multiculturalism and equality.
A. To be interacted with B. To interact with C. Interact with D. To interacting with Key: B
13. Ask yourself carefully whether it ______ the right time to take the initiative. A. will be B. is C. might be D. be Key: D
14. Throw used tissues away into a trash can ______ with a disposable plastic bag. A. lined B. lining C. line D. to be lined Key: A
15. ______ if the area would put bird flu under complete control within one month’s time, the spokeswoman gave a guarded reply.
A. When asked B. When was asked C. When being to asking D. When asking Key: A
X. Blank filling (with the appropriate preposition or adverb)
Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with an appropriate preposition or adverb. Fill in each blank with only ONE word. Fill in the blanks with proper
prepositions and adverbs.
1. Apart from the orthodox account, all the theories examined so far have something _____ common. Key: in
2. Human beings, in contrast, interact _____ one another not only because of gravity but because of dependence, love, envy, hate, etc. Key: with
3. It’s to participate and support anything that encourages charities to strive _____ the highest standards. Key: for
4. Searches and edits can then be carried out on these components so avoiding the need to wade _____ huge fields of unstructured text. Key: through
5. _____ the most part, the damage is done by soluble aluminum released from soil by acid water. Key: For
6. He looks ______ the challenge as an obstacle in his life. Key: upon
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7. At that time all that is left to do is swing with the punches and part _____ as little bad feeling as possible. Key: with
8. As the courses came and went, she could only toy _____ her food. Key: with
9. You might even stumble ______ a theorem or two in your researches. Key: upon
10. The two sauces ______ the side were apple and sour cream with chives. Key: on
11. He was prepared to vindicate the bombing of South Arabian villages by the RAF as necessary ______ the pacification of the country. Key: for
12. The charter is up for review at any event, very shortly, because it was on a six-month trial ______ it were. Key: as
13. When the police confronted her ______ the evidence, she admitted everything. Key: with
14. Girls come up ______ an obstacle or two, maybe on tour, and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them. Key: against
15. Mark Clayton’s cooking has grown ______ stature with his job responsibility. Key: in
16. She is a recent convert _____ the idea of an European defence policy. Key: to
17. He wants to contribute his share towards the pacification ______ the world. Key: of
18. Attached are old photos showing the villagers performing smoke sacrifice ______ the local mountain god. Key: to
19. Finally the enlightenment _____ relation between brain maturation and child behavioural development is discussed. Key: of
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20. After all, the landmark Indo-US nuclear deal is immensely advantageous ______ India. Key: for
Section IV Fast reading
XI. Fast reading (True or False Questions + Blank Filling)
Directions: Read the following passages and then answer the questions. For questions 1-7, choose Y (YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage, choose N (NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage, choose NG (NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
Passage 1
There are no mistakes, only lessons
Human growth is a process of experimentation, trial, and error, ultimately leading to wisdom. Each time you choose to trust yourself and take action, you can never quite be certain how the situation will turn out. Sometimes you are victorious, and sometimes you become disillusioned. The failed experiments, however, are no less valuable than the experiments that ultimately prove successful; in fact, you usually learn more from your perceived “failure” than you do from your perceived “success”.
To ease this process of learning, you must first master the basic lessons of compassion and forgiveness. Without these essential lessons, you remain trapped in your limited view and unable to turn mistakes into valuable learning opportunities. Compassion
Compassion is the act of opening your heart. To live in a state of compassion means you approach the world with your emotional barriers lowered. Compassion is the emotional glue connecting you to your essence and to the essence of those around you.
You have the ability to choose whether or not you will learn the lessons you are presented with, so you will then need to use your discretion to choose whether to invite in compassion or remain closed. If you choose compassion, you can try on what it would feel like to be that person you are judging and imagine putting yourself in his reality. This will connect you to his essence and evaporate the judgment encrusted around your heart.
Compassion is also required at those times when you are harshly judging yourself. If you have made what you perceive to be a mistake, or failed to live up to your own expectations, you will most likely put up a barrier between your essence and part of you that is the alleged wrongdoer. Compassion will then open the door to the possibility of forgiveness and will allow you to release those judgments that are holding you in self-contempt. Forgiveness
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Forgiveness is the act of erasing an emotional debt. As you move from compassion to forgiveness, your heart is already open, and you engage in a conscious and deliberate release of resentment. Perceiving past actions as mistakes implies guilt and blame, and it is not possible to learn anything meaningful while you are engaged in blaming.
There are four kinds of forgiveness. The first is beginner forgiveness for yourself. The second kind of forgiveness is beginner for another.
The third kind of forgiveness is advanced forgiveness of yourself. This is for serious transgressions (违反), the ones you carry with deep shame. When you do something that violates your own values and ethnics, you create a gap between your standards and your actual behaviour. In such a case, you need to work very hard at forgiving yourself for these deeds so that you can close this chasm (鸿沟) and realign with the best part of yourself. This does not mean that you should rush to forgive yourself or not feel regret or remorse, but wallowing in these feelings for a protracted period of time is not healthy, and punishing yourself excessively will only create a bigger gap between you and your ethnics.
The last and perhaps most difficult one is the advanced forgiveness of another. At some time of your life, you may have been severely wronged or hurt by another person to such a degree that forgiveness seems impossible. However, harbouring resentment and revenge fantasies only keep you trapped in victim-hood. Under such a circumstance, you should force yourself to see the bigger picture. By doing so, you will be able to shift the focus away form the anger and resentment. It is only through forgiveness that you can erase wrongdoing and clean the memory. When you finally release the situation, you come to see it as a necessary part of your growth. It may come as relief to finally understand that you never actually master life and that striving to do so will only lead to frustration. The best you can do is to strive to master the process by which you experience it. Life is a year-round school from which you never actually graduate, so it is the learning process itself that brings true value to existence. The challenge here is to embrace your role as a perpetual student of life. In order to embrace your role as a perpetual student, you need to learn the lessons of surrender and flexibility. Without these important lessons, you will never be able to open your mind, heart, and spirit wide enough to allow yourself to take in all that life has to teach you. Surrender
Surrender is the transcendence of ego and release of control. When you surrender to your lessons that arise, you allow yourself to flow with the rhythm of life, rather than struggle against it. The peaks and valleys that mark your personal path become easier to go through when you surrender to them.
The key to coming to peace with your role as a perpetual student lies in surrendering to what is, rather than trying to create what you imagine should be. If resistance has been a theme throughout your life, then surrender will appear in your curriculum. If you are one of those people who
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always have to do things on your own way or who possess a strong, willful ego, then surrender will seem like defeat to you. But surrender only signifies defeat in war. In life it signifies transcendence. This is not to say that you should remain passive and just let life happen to you. Rather, you need to learn to surrender to those circumstances over which you never really had any control anyway. If you surrender to the fact, you will be amazed how much easier life gets when you stop resisting and controlling it, and ride the waves towards the fulfillment of your destiny. Flexibility
Flexibility is defined as being adaptable to changes. In the course of your lifetime, it is essential that you learn to bend and flex around every new circumstance, as rigidity deprives you of the opportunities to see new possibilities. Paradigms change over time, and so must you. Your company may restructure, and you will have to survive. Your spouse may choose to leave the marriage, and you will have to cope. Technology will continue to advance and change, and you must constantly learn and adapt or risk becoming a dinosaur. Flexibility allows you to be ready for whatever curve lies ahead in life instead of getting blindsided by it.
Learn to be flexible; it makes the curves in your life path much easier to deal with. 1. One can learn more from their success than their failure. 2. In order to shift from one’s mistakes to valuable learning opportunities, one should learn the lessons of compassion and forgiveness.
3. Compassion means that you should pay more attention to the people who are lower in position than you.
4. If one masters forgiveness, they will forget their resentment or anger. 5. The most difficult forgiveness is to forgive those who have seriously wronged or hurt you.
6. One might always be a student in his life because life has much to teach. 7. Surrender for one’s goal is the best way to become a perpetual student.
8. Because of the rapidly developing society, one must constantly learn and adapt or _______. 9. In order not to panic over whatever curve lies ahead in life, one must learn to be _______. 10. Being a perpetual student in one’s life, they must learn the lessons of _______. Key:
1. N 2. Y 3. NG 4. N 5. Y 6. Y 7. N 8. risk becoming a dinosaur 9. flexible 10. surrender and flexibility
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