She was frightened, as she noticed there was something ______ in his eyes.
The most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can exceed the joy of discovering for yourself something that is important to you! It may be an idea or a bit of information you come across accidentally—or a sudden insight, fitting together pieces of information or working through a problem. Such personal encounters are the “payoff” in education. A teacher may direct you to learning and even encourage you in it—but no teacher can make the excitement or the joy happen. That’s up to you.A research paper, assigned in a course and perhaps checked at various stages by an instructor, leads you beyond classroom, beyond the texts for classes and into a process where the joy of discovery and learning can come to you many times. Preparing the research paper is an active and individual process, and ideal learning process. It provides a structure within which you can make exciting discoveries, of knowledge and of self, that are basic to education. But the research paper also gives you a chance to individualize a school assignment, to suit a piece of work to your own interests and abilities, to show others what you can do. Writing a research paper is more than just a classroom exercise. It is an experience in searching out, understanding and synthesizing, which forms the basis of many skills applicable to both academic and nonacademic tasks. It is, in the fullest sense, a discovering, an education. So, to produce a good research paper is both a useful and a thoroughly satisfying experience!To some, the thought of having to write an assigned number of pages, often more than ever produced before, is disconcerting. To others, the very idea of having to work independently is threatening. But there is no need to approach the research paper assignment with anxiety, and nobody should view the research paper as an obstacle to overcome. Instead, consider it a goal to accomplish, a goal within reach if you use the help this book can give you.11. According to the writer, personal discoveries ____.12. It can be inferred from the passage that writing a research paper gives one chances ____.13. From the context, the word “disconcerting” (Para. 3) most probably means ____.14. The writer argues in the passage that ____.15. What will probably follow this passage?
The law on drinking and driving is ______ stated.
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion (∧) in the correct place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and be sure to put a slash (/) in the blank.Example:Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our period.1. _time_Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature as a2. __/___school subject are valid for∧study of television.3. _the__American researchers say a new study has found that a substancemade by the plant known as Saint John’s wort (藿香) is not effective in treating1. ______serious depression. Depression is a feeling of deep sadness that continuesfor at least 14 days. People who are depressed may have decreased energy,feelings of guilty or thoughts of killing themselves. 2. ______Saint John’s wort has become very popular in the United States to treatdepression. It sells in many stores. Researchers say the latest study is the3. ______first large scientific trial of Saint John’s wort in patients suffering seriousdepression. It is involved 200 people at 11 medical centers in the United States. 4. ______The patients received either Saint John’s wort nor an inactive substance. 5. ______After eight weeks, the researchers found no real difference between theGroup taking Saint John’s wort and the group taking the inactive substance.Richard Shelton, a professor at Vanderbilt University led to the study and 6. ______published the results in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Hesaid the study means that people suffering depression should take Saint John’s 7. ______wort. They should go to a doctor and receive medicine that is known to helpdepression. The new results dispute the findings of at least 20 earlier studies.These studies showed that Saint John’s wort did help people suffer a less 8. ______serious kind of depression. So Doctor Shelton and the other researchersre-examined their study results. They looked for any effects from Saint John’swort on less serious depression.Again they found that the substance was not efficient. Doctor Shelton9. ______said no proof exists to support the use of Saint John’s wort for any kind ofdepression. But he also said more studies are needing to confirm the findings 10. ______of his group.
Fresh air and good food are ______ to the health.
The doctor is trying to ______ the girl who has fainted.