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Passage One

 John works in the London Home for Lost Dogs. When dogs get lost in London, policemen and other people bring them to John. When somebody loses his dog he comes to the Dogs' Home, and usually the dog is there waiting for him. There are a lot of dogs in the Dogs' Home today and now John is talking to a man and his wife.

    "We've lost our dog," the man says.

    "Yes, our beautiful little dog. Is he here?" the wife asks.

    John says, "Wait a minute, please. There are hundreds of dogs here. All of them are lost dogs. Is yours a big dog or a little one? What colour is it?"

    "Ours is a pretty little white dog," the wife says.

    But now a little boy is standing behind the man and his wife.

    "Please, is my dog here? Mine's a little white dog, too," he says.

    "Oh, dear," thinks John. "Theirs is white and his is white; theirs is small and his is small. Both their dogs are white and both are small."

 "Tell me something more about your dogs," John says.

    The man says, "Ours has black ears, a long tail and short hair."

    "Mine has, too," says the boy.

    "Please come with me," John says, "All of you. Come and have a look at all the dogs we have." Outside, there is a yard full of lost dogs. There are three small white ones with black ears.

    As soon as two of the small, white dogs see their masters, they become very excited. One runs towards the boy and the other runs towards the man and his wife. The two dogs look very much the same, so neither the boy nor the man and his wife can tell them apart. But the dogs recognize their own masters easily.

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1. The London Home for Lost Dogs is a place where ______.( D )

(a) people can find beautiful dogs

(b) policemen can find good dogs

(c) lost dogs are kept for sale

(d) people can find their lost dogs

2. The man and his wife come here ________.( A )

(a) to look for their little white dog

(b) to compare their dog with the boy's

(c) to have a look at all the dogs that are kept there

(d) to buy a dog

3. According to the passage, there are/is _____ small white dog(s) with black ears in the Dogs' Home. ( B )

(a) four

(b) three

(c) two

(d) one

4. When they see the small white dogs, ________. ( D )

(a) the man and the woman immediately recognize their dog

(b) the little boy recognizes his dog easily

(c) they run towards their own dogs

(d) they cannot recognize their own dogs

5. The best title for the passage can be:_____. ( D )

(a) Home for Lost Dogs

(b) Two Pretty Little Dogs

(c) Lost Dogs

(d) Two Dogs That Look Alike

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Passage Two

    Buck liked to lie by the fire, looking at the burning wood. Sometimes he thought about Mr. Miller's house in California. More often he remembered the man in the red coat and his club, the death of Curly, the fight with Spitz, and the good things that he had eaten. But sometimes he remembered other things. These were things that he remembered through his parents, and his parents'parents, and all the dogs which had lived before him.

    Sometimes as he lay there, he seemed to see, in a waking dream, a different fire. And he saw next to him, not the Indian cook, but another man, a man with shorter legs, and longer arms. This man had long hair and deep eyes, and made strange noises in his throat. He was very frightened of the dark, and looked around him all the time, holding a heavy stone in his hand. He wore the skin of an animal on his back, and Buck could see thick hair all over his body.

    Buck sat by the fire with this hairy man, and in the circling darkness beyond the fire he could see many eyes—the eyes of hungry animals waiting to attack. And he growled softly in his dream until the Indian cook shouted, "Hey, Buck, wake up!" Then the strange world disappeared and Buck's eyes saw the real fire again.

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   6. This passage mainly concerns ______. ( B )

(a) Buck's warming himself by the fire

(b) Buck's wakening instinct about his ancestors

(c) Buck's relation to the Indian cook

(d) Buck's way of killing time

7. A waking dream is ______. ( A )

(a) a day dream

(b) a surprising dream

(c) a sleep-ending dream

(d) an exciting dream

8. What he did not recall was ______. ( C )

(a) the man in the red coat and his club

(b) Mr. Miller's home in California

(c) the holes he dug to sleep in

(d) the fight with Spitz

9. "This man" in the waking dream is _______. ( B )

(a) a modern man

(b) a primitive man

(c) a timid man

(d) a superman

10. The meaning of the waking dream is that ______. ( D )

(a) Buck likes day dreaming

(b) Buck is worried about his future

(c) Buck finds comfort in dreams by escaping the harsh reality

(d) Buck is stepping closer to the call of the wild

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Passage Three

    In Nigeria there is a district called Umuofia. The people of Umuofia used to be farmers. They produced goods, such as palm oil, that the Europeans wanted.

    Umuofia was a small district of nine villages. The people of these villages belonged to the same clan. A clan is a group of people who live together and share the same customs. In time of war, all the people of the clan helped each other and fought together.

    The clansmen had many different gods. Some of the gods were very important. One of the most important gods protected the crops, and she was called the Earth Goddess. Some of the gods belonged to a man's family and wooden figures of these gods were kept in one of the family huts. The clan believed that their customs pleased the gods, and they believed their gods would punish people who broke these customs.

    The people of Umuofia did not know much about the rest of the world. They grew their own food and made their own things. The clan had its own customs, religion and leaders. The way of life in Umuofia had not changed for a long time, and the people were free. They made their own decisions and they chose their own leaders. In Umuofia, a man could become a leader as a result of his own work and ability.

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11. The story took place _______________. ( D )

(a) in Europe

(b) in an Asian country

(c) in Egypt

(d) in Nigeria

12. Clansmen are people______.            ( A )

(a) who live together and share the same customs

(b) living in the same village

(c) believing in one and the same god

(d) led by one leader

13. The Earth Goddess was the clan's most important god because __________. ( A )

(a) the people of Umuofia were farmers

(b) the Europeans wanted to take the land away from them

(c) they only believed in this god

(d) she protected their houses

14. The people of Umuofia _______. ( B )

(a) sold most of their products to other African countries

(b) enjoyed great freedom

(c) had a close connection with the rest of the world

(d) bought everything except food

15. A better title for this passage is ________. ( A )

(a) The People of Umuofia

(b) The Clansmen

(c) Freedom in Umuofia

(d) A Clan in Africa

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