procces
them to display a TV show on it’s screen.
The concept is not earth-shattering, but delivering TV
signals within a mobile framework poses some callenges. For one thing, streaming video requires fast
transmission speeds. Previous “2G” GSM networks offered data-delivery speeds of
10 to 14 kilobites persecond (Kbps), and “2.5G” networks offered 30 to 100
Kbps. At 10 Kbps, a TV show is really slide show; and at 100 Kbps, it’s preety
choppy. There’s also the bandwidth issue. Televison data takes up a lot more
space than voice data, and delivering live TV thousands of cell phones
simultaneously can slow a network to a crawel. Finnaly, receiving, processing
and displaying video content requires battery power, and cell phones don’t have
much juice to spare.
But technology advances are beginning to make TV phones a viable luxury.
Fast “3G” networks (which provide broadband internet acces to cell phone and
other mobile devices) provide data-transfer rates of 144 Kbps to 2 Megabits per
second (Mbps). 3G multicasting technology saves
bandwidth by allowing multiple subscribers to acces a single broadcast
strame (as opposed to unicasting, which is a one-to-one transmissions). And
companies are implemetting power-saving transmission techniques like time
slicing, which transmits dat in spaced intervals so the receiver can trun
off between transmissions.
While you can subscribe to a TV
service plan right now ( such as MobiTV, sprint TV or smartvideo) if you have
the right phone, the standards for mobile TV broadcast and delivery methods are
still in their infancy.
- The pupose one of the passage is
……
- to differentiate between cell
phone and TV phones
- to describe the elements of TV phones
- to persuade readers to buy TV
phones
- to explain about how TV phones
work
- to present the advantages of TV
phones over cell phones
- What makes cell phone enable to
broadcast TV signals ?
- extra frequency bands that pick
up TV channels
- a tool to pull out audio content
from radio signals
- a tool to pull out video content
from radio signals
- a tool to process the extracted
audio and video content to displayed on the screen
- all of the above
- The problems faced by TV phone are presented
……
- in the first paragraph
- in the second paragraph
- in the third paragraph
- in the fourth paragraph
- troughout the passage
- Which of the following statements
is not the challenge of TV phones with 2-2.5G
networks?
- they have limited bandwidth
- they cost a lot of money
- they need greater battery power
- TV show delivery my result in
slow network
- They do not provide quick
transmission speed
- TV phones with 3G network….
- offer much better picture quality
- are still slow in receiving
content
- offer inexpensive technology
- have weak battery
- are not yet available
- the word ‘subscribe’ in line 24 is
closest in meaning to which of the following?
- tune in
- switch channel
- pay regularly
- change
- ask for a connection
PROCEDURE
Many English learners admit that they have difficulties
in listening to native speakers of English. The following are some strategies
to a better and easier understanding of listening task.
First, prepare yourself for the listening activity
before it begins. Try to predict what you are going to hear. For example, if your teacher tells
you that what you are going to hear to about Australian animals, then before
listening to it, quickly think of some of the vocabulary that you think you
might hear – koala, kangaroo, emu, and so on. Second, listen for the main idea
or ideas and do not worry about hearing every detail. After listening, write
down the points you felt were most important. Third, listen for signposts are
those words that tell you about the organization of the tall-words like first,
secondly and finally. These signposts will assist you to listen more
effectively by making the talk easier to follow. The last important listening
skill is being able to listen for specific information and for detail. These
are linked with prediction. The ability to hear certain pieces of information amongst
the whole text is very important, for example, in answering questions in
listening test.
1.
The text is about ……
a.
how to use signposting in a
listening activity
b.
how to predict the key words in
the recording
c.
how to listen effectively
d.
how to listen the main idea
e.
how to listen for specific
detail
2.
it is implied from the text
that ……
a.
it is necessary to get the
meaning of each word to understand a talk
b.
guessing what will be heard is
and important skill to be used in listening tasks
c.
students need to have good
vocabulary mastery in order to be good listeners
d.
signposting helps students to
get the main idea of a listening teks
e.
being able to get specific
information from a talk is the only key to a good listening
3.
which of the following is the
example of signposts?
a.
one, two, three, four
b.
once, twice, three times
c.
always, often, seldom, rarely
d.
next, then, also, in addition
e.
turn left, right, go straight
4.
if you are going to listen
about pollution, which of the following words that you might hear?
a.
globe, map, countries, world
b.
cars, factory, waste, recycle
c.
land, animals, food, migration
d.
weapon, gun, machines, bullet
e.
wine, detergent, water, fruit
NARRATIVE
Once, three fish lived in a pond.
One evening, some fishermen passed by the pond and saw the fish. “ This pond is
full of fish “, they told each other excitedly. “ We have never fished here
before. We must come back tomorrow morning with our nets and catch these fish!
“ so saying, the fishermen left.
When the eldest of the three fish
heard this, he was troubled. He called the orther fish together and said, “ Did
you hear what the fishermen said? We must leave this pond at once. The
fishermen will return tomorrow and kill us all! “ the second of the three fish
agreed. “ you are right ”, he said. “ We must leave the pond “.
But the youngest fish laughed. “ You
are worrying without reason “, he said. “ We have lived in this pond all our
lives, and no fishermen has ever come here. Why should these men return? I am
not going anywhere – my luck will keep me safe.
The eldest of the fish left the pond
that very evening with his entire family. The second fish saw the fishermen
coming in the distance early next morning and left the pond at once with all
his family. The third fish refused to leave even then.
The fishermen arrived and caught all
the fish left in the pond. The third fish’s luck did not help him – he too was
caught and killed.
1.
What is the topic of the story?
a. The fishermen
b. The cruel fishermen
c. The three fish
d. Wise Fish
e. Life in the pond
2.
Which of the following is NOT
the moral of the story?
a. Worrying without reason is unwise
b. Act as soon as possible whenever a problem is
approaching
c. It is not enough to rely on luck
d. Stay out of
troubles
e. If you see a danger ahead of you and act
before it arrives, you will be saved.
3.
The fishermen did not catch the
fish that very evening because ……
a. They did not bring their fishing equipment
b. They needed more people to catch the fish
c. It was already dark so they could not see the
fish clearly
d. It was cold to fish at night
e. They were in a hurry
4.
The word ‘distance’ in line 13
has the same meaning as …….
a. near
b. close
c. within reach
d. far
e. approaching
EXPOSITION
Most men
and women eat meat, althought some ( mostly in rich countries ) eat much more
than others. Almost all of this meat is the flesh of domiticated livestock –
animals born and raised on farms – to be killed and sold for their meat. People
who make a choice never to eat meat are vegetarians, altought there are
different views about what this can mean. Some people are vegans, choosing not
to eat any animal product, including eggs and dairy (milk) foods such as
cheese, butter and yoghurt.
Animals have right and it is wrong
to kill them needlessly. Humans are animals too and it is not possible morally
to set us apart from orther species. Animals many not be as clever as people,
but a baby is less intelligent than an ape and we don’t say that means it
should havefewer rights. Like us, animals can feel pleasure and pain, and they
suffer if they are shut up and forced to live and eat in unnatural ways. Many
religious people believe that all life is sacred, and that nothing should be
made to suffer without need. For these reasons killing and eating animals is a
from of murder.
Eating meat means that animals
suffer. Farming involves animals like cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens being
kept in nasty conditions and cruelly killed. Supermarkets put huge pressure on
farmers to produce meat, milk and eegs at rock bottom prices, so it is not
surprising that animal welfare is neglected in a search for profit.
Farming animals for meat is very
unnatural. Some animals do kill others for food, but at least prey species live
free and any suffering in the hunt is almost always over quickly. And unlike
lions or wolves, humans are moral beings, who are aware of the suffering they
can cause and able to choose a different way of life. For this reason
vegetarians dislike hunting as it inflicts long term cruelty on animals in a
systematic way. Not only are farm conditions cruel, breeding foe meat, dairy or
wool has created livestock which suffer all sorts of unnatural and painful
diseases and conditions.
Vegetarianism is best for the
planet. Farming animals is hugely wasteful in land – plant crops require a
small part of the space to produce the same amount of the calories as
livestock. So if every human ate a vegetarian diet there would be no need to
chop down the rainforest and ruin the land. Nor would seas be emptied of fish
and other species like dolphins and corals, which harmed by the methods used to
catch them.
A vegetarian diet is healthier for
you. Eating a varied range of cereals, fruits, nuts and vegetables is a
delicious way of getting all the vitamins, minerals, fibre and protein your
body needs. In fact it is meat (and dairy) eaters who are eating unhealthily as
they take in far too much fat, protein and cholesterol, and often far too
little fibre and vitamins.
Meat – eating is risky as it is
linked to a range of serious illness. Almost all dangerous types of food –
poisoning (e.g E – coli, salmonella) are passed on through meat or eggs. Close
contact between humans and animals also leads to zoonosis – diseases such as
bird ‘flu which can be passed on from animals to humans’. Hunters eating apes
and monkeys are thought to have brought HIV / AIDS to humans. And using animal
brains in the processed feed for livestock led to BSE in cattle and to CJD in
humans who ate beef from infected cows.
- The purpose of this text is ……
- to describe the cruelty of
human being towards animals
- to cite example of animal
suffering
- to show people that it is
wrong to eat meat
- to illustrate the danger of
eating meat
- to defend vegetarian rights
- Which animal below is NOT an
example of livestock?
- cows
- sheep
- cat
- chicken
- cattle
- What can we infer about vegans?
- they eat only certain kinds of
meat
- they are the same as other
vegetarians
- they are extreme vegetarians
- they do not want to eat meat
- they hate people who eat meat
- Below are the reason of why
people become vegetarians EXCEPT ……
- animals are also God’s
creatures that have rights
- farming animal is against
nature and uneconomical
- eating meat causes a lot of
disease
- vegetables are cheaper than
meat
- killing animals is cruel and
inhuman
- BSE and CJD are probably……
- kinds of the beef
- kinds of diseases
- kinds of cattle
- types of HIV / AIDS
- names of bacteria
- ‘Rock bottom’ in line 17 is
closest in meaning to which of the following?
- profit
- lowest
- discounted
- solid
- high