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21- Who is America's leading export partner?
(A) USA
(B) Canada
(C) Mexico
(D) The United Kingdom
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B

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22- What was the percentage of the Euro area economy decline in 2009?
(A) 1 percent
(B) 1.6 percent
(C) 3.9 percent
(D) 10 percent
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C

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23- When did the worldwide recession begin?
(A)in 2007
(B) in 2008
(C) in 2009
(D) in 2010
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A

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24- What was China's total world trade share in ??
(A) 1 percent
(B) 4.5 percent
(C) 6 percent
(D) 9.5 percent
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C

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25- Which country is a member of the Central European Free Trade Association?
(A) Armenia
(B) Poland
(C) Moldova
(D) Turkev
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B

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26- What is one important idea that the writer ??
(A) that Hammurabi created common law
(B) that civil law is more common than ??
(C)that decisions were based on traditions
D)that the role of court is limited in every ??

A
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27- What is one important idea that the writer mentions?
(A) that laws are mostly the same across societies
(B) that Hammurabi wrote the first legal code
(C) that in both legal systems, decisions are based on precedents
(D) that civil law is based on written constitutions and codes

A
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28- What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) why the Berlin wall was built
(B) a short history of the Berlin Wall
(C) a short history of east and West Berlin
(D) the border between east and West Berlin

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29- Which sentence gives the main idea of Paragraph (1)?
(A) At 1.05am on Sunday 13 August 1961, East German guards and army combat troops
took up positions on the border line of the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin.
(B)In a scene repeated along the border dividing the two halves of the city, they ripped up
the paving stones and attached wire between concrete posts.
(C)By early morning, only 12 of the 21 street crossings were passable.
(D)This was the beginning of the Berlin wall.

A
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30- What does Paragraph (1) say about the actions of the East German border guards?
(A) They closed most of the streets on the border.
(B)They stopped everyone crossing to West Berlin.
(c)They used paving stones to build the wall.
(D)They fought with army combat groups.

A
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31- Which of the following statements does Paragraph (2) support?
(A) West Germany was more important than East Germany.
(B) West Germany was bigger than East Germany.
(C) West Germany was richer than East Germany.
D) West Germany controlled more of the border than East Germany

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$ 32- Which of the following statements does Paragraph (3) support?
(A) The Berlin Wall took 28 years to build.
(B) The Berlin Wall stopped everyone trying to cross
(C)Every year 136 people died trying to escape
(D)About 5,000 people crossed over the wall.
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A
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33- What does Paragraph (4) say about the wall between E and West Berlin?
(A) It was 112km long.
(B) It was 155km long.
(C) It was made of concrete.
(D) It was made of wire fencing.
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34- Which sentence gives the main idea of Paragraph (5)?
(A) The fall, when it came, was quick.
(B) Germany was formally reunified just 11 months later.
(C) There were large demonstrations in the GDR in September 1989

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What is one important idea about today's Mars that the writer mentions in
Paragraphs (1-2)?
(A) orbiting spacecraft
(B) rocky minerals
(Crainfall
(D) valleys
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36- What evidence does the writer mention to show that probably used to have rain?
(A) There are clays on Mars’ surface.
(B) The surface used to be suitable for life.
(C) There are valleys with many tributaries.
(D) Volcanic activity typically causes rain

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48- By how much did the number of visitors from Western Europe decrease in 2001?
(A) About 75.000
(B) About 150.000
(C) About half
(D) About 75%
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75.000

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49- According to the passage, what are kinds of wage taxes?
(A) income tax and social security tax.
(B) social security and medicare taxes.
(C) purchase and medicare taxes.

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47- What is the percentage increase in Norway from 2004 to 2010?
(A) about 5%
(B) about 10%
(C) about 15%
(D) about 20%
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40- How did the Portuguese get into Muslim North Africa?
(A) By taking the islands of Madeira and Azores.
(B) By getting there before the Spanish could.
(C) By making Africans become Christians.
(D) By taking the port of Ceuta.
.

A
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41- Why does the writer use the word Finally in Paragraph (3)?
(A) To give some final information about how to explore Africa.
(B) To show that it would be possible to explore Asia instead of Africa.
(C) To give one more important reason for exploring Africa.
(D) To give an example of what the Portuguese could do in Africa.

A
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42- Which word can we use to replace the word because in Paragraph (4)?
(A) although
(B) besides
(C) since
(D) so
.
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Since

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43- Why are autotrophs known as primary producers?
(A) Because autotroph means primary producer in Latin.
(B) They are able to survive off their own sources of energy
(C) They both use the sun and chemical compounds for energy

A
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44- The word transferred in Paragraph (1) is closest in meaning to...
(A) driven
(B) moved
(C) made
D) saved
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Moved

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45- The word discovered in Paragraph (2) is closest in meaning to….
(A) believed
(B) found
(C) hoped

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Found

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Why does the writer mention surface rovers?
(A) They’ve helped show that water turns rocky minerals into clay.
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(B) They’ve helped show that clays on Mars are different from those on Earth.
(C) They’ve helped show that Mars used to have good conditions for life.
(D) They’ve helped show that Mars is at least 4 billion years old.

A
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38- What is one important idea related to clay that the writer mentions in Paragraph
(4)?
(A) water
(B)structure
(C) terrains
(D) time
A