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PART II: READING (5 PTS)

Question 1: Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in each

space.(2pts).

When telephoning friends in Australia, would you like to see picture of the (1) _____ at the same time?

When calling a (2) __________ about a broken car, would you like to look at diagrams in a part of the

catalogue? When discussing financial figures, would you like to have (3) _________ transferred into your

own desk-top computer?

If this can be done now – by big businesses with the money and expertise required. But in a (4) _________

years ordinary people should be able to do the same. This became clear at the Telecom Fair, a trade

exhibition and conference for the world’s telecommunications community in Geneva earlier this month.

There are facsimile machine able (5) ___________ transmit a document in six seconds (compared with the

present 60 seconds), and one that can transmit in color. There are picture phones (6) ___________ send and

display a series of stil photographs of the people talking on the line. And there are drawing pads which

allow your doodles to appear on another pad at the receiving end. The technology for integrating

communication services over a digital network is available now. But the telecommunications world has not

(7) _____ defined all the standards necessary or (8) _____ truly global network to emerge. This could take

up to ten years.

In the future, terminals will look very different from normal telephone handsets. They will (9) __________

video screens typewriter keyboards, drawing pads or printing devices. It is possible to have an intelligent

terminal which could read a credit card, send data automatically to the computer centre, and then have the

person say a few words in the telephone for the computer to recognize the voice pattern before

authorization. It should work well (10) _________ you have a heavy cold.

Question 2: Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each of the question below.(2pts)

The Sun today is a yellow star. It is fuelled by thermonuclear reactions near its centre that convert

hydrogen to helium. The Sun has existed in its present state for about 4 billion, 600 million years, and is

thousands of times larger than the Earth.

By studying other stars, astronomers can predict what the rest of the Sun’s life will be like. About 5

million years from now, the core of the Sun will shrink and become hotter. The surface temperature will

fall. The higher temperature of the centre will increase the rate of thermonuclear reactions. The outer

regions of the Sun will expand approximately 35 million miles about distance to Mercury, which is the

closest planet to the Sun. The Sun will then be a red giant star. Temperatures on the Earth will become too

hot for life to exist.

Once the Sun has used up its thermonuclear energy as a red giant, it will begin to shrink. After it

shrinks to the size of the Earth, it will become a white star. The Sun may throw off huge amounts of gases

in violent eruptions called nova explosions as it changes from a red giant to a white dwarf.

After billions of years as a white dwarf, the Sun will have used up all it fuel and will have lost its

heat. Such a star is called a black dwarf. After the Sun has become a black dwarf, the Earth will be dark and

cold. If any atmosphere remains there, it will have frozen onto the Earth’s surface.