Choose the item among A, B, C or D that best answers the question about the passage. Helen Keller was born in Alabama in 1880. When she was twenty months oll she got an illness. After her illness, Helen could not hear or see. She was deaf and blind. Helen was a difficult child. Her parents did not know what to do. Finally, when Helen was seven years old, her parents got her a special teacher Her name was Miss Anne Sullivan. Miss Sullivan worked with Helen all day. She took Helen's hand and spelled a word in her hand. Helen soon learned to say what she wanted in this way. In 1900, Helen entered Radcliffe College. Miss Sullivan sat next to Helen in class. She spelled all the words into Helen's hand. Miss Sullivan also read to Helen all the time. At that time there were only a few books for the blind. These were Braille books. They had a special alphabet made with dots that blind people could read with their fingers. Helen graduated from Radcliffe College with honors. Helen wrote books like The Story of My Life and Midstream, My Later Lif She also wrote magazine articles and spoke all over the country. She learned to speak . It was not easy to understand her. Miss Sullivan repeated what Helen said. Helen spoke about the deaf and blind. People everywhere became interested. There was new hope for the deaf and blind. 1. How did Helen learn at Radcliffe College? A. Miss Sullivan spelled all the words into her hand. B. She listened to the lectures and wrote them down. C. She read books and wrote essays by herself. D. Her friends in class helped her understand the lectures. 2. From the passage, we know that Miss Sullivan was ………….. A. a young and beautiful teacher B. a nice and easy teacher C. an intelligent, impatient teacher D. a helpful and patient teacher 3. Which of the following things had Helen Keller NOT done in her life? A. Writing magazine articles. B. Writing two books about her own life. C. Making a film about her own life. D. Giving lectures to people throughout the country. 4. It is possible to infer from the passage that Helen was and blind……… A. but she was an excellent student at the college B. and she found it impossible to understand the lectures C. but she was a lazy student at the college D. so she only graduated with very humble grades 5. How did Helen Keller speak in public? A. She could make herself understood by everybody. B. She used her hands to make everybody understand. C. Miss Sullivan had to repeat what Helen said D. She wrote her speeches on a board.
Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage. Nowadays, computers play a very important (1) ……….in our everyday life. Computers can work with information much more quickly than a person because they can work (2)………lots of information at the same time. The can keep information a long time. Computers are not completely perfect. Consider the use of computers in both shops and offices. Big shops especially chain stores with branches all over the country, have to deal with very larg amounts of (3)………. . They have to make sure that there are (4)………..goods on the shelves for customers to buy, they need to be able to re-order before stocks run (5)…………, to decide which things are selling well and so on. 1. 2. A. way A. with B. thing B. in C. part C. on D. path D. of 3. 4. A. way A. enough B. news B. a lot C. information C. much D. thing D. some 5. A. after B. away C. through D. out