a great time. You probably will too.
N) 10. Beware the food obsession. Let’s be honest: For many of us, vacations are about eating splurges. It’s fresh seafood by the ocean, amazing restaurants in great cities, unlimited breakfast buffets at the hotel, that ice cream/candy/cake/jambalaya that you remember as a child and come back for every few years. This is the stuff of great vacations, and don’t deny yourself these pleasures. Our suggestion: Limit yourself to one food splurge a day. If you do more, the uniqueness and specialness of the splurges fade away. And you’ll spend too much time sitting in restaurants —and then sitting some more, recuperating from the overindulgence.
O) 11. Explore on foot. Yes, you can use the concierge, the travel guides, the map, or the bus tours to get acquainted with a new location. But only by getting out and walking can you truly get the feel of a village, city, resort, or wilderness. We recommend that you plan to spend the first several hours at your vacation destination walking the area. If you are in a city, pick a few restaurants to try while you are walking and make your reservations in person. Be sure to locate the parks, museums, and shopping areas.
P) 12. Fly a stunt kite. If there’s a good wind blowing at your destination, purchase a stunt kite and take it to the beach or other large open area. These kites can be easily assembled and then taken apart, making them perfect for traveling. You’ll give your upper body a great workout as you struggle to control the kite. You may also have to run or walk to keep the kite in the air — or chase it down once it plummets to the earth.
Q) 13. Schedule an activity-based vacation. Ready to commit to even more action? Wrap your entire vacation around an activity, such as sailing, skiing, hiking, biking, or exploring. No expertise is necessary — just a willingness to take on a new challenge. Travel agents can hook you up with any number of vacation packages
targeted from novice to expert, adolescent to senior, single or whole family. If you have children, look for packages that include excavating dinosaur bones and other anthropological expeditions, or that teach them a new sport. A ski vacation with lessons for different ages and ability levels works beautifully.
46. Biking along the ocean can be included as an active vacation.
47. Swimming and water games can be beneficial to human health.
48. Don’t make your own mini-Olympics a serious competition, but just a chance to have active fun in which everyone participates.
49. On vacations one should limit to one food splurge a day.
50. Try to make a walk at dawn or dusk a daily ritual of life away from home.
51. Outdoor games usually refer to team sports like baseball, football, or volleyball, all of which can be both intimidating and excessively strenuous for grown-ups who stopped playing such things a long time back.
52. Boats make you feel young, and whether you are propelling them or not, they all burn calories and engage your muscles more than being on dry land.
53. If you are in a city, pick a few restaurants to try while you are walking and you’re your reservations in person.
54. Morning is the best activity time because your energy level is higher in the morning.
55. Travel agents can hook you up with any number of vacation packages targeted from novice to expert, adolescent to senior, single or whole family.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Over 60 million persons in the United States own a credit card. For these millions of Americans a credit card brings freedom to them. It has had effect of increasing consumption possibilities for households by allowing them to purchase thousands of dollars of merchandise, ranging from autos, clothing, to electrical appliances. The widespread use of credit card nowadays shocks the imagination to the point where one wonders whether the total amount of consumption spending each year would be the same if this plastic money were not around. Credit cards have also been of significant importance to the national economy. Businessmen have been encouraged to expand plant and equipment and hire additional personnel to meet the heavy demand for their products. The tendency of employment and income would rise significantly.
Unfortunately, the ease with which buyers can increase their purchase with credit cards has caused them to overlook the additional costs. Purchase on credit cards are postponed payments. Buy-now-pay-later encourages buyers to use credit cards extensively. Since the buyer is in effect borrowing money for a special purpose, he must expect to pay an interest charge. Interest is the price of using money over a long period of time. A close analysis of the use for credit cards for heavy purchases
will show that the buyer has added to the cost of making these purchases. It must also be kept in mind that unpaid monthly balances mean added interest charges. Furthermore, the use of credit cards will add to the cost of the product since the shopkeeper does not receive the money at the time of the purchases. Shopkeepers might add on the cost of handing credit cards to the bill. One of the arguments against the use of credit cards has been that those who do pay cash at purchase finance the use of a credit card by another person. This is so, the argument runs, because the price of a product will include the cost of another person’s use of a credit card. 56. In the first paragraph, what does “plastic money” (Line 6, Para. 1) refer to? A) Dollars.
57. Which of the following is NOT true about credit cards?
A) Shopkeepers, among others, object to the use of credit cards because they add on the cost of the merchandise.
B) Credit card holders actually pay for their shopping goods after the purchase has been completed.
C) The national economy enjoys extensive growth because of the use of credit cards.
D) It has had the effect of increasing consumption.
58. What is the disadvantage of credit cards?
A) It may lead to the overgrowth of the national economy.
B) The delay in the payment of shopping goods may bring damage to shopkeepers’ profits.
C) Some people may intentionally purchase goods that they cannot possibly afford. D) Those who pay by cash at the purchase will have to pay for the cost added to the product as the interest charge of credit cards.
B) Online payment.
C) Credit cards.
D) Coins.
59. What is the main topic of the text?
A) Advantages and Disadvantages of Credit Cards. B) Economic Growth Backed up by the Use of Credit Cards. C) It can encourage great sums of consumption. D) Credit Cards Make Life Easier.
60. The author’s attitude towards credit card is . A) agreeable oppositional
Passage Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Lie detectors are widely used in the United States to find out whether a person is telling the truth or not. Polygraphers, the people who operate them, claim that they can establish guilt by detecting physiological changes that accompany emotional stress. The technique adopted is to ask leading questions such as, “Did you take the money?” or “Where did you hide the money?” mixed in with neutral questions, and measure the subject’s electrical resistance in the palm or changes in his breathing and heart rate. Such apparatus has obtained widespread recognition.
Whether lie detectors will ever be adopted on a similar scale in Britain is still a matter of opinion. At first sight, it appears obvious that any simple, reliable methods of convicting guilty people is valuable, but recent research sponsored by the . Office of Public Health not only raises doubts about how lie detectors should be used but also makes it questionable whether they should be employed at all.
The point is that, apart from many of the polygraphers being unqualified, the tests themselves are by no means free from error, primarily because they discount
B) neutral
C) humorous
D)