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Questions 1-10. Listen and fill in the blanks. (4)
Good morning, everybody and welcome to Mount Rushmore! To start your visit I’m just going to give you a brief
account of the 1…………….. of the memorial before letting you roam about on your own. I won’t keep you long.
OK?
Mount Rushmore is South Dakota’s top tourist 2……………… and features the heads of four United States
Presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Each head is 18
metres tall, which is taller than the heights of 3………….. people combined! The sculptor initially wanted to depict
the presidents from head to waist, but due to a lack of 4………….. the construction had to stop before this vision
could be realised. In total it cost the government $1 million dollars to sculpt the heads at Mount Rushmore.
Before the construction of the presidents’ heads, the mountain was just bare rock and forest attracting only a few
hikers a year. The new carving at Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of presidential 5………………….
and has appeared in works of fiction and other popular works. The sculpture has also worked perfectly as a way to
develop tourism, which was its intended purpose, and now attracts over 6……………… people a year.
The original plan was to carve the Presidents’ faces into the granite pillars known as ‘The Needles’, however the
7…………………….. soon realised that these rocks were too eroded and delicate to support such a large sculpture.
Instead he chose to locate the carving at Mount Rushmore due to its grand appearance and brightly lit rock faces
that experience maximum exposure to sunlight throughout the day as a result of the south-east orientation. Upon
seeing Mount Rushmore, the sculptor declared ‘America will march along that 8………………….’
The name of Mount Rushmore also has an interesting history. The location was originally known as the Six
Grandfathers, however during an expedition in 1885 the mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a
prominent New York lawyer who joked that his annual treks to the mountain had earned him the right to have it
named after him. 9……………….. after the mountain was renamed, Charles E. Rushmore donated $5,000 towards
the sculpting of the president’s heads -the largest single contribution. In 10………………, the construction work
started and seven years later was complete with no fatalities.
Questions 11-15. Read the following passage and choose the best answer. (1.5)
Throughout Asia, marriage behaviour and family life are changing. Young people are getting married later than
previous generations. Couples have fewer children, and more married women are working outside the home. Such
trends were first observed in Japan and more recently in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. Similar patterns are
starting to emerge other Asian countries. However, other aspects of family life in Asia are still quite different from
the way family institutions have developed in the West. Fewer Asian couples live together outside marriage, and
childbearing outside marriage is extremely rare. Marriage is generally viewed as a permanent arrangement, and
divorce rates, although rising, are still quite low in most Asian societies.
The traditional family structures of Southeast Asia are more varied. Among the large populations of Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, young couples typically establish their own independent
households, or a man may move in with his wife's parents, at least for a while. At marriage, the husband's family
often makes a gift to the family of the wife. Although most young couples establish a home of their own, the youngest
daughter and her husband may stay with her parents to look after them in their old age and eventually inherit their
property.
11. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Asian new trends in Marriage and Family Life
B. Traditional Asian Marriage and Family Life
C. Changes in Marriage and Family Life
D. Comparison between Asian and Western Family Life
12. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT mentioned as the country that observed the trends of
family life's changes?
A. Australia
B. Japan
C. Taiwan
D. Singapore
13. The word "varied" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to …………….
A. limited
B. diverse
C. complex
D. stable
14. Which of the following is TRUE about the traditional family of Southeast Asia?
A. Marriage is often regarded as a permanent arrangement.
B. Young couples don't want to get married.
C. Young couples live with parents to take care of them.
D. Childbearing outside marriage is extremely high.
15. The word "them" in paragraph 2 refers to……………………….
A. parents
B. couples
C. households
D. structures
Questions 16-29. Fill in the blanks. (4.5)
16. She likes learning Biology, …………………………..?
17. We (walk) ………………………… along the coast after dinner when a strange man approached us.
18. Teenagers are quick to react ………………………… a number of emotions.
19. Our boat (damage) …………………………………………………… by storm last week
20. She was disappointed to see her essay (return) ………………………… with a mass of corrections in red ink.
21. “Don’t start the next page …………………………… you have finished the last test question.”, my teacher said.
22. In the past, children couldn’t choose their own partners even if their parents objected …………. their choice.
23. Plastic bags (use) ………………….. by everybody. From a vegetable vendor to a designer store, everyone
(seem/use) …………………………………….. them.
24. Moc Chau's plum gardens ……………………. early summer begin to ripen evenly and are ready for the plum
picking festival.
25. The music video "There's nothing at all" (block) ………………………………….. in Vietnam last year.
26. The idea for the book came to the writer when she (live) ………………… in a small southern German village.
27. The more people want to invest in a piece of real estate, (high) ……………………………… its price gets
every single day.
28. Today we know that the Earth (rotate) ………………… around the Sun, but people did not always believe this.
29. (Want) ……………………………………………………….. to wake him up, I turned off the TV and went to bed.
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