The passage discusses the ability of certain creatures like birds, bees, eels, and salmon to migrate over long distances and return to the same location. While scientists have conducted experiments to understand what guides these animals, they still have no definitive explanation. The animals navigate vast distances, sometimes over oceans, using unknown signals or guideposts to find their way home with precision. Their migrations are likely related to obtaining food or reproducing under optimal conditions, but how they accomplish such long-range navigation remains a mystery.
The passage discusses the ability of certain creatures like birds, bees, eels, and salmon to migrate over long distances and return to the same location. While scientists have conducted experiments to understand what guides these animals, they still have no definitive explanation. The animals navigate vast distances, sometimes over oceans, using unknown signals or guideposts to find their way home with precision. Their migrations are likely related to obtaining food or reproducing under optimal conditions, but how they accomplish such long-range navigation remains a mystery.
The passage discusses the ability of certain creatures like birds, bees, eels, and salmon to migrate over long distances and return to the same location. While scientists have conducted experiments to understand what guides these animals, they still have no definitive explanation. The animals navigate vast distances, sometimes over oceans, using unknown signals or guideposts to find their way home with precision. Their migrations are likely related to obtaining food or reproducing under optimal conditions, but how they accomplish such long-range navigation remains a mystery.
The passage discusses the ability of certain creatures like birds, bees, eels, and salmon to migrate over long distances and return to the same location. While scientists have conducted experiments to understand what guides these animals, they still have no definitive explanation. The animals navigate vast distances, sometimes over oceans, using unknown signals or guideposts to find their way home with precision. Their migrations are likely related to obtaining food or reproducing under optimal conditions, but how they accomplish such long-range navigation remains a mystery.
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One of the most mysterious things in nature is the creatures migrate ability of certain creatures to find their way home, C. Some birds can identify their former nests sometimes from great distances. Birds are not the only D. Winged creatures migrate periodically ones who can do this. Bees, eels, and salmon are able to E. The migrating creatures usually return within return to a particular place after doing journeys, too. the same season Most migrations take place between breeding 3. According to the passage, swifts and house grounds and regions where animals feed. For some martins returning from South Africa to animals, such as the lemming, the move is a one-way England, ... trip. Scientists call this movement emigration, because A. Fly in a relatively straight line these animals never return to their homes. For other B. Often return to precisely the same place each animals, such as birds, the migration includes a return year trip home. Birds move in periodic migration, or at C. Are guided by various landmarks regular times during their lives, and often to the same D. Always fly in groups to find the right place year after year. direction E. Are similiar to lemming in their flying Many experiments have been made with birds in an 4. Animals which emigrate . . . attempt to find out what guides them on their way home. A. Always leave their homes in winter In one case, seven swallows were taken 400 miles from B. Manage to fly in a big group home home. When they were set free, five of them returned to C. Cannot find the way back home their nests. In another case, a certain kind of sea bird was D. Return home using the same route taken from its nests on the Welsh coast to venice by E. Will stay in the new place forever plane. When it was released, it made its way home to its 5. It can be concluded that the author shows......... nests, a distance of 930 miles if it flew in a straight line. concerning the ability of certain creatures to find Migrating birds offer an even more amazing example their way home. of this ability. There are swifts and house martins that A. Annoyance D. dissappointment migrate from England to South Africa every year. They B. Regret E. sympathy not only return to England the next spring, but many of C. Admiration them come back to nests in the very same house they nested the year before. They fly the incredible distance Anorexia Nervosa is an emotional illness in which of 6,000 miles, one way. the sufferee does not let herself eat. The anorexic or Certain types of butterfly migrate, too, and find their sufferer, in fact, starves herself. This condition affects way home over long distances. In the tropis one can girls between the ages of 12 to 18 (only one in fifteen is sometimes see the great mass flights of butterflies all male). The typical victim is a bright, sensitive person flying steadly in one direction. They may go a thousand from an upper-middle-class or wealthy family. She has miles and more and then return again in another season. high expectations of herself and is self-critical even Despite all the efforts that have been made to when her performance is excellent. She is often close to explain how these creatures find their way home, we still her parents. The girl’s parents are conscious of weight or have no sure explanation. Since many of the birds fly appearance and are concerned about athletics or fatness. over great bodies of water, we cannot explain it by They may have high expectations for achievement from saying they use landmarks to guide them. Just to say their children. Sometimes they are overprotective of or they have an "instinct" does not really explain the right overly involved with their children. conditions. The reason they do it may be to obtain food or to reproduce under the right conditions. But the 6. The text tells us about an illness which... signals and guideposts they use on their flights are still a A. Belongs to infectious diseases mystery to man. B. Is commonly genetic C. Damages one of the organs 1. The best title for the text is . . . D. Is caused by psychological problems A. The Mystery of Migrating Birds E. Occurs more in male B. Popular Places for Migration 7. From the text we may conclude that an anorexic C. Reasons for Animals Migration person is . . . D. The Migration of Birds A. Very friendly D. self-centered E. The Experiments on Migratory Animals B. A perfectionist E. Mentally ill C. Overweight 2. Which of the following in NOT TRUE according to the passage? A. Flying is not the only way of migration high school graduates are sometimes nervous Passage 2 attending college, because they fear that everything will A possible alien planet discovered by NASA‘s be different. . . . . . . . . . .(8) , there are some important Kepler space telescope is the most Earth-like world yet similarities between college and high school. In both detected beyond our solar system, scientist say. With a place, academic .. . . . . . .(9) depends on being a radius that is just 1.5 times that of Earth, the potential responsible student. This means attending classes planet is a so-called super-Earth, meaning it is just regularly. Similarly, . . . . . . . . .(10) success in college is slightly larger than the Earth. The candidate planet orbits like that in high school. If you have had friends in high a star similar to the sun at a distance that falls within the school, chances are you will have friends in college too. habitable zone the region where liquid water could exist College also . . . . . . (11) high school in student on the planet‘s surface. Scientists say the planet, if activities. Musical groups, sports teams, special interest confirmed, could be a prime candidate to host alien life. clubs, and other activities are found in both . . . . . . .(12). The object takes 242 days to orbit its star 8. . . . (compared to Earth‘s 365 days) and is about three- A. In fact D. Therefore quarters of the Earth-sun distance from its parent. The B. In contrast E. Consequently Earth orbits 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) C. However from the sun on average, a distance known as one 9. . . . astronomical unit. A. Succeed D. Successful B. Success E. Successfully 13. Which of the following statement is true about C. Succeeding both planets according to both passages? 10. . . . A. They have water A. Socialise D. socialising B. They orbit the stars B. Socialisation E. Social C. They are home of the aliens C. Socialised D. They supported life in the past 11. . . . E. They have a similar distance to the star A. Resembles D. Imitates 14. Based on both passages, it can be hypothezied B. Looks like E. Agrees with that.... C. duplicates A. Human will travel around the universe soon 12. . . . B. Human needs spacecraft reaching the speed of A. College D. Clubs light B. Institutions E. Activities C. The closer planet to the sun, the higher chance C. Schools to live on D. The more water exists in a planet, the higher Passage 1 possibility of life is. The first sample of material ever taken from the E. Humans will create advanced technology to inside of a rock on another planet has been obtained by survive on other planets NASA‘s Mars rover Curiosity. NASA just released new 15. The topic discussed in both passage is . . . images showing the drilled material. The sample A. The future place to live material will give researchers a look into what Mars was B. The identification of rock formation like during the rock material‘s formation. C. The attempt to prove the existence of aliens Curiosity‘s drill, located on one of its many D. The comparison of the planets with the earth robotic arms, obtained the sample powder as it made a E. The search for the possibility of life in other 2.5 inch hole in the flat Martian bedrock on February 8 th. planets The sample will now be put through a sieve, and 16. Passage 1 differs from passage 2 in stating that . . . portions of it will be analyzed by the scientific A. The alien does not exist instruments inside of the rover. B. The planet is more habitable The area where the sample was obtained is a C. The planet is closer to the star fine-grained, veiny sedimentary rock called John Klein,‘ D. The rock formation is more complicated named in memory of a Mars Science Laboratory deputy E. The researcher can use the real sample from project manager who died in 2011. The rock was the planet selected for the first sample drilling because it may hold 17. What does the word “it” in “. . .because it may evidence of wet environmental conditions long ago. The hold evidence of wet environmental conditions..” rover‘s laboratory analysis of the powder may provide (passage 1 paragraph 3) refer to? information about those conditions. A. Memory D. Project B. Sample E. The rock C. Manager 18. . . . . . the great inconvenience of travelling, many TV reporters went to the flooded area for their reports. A. Despite D. in case of B. In addition to E. Because of C. Although 19. A symbol of royal prosperity in the past, the old castle, . . . . firmly on the island shore, is frequently visited by foreign tourist. A. Stand D. to stand B. Stood E. Are standing C. Standing 20. In evaluating your progress, the teacher will take into account . . . . . , attitude, and achievements. A. How you performed B. Your performance C. If you performed well D. That you performed E. When you have performed 21. Either the management or the education system of our Institute . . . . . to be reviewed to increase the number of graduates next year. A. That needs D. Needing B. To need E. They need C. Needs 22. ‘Had the company been fair in giving bonuses, the employees would not have gone on strike.’ From the sentence above, we may conclude that... A. The employees are still going on strike B. The company gave the employees fair bonuses C. The employees were not given bonuses at all D. The company has lost many employees E. The employees were very dissatisfied. 23. Being members of a team in a debate contest, you are all supposed . . . . emotional responses to the opposite team. A. Don’t give B. You are not giving C. Not giving D. That you don’t give E. Not to give 24. Although there is a vacancy for an experienced receptionist at the Ratna Hotel,I am not interested in applying for it because the pay is not so good; moreover, . . . . A. The working condition is quite good B. It gives incentives to motivate workers C. There is no promise for advancement D. There are no job openings at all E. The pay includes various allowances 25. These tourist, . . . . . . . are Japanese, were among the crowd participating in the “dangdut” dance. A. There are D. Many of whom B. Many of them E. They who C. Whose many