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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 5.
In Britain, greetings cards are sold in chain stores and supermarkets, in newsagents' shops,
corner shops and, increasingly, in shops that specialize in the sale of cards and paper for wrapping
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presents in.
The most common cards are birthday and Christmas cards. Many Christmas cards are sold in aid of
charity and special ,charity card shops' are often set up in temporary premises in the weeks before
Christmas. A wide variety of birthday cards is available to cater for different ages and tastes. Some,
especially ones for young children or for people celebrating a particular birthday, have the person's
age on the front. Many have comic, often risqué, messages printed on them, and cartoon-style
illustrations. Others are more sober, with reproductions of famous paintings or attractive original
designs. The usual greeting on a birthday card is 'Happy Birthday', 'Many Happy Returns' or 'Best
Wishes for a Happy Birthday'.
Some people also send special cards for Easter and New Year. Easter cards either portray
images of spring, such as chicks, eggs, lambs, spring flowers, etc, or have a religious theme.
Cards are produced for every 'mileștone' in a person's life. There are special cards for an
engagement, a marriage, a new home, a birth, success in an examination, retirement, a death in the
family, etc. Some are 'good luck' or ,congratulations' cards. Others, for example 'get well' cards
for people who are ill, express sympathy.
Question 49: What is the passage mainly about?
C. Easter Cards
D. Birthday Cards
A. Greetings Cards
Question 50: The word 'some' in paragraph 2 refers to
B. Christmas Cards
and tastes
B. young children
C. birthday cards
D. card shops
ages
Question 51: Which of the following is NOT the usual greeting on a birthday card?
A. 'Best Wishes for a Happy Birthday'
C. 'Happy Birthday'
Question 52: The word 'milestone' in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
А.
B. 'Many Happy Returns'
D. 'Good luck"
C. a special gift
D. a convenient way
A. a positive view
Question 53: It can be inferred from the passage that
A. there are few choices of birthday cards B. greetings cards are not very popular in Britain
C. greetings cards are for children only
B. an important event
D. greetings cards are used on many different
occasions
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the following questions .
According to sociologists, there are several different ways in which a person may become
recognized as the leader of a social group in the United States. In the family, traditional cultural
patterns confer leadership on one or both of the parents. In other cases, such as friendship groups,
one or more persons may gradually emerge as leaders, although there is no formal process of
selection. In larger groups, leaders are usually chosen formally through election or recruitment.
Although leaders are often thought to be people with unusual personal ability, decades of research
have failed to produce consistent evidence that there is any category of “natural leaders." It seems
that there is no set of personal qualities that all leaders have in common; rather, virtually any person
may be recognized as a leader if the person has qualities that meet the needs of that particular
group.
Furthermore, although it is commonly supposed that social groups have a single leader, research
suggests that there are typically two different leadership roles that are held by different individuals.
Instrumental leadership is leadership that emphasizes the completion of tasks by a social group.
Group members look to instrumental leaders to "get things" done. Expressive leadership, on the
other hand, is leadership that emphasizes the collective well-being of a social group's member.
Expressive leader is less concerned with the overall goals of the group than with providing
emotional support to group members and attempting to minimize tension and conflict among them.