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Text 1Over this decade, employment in jobs

requiring education beyond a high schooldiploma will grow more rapidly than em-ployment in jobs that do not; of the 30 fast-est growing occupations, more than half re-quire post-secondary education. With theaverage earnings of college graduates at alevel that is twice as high as that of workers

with only a high school diploma, higher edu-cation is now the clearest (31) ... into themiddle class.

In higher education, the U.S. has been

outpaced internationally. While the UnitedStates ranks ninth in the world in the pro-portion of young adults enrolled in college,

we have fallen to 16th in the world in ourshare of certificates and degrees awarded toadults ages 25-34 lagging behind Korea,Canada. Japan and other nations. Whilemore than half of college students graduate

within six years, the (32) ... for low-incomestudents is around 25 percent.

Acknowledging these factors early in his

administration, President Obama challengedevery American to commit to at least oneyear of higher education or post-secondarytraining. (33) ... that America would onceagain have the highest proportion of collegegraduates in the world by 2020.

31. The opinion that best completes (31) is ...

(A) Effort(B) Position(C) Beginning(D) Advantage(E) Pathway


(A) Learning achievement(B) Academic capacity(C) Completion rate(D) Logical understanding(E) Intellectual development


(A) Americans will deserve higher educationfor their future

(B) Middle class Americans are invited toprovide financial aids

(C) American students are suggested to takeantrepreneurial skill

(D) The President has set up a new educa-tional goal for the country

(E) The government recommends Ameri-cans for college education

Text 2

Did you ride your bike to school whenyou were a kid, A generation ago most kidsrode, walked or caught the bus to school;

very few of us were dropped off by our par-ents at the school gate. These days most ofus have experienced the daily traffic jamsaround schools at drop-off and pick-uptimes, as parents drive their children to theschool gate. While there is no national dataon the number of children who walk or rideto school, a recent Victorian survey foundnearly half of all children are driven toschool every day.

Parents choose to drop their kids atschool for a number of reasonsmostly todo with safety and convenience. But expertssay chauffeuring your kids to school everyday could mean they arc missing out onmuch-needed exercise and other life skills.

Research suggests at least a third of Aus-tralian children aged 9-16 years are not get-ting the amount of daily physical activity rec-ommended in national guidelines. But this isnot because children's participation in leisureor sporting activities has dropped off, saysDr Jan Garrard. Participation in these activi-ties has not altered much over the years,Garrard says but what has changed is thelevel of incidental activity children do."When you look at countries where childrenare just active as part of everyday life, theydo not have to be sporty. All they have to dois to get around the way the Community getsaround by walking and cycling, and they getenough physical activity," she says.
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34. The author develop some ideas in paragraph2 by ...

(A) Describing parents chauffeuring fol-lowed by its effect

(B) Explaining reason for chauffeuring and

their advantages(C) Discussing the function of chauffeuring

and the impact(D) Arguing for chauffeuring practice for

childrens safety(E) Exposing how parent chauffer and its

drawbacks

35. By writing the sentence chauffeuringyour kids to school everyday could meanthey are missing out on much-needed exer-

cise and other life skills. (paragraph 2, line 2-3), the author implies that .

(A) Taking kids to school makes them de-prived individuals when they grow up

(B) Kids given a lift to school likely lose vi-tal social and physical advantages

(C) Schooling means not only learning inclasses but also socializing with others

(D) Parents spoil their kids future social andphysical life by giving them a lift

(E) When a child needs physical and socialtraining, parent should facilitate them

36. Dr. Garrards statement where childrenare just active as part of everyday life, theydo not have to be sporty (paragraph3line 5) may be best restated that ...

(A) Children who are active do not automat-ically mean they will be good at sport

(B) Being muscular should not be the aim ofchildren who are naturally active

(C) Childrens physical fitness is not closelyrelates with their daily activities(D) Activeness in children does not mean to

make these children physically fit(E) When naturally active, children need no

more scheduled sport activities

37. The pat following the passage above mostlikely contains information on

(A) Advice to parents for their children tohave enough physical activities

(B) The decreasing trend of children to do

physical activities at their will(C) Parental motives behind chauffeuring

their children to school(D) Reasons for children not to do fun and

incidental activities(E) Effects of having children not to be giv-

en a lift to school.

Text 3

Agroecologists do not always agreeabout what agroecology is or should be in

the long-term. Different definitions of theterm agroecology can be distinguished large-ly by the specificity with which one definesthe term "ecology," as well as the term's po-tential political connotations. Definitions ofagroecology, therefore, may be first groupedac-cording to the specific contexts within

which they situate agriculture. Agroecologyis defined as "the study of the relation ofagricultural crops and environment." Thisdefinition refers to the "- ecology" part of

"agroecology" narrowly as the natural envi-ronment. Following this definition, an agroe-cologist would study agriculture's variousrelationships with soil health, water quality,air quality, meso- and micro-fauna, surround-ing flora, environmental toxins, and otherenvimornental contexts.

A more common definition of the wordcan be taken from Dalgaard et al., who referto agroecology as the study of the interac-tions between plants, animals, humans and

the environment within agricultural systems.Consequently, agroecology is inherently mul-tidisciplinary, including factors from agrono-my, ecology, sociology, economics and relat-ed disciplines, in this case, the '-ecology"portion of "agroecology is defined broadlyto include social, cultural, and economiccontexts as well.

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38. The points provided in paragraph 3 of thepassage explain that

(A) Different places tend to define agroecolyscientifically

(B) Interpreting agroecology needs to in-

clude political sides(C) Agroecology is associated geographically

and politically(D) Peoples aspiration of agoecology differs

significantly(E) No body can define agroecology with

scientific precision

39. Ideas is paragraph 2 and 3 define agroecolo-gy as shown in the consecutive relation as

(A) Political and interactive approaches(B) General and cross authoritative sides(C) Multidisciplinary and restricted angles(D) Ecology and socio economic viewpoints(E) Agricultural and socio cultural perspec-

tives

40. Based on the passage above, if someone is agenuine agroecologist, he/she will likely

(A) Examine social, cultural, and economicaspects

(B) Do research on environmental and po-litical loads(C) Include scientific methodology in his/

her approach(D) Put aside social aspect in his/her ecolog-

ical studies(E) Make use of multidisciplinary

41. regarding the definition of agroecology, theauthor assumes that it

(A) Tends to denote scientific loads

(B) May be understood contextually(C) Has universal underlying values(D) Can be interpretend differently(E) Should be exclusively situated

Text 4People still collect books as valuable an-

tiques or for a hobby, but you get virtually allthe information you need from the viewscreen of your home computer system. The

computer is linked to a library not a li-brary of books but an electronic library

where information on every subject is storedin computer memory banks.

Having this service at your fingertips islike having a huge brand-new encyclopediain your homes at all times. The computer cantell you anything you want to know, and theinformation is always the very latest availa-ble. There need be only one central library to

which computers in homes, offices, schools

and colleges are connected. At the libraryexperts are constantly busy, feeding in the

very latest information as they receive it. Intheory one huge electronic library couldserve the whole world!

(blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

E-books have not spelled the demise ofthe local library in New York. In fact, ac-cording to a new report from the Center foran Urban Future, 40.5 million people visited

the city's public libraries, more than all ofthe city's professional sports teams and ma-jor cultural institutions combined.

The report "Branches of Opportunity"looks at the changing role of the city's librar-ies in the digital age. It finds that while pub-lic libraries are serving more New Yorkersthan ever, they are "undervalued by policy-makers and face grosving threats. "New

York City's library system is a unique hybrid.Three organizationsthe New York Public

Library, along with the Brooklyn and Queenslibraries operate 206 local branchesthroughout the five boroughs.

(www.wnyc.org)

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42. Which ides in passage 5 is different fromthat in passage 4?

(A) E-libraries require sophisticated IT ex-pertise

(B) Access to information in e-libraries is

unlimited(C) Collections of e-libraries are regularly

updated(D) E-libraries function as a huge infor-

mation bank(E) In reality most people are still e-library

illiterate

43. Which of the following statements is trueaccording to both passages?

(A) People would rather go to the librarythan watch sporting events

(B) People still dream of using libraries inspite of time and space

(C) Access to information in an e-libraryrequires a good IT system

(D) Libraries provide quick access to free e-books and newspapers

(E) The role of library changes fast due toadvanced IT Technology

44. Based on the information in both passages,it can be hypothesized that

(A) Conventional libraries will continue de-spite of the threats

(B) Policies should be made to conservecommon libraries

(C) Threats to book publishers becomemore serious

(D) Electronic libraries will gain mush popu-larity

(E) Unpopularity of ordinary libraries is ob-

vious

45. The topic discussed in both passages is

(A) The electronic library establishment inthe digital era

(B) The importance of libraries in the com-puter era

(C) The preference to choosing public li-braries

(D) The advanced technology in managinglibraries

(E) The number of public library visitors inNew York

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