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READING PAPER 2

Time permitted: 60 minutes Number of questions: 40 _

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Directions:In this section you will read FOUR different passages Each one is followed

by 10 questions about it For questions 1-40, you are to choose the best answer A, B, C

or D, to each question Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage You have 60 minutes to answer all the questions, including the time to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.

PASSAGE 1 – Questions 1-10

Buddhism comes from the word Buddha Buddha was a person who lived more than two thousand five hundred years ago in India His family was rich and he lived in a beautiful

house with many servants One day when he went out of his house, he looked at the

people and asked himself these questions, “Why are people so unhappy? How can people be happy?”

When he was twenty nine years old, he left his family and his beautiful home and went out into the world to find the answers to his questions First, he studied with teachers but they did not answer his questions After this, he lived by himself in the forest and he did not eat for many days He tried to get away from his body and the world but this did not give him the answers to his questions Then he sat down under a tree and he thought He sat and thought for forty-nine days and after this time he learned something from himself He became the Buddha His questions were answered

People are unhappy because they want things They are always looking for food, money and other things When people do not want things, then they will be happy When people

do not want things, they are free They stop thinking about themselves They stop

thinking about tomorrow and they are kind to others These are the teachings of Buddha Buddha’s teachings were not written down until two or three hundred years after his death Before this, people just remembered and told them to others

Buddha died when he was eighty years old During his long life, he travelled to many places and had many followers A follower of Buddha is called a Buddhist and some Buddhist men become monks Monks do not work and they do not have money They cut off all their hair and they wear only a long piece of yellow cloth They usually do not wear anything on their feet Early in the morning, monks walk along the street carrying a bowl They cannot ask for food but people stop them and give them food The life of a monk is not easy They spend their time spraying and thinking and trying to get away from the world They try to follow the teachings of Buddha

8AIn Thailand, any man can be a monk and many become monks for a short time, usually the three months of the wet season 8B They leave their families and go to live and study in a temple 8CAfter three months they go back to their own lives, although some remain monks and study the teachings of Buddha their whole lives.8D

Since the time of the Buddha, women have also given their lives to Buddhism These

women are called nuns Some of them pray and study Buddhism, some study the great

Buddhist writings and others help the poor

There is more than one kind of Buddhism While all Buddhists follow the Buddha’s teachings, Buddhism developed differently in each of the many countries it spread to Buddhism started in Asia but today it has spread to Western countries

1 What is the word “servant” best replaced by

A flatmate

B worker

C supporter

D footman

2 Buddha left his house because

A he did not like his parents

B he wanted to find out why people were not happy

C he wanted to travel

D he wanted to meet more unhappy people

3 Why did Buddha decide not to eat for many days?

A He wanted to persuade other people not to eat

B He did not want to spend money on food

C He wanted his soul to escape from his body

D He wanted to focus his thought on the world

4 In which paragraph does the author present the answer to the happiness?

A Paragraph 1

B Paragraph 2

C Paragraph 3

D Paragraph 4

5 Which sentence is not TRUE about Buddha?

A He died at the age of 80

B He found the answers to his questions while being under a tree

C He came from a rich family

D All his teachings were written down right after his death

6 Which sentence is not true about monks?

A They do not have to work to earn money

B They spend most of the time spraying

C When they are monks, they have to be monks for all their life

D The most common time to be a monk is in the rainy season

7 What is the main idea of paragraph 4?

A The reasons why monks do not need to work for money

B The reasons why monks have to spray for most of their time

C Characteristics of a monk’s life

D The reasons why life of a monk is not easy

8 Look at paragraph 5, where the following sentence can be added?

Their time spent being a monk is very important for Thai men.

A 8A

B 8B

C 8C

D 8D

9 What does “them” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A monks

B buddhists

C women

D nuns

10 What is the topic of the passage?

A The life story of Buddha

B The life story of monks

C The importance of Buddhism

D The origin of Buddhism

PASSAGE 2 – Questions 11-20

If you can read a clock, you can know the time of day But no one knows what time itself

is We cannot see it We cannot touch it We cannot hear it We know it only by the way

we mark its passing For all our success in measuring the smallest parts of time, time remains one of the great mysteries of the universe One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time There could be no movement, because time and movement cannot be separated A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes For time and change are linked We know that time has passed when something changes

In the real world, the world with time, changes never stop Some changes happen only once in a while, like an eclipse of the moon Others happen repeatedly, like the rising and setting of the sun Humans always have noted natural events that repeat themselves When people began to count such events, they began to measure time In early human history, the only changes that seemed to repeat themselves evenly were the movements

of objects in the sky The most easily seen result of these movements was the difference between light and darkness

The sun rises in the eastern sky, producing light It moves across the sky and sinks in the

west, causing darkness The appearance and disappearance of the sun was even and unfailing The periods of light and darkness it created were the first accepted periods of time We have named each period of light and darkness: one day

People saw the sun rise higher in the sky during the summer than in winter They counted the days that passed from the sun's highest position until it returned to that position They counted three hundred and sixty-five days We now know that is the time Earth takes to move once around the sun We call this period of time a year

Early humans also noted changes in the moon As it moved across the night sky, they must have wondered: Why did it look different every night? Why did it disappear? Where did it go? Even before they learned the answers to these questions, they developed a way to use the changing faces of the moon to tell time The moon was "full" when its face was bright and round and "new" when it was almost entirely dark The early humans counted the number of times the sun appeared between full moons They learned that this number always remained the same, about twenty-nine suns Twenty-nine suns equalled one moon We now know this period of time as one month

Early humans hunted animals and gathered wild plants They moved in groups or tribes from place to place in search of food Then, people learned to plant seeds and grow crops They learned to use animals to help them work, and for food They found they no longer needed to move from one place to another to survive As hunters, people did not need a way to measure time As farmers, however, they had to plant crops in time to harvest them before winter They had to know when the seasons would change So, they were forced to developed calendars No one knows when the first calendar was developed But it seems possible that it was based on moons, or lunar months

When people started farming, the wise men of the tribes became very important They studied the sky They gathered enough information so they could know when the seasons would change They announced when it was time to plant crops

11 Why is time such a difficult concept to understand?

A it's always changing

B it's always moving

C it's been misunderstood since pre-history

D it's not tangible (hữu hình)

12 How were early humans able to begin measuring time?

A by counting the objects in the sky

B by working both at night and during the day

C the movements of objects they saw every day

D by following the sun to the west

13 The word “it” in paragraph 3 refers to

A The sun

B The eastern sky

C light

D darkness

14 How did the concept of seasons become understood?

A by tracking the sun's movements through the months

B by noting the differences in temperature

C by measuring the length of the days

D with the introduction of early calendars

15 In which paragraph does the writer state the methods of numbering the days?

A Paragraph 2

B Paragraph 3

C Paragraph 4

D Paragraph 5

16 How would an early human have defined a 'month'?

A the number of days between a full moon and a new moon

B the number of days from one phase of the moon's cycle and then back to the same point again

C the number of days for the sun and moon to be seen together

D the number of days between eclipses of the moon

17 Why did the move towards farming require a better understanding of time?

A so that crops were grown at the right time of the year

B because looking after animals required it

C because they needed to have traditional celebrations at the same time every year

D because they wanted to know when animals would give birth

18 What is the meaning of the word 'forced' in the penultimate paragraph?

A the wise men were given no choice

B the crops wouldn't grow without the calendars

C time became a lot more important

D it was critical for survival

19 Why were wise men in the tribes were vital in farming?

A Because they could search for food

B Because they could foretell the weather changes

C Because they could announce the time to havest the crops

D Because they could state the beginning of the crops

20 What is the main idea of the reading text?

A How early humans caculated the time

B How early humans counted the days

C How important seasons were for early humans

D How difficult it was to caculate the time

PASSAGE 3 – Questions 21-30

Relatively recent archeological finds have brought about a consisderable change in

perception about the Neanderthals Neanderthals had previously been characterized more as primitive grunting beasts than as intelligent and compassionate human

ancestors However, evidence suggests that they may have exhibited more learnted skills and social compassion than had previously been thought

23AThe Neanderthals lived during a period that extended from at least 40,000 to

100,000 years ago in a variety of environments ranging from relatively warm and dry to

extremely cold areas.23BThe Neanderthals differed from modern man in that they had a

stronger and heavier skeleton and facial structure with a more projecting brow, a

broader nose and larger teeth 23CCasts made of Neanderthal brains by archeologists show little difference in size from those of modern man.23D

It has been known for some time that Neanderthals were rather skilled stone artisans They are best known for their production of stone tools, which included a large number

of scrapers and pointed inplements The techniques that the Neanderthals used to prepare these tools demonstrated a clear and important technological advance over their

predecessors Edges of their stone tools have been studied under microscopes for

evidence of how the tools may have been used to prepare food, both meat and vegetable; still others, which ressemble many of today’s suede and leather tools, were used to work with animal skins

A clearer picture of Neaderthals has come about recently as archeologists have

determined that, in addition to the known ability to develop and employ tools in a rather skilled way, Neanderthals also exhibited evidence of beliefs and social rituals, aspects

of life that were newly introduced by Neanderthals and provide evidence of humanlide

thoughts and feelings Neanderthals cemeteries have been discovered in places like La

Ferrassie in France and Shanidar in Irap; Neanderthal remains in these cemeteries have provided proof of social organization and ritual in the Neanderthals One skeleton of a Neanderthal was found with a crushed skull; the blow on the top of the head, perhaps from a falling boulder, had quite obviously been the cause of death What was interesting was that study of the skeleton showed that while he had been alive this man had been seriously handicaped with a defect that had blind in one eye The fact that he had survived well into old age was a strong indication that others had been helping to

care for him and to provide him with food rather than allowing him to die because he

was no longer fit Other skeletal remains of Neanderthals show clear examples of burial rituals Another skeleton of a grown male was found surrounded by pollen from eight different flowers, including ancestors of today’s hyacinth, bachelor’s button, and hollyhock; experts are convinced that the flowers could not have been growing

in the cave where they were found and that they had been arranged around the body in a burial ritual In a different Neanderthal cemetery, a young child was fould buried with a deposit of ibex horns laid out with the body These discoveries about

Neanderthals help to create a picture of Neanderthals as beings with the feelings and emotions that go along with developed social customs and rituals

21 The phrase “brought about” in paragraph 1 is closest in meanig to

A Carried

B Raised

C Led

D Caused

22 The word “those” in paragraph 2 refers to

A Teeth

B Casts

C Brains

D Archeologists

23 Look at the four spaces that indicate where the following sentence can be added

to paragraph 2.

Neanderthals have been found in areas as diverse as desertlike regions of the Middle East and Glacial areas of northern Europe.

24 The word “predecessors” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to

A Ancestors

B Precedents

C Survivors

D Sussessors

25 It is NOT stated in the passage that Neanderthal tools were used to

A Chop wood

B Make woven clothing

C Prepare things to eat

D Prepare animal skins for use

26 The word “picture” in paragraph 4 could best replaced by

A Fantasy

B Photograph

C Conception

D Sight

27 The author refers to “cemeteries” in paragraph 4 in order to

A Indicate that Neanderthals buried their dead as their predecessors had

B Make a point about the use of Neanderthal tools in the construction of cemeteries

C Demonstrate that Neanderthals were unsuccesful in their attempts to initiate social rituals

D Provide an example of a Neanderthal social ritual

28 Which of the following is stated in the passage about Neanderthal burial sites?

A They have all been found in only one place

B They all seem to demonstrate the existence of Neanderthal social structure

C They have all held the remains of old people

D They have all been surrounded by flowers

29 The word “fit” in paragraph 4 could be best replaced by

A Healthy

B Appropriate

C Necessary

D Old

30 Which of the following best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence? Incorrect answer choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A The large number of flowers found in particular cave proves that the skeleton was a Neanderthal