34. Young people may risk ________ deaf if they are exposed to very loud music every day. A. to go

B. to have gone B. ask for B. until B. Looking B. where B. are

C. going

D. having gone

D. having asked for D. where D. Look D. what

35. Sophia got an e-mail ________ her credit card account number. A. asking for A. before A. To look A. that A. is

wearing. A. that Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

B. what

C. how

D. which

C. asked for C. unless

36. I cannot hear the professor clearly as there is too much noise ________ I am sitting.

37. ________ at the photos, illustrations, title and headings and you can guess what the reading is about.

C. Having looked C. who

38. An ecosystem consists of the living and nonliving things in an area ________ interact with one another. 39. Among the crises that face humans ________ the lack of natural resources.

C. is there

D. are there

40. Some people care much about their appearance and always ask if they look fine in ________ they are

As infants, we can recognize our mothers within hours of birth. In fact, we can recognize the of our mother s face well

before we can recognize her body shape. It s how the brain can carry out such a function at such a young age, especially since we don t learn to walk and talk until we are over a year old. By the time we are adults, we have the ability to distinguish around 100,000 faces. How can we remember so many faces when many of us find it difficult to such a simple thing as a phone number? The exact process is not yet fully understood, but research around the world has begun to define the specific areas of the brain and processes for facial recognition.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe that they have succeeded in a specific area of the brain called the fusiform face area (FFA), which is used only for facial recognition. This means that recognition of familiar objects such as our clothes or cars, is from in the brain. Researchers also have found that the brain needs to see the whole face for recognition to take place. It had been thought that we only needed to see certain facial features. Meanwhile, research at University College London has found that facial recognition is not a single process, but involves three steps. The first step appears to be an analysis of the physical features of a person s face, which is similar to how we scan the bar codes of our groceries. In the next step, the brain decides whether the face we are looking at is already known or unknown to us. And finally, the brain furnishes the information we have collected about the person whose face we are looking at. This complex is done in a split second so that we can behave quickly when reacting to certain situations.

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III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Over the past few decades, more and more countries have opened up the markets, increasingly transforming the world economy into one free-flowing global market. The question is：Is economic globalization for all?

According to the World Bank, one of its chief supporters, economic globalization has helped reduce in a large number of developing countries. It quotes one study that shows increased wealth to improved education and longer life in twenty-four developing countries as a result of integration (融合) of local economies into the world economy. Home to some three billion people, these twenty-four countries have seen incomes at an average rate of five percent—compared to two percent in developed countries.

Those who

globalization claim that economies in developing countries will benefit from new opportunities for small