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35. A.littleRead the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicatethe correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.Paul Watson is an environmental activist. He is a man who believes that he must dosomething, not just talk about doing something. Paul believes in protecting endangered animals, andhe protects them in controversial ways. Some people think that Watson is a hero and admire himvery much. Other people think that he is a criminal.On July 16th, 1979, Paul Watson and his crew were on his ship, which is called the SeaShepherd. Watson and the people who work on the Sea Shepherd were hunting on the Atlantic Oceannear Portugal. However, they had a strange prey; instead of hunting for animals, their prey was a ship,the Sierra. The Sea Shepherd found the Sierra, ran into it and sank it. As a result, the Sierra neverreturned to the sea. The Sea Shepherd,on the other hand, returned to its home in Canada. Paul Watsonand his workers thought that they had been successful.The Sierra had been a whaling ship, which had operated illegally. The captain and crew of theSierra did not obey any of the international laws that restrict whaling. Instead, they killed as manywhales as they could, quickly cut off the meat, and froze it. Later, they sold the whale meat incountries where it is eaten. Paul Watson tried to persuade the international whaling commission tostop the Sierra. However, the commission did very little, and Paul became impatient. He decided tostop the Sierra and other whaling ships in any way that he could. He offered to pay $25,000 to anyonewho sank any illegal whaling ship, and he sank the Sierra. He acted because he believes that thewhales must be protected. Still, he acted without the approval of the government; therefore, his actionswere controversial.Paul Watson is not the only environmental activist. Other men and women are also fighting toprotect the Earth. Like Watson, they do not always have the approval of their governments, and likeWatson, they have become impatient. Yet, because of their concern for the environment, they will actto protect it.(Adapted from “Eco fighters” by Eric Schwartz, OMNI)

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Question 36:According to the reading, an environmental activist is someone who .A.runs into whaling ship. B. does something to protect theEarth.C.talks about protecting endangered species. D.is a hero, like Paul Watson.Question 37:When something is “controversial”, .A.everyone agrees with it. B.everyone disagrees with it.C.people have different ideas about it. D.people protect it.Question 38:The main idea of paragraph one is that .A.Paul Watson is a hero to some people. B. activists are people who dosomething.C. Paul Watson is a controversial environmental activist.D. Paul Watson does not believe intalking.Question 39:The Sea Shepherd was hunting .A.the Atlantic Ocean B.whales C.the Sierra D.PortugalQuestion 40:The author implies that Paul Watson lives in _ .A.Portugal B.a ship on the Atlantic C.the Sierra D.CanadaQuestion 41:In paragraph 3, the phrase “and froze it” refers to .A.whale meat B.the Sierra C.whales D. the SierracrewQuestion 42:The main idea of paragraph three is that .A.the Sierra sold whale meat in some countries.B. the people on the Sierra did not obey international laws.C. the people on the Sierra killed as many whales as they could.D. whaling is illegal according to international law.Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose thebest answer for each of the question from 43- 50The ocean bottom - a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of Earth - is a vastfrontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep.Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’ssurface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding andremote as the void ofouter space.Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century,the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with thebeginning of the National Science Foundation’s Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). Using techniquesfirst developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, wasable to maintain a steady position on the ocean’s surface and drill in very deep waters, extractingsamples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor. The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyagesin a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged