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Test 1 News Report 1
Question 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
[1]There are about 650,000 school-aged Syrian refugee children in Turkey. Government officials estimate onlt about one-third of them are going to school. Educating the refugee children is an enormous task. One U.S. official says that a huge school system like the one in New York City would be overwhelmed.
The United States says it is working with the United Nations to help bridge the education gap for refugee children. Without school, the effects will be negative and long-lasting.
The United States provided Turkey with aid for education earlier. [2]In December, it offered an additional $24 million. Human Rights Watch says a quality education will ensure a more stable future for these children.The organization says about 90 percent of children in refugee camps run by the Turkish government attend school. But most of the children living outside of those camps are not receiving education.
1. What is the news report mainly about?
A) Education problems of American children.
B) Education problems of Syrian children in Turkey.
C) A statement published by Human Rights Watch.
D) Many children in Turkey don’t receive education.
2. What did the United States do to help refugee children?
A) They built long-lasting schools in Turkey.
B) They established a huge school systems in Turkey.
C) They offered financial support to Turkey.
D) They sent refugee children to refugee camps.

Test 1 News Report 2
Question 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
[3]Eleven Taliban fighters attacked an important airport in southern Afghanistan early Tuesday, killing at least 50 people, Afghan officials said.
The Afghan Defense Ministry said 38 civilians, 10 soldiers and two police officers were killed.
The attack on the Kandahar Air Field lasted 20 hours, reported the Washington Post. Among the dead were women and children, the newspaper wrote. The airport includes a military base with troops from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. There were no reports that NATO troops were killed or injured in the attack.
A spokesman for the Taliban says fighters entered the base and attacked local and foreign military troops. He said more than 150 soldiers were killed in the attack. The Taliban often makes claims about the results of their attacks that are not true. [4]Taliban attacks have grown in number and strength in Afghanistan this year after the withdrawal last year of combat troops from other countries.
3. What did Taliban fighters do early Tuesday?
A) They killed no more than 50 people.
B) They fired against NATO troops.
C) They attacked an airport in Afghanistan.
D) They killed 10 children, and two police officers.
4. What led to the growth of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan?
A) Withdrawal of combat troops from other countries.
B) False claims of foreign military troops.
C) Decline of the local troops’ strength.
D) Last year’s victory over foreign troops.

Test 1 News Report 3
Question 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
[5]The Australian state of Tasmania is considering raising the legal age for buying cigarettes to at least 21 and potentially as high as 25. If the plan goes ahead, it will give Tasmania some of the toughest tobacco laws in the world. The current legal age to purchase, possess, or smoke cigarettes of all the Australian states is 18. Critics have complained the proposed restrictions would be a violation of civil liberties. Australia already has some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking policies. It introduced so-called plain packaging 4 years ago, [6]where packs are colored in an identical olive brown and covered in health warnings that include pictures. The country is also the most expensive place in the world to buy cigarettes—from around $15 a pack.
Parts of the world already ban cigarette sales to those under 21, including Kuwait and next year Hawaii. Around 1 in 5 Tasmanians smoke, with the vast majority taking up the habit before the age of 25. [7]The Tasmanian government proposals are part of the 5-year plan to make the state Australia’s healthiest by 2025.
5. What does the state of Tasmania plan to do?
A) Violate the civil liberties in Australia.
B) Increase the legal age to buy cigarettes.
C) Introduce a plan called plain packaging.
D) Raise the price of cigarettes in Australia.
6. According to plain packaging, what should be included in the packs of cigarette?
A) Details of anti-smoking policies.
B) Pictures with olive trees.
C) Health warnings including pictures.
D) Data of cigarette sales worldwide.
7. What’s the purpose of the Tasmanian government proposals?
A) To follow the anti-smoking trend in Kuwait and Hawaii.
B) To make Tasmania Australia’s healthiest city by 2025.
C) To ease existing tough anti-smoking policies.
D) To have more tough anti-smoking policies.

Test 2 News Report 1
Question 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
The number of girls married in Africa is expected to double in the next 35 years, experts say. [1]That means almost half, or 310 million girls, by 2050 will be married before they reach adulthood, says a United Nations’ report. The African Union says it wants to end child marriage in Africa.
Delegates at a summit in Zambia are expected to set 18 years old as the lowest legal for marriage across the continent. Marriage before age 18 is already against the law in most African countries.
Yet the UN says more than 125 million women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday. Experts say most were given to men in traditional or religious unions in violation of the law.
[2]African Union chairwoman Nkosozana Dlamini Zuma says local culture that undervalues girls and women is to blame. Poverty and lack of education are also responsible, experts say.
1. What do we learn from the United Nation’s report?
A) The number of adult girls is expected to double by 2050.
B) Child marriage in Africa will be ended by 2050.
C) Half women will be married before reaching adulthood by 2050.
D) The legal marriage age will set above 18 by 2050.
2. What is the reason for child marriage in Africa?
A) Poverty and lack of education.
B) The low legal age for marriage.
C) Local culture that undervalues children.
D) High risks of becoming teenage mothers.

Test 2 News report 2
Question 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
[3]Waste products from a popular alcoholic drink could be used in the future to make biofuel. Researchers say the new fuel, based on whisky, could reduce demand for oil. They say using less oil could cut pollution that studies have linked to climate change. Scotland is the largest producer of whisky in the world. And a Scottish professor has found how to take the byproducts from distilling whisky and turn them into a form of alcohol called biobutanol. Biobutanol can be used as a fuel. Whisky comes from grain, such as corn, and wheat.
Martin Tangney is director of the Biofuel Research Centre at Napier University in Edinburgh. He says less than 10 percent of what comes out can be considered whisky. [4]The rest is mainly one of two unwanted byproducts: strong beer and wheat. Tangney says the two byproducts can be produced to create a new material: biobutanol.
3. What is the news report mainly about?
A) Waste products of whisky could make biofuel.
B) Scotland is the largest producer of whisky in the world.
C) A new fuel called Biobutanol is found by a Scottish professor.
D) There are many waste products in making whisky.
4. What are the unwanted products in making whisky?
A) Corn and sugar cane.
B) Rye and corn.
C) Strong beer and wheat.
D) Rice and wheat.

Test 2 News report 3
Question 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
For many years, human resources director Pete Tapaskar says it's been a challenge to fill all the jobs at his suburban Chicago-based technology company. [5]Getting high skilled people is still a challenge.
Elizabeth Sue is principal policy analyst for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, who studies Chicago’s recent immigration trends. She said “They are slowly moving into the south, especially Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia. [6]What we are seeing right now is a substantially decreased total of international in-immigrations. Prior to the recession we were between 50 and 60 thousand most years. Now since 2010, we’ve been at about 23- to 24-thousand international in-migrations on a net basis.” [6]She says that dramatic drop - as much as two-thirds some years - contributions to Chicago’s overall still population growth.
Tapaskar says there are many reasons why immigrants choose to live in Southern states instead of Chicago. [7]“The environment there is ideal for starting a business, could be the taxes there are low, and employers are getting a lot of benefits from the state government.”
But Tapaskar says one thing that could bring new immigrants to Chicago is increasing the number of work visas that would attract the highly skilled tech workers his business needs.
5. What is the problem for the technology companies in Chicago?
A) Getting high skilled people.
B) Promoting company’s technology.
C) Finding enough employees.
D) Increasing members of immigrants.
6. What do we learn from about international iin-immigrations in Chicago?
A) The number of them decreases dramatically.
B) They mainly move from south states.
C) They come to Chicago without work visa.
D) The number of them increases after the recession.
7. Why do immigrants choose southern states instead of Chicago?
A) The law of immigrants.
B) The environment for companies.
C) The number of work visas.
D) Higher salary and better titles.

Test 3 News Report 1
Question 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
[1]In a statement, the US president says he is taking the action, because the conflict in Darfur threatens the national security and foreign policy of the United States. The asset freeze is being imposed on four Sudanese identified by the U.N. Security Council as being involved in organizing and carrying out cruel and violent actions in Darfur. The president’s order comes days before rallies are planned in Washington and throughout the United States to protest the three-year war in Darfur.
[2]Celebrities such as Academy Award winning actor George Clooney are scheduled to speak at the rally. Clooney, who just returned from a trip to the Darfur region, told reporters in Washington the world’s attention needs to be focused on what he called the “first massive murder of the 21st century.”
1. Why is the U.S. president taking actions in Darfur?
A) The asset of the US there has been frozen.
B) The conflict there threatens the U.S. national security.
C) Rallies are planned to protest the war there.
D) The U.N. Security Council is involved in the issue there.
2. Who is scheduled to speak at the rally?
A) Four Sudanese.
B) The U.S. president.
C) Reporters.
D) George Clooney.

Test 3 News Report 2
Question 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
When the top U.S. oil companies announced huge increases in profits this week, many consumer advocates raised companies. At a time when American motorists are paying record-level prices for gasoline, [3]some in the U.S. Congress think the oil companies profits should be examined closely. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is seeking tax return information on top U.S. oil companies from the Internal Revenue Service and some politicians are calling for a windfall profits tax. Pf course, oil companies oppose such a move, citing similar or even higher profit increases in other industries, such as real estate, that have not caused controversy. [4]Oil industry analysts, however, say a windfall profits tax might be counterproductive. Bob Tippee, editor of Houston-based Oil and Gas Journal, says large oil company profits could benefit consumers in the end.
3. What are the reactions to the oil companies’ huge increases in profits?
A) Consumers give up motorcycles.
B) Some politicians suggest cutting down prices of gasoline.
C) Oil companies are not satisfied with it.
D) Some congressmen think oil companies should be examined.
4. What do the oil industry analysts think of the windfall profits tax?
A) It might not work.
B) Consumers will finally benefit from it.
C) It is good for oil industry.
D) It should also be imposed on other industries.

Test 3 News Report 3
Question 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale has hit northeast India, near its borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, killing at least nine people. [5]The quake hit at 4:35 am local time about 29 km northwest of Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, according to the US Geological Survey. Strong quakes have been felt across the region. The earthquake was originally reported to have measured 6.8 on the Richter scale. India’s Meteorological Department said it struck at a depth of 17 km.
The earthquake cracked walls and [6] a newly-built six-story building in Imphal collapsed, police said. Other buildings were also reported to have been damaged. At least six people have been killed in Manipur and more than 30 injured, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. In the neighboring Bangladesh, three people were reported dead while dozens were being treated in hospital for injuries sustained during the quake. [7]A 23-year-old man died when he suffered a stroke after the quake while two others died of heart attacks, news agency AFP quoted police as saying. A university student, who jumped from a fourth-floor balcony to escape, was among the severely wounded, the agency added.
5. When did the earthquake happen?
A) At 4:35 pm local time. B) At 4:35 am local time.
C) At 4:25 am local time. D) At 4:25 pm local time.
6. What do we know about the earthquake from the news report?
A) The US Geological Survey first reported the earthquake.
B) India’s Meteorological Department has predicted the earthquake.
C) A newly-built building collapsed in the earthquake.
D) Three thousand people were reported dead in the earthquake.
7. Why did the 23-year-old man die?
A) The US Geological Survey first reported the earthquake.
B) India’s Meteorological Department has predicted the earthquake.
C) A newly-built building collapsed in the earthquake.
D) Three thousand people were reported dead in the earthquake.

Test 4 News Report 1
Question 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
The number of Americans over the age of 65 is expected to double between now and 2030. This next generation of retirees will be the healthiest, best educated, and most wealthy in American history