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9.         A) protected          B) saved                C) secured             D) rescued

10.     A) part                  B) steps                 C) place                D) action

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Last week, the heads of government of the Group of Eight held a three-day meeting in Genoa, Italy. The members are the leading industrial nations—the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada—and also Russia.

The leaders met to discuss world trade and economic development. They also discussed disease prevention, debt reduction, and other issues. Officials from several developing countries __11__ Nigeria, Mali, Bangladesh and El Salvador were invited to take part in the conference __12__ the first time.

During the talks, about one-hundred-thousand protesters demonstrated outside the historic palace in Genoa where the meeting was held. They gathered there to express their anger about world trade.

The protesters represented trade unions, environmental groups, farmers, and the unemployed. Most __13__ a concern about the effects of international trade. Many of the protesters believe world trade __14__ the people of poor countries. They say major international companies are becoming wealthy while harming the poor and the environment.

Opponents of world trade want wealthy nations to reduce debt in developing countries. They also __15__ better education in poor countries and more money to treat diseases in Africa.

The Group of Eight leaders said world trade helps all people. They promised to work to bring the poorest countries __16__ the world economy. And they promised to continue to deal with issues important to all areas of the world.

The leaders also discussed the worldwide AIDS crisis and other deadly diseases. They agreed to provide more than one-thousand-million dollars to support efforts to __17__ and treat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These preventable diseases kill millions of people each year. Most of the victims live in poor countries.

One of the most disputed issues at the G-Eight meeting was the Kyoto treaty to __18__ the warming of the Eart[a-z] [a-z] atmosphere. President Bush continues to reject the treaty. He says it would harm the American economy. Other leaders said they would work to __19__ the treaty into effect.

At the end of the conference, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced they would hold new arms talks. They said they want to link talks about reducing nuclear weapons __20__ American plans to build a missile defense system.

11.     A) including           B) included            C) include              D) include

12.     A) at                     B) for                    C) in                     D) on

13.     A) shared                     B) held                  C) spoke               D) told

14.     A) damages           B) harms               C) hurts                D) wounds

15.     A) called                B) called at            C) called for          D) called in

16.  &nbsnbsp;  A) about                B) for                    C) over                 D) into

17.     A) protect              B) provide             C) prevent             D) prepare

18.     A) halt                   B) prevent             C) reject                D) refuse

19.     A) get                   B) move                C) change              D) put

20.     A) by                    B) for                    C) into                  D) with

 

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American scientists say that two drugs have shown to be effective against the protein thought to cause the deadly brain condition Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD.

CJD causes holes to develop in the brain. It is rare, and cannot be cured. It usually affects people sixty-five years old or older. More than one-hundred people in Europe have died or are dying __21__ it. Most of the victims live in Britain.

These victims suffer a kind of CJD linked to the cattle sickness __22__ as Mad Cow Disease. Its real name is bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. Scientists believe that eating infected beef from a cow __23__ BSE is one cause of CJD. The infectious proteins are thought to damage healthy proteins and cause holes in the brain.

The American researchers reported the results of their recent work in "The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." The researchers are __24__ the University of California at San Francisco. They say their research shows that two drugs can clear the infectious proteins from mouse brain cells.

The drugs are quinacrine and chlorpromazine. Quinacrine was used in the Nineteen-Forties to treat malaria. Chlorpromazine is used to treat the mental disorder schizophrenia. Quinacrine appears to be more effective in __25__ the deadly protein activity. However, chlorpromazine crosses more easily into the brain.

The researchers in San Francisco already have treated two CJD patients __26__ the drugs. One patient is British. The other patient is American. The results are not clear, __27__ a British newspaper has reported improvement in one of the patients.

The researchers are preparing to test the drugs in more people to see __28__ they are effective against CJD. This process will begin next month. The patients will go to the university hospital for two weeks of treatment with one or both drugs. They will continue __29__ the drugs for another six months at home.

The study will try to find the correct amount of each drug to use. And it will measure how much of each drug __30__ into the patient[a-z] brains. The treatment will be considered successful if patients survive longer and are able to take part in daily activities of normal living.

21.     A) by                    B) for                    C) from                 D) on

22.     A) know                B) knows                     C) known                     D) knowing

23.     A) suffer               B) suffers                     C) suffered            D) suffering

24.     A) at                     B) from                 C) in                     D) on

25.     A) stopping            B) stopped             C) stop                  D) stops

26.     A) by                    B) on                    C) for                   D) with

27.     A) and                   B) but                   C) although            D) whether

28.     A) that                  B) if                      C) when                D) how

29.     A) getting              B) having               C) eating               D) taking

30.     A) gets                  B) get                    C) getting              D) got

 

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Since the terrorist attacks on the United States in September, Americans have given millions of dollars to help thousands of victims and their families. A lot of that money was given to the American Red Cross.

The American Red Cross collected more than five-hundred-million dollars for this purpose in __31__ it called the Liberty Fund. Recently, Red Cross officials admitted that they __32__ the families all the money that was collected. They said the Liberty Fund was created to help the victims of the September attacks, and also to help victims of future attacks. The officials said they regretted that the American public did not understand this.

Last week, Red Cross officials announced a major change in policy. They said all the money __33__ to the Liberty Fund would be used only to help the victims of the September Eleventh attacks and their families. The money will help families __34__ costs of daily living such as housing and food for up to one year.

Immediately after the terrorist attacks, the Red Cross ___35__ money for three months of living costs to more than two-thousand families of people who were killed. Red Cross officials say the organization also provided support to about twenty-three-thousand other families who were affected by the terrorist attacks. These included rescue workers and people who could not go back to their homes near the World Trade Center in New York City. Business people __36__ their workplaces also received help.

However, the Red Cross planned to use about half the money given to the Liberty Fund for future programs. It wanted the money to increase blood supplies, improve communications and expand services for families of people __37__ in the military forces. Individuals who had given money to the Liberty Fund reacted strongly to this news. They expected their money to be used immediately to help victims of the attacks. Red Cross officials now say the Liberty Fund will be repaid for any money already __38__ for other projects.

The American Red Cross has been active for more than one hundred years. Its policy has been to __39__ some of the money given after a tragedy to prepare for future emergencies. Officials say the organizatio[a-z] [a-z] appeals are supposed to tell people that the money will be used to help victims of the current emergency or similar ones. They have promised to investigate to see if the message is clear enough to the people who give their money.

Red Cross officials say any relief organization needs to build up an amount of money to help victims of smaller emergencies. The American Red Cross says it __40__ aid services in about sixty-thousand emergency situations each year such as fires, floods, storms and accidents.

31.     A) that                  B) which               C) what                 D) /

32.     A) were not giving  B) did not give     C) would not give   D) should not give

33.     A) gave                 B) that gave           C) given                D) was given

34.     A) pay for             B) pay at               C) pay with           D) pay

35.     A) prepared           B) provided            C) produced          D) promised

36.     A) lost                   B) that lost             C) who lost           D) when lost

37.     A) serve                B) serves               C) served                     D) serving

38.     A) use                   B) used                 C) using                D) uses

39.     A) keep                 B) take                  C) save                 D) receive

40.     A) gives                B) prepares            C) provides            D) gets

 

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The General Assembly of the United Nations will open its fifty-sixth meeting on Tuesday. Representatives of the one-hundred-eighty-nine member countries will attend __41__ the yearly meeting at U-N headquarters in New York City. The meeting will last __42__ three months. Leaders of many countries will speak to the General Assembly during the first weeks of the meeting. President Bush is to speak September Twenty-Fourth.

The United Nations was __43__ after the terrible destruction of World War Two. It was established by fifty-one countries in October, Nineteen-Forty-Five. The first United Nations General Assembly opened in London in Nineteen-Forty-Six. Now, almost every nation in the world __44__ the General Assembly.

A major goal of UN is to help prevent and end wars. Many situations of tension and fighting are on the list of issues to be __45__ during this yea[a-z] [a-z] General Assembly meeting. One is the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Others __46__ the causes of fighting in Africa and the situation in Afghanistan. Reports by the UN international courts for war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia also will be discussed.

The General Assembly sets the budget for the UN. Members will discuss how much money to __47__ for UN peace-keepers and other organizations around the world.

For example, on Thursday the UN refugee agency appealed for security help for Macedonian and ethnic Albanian refugees. Both groups are afraid to return home after seven months of fighting in Macedonia. Observers say either the UN or the European Union should send a force to protect the refugees. UN peace keeping forces have been sent __48__ the world. The UN helped clear buried bombs in Mozambique. It trained police in Haiti. It supervised Nineteen-Eighty-Nine elections in Namibia.

Some UN activities involve troops. Others involve issues. The UN Conference Against Racism met this week in Durban, South Africa. Delegates to this meeting on racial injustice struggled to __49__ agreement on some major issues. Arabs demanded that the any statement __50__ Israel a racially unjust state. Earlier in the week, Israel and the United States walked out of the conference. They refused to accept that accusation.

Such disputes in UN organizations and meetings are not unusual. Neither are criticisms of the world organization. Some people say the UN is weak. Yet others say the United Nations is extremely important to world peace.

41.     A) to                     B) at                     C) in                     D) /

42.     A) for                   B) about                C) at                            D) in

43.     A) created             B) opened              C) developed          D) made

44.     A) belong              B) belong to           C) belongs             D) belongs to

45.     A) discussed          B) talked                C) conversed         D) chatted

46.     A) including           B) included            C) include              D) include

47.     A) prepare             B) provide             C) give                  D) set

48.     A) in                     B) on                    C) around              D) to

49.     A) arrive                B) come                C) get                   D) reach

50.     A) calls                 B) call                   C) calling               D) called

 

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An American archeologist has a new theory about an ancient statue found in Greece. Keith DeVries of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia says the statue may have once belonged to King Midas.

He believes the statue __51__ once part of the special chair used by the king, called a throne. He says ancient records and other evidence show the statue came from a throne that Midas is believed to have given __52__ a gift to the Greek god Apollo.

The small statue is known as "The Lion Tamer." It shows a man and a lion. It is about twenty-three centimeters tall. It is made __53__ ivory, from the tusk of an elephant. It was discovered in Nineteen-Thirty-Nine in Delphi, Greece. It had been buried with other objects near the ruins of the Corinthian Treasury building.

King Midas ruled an ancient country __54__ Phrygia in what is now central Turkey. He lived about two-thousand-seven-hundred years ago. King Midas was said to be extremely rich. Stories said he could change anything he touched __55__ gold.

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus claimed to have seen King Mida[a-z] [a-z] throne in the Corinthian treasury at Delphi three-hundred years after the king died. The throne itself has not been found. The statue has cuttings in its back. This __56__ it was once attached to something, possibly a chair.

"The Lion Tamer" statue is in a museum in Delphi, Greece. __57__ years, experts have debated the statu[a-z] [a-z] history. Many experts thought it came from Greece. However, others thought it came from somewhere else.

Mister DeVries says the discovery of similar ivory statues in Turkey __58__ support to his argument that the statue is Phrygian. Those objects were recovered __59__ burial areas at the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion and at Elmali.

Scientists used a process known as radiocarbon dating to confirm that the statues date to the time of King Midas. Radiocarbon dating shows the level of a radioactive form of carbon in a substance. This can tell scientists __60__ an object was made.

Mister DeVries works for the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He reported his research at a meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia.      

51.     A) is                            B) was                  C) may be             D) may have been

52.     A) for                   B) by                    C) as                     D) with

53.     A) by                    B) from                 C) of                     D) with

54.     A) called                B) call                   C) calls                 D) calling

55.     A) with                 B) into                   C) in                     D) by

56.     A) tells                  B) says                  C) suggests           D) speaks

57.     A) On                   B) In                     C) With                 D) For

58.     A) adds                 B) add                   C) adding                     D) added

59.     A) in                     B) from                 C) on                    D) at

60.     A) why                 B) when                C) how                 D) where