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SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS (50 minutes)

Directions: In this section, you will read several passage. Each passage is followed by several questions based on its content. You  are to choose ONE best  answer, A., B., C., or  D., to each question.  Answer  all  the  questions  following  each  passage  on  the  basis  of  what  is  stated  or implied in that passage and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

Questions 1～5.
     The bath was invented before the bath plug. The bath plug could not have been invented before the bath,  except  as  a  small  object  with  which  to play  ice  hockey. The  order  in  which inventions  are  made  is  very  important,  much   more  important  than  has  ever   been  realised, because  we  tend  automatically  to  think  that  later inventions  are  better  than  earlier ones.  A  moment's thought  will  show this is not  so. If, for  example, a  solution to today's urban traffic problems was proposed in the shape of a small man-powered two-wheeled vehicle which would make the motor car look like a cumbersome overpowered device, a space rocket trying to tackle suburban problems, we would greet it as a great technological break through.“Bicycle makes car obsolete!”we would cry. Unfortunately, the bike came first, so we shall unconsciously see it as a cruder version of the car.

      Other things which may have been invented too early are the airship, the radio, the railway train, the piano-roll player and the cuff-link.

      Consider  also the zip. Zips represent a technological advance on buttons, being faster  and more  complete.  They  are  also  more  liable to  come  adrift, break, jam,  malfunction,  stick  and catch. Buttons can only go wrong if the thread is faulty. Even then, buttons can be mended by the user. Zips rarely can.

1. The expression“ice hockey”(sentence 2) means_________.
   A. a freezing compartment                                   B. a game played on an ice rink 
   C. a sweet flavoured frozen food                         D. a building in which ice is made.
2. If the bicycle were to be invented now the car would appear__________.
   A. unsuitable for its purpose                              B. in advance of its time
   C. unnecessarily expensive                                D. too fast for safety
3. The airship and the radio are examples of thins which__________.
   A. were not fully appreciated at the time of their invention
   B. are more suitable for use now than when they were invented
   C. have been neglected in favour of more recent inventions
   D. are less suited to their purpose than earlier inventions
4. According to the writer, buttons are preferable to zips because they__________.
   A. are more convenient                                   B. are more reliable
   C. cost less to replace                                     D. are safer to use
5. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
   A. A Cumbersome Over-Powered Device
   B. A Great Technological Breakthrough
   C. Do Zips Represent A Technological Advance?
   D. Does Technological Progress Work Backwards?

Questions 6～10
      It  took policeman  John Pooley  only  an  hour  or  two to  solve the Case of the Thorpeness Burglary.  It  must  be  said,  however,  that  the  crime  was  not  difficult.  The  description,  though slight, narrowed the number of persons likely to commit such a crime...to one. Pooley, of course, knows everyone in the three villages in his care, and their  children. But after he had made the arrest —something he has to do more rarely than once a month—he felt troubled because he not only knew the man, but also knew that he had family problems.

      Like  most  village  police  men,  John  Pooley  is  in  charge  of  a  very  large  area  by  police standards, which  includes the three  villages  of Middleton, Dunwich  and Westleton, where he lives. With a total population of 1, 219, he has more than twice as many people to look after as the  average  policeman  has.  Moreover,  he  is  attached  to  the  Halesworth subdivision   and  is frequently given duties outside his home area. After  15 years as a policeman, he accepts these duties without question, but his villages are clearly where his heart and interest really lie. When he was first  sent  to Westleton, he lived in the police house whichwas both his home and the police station; when the system was changed, he bought the house where he now lives with his wife, Ann, and his two daughters.

      He could hardly be better  qualified for the job  of village policeman. Before he joined the police, he was an agricultural worker for five years and a male nurse in a mental hospital for six years. He  says:“If you haven't  had another job  before you join the police, you tend to think nothing but police.”

      Crime  in  the  country,  of  course,  is  somewhat  different  from  city  crime.  Who  was  ever attacked while walking along the village street in Middleton? The things which John Pooley has to  watch  for  are  people  stealing  tools  and  equipment  from  farm  vehicles,  or  wood  from  the surrounding forests. There are natural dangers too: he is so worried about the fire risk in forests that he has turned his bedroom window into a look-post.

6. Why was John Pooley able to solve the Case of the Thorpeness Burglary so easily?
   A. He had been given a full description of the criminal.
   B. He knew everything that happened in the area.
   C. There were few crime cases in his area.
   D. There was only one possible suspect.
7.  From the passage it appears that nowadays a village policeman, like John Pooley, has to _______.
   A. live in a village police house
   B. put out forest fires
   C. go through a long period of training
   D. look after more people than policemen elsewhere
8. According to the passage, we learn that he________.
   A. is unpopular with the people in the villages
   B. objects when he is given work outside his own area
   C. prefers working in the villages of Middleton, Dunwich and Westleton
   D. feels unhappy when he arrests anybody.
9. John Pooley thinks he is well qualified for hisjob because_________.
   A. he had other jobs before he became a policeman
   B. has has been a policeman for fifteen years
   C. he has lived in Westleton all his life
   D. he is a countryman at heart
10. Crime in this area is different from crime in a big city because_________.
   A. it is hardly ever violent                   
   B. people here have more family problems
   C. the victim is easily attacked
   D. it is connected with natural disasters