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21. What is the main idea of the passage?
A) A new computer chip. B) Electric charges make miracle.
C) The development of innovative technologies. D) Auspicious conditions in medical technologies.
22. What does the word COMBAT in the text mean?
A) overcome B) escape C) avoid D) prevent
23. All of the following statements are FALSE EXCEPT:
A) Electric shot can do harm to a person.
B) Electric charges make cells to cooperate.
C) Cells could be controlled by electric impulses.
D) Only the cells of brain, bone and muscle can be controlled by impulses.
24. As it is stated in the passage, doctors will be able to put ...
A) a few chips in order to test new medicine B) several chips into human body to cure different diseases.
C) a chip into human brain to prevent disease. D) several chips into muscles to control the voltage.


Our tour group of forty people made the train Journey from Hong Kong to Guangzhou on Christmas Day, 1979. We were taken to the thirty-three storey White Cloud Hotel. Even though it was only two years old, the rooms and furnishings already seemed frayed and old. Tips were not allowed and the hotel staff appeared rude. Breakfast was served promptly at seven forty-five. Forty fried eggs appeared on forty plates laid out at four separate tables, ten to a table. Most of our group were still asleep in their beds while their eggs awaited them. Metal teapots were banged on to the tables, together with eighty pieces of toast, twenty per table. At nine sharp, breakfast was over. Eggs, tea and toast were taken away by waitresses within five minutes. This was our introduction to life in Communist China.
25. From the passage one can conclude that the White Cloud Hotel ...
A) had rather unfriendly staff. B) had thirty three rooms in total.
C) was really quite a small hotel. D) was modern but full of antiques.
26. As seen from the passage breakfast at the White Cloud Hotel ...
A) was served whether guests wanted it or not. B) could be selected from a wide-ranging menu.
C) was generous and delicious with fast service. D) was delivered by room service to some guests.