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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.
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