In this part of test you will hear a short paragraph and question spoken in English just one time. Listen to the paragraph and choose the best answer to the question. The answer choices will be written out for you. You will go to the next question about 10 seconds after you hear the dialogue and question.
Keep your tree outdoors until the day before Christmas. Never use lighted candles. There are other suggestions, also, for avoiding the Christmas tree fire. Turn off the lights before you leave the horse and get rid of the tree by New Year's Day.
Question: What is the speaker talking about?
a. Christmas tree decoration
b. Avoiding the Christmas tree fire
c. Turning on the tree lights
d. How to use the Christmas tree
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early one morning, an old woman was walking up a mountain road from her village to the town, with a basket of tomatoes on her back. She was going to sell them at a town store. There were few cars or people at the early hour. but the old woman was walking very carefully, because the road was narrow and steep. She did not want to have an accident and lose her tomatoes.
Question: Where was an old woman going?
a. She was going home.
b. She was going to a town store.
c. She was going to a mountain road.
d. She was going to a village.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One day Sanghee and her family went to the flower park by bus. It was a good day for walking. A lot of beautiful flowers were seen everywhere. When they were walking in the park, they met Miss. Jill, Sanghee's English teacher. Sanghee and her family had lunch with Miss Jill under a big tree. Sanghee thought that having lunch in the fresh air was very nice.
Question What did Sanghee think of when she had lunch in the park?
a. She thought it was very nice to have lunch in the fresh air
b. She thought it was too cold in the flower park to walk.
c. She thought it was nice to meet her teacher in the flower park.
d. She thought it was very nice to see a lot of flowers.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My mother hadn't seen my dad in four years of war. In my mind, he was a tall, darkly handsome man whom I wanted very much to love me. I couldn't wait, thinking about all the things, I had to tell him of school and grades.
At last, a car pulled up, and a large man with a beard jumped out. Before he could reach the door, my mother and I ran out screaming. She threw her arms around his neck, and he took me in his arms, lifting me right off the ground.
Question: Which is the best description of the speaker's feeling?
a. horrified
b. lonely
c. joyful
d. worried
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The bedroom smelled of the wood it was made of. Early in the morning the pleasant smell of the wet forest entered through the screen. The walls in the camp were thin, and when I woke up, I dressed softly so as not to wake the others. I came out quietly into the sweet outdoors and started out in the boat along the shore. The lake was cool and motionless in the long shadows of the tall trees.Nothing disturbed the stillness of the lake.
Question: What atmosphere does the paragraph make you feel?
a. sad
b. peaceful
c. humorous
d. frightening
key:1.b 2.b 3.a 4.c 5.b
