1、4. Where is the piece of text taken from?A. an advertisement B. an instruction bookletC. a story D. a newspaperQuestions 5 (Suggested completion time:Few corners of the world remain untainted by intrepid tourists, and their impact is often devastating. Too frequently they trample heedlessly on fragi
2、le environments, displacing wildlife and local populations in their insatiable quest for unexplored locations. 5. What is the best title for this text?A. The future of tourismB. The role of tourismC. The price of tourismD. The benefits of tourismQuestions 6 (Suggested completion time:Buying and sell
3、ing anything is your forte now. If you visit a jumble or car-boot sale or the like, a romantic encounter is more than probable! News linked to the family is brilliant!6. What type of text is this?A. A personal advertisement.B. A personal horoscope.C. A friends letter of advice.D. A written warning.Q
4、uestions 7 (Suggested completion time: With our travel agency, the holiday you book is the holiday you get. If you arrive and find weve failed to live up to our promises, let us know what the problem is within one day of your arrival. Well spend 24 hours doing everything possible to sort the problem
5、 out. In the unlikely event that we cant resolve your problem and make you happy within 24 hours, well fly you home and give your money back.7. The text could best be described as _.A. a commitmentB. an appealC. a warningD. a vowQuestions 8 (Suggested completion time: The new digital cameras are gre
6、at fun and very easy to use. They let you review your pictures the moment you take them, so you can re-shoot right away if youre not satisfied. But remember, a digital camera is just a computer XXXX. Its not a replacement for your ordinary camera.8. What is the meaning of the missing word (XXXX) in
7、the text?A. “something that is poor quality”B. “an item that is not essential, something extra”C. “something expensive but good value for money”D. “a fashion which always remains popular”Questions 9 (Suggested completion time:She had gone alone, but the children were to go to the station to meet her
8、. And loving the station as they did, it was only natural that they should be there a good hour before there was any chance of Mothers train arriving, even if the train were punctual, which was most unlikely.9. What can you say about their mothers train?A. It would probably be early.B. It would prob
9、ably be on time.C. It would probably be late.D. It had been cancelled.Question 10 (Suggested completion time: The bar chart shows the number and proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions, from 19901992 to 20142016. Answer the question according to the information in the chart.Sou
10、rce: The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report201510. Choose the INCORRECT description about the chart.A.Current estimates suggest that nearly one in nine individuals do not have enough to eat between 2014 and 2016.B.Projections indicate that the 2015 MDG target is nearly reached, with 12.9 per
11、cent of undernourished population.C.The situation noticeably improved during the years 1995-1999, but went down in the first five years of the new millennium.D.The proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions has fallen by almost half since 1990.Part II Read and ReasonIn Part II, yo
12、u will read short texts on different subjects. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions based on logical inference and reasoning. (Time allowed: 38 minutes) Question 11-12 (Suggested completion time: 10 minutes) Read the definitions of two types of logical fallacy. Answer the questio
13、ns according to the definitions.11. Which of the following provides a typical example of poisoning the well?A. Thats my stance on funding the education system, and anyone who disagrees with me hates children.B. You are so weird. That meanswe are pretty much surethat your whole family is weird, too.C
14、. God exists because the Bible says so. The Bible is inspired. Therefore, we know that God exists.D. I dont care what you say. We dont need any more bookshelves. As long as the carpet is clean, we are fine.12. Which of the following provides a typical example of a false dilemma?A. Smoking is harmful
15、 to health, so you are supposed to quit smoking. B. If the government doesnt reduce public spending, our economy will collapse.C. You may as well avoid overeating, or else you might be obese in no time. D. You are the worst of the classmates; therefore, what you say is incredible.Questions 13 (Sugge
16、sted completion time: 4 minutes) Read the passage about syllogism. Decide whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of syllogism.Syllogism is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are ass
17、erted or assumed to be true. It is perhaps todays most commonly accepted form of logical reasoning in aptitude tests. The most commonly used type of syllogisms is elucidated in a frequently used example:Premise 1: All men are mortal.Premise 2: Socrates is a man.Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.Now pra
18、ctice syllogisms for IQ tests. Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoning and doesnt necessarily represent the “truth” always. 13. Valid ( ); Invalid ( ) All human action is conditioned by circumstances. All human action involves morality. All that involves morality is conditioned
19、 by circumstances. Questions 14 (Suggested completion time: Read the passage about contraposition. Decide whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of contraposition.Inlogic,contrapositionis a law that says that aconditional statementislogically equivalentto itscontrapositi
20、ve. The contrapositive of the statement has its antecedent and consequentinvertedandflipped. The most commonly used type of contraposition is elucidated in the following example: If it is raining, then there are clouds in the sky. There are no clouds in the sky. It is not raining.Now practice contra
21、position for IQ tests. Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoning and doesnt necessarily represent the “truth” always.14. Valid ( ); Invalid ( ) If he is not an American, he is not from Texas. He is from Texas. He is an American. Questions 15-17 (Suggested completion time: 6 minut
22、es) Read the text about a science discovery. Answer the questions according to the text. Manipulating MemoryMemory is notoriously malleable. Our recollections fade and take on new meanings; sometimes we remember things that never even happened. But 15 .Recently, however, scientists have started to g
23、rasp and tinker with memorys physical basis. Last year, in work evocative of films such asEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindand Inception, researchers discovered ways to manipulate specific memories in mice using optogenetics, a powerful technique that can trigger nerve cells in animals brains by
24、 zapping them with beams of laser light. In a series of experiments, they showed that they could delete existing memories and “incept” false ones.This year, researchers went even further: switching the emotional content of a memory in mice from bad to good and vice versa. Under the laser, for exampl
25、e, male mice that had once associated a certain room with being shocked were tricked into acting as though they had once met friendly female mice there instead.Whether the mice in these experiments actually experienced vivid false memories or just a fuzzy sense of pleasure or fear is unclear. Nor is
26、 it clear whether the findings apply to the tricks of memory so familiar to people. Long-sought therapeutic advances, such as treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, could remain far off. One thing is certain, however: Once considered beyond scientific dissection, memory is finally starting t
27、o yield its secrets.15. Which of the following best fits the numbered space in the passage? A.what is really happening in our brain as memories are remodeled remains mysteriousB.scientists are curious about why people are oblivious to what have happened to them C.advanced technology has helped scientists discover the workings of our brainD.some scientists argue that what we observe about human memory is not what it really is 16. The word “incept” is closest in meaning to _.A. operate B. startC. detectD. occupy17. Which of the foll
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