I.                Fill in the blank with a suitable word

Man probably could not live without the help of animals. The role of animals in the balance of nature ranks as their (1)…………………… important service to man.

Animals also serve man by (2) …………………...him with many foods and other useful products. Without animals, man would (3) …………………... no meat, milk, eggs, or honey, or wool, fur, or silk.

For thousands of years, man has caused changes in the animal kingdom. He has tamed many kinds of animals and used (4) …………………... for food and clothing. He has killed or driven away animals that once attacked or interfered with his use of land. Today, he tries to protect many kinds of animals that are (5)…………………… danger of dying.

Like man, most plants depend (6) …………………...animals for many of their basic needs. Without animals, many (7). …………………...could not easily reproduce. For example, many plants with flowers depend on bees and other insects to carry their pollen (8)…………………… plant to plant. Many oak trees from acorns that squirrels bury and then forget, or from .acorns that deer step on and push down into the soil. Birds often (9)…………………… from one place to another with seeds slinging to (10) …………………...feet.

There are 10 blanks in the passage. Use the words (phrases) given in the box to fill in the blanks. Use only one word (phrase) in each blank. There are five extra words (phrases) which you do not need to use. (2 ms)

place, easily, alike, bury, carry, contain, imitated, interfered, most, prevent, protect, role, serve, surviving, tamed

Man probably could not live without the help of animals. The (1)______ of animals in the balance of nature ranks as their most important service to man.

Animals also (2)______ man by supplying him with many foods and other useful products. Without animals, man would have no meat, milk, eggs, or honey; or wool, fur, or silk.

For thousands of years, man has caused changes in the animal kingdom. He has (3)______ many kinds of animals and used them for food and clothing. He has killed or driven away animals that once attacked him or (4)______ with his use of land. Today, he tried to (5)______ many kinds of animals that are in danger of dying out.

Like man, (6)______ plants depend on animals for many of their basic needs. Without animals, many plants could not (7)______ reproduce. For example, many plants with flowers depend on bees and other insects to (8)______ their pollen from plant to plant. Many oak trees grow from acorns that squirrels (9)______ and then forget, or from acorns that deer step on and push deep into the soil. Birds often fly from one (10)______ to another with seeds clinging to their feet. The seeds may sprout a great distance from the parent plants.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade, and they help to prevent drought and floods.

Unfortunately, in many parts of the world man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had.

Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.

Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villager to see this. The villager wants wood to cook his food with, and he can earn money by making charcoal or selling wood to the townsman. He is usually too lazy or too careless to plant and look after trees. So unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.

This does not only mean that there will be fewer trees. The results are even more serious. For where there are trees their roots break the soil up, allowing the rain to sink in and also bind the soil, thus preventing it being washed away easily, but where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor. The rain falls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, causing floods and carrying away with it the rich topsoil, in which crops grow so well. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but a worthless desert.

Trees are useful to man mainly in three ways, the most important of which is that they can _______.

A. keep him from the hot sunshine

B. make him draw quick profit from them

C. enable him to build warships

D. protect him from drought and floods

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

    In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

What is the content of The Old Man and the Sea?

A. the story of Santiago

B. the story of Alice

C. the story of Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

    In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

 What genre does The Old Man and the Sea belong to?

A. fiction

B. fairy tale

C. humour

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

    In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

 When was The Old Man and the Sea published?

A. 1951

B. 1952

C. 1953

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

    In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

Where did Ernest Hemingway write “The Old Man and the Sea”?

A. Florida

B. Santiago

C. Bahamas

Read the passage, and then answer the questions.

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

Question. What is the content of The Old Man and the Sea?

A. the story of Santiago

B. the story of Alice

C. the story of Hemingway

Read the passage, and then answer the questions.

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

What is the content of The Old Man and the Sea?

A. the story of Santiago

B. the story of Alice

C. the story of Hemingway