40 Which of the following statements is true?
(A) An e-commerce website is like an iceberg because they are both dangerous.
(B) It doesn’t cost much for a company to be able to do business online effectively.
(C) Many companies think online shopping will soon replace the traditional way of shopping.
(D) A lot of businesses use their websites only to provide information for customers.

36 According to this article, what is To Kill a Mockingbird mainly about? (A) Childhood memory (B) Racism (C) American culture (D) The Scottsboro Trial

37 Which of the following statements best describes the main idea of this passage? (A) It’s cheap to set up a website for e-commerce. (B) Both the gold rush and e-commerce are a get-rich-quick scheme. (C) Many people have some wrong ideas about doing business online. (D) Making money through e-commerce is easier than opening a store to sell products.

38 Why is the Internet boom similar to the gold rush in the US during the 1800s? (A) They both started in California. (B) Many people made a lot of money through both of them. (C) They both have become a powerful force in communication and business. (D) There’s much misleading information on how to get rich quick.

39 What does “myth” in the second paragraph mean? (A) A false belief (B) A story about gods or fairies (C) An advantage (D) A shortcoming

41 According to this passage, what might be the main reason for communication problems in relationships between men and women? (A) Negative connotations. (B) Misinterpretation. (C) Concealment of true feelings. (D) Wrong expressions.

42 According to this passage, which of the following statements is true? (A) Men tend to give supportive responses because they don’t want arguments with women. (B) Women often don’t feel heard because men have hearing problems. (C) Women tend to take poetic license to express their feelings. (D) Men fail to listen to facts and information and so feel tired of women’s nagging.

43 What is the main idea of this passage? (A) Men tend to interpret women’s talk literally and find fault with women’s logic in speech. (B) In order to help them understand each other better, men and women need translators when they are talking. (C) It is hard for men and women to understand each other since they don’t want to listen to each other. (D) Communication problems between the two sexes often result from men’s and women’s different interpretations of the same words.

44 According to this passage, which of the following statements is true? (A) The words “sabotage,” “chauvinism,” and “boycott” were all coined during the French Revolution. (B) The words “sabotage,” “chauvinism,” and “boycott” all have negative implications. (C) The words “sabotage,” “chauvinism,” and “boycott” all originated from people’s names. (D) The words “sabotage,” “chauvinism,” and “boycott” all came from French.

45 According to this passage, which of the following statements about word origin is true? (A) The word “chauvinism” originated from a French soldier’s blind attachment to his sex. (B) Captain Boycott was the one who led the protest of the Irish tenant farmers. (C) From the origin of words, we can see that new words are coined constantly. (D) Many French words originated from English names.

46 What is the main idea of this passage? (A) You can depend exclusively on word origin for the sound definition of a word. (B) The origin of a word helps you remember it because of the picture it creates. (C) The origin of a world helps us understand social and historical problems better. (D) If we know the origin of a word, we can understand the word and the language better.