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PART A: Vocabulary (5 points)

Choose a word or expression from the box to complete each statement below.



fall in love at first sight

is based on

get married 

make eye contact

make up

include

Example: After an argument, my wife and I always 

. We say we are sorry

and laugh together.

1. My brother thinks a good relationship 

two important things: love and trust.



2. When you meet a businessperson in the United States, it’s good to 

with


him or her. You should look at the person, smile, and shake his or her hand.

3. Janet doesn’t believe people 

. She thinks it takes a long time for true love

to develop.

4. Our manager thinks you have a lot of good ideas. He wants to 

you in


tomorrow’s important meeting.

5. My boyfriend and I love each other, but we’re not ready to 

. We want to

spend more time together before making that decision.

PART B: Language Focus (5 points)

Circle the correct answer.



Example: Mimi 

a baseball game two years ago when she met her husband Thomas.



a. watched

b. was watching 

c. watches

1. Ned 

lunch when I called.



a. was eating

b. ate

c. eats

2. My brother and I were watching TV when we 

about the accident.



a. hear

b. were hearing

c. heard

3. Mr. and Mrs. Moon 

while they were living in Brazil last year.



a. get married

b. were getting married

c. got married

4. Chris and I had a big fight last night. This morning, we said we were sorry and 

.

a. were making up



b. made up

c. make up

5. The baseball fans 

when he hit the home run.



a. cheers

b. were cheered

c. cheered

make up 


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PART C: Comprehension (10 points)

Circle the correct answer.



1. The author’s purpose in writing this article was to 

.

a. talk about a survey on love at first sight



b. show that falling in love is good for your health

c. show that more women fall in love at first sight than men

2. The following result surprised the author: 

.

a. both younger and older people believe in love at first sight



b. only younger people believe in love at first sight

c. only older people believe in love at first sight

3. The following statements are true about the study except: 

.

a. people from many different professions believe in love at first sight



b. all of the people who believe in love at first sight have experienced it

c. both men and women were asked about love at first sight

4. Emily, the 23-year-old college student, says: “When I first met my boyfriend, I felt something

tingly. I guess you could call it puppy love, but it wasn’t true love. It took about a year for true

love to develop.” You can infer from this that puppy love is 

.

a. less serious than true love



b. more serious than true love

c. something all women experience

5. John, the 30-year-old artist, met Luisa at a party three years ago. They’re still together. You can

infer from this that John and Luisa: 

.

a. plan to break up

b. don’t love each other

c. enjoy spending time together

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PART A: Vocabulary (5 points)

Circle the best answer to complete each statement below.



Example: Amy’s date last night 

. She liked him and he liked her, so they are going out

again tonight!

a. took time

b. hung out

c. went well

1. I don’t like going on blind dates because I feel 

. I’m usually nervous and I don’t know what

to say.

a. foolish

b. cool

c. intense

2. Annie takes the subway to work. From the subway station, it’s a 

to her office.



a. take time

b. ten-minute walk

c. traffic

3. On the weekends, many young people 

friends, and catch up on their lives.



a. point at

b. go well with

c. hang out with

4. Ed wanted to impress his date. He put on his new suit and took extra time to 

.

a. go well



b. look his best

c. take time

5. There was so much traffic on the road that the bus could only 

. I was late for class.



a. stop

b. go fast

c. crawl along

PART B: Language Focus (5 points)

Circle the best answer to complete each statement below.



Example: It’s so hot in this room that I 

.

a. am very hot



b. can’t breathe

c. had to put my coat on

1. There was so much traffic this morning that I 

.

a. drank too much coffee



b. arrived 30 minutes late

c. was 5 minutes early

2. That man is so dull that we 

.

a. enjoy talking to him



b. missed a class

c. never want to talk to him

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3. Rob fell asleep at 7:00 p.m. because 

.

a. he was so tired



b. there was so much traffic

c. he had a blind date

4. The plane crash was so terrible that 

.

a. many people died



b. there weren’t many strict safety measures

c. it was an accident

5. Kevin’s blind date with Cindy was so amazing that they 

.

a. felt horrible



b. didn’t enjoy the evening

c. are going out again tonight and tomorrow night

PART C: Comprehension (10 points)

Number these events in the story from 1 (first) to 6 (last).

He skips his afternoon class and plays billiards.

Chang Jae-Hyuk and three friends meet four young women at a coffee shop.

Chang Jae-Hyuk leaves his house in a hurry.

Chang Jae-Hyuk’s dream girl gives him her phone number.

His bus gets stuck in traffic and he has trouble breathing.

He goes to his philosophy class.

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PART A: Vocabulary (5 points)

Circle the best answer to complete each statement below.



Example: I got to the restaurant at 7:00 p.m., and my friend Al 

a little later.



a. made a stop 

b. showed up 

c. hurried

1. On Friday nights, my girlfriend and I go to the night market to have a snack and 

with 


my brother and sister.

a. show up

b. go on

c. hang around

2. During the week, I eat breakfast in a hurry, but on Saturday and Sunday I enjoy having 

breakfast .



a. at a leisurely pace

b. in a hurry, too

c. frequently

3. We drove from the city to a small town in the country, 

for lunch on the way.



a. showing up

b. hanging around

c. making a stop

4. Mika, a Japanese student from Tokyo, went to London for a month to study English and learn

about England’s cultural 

.

a. species

b. heritage

c. collection 

5. We’re holding a party on Saturday night. It starts at 8:00 and 

until 1:00 or 2:00 a.m.



a. goes on 

b. makes stops

c. hangs around

PART B: Language Focus (5 points)

Match an item from Column A with one from Column B to complete each sentence.



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Column A

1. We drove from our house to the university,

2. The baseball fans screamed and yelled,

3. Lisa and Laura walked around the museum,

4. I got dressed at a leisurely pace,

5. The restaurant cook worked hard,

6. Monica Smith performed very well,

Column B

cheering for their team.

trying to impress his manager.

making a stop for coffee on the way.

winning a prize as the best piano player.

taking the time to look my best.

talking to each other and enjoying the

collection.



PART C: Comprehension (10 points)

Circle the correct answer.



1. Shih-lin Night Market 

.

a. is closed on the weekend



b. stays open until very late

c. isn’t popular with young people

2. The author of this article 

.

a. is a Taiwanese magazine editor



b. lives in Hong Kong but visits Taiwan frequently

c. likes Taroko Gorge better than Lan Yu (Orchid Island)

3. According to the author, the following statements are true except: 

.

a. it takes several days to see the National Palace Museum at a leisurely pace



b. the Shih-lin Night Market is a good place to have a snack with friends

c. you can walk at a leisurely pace from Taipei to Taroko Gorge

4. The author says that the word Taroko means .

a. long

b. deep

c. beautiful 

5. According to the author, the Shih-lin Night Market is very different from the morning markets.

People shop for food to cook at home at the morning markets. At the night market, people have a

snack and hang around with friends. You can infer from this that people 

.

a. have a snack at both the morning and night markets



b. don’t shop a lot for food to cook at home at the night market

c. spend more time at the morning markets

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Chapter 1: Are You Getting

Enough Sleep?



Part A: Vocabulary

1. a. stayed awake

2. b. go to sleep

3. a. go without

4. c. spend time

5. b. pass

Part B: Language Focus

1. a. Did you have

2. c. fallen 

3. b. go

4. a. run

5. b. go to sleep

Part C: Comprehension

1. c. He wanted to study the effects of going

without sleep.



2. b. He hallucinated and couldn’t pass a counting

test.


3. a. Randy returned to his normal sleep schedule

on the fourth night.



4. b. Scientists aren’t sure about the purpose of

sleep. However, some scientists think sleep

helps the body grow and relieve stress.

5. a. They started losing their fur.

Chapter 2: Mika’s Homestay in

London


Part A: Vocabulary

1. a. get used to

2. c. worried about

3. b. treats me like

4. c. do research on

5. a. reasonable

Part B: Language Focus

3. since she wanted Mika to enjoy traditional

English food.



5. since he wanted to study Korean art and literature.

4. because he wanted to study the effects of going

without sleep.



6. because she didn’t eat for two days.

1. (ex.) because it was her birthday.

2. because she wanted to speak a lot of English.

Part C: Comprehension

1. c. The fees were not expensive.

2. a. People from all over the world use English to

communicate.



3. a. To the pub.

4. b. They spoke only Japanese with each other.

5. c. Being all alone and a stranger far away from

her friends and family. 



Chapter 3: The Book of the Future

Part A: Vocabulary

1. inventions

2. expert

3. comfortable

4. likely

5. instantly

Part B: Language Focus

1. a. warmer

2. a. more expensive

3. c. more famous

4. b. more dangerous

5. a. sleepier

Part C: Comprehension

1. c. Reading books is less tiring on the eyes than

reading off computer screens.



2. a. radio paper and electronic ink.

3. c. It will look like a book you buy today.

4. a. It will be cheap.

5. c. It makes words disappear and appear on the

screen.


Chapter 4: How to Be a Successful

Businessperson



Part A: Vocabulary

1. a. impressive

2. b. earns

3. c. saving money

4. b. businesspeople

5. a. ended up

Part B: Language Focus

1. to earn

2. to own

3. to save money

4. to improve

5.

to lose weight



Part C: Comprehension

1. c. be an airline pilot

2. b. at a car rental company

3. c. Monday through Sunday

4. b. he wanted to save money on food

5. c. he worked very hard

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Chapter 5: Tonic Water, Please

Part A: Vocabulary

1. b. communicate

2. c. strangely

3. b. embarrassed

4. c. sounds like

5. a. responded

Part B: Language Focus

1. but

2. but

3. and

4. however

5. and

Part C: Comprehension

1. True

2. False

3. True

4. False

5. True

Chapter 6: Cell Phones: Hang Up

or Keep Talking?



Part A: Vocabulary

1. a. retire

2. c. convenient

3. a. potentially

4. c. It’s true that

5. b. unusual

Part B: Language Focus

1. a. my cell phone

2. b. driving a sports car while talking on a cell

phone


3. c. American students

4. a. the Japanese students

5. c. my brother’s company

Part C: Comprehension

1. True

2. True

3. False

4. True

5. False

Chapter 7: The Ghost Pilot

Part A: Vocabulary

1. b. passengers

2. c. shocked

3. a. strict

4. c. ignores

5. b. fell out of

Part B: Language Focus

3. must have studied very hard.

1. (ex.) must have saved a lot of money.

5. must have had trouble communicating in China.

6. must have gone out with her boyfriend.

4. must have felt very tired.

2. must have been shocked and scared.

Part C: Comprehension

5. The engineers removed all of the equipment from

the wreck of Flight 401 from their other planes.



2. An Eastern Airlines executive talked to the ghost

pilot Bob Loft in the first-class section of a plane.

The pilot faded away.

6. The ghosts of Bob Loft and Don Repo stopped

appearing.



1. (ex.) Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed near

Miami, Florida.



4. People started to say that the ghost of Don Repo

only appeared on planes with replacement parts

from Flight 401.

3. An Eastern Airlines pilot and two crew members

saw the ghost of Bob Loft in the staff room at

John F. Kennedy Airport.

Chapter 8: Helping Others

Part A: Vocabulary

1. c. volunteer

2.  b. unhealthy

3. a. value

4. c. keep in touch

5. a. close

Part B: Language Focus

1. Saving money

2.  Developing a relationship

3. Losing weight

4. Doing research

5. Doing volunteer work

Part C: Comprehension

1. a. Mariko Asano’s volunteer work in the

Philippines.



2. a. she learned a lot about life from the Filipino

people she met



3. b. Mariko thinks that Japanese people always

appreciate the good things they have in Japan.



4. c. people all over the world can be friends

5. a. slept in a bed and the Filipino people slept on

the floor



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Chapter 9: Baseball Fans Around

the World



Part A: Vocabulary

1. a. boring

2. b. catch up on

3. a. screaming

4. c. rules

5. b. common

Part B: Language Focus

1. catching up

2. doing

3. yelling

4. requesting

5. chatting

Part C: Comprehension

1. a. the behavior of baseball fans in four countries

2. c. Japan, Taiwan, and the Dominican Republic

3. c. never

4. a. just sit and watch the game

5. b. Dominican fans are quieter than American

fans


Chapter 10: Vanessa-Mae: A 21

st

Century Musician



Part A: Vocabulary

(ex.) talented

prodigy

advanced


competition

won a prize

make a decision

Part B: Language Focus

1. b. cook a lot

2. b. was hungry

3. c. didn’t study

4. a. went to work

5. c. is a terrible piano player

Part C: Comprehension

1. a. the life of Vanessa-Mae, a famous musician

2. c. China, England, and Germany

3. b. piano and violin

4. a. was a great violin player

5. c. she plays both classical and techno-acoustic

music


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