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Date: 10/03/2006
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Thử tài tí chơi: TOEFL Reading Questions (part 3)
Questions 61-64
All students have faculty advisors with whom to discuss their academic program. Each student, however, is responsible for knowing and meeting the requirements for graduation. Except for required courses (such as freshman composition the first quarter), students may select their own classes each quarter. The usual schedule is three courses each quarter, two courses being the minimum unless a student receives special permission. A student may not register for four or more courses in any quarter.
61. According to the passage, the faculty advisor will help the student
(A) plan a course of study
(B) meet other freshmen in the program
(C) complete the graduation requirements
(D) prepare for special courses
62. The average number of courses for a student in one quarter is
(A) one
(B) two
(C) three
(D) four
63. A student is required to get special permission when taking
(A) one course
(B) two courses
(C) three courses
(D) four courses
64. According to the passage, in the first quarter all students take a course in
(A) literature
(B) mathematics
(C) music
(D) writing
Questions 65-71
Clara Louise Maass was a nurse who contributed to the research on yellow fever at the turn of the century. She was working as a civilian nurse in Cuba, where army Majors William Gorgas and Walter Reed were conducting experiments to isolate the cause of the disease. Tests ruled out dirt and poor sanitation as causes of yellow fever, and a mosquito was the suspected carrier. Clara was among the group who volunteered to be bitten by the insect. She contracted the disease and died on August 24, 1901. She was the only woman to participate in the experiment and among the few volunteers to die from it. With her death, the study ended; the results of the experiment provided conclusive evidence that mosquitoes were the source of the disease.
65. Which of the following would be the best the titie for the passage?
(A) The Life of Clara Louise Masse
(B) Yellow Fever Patients
(C) A Heroic Nurse Aids Research
(D) Life in Cuba in the 1900’s
66. According to the passage, Maass went to Cuba in order to
(A) do nursing work
(B) do research on yellow fever
(C) continue her education
(D) teach people about sanitation
67. It can be inferred from the passage that the research was probably supported by
(A) hospital
(B) army
(C) volunteers
(D) researchers
68. According to the passage, Gorgas and Reed had previously looked for the cause of yellow fever by studying
(A) sanitary conditions
(B) mosquitoes
(C) related diseases
(D) victims of the disease
69. According to the passage, people can contract yellow fever when they
(A) eat contaminated food
(B) touch dirty areas
(C) suffer a mosquito bite
(D) drink polluted water
70. It can be inferred from the passage that many of the volunteers
(A) were not men
(B) did not die
(C) were not bitten by the insect
(D) did not participate in the experiment
71. It can be inferred from the passage that,as a nurse, Maass was
(A) ambitious
(B) dedicated
(C) inexperienced
(D) overworked
Questions 72-77
The biological sonar, or echolocation, of bats and a number of other animals is one of nature a great ingenuities. As a means of perceiving the environment by bouncing high-frequency sounds off objects, it interests scientists in many disciplines. Echolocation serves the bat as a substitute for vision in the perception of near and moderately near objects. Bats can examine the characteristics of objects — size, shape, distance, direction, and motion — by sensing the way the objects modify the sonar signals reflected back to the bat. The sounds emitted by bats for echolocation differ according to the species and the situation, so that it is not usually possible to specify a single, particular signal as the characteristic orientation sound of a given species. Nevertheless, enough useful generalizations arise from the data now available to permit a unified, if preliminary, view of the operation of bar echolocation systems.
72. What is the main topic of the passage?
(A) How to identify bats
(B) Scientific collaboration in the study of bats
(C) Unusual species of bats
(D) How bats perceive their surroundings
73. Echolocation is a characteristic of
(A) a small number of bat species only
(B) all animals that fly
(C) certain animal species, including bats
(D) all wild animals
74. According to the passage, bats make use of echolocation because
(A) their vision is limited
(B) they are a highly developed species
(C) they usually search for food at night
(D) they are able to make many sounds
75. In line 3, what does “It” refer to?
(A) An object
(B) A bat
(C) Nature
(D) Echolocation
76. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
(A)Echolocation can determine the dimensions of an object.
(B) Different bat species make different echolocation sounds.
(C) Bats use echolocation to identify distant objects.
(D) Scientists in various fields are doing experiments on echolocation.
77. How far has research on echolocation progressed?
(A) The data have yet to be reviewed.
(B) The study is still in Its initial stages.
(C) Scientists in different disciplines have conflicting ideas.
(D) The sounds of most individual bat species have been identified.
Questions 78-81
Another medical technique that has recently become popular is hypnosis. In sleep, a loss of awareness occurs; in hypnosis there is a highly concentrated but relaxed awareness, which can be like daydreaming. When used as “hypno-anesthesia, ”hypnosis does not stop the pain process; rather ,the perception of the pain is altered. Only patients who are able to undergo deep hypnosis, about one quarter of the population, are appropriate for this technique in surgery. Hypnosis often provides very ill patients with relief they can no longer obtain from drugs or surgery.
78. According to the passage, hypnosis is unlike sleep because in hypnosis
(A) there are no dreamlike states
(B) awareness is not decreased
(C) the person does not remember anything afterwards
(D) there is a complete loss of consciousness
79. According to the passage, hypnosis reduces pain in surgical patients because the
(A) patient can concentrate on something else
(B) awareness of the pain is changed
(C) pain is removed from consciousness
(D) patient is too relaxed to feel pain
80. According to the passage, who can be successfully hypnotized for surgery?
(A) A minority of the population
(B) Almost everyone
(C) Those who no longer use drugs
(D) Those with special medical needs
81. According to the passage, hypnosis is valuable because it
(A) is more relaxing than sleep
(B) is better than druge in killing pain
(C) can help stop the spread of a serious illness
(D) is an important tool for easing pain
Questions 82-88
Clay is a material that has the fundamental characteristic of becoming plastic when moist so that It can be modeled or molded, like mud. Clay hardens when allowed to dry in the air, but can still be softened again with water. Heat changes the nature of clay, however, so that it becomes rigid and stony. This change is almost irreversible when the clay is baked above a temperature of 600° centigrade. Throughout history, people have exploited these qualities of clay to make bricks, popery, and porcelain.
82. According to the passage, people have utilized the
(A) supplies of clay along riverbanks
(B) pottery objects made by their ancestors
(C) imperishable nature of stone
(D) natural properties of clay
83. What is the main topic of this paragraph?
(A) The characteristics of pottery
(B) The basic nature of clay
(C) The useful applications of clay
(D) The properties of mud
84. According to the passage, which of the following is true about moist clay and mud?
(A) They are found in the same locations
(B) They dry very quickly.
(C) They have a similar consistency.
(D) They contain the same amount of water.
85. What is one property of moist clay?
(A) It can be shaped easily.
(B) It flows easily.
(C) It can absorb its weight in water.
(D) It contains many small stones.
86. Which of the following is true when clay is allowed to dry in the air?
(A) It becomes almost unbreakable.
(B) It becomes permanently hard.
(C) It hardens, but can be softened again.
(D) It hardens, but loses its molded shape.
87. Clay is made firmer by exposure to
(A) moisture
(B) heat
(C) mold
(D) plastics
88. The tone of the passage can best be described as
(A) philosophical
(B) critical
(C) humorous
(D) factual
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