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A. Speaking

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1. Physical Activities (New) (Prediction)

2. Istanbul (New) (Prediction)

3. Chaplin and Sydney (New) (Prediction)

4. Artificial Neural Networks (New) (Prediction)

5. Biology (Prediction)

6. Coronavirus Pandemic (Prediction)

7. Decisions (Prediction)

8. Human and Planet (Prediction)

9. Gombe National Park (Prediction)

10. Ozone (Prediction)

11. Dynamics (Prediction)

12. Sleep Behavior (Prediction)

13. Summary and Abstract (Prediction)

14. Deaf Children (Prediction)

15. Drug Overdose Deaths (Prediction)

16. European Wildcats (Prediction)

17. X-ray (Prediction)

18. Aromatic Substance (Prediction)

19. Barley Grains (Prediction)

20. Hydrogen Fuel (Prediction)

21. Organic Molecules (Prediction)

22. Injury or Disease (Prediction)

23. Protein Tau (Prediction)

24. Effects of Alcohol (Prediction)

25. Stretchable System (Prediction)

26. Black Hole (Prediction)

27. Planet Nine (Prediction) (Incomplete)

28. Memory Coding (Prediction)

29. Chasing the Flame (Prediction)

30. Problem of Funding (Prediction)

31. Electricity Discoveries (Prediction)

32. Telecommunication (Prediction) (Shadowing)

33. Microscopic Invaders (Prediction) (Shadowing)

34. Executive Order (Prediction)

35. Colloquialism (Prediction) (Shadowing)

36. MBA (Prediction)

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36. MBA (Prediction)

37. Tea Ceremony (Prediction) (Shadowing)

38. Recycling (Prediction) (Shadowing)

39. Domestic Division (Prediction)

40. Elephant (Prediction) (Shadowing)

41. Shrimp Farm (Prediction) (Shadowing)

42. Brain (Prediction)

43. Grand Canyon 2 (Prediction)

44. Tesla (Prediction)

45. MBA Students (Prediction) (Shadowing)

46. Bookkeeper Fraud (Prediction) (Shadowing)

47. Lenient Parents (Prediction) (Shadowing)

48. Vanilla (Prediction) (Shadowing)

49. Industrial Revolution (Prediction) (Shadowing)

50. Pluto (Prediction) (Shadowing)

51. Augustus (Prediction) (Shadowing)

52. Blue (Prediction) (Shadowing)

53. Botanic Gardens (Prediction)

54. Fiscal Year (Prediction) (Shadowing)

55. Edison and Tesla (Prediction)

56. Grand Canyon (Prediction) (Shadowing)

57. Akimbo (Prediction) (Shadowing)

58. Yellow (Prediction)

59. Shakespeare (Prediction) (Shadowing)

60. Lincoln (Prediction) (Shadowing)

Repeat Sentence

Describe Image

1. Litchfield Population (New) (Prediction)

2. Age Group (Prediction)

3. Favorite Movies (Prediction)

4. Air Composition (Prediction)

5. Main Hall (Prediction)

6. Recycling (Prediction)

7. Renewable Energy (Prediction)

8. Internet Users (Prediction)

9. E-waste (Prediction)

10. Water Cycle (C) (Prediction)

11. Historic Gardens (Prediction)

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12. Mosquito Life Cycle (Prediction)

13. Ice Thickness (Prediction)

14. Women in Labor Force (Prediction)

15. World Population Density (B) (Prediction)

16. Fruits and Vegetables Market (Prediction)

17. Rhino Distribution Comparation (Prediction)

18. Coffee House (Prediction)

19. A Food Chain (Prediction)

20. South American Rainforest (Prediction)

21. Formation of Iceberg (Prediction)

22. UK Income by Age&Gender (Prediction)

23. Computer Then and Now (Prediction)

24. Water Cycle (Prediction)

25. Germination (Prediction)

26. Journeys in the UK (Prediction)

27. Commuting Time (Prediction)

28. China Age Group (Prediction)

29. London Fleet Street (Prediction)

30. Rain Forest Distribution (Prediction)

31. Common Languages (Prediction)

32. Climate Zones (Prediction)

33. Australian Population Density 1 (Prediction)

34. Food Pyramid (Prediction)

35. Beijing Weather (Prediction)

36. Population Age Groups (Prediction)

37. Diameter of Planets (Prediction)

38. Past Transport (Prediction)

39. Not Attending School (Prediction)

40. London Street View (Prediction)

41. Australian Climate Zones (Prediction)

42. Iron Age Hut (Prediction)

43. The Eatwell Plate (Prediction)

44. Start Quiz (Prediction)

45. Water Cycle 1 (Prediction)

46. World Water (Prediction)

47. World Income Distribution (Prediction)

48. Egypt Trading (Prediction)

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49. World Population Density (Prediction)

50. Arctic Food Chain (Prediction)

51. Government Expenditure (Prediction)

52. Bird Migration (Prediction)

53. Bird Feeder (Prediction)

54. Solar Eclipse 1 (Prediction)

55. Parts of Tree (Prediction)

56. Tree Ring and Saw (Prediction)

57. Food Pyramid 1 (Prediction)

58. Water Wheel (Prediction)

59. Apple Life Cycle (Prediction)


61. Fly Life Cycle (Prediction)

62. Water Treatment (Prediction)

63. Fatigue&Response (Prediction)

64. Tree Ring (Prediction)

65. Tropical Rainforest 1 (Prediction)

66. Virus Replication (Prediction)

67. Moon&Fish (Prediction)

68. Simple Circuit (Prediction)

69. Global Warming (Prediction)

70. Height of Tree (Prediction)

71. Typing Hands (Prediction)

72. Solar System (Prediction)

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1. School Policies (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

2. Circumstance (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

3. Seven Continents (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

4. Parenting (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

5. Fashion (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

6. Dietary Health (Prediction) (Incomplete)

7. Entrepreneur (Prediction) (Audio Available)

8. Online Lectures (Prediction) (Incomplete)

9. Sunrise and Sunset in Space (Prediction) (Incomplete)

10. Bilingual Parents (Prediction) (Audio Available)

11. Research (Prediction) (Incomplete)

12. Glass Ceiling (Prediction) (Incomplete)

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12. Glass Ceiling (Prediction) (Incomplete)

13. DNA (Prediction) (Incomplete)

14. Soot (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

15. Leadership (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

16. Amazon (Prediction) (Incomplete)

17. Windmill (Prediction) (Incomplete)

18. Hans Krebs (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

19. IT Department (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

20. Edmund Wilson (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

21. Children Obesity (Prediction) (Incomplete)

22. Cloud Formation (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

23. Kids in the Museum (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

24. Child Birth Rate (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

25. Fatherhood (Prediction) (Incomplete)

26. Increasing Productivity (Prediction) (Incomplete)

27. Globalization (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

28. Performance of Genders (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

29. Knee Cracking (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

30. Animal Behavior (B) (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

31. Housing Affordability (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

32. Armor (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

33. Happiness and Social Relations (Prediction) (Audio Available)

34. Truth and Rhetoric (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

35. Ageing Population (Prediction) (Incomplete)

36. Absolute Zero (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

37. Survey (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

38. Linguistic Training (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

39. European Educational Expenditure (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

40. Ship (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

41. Loggerhead Turtle (Prediction) (Incomplete)

42. Motivation (Prediction) (Incomplete)

43. Soot Emission (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

44. Language Learning (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

45. Melatonin (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

46. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

47. Animal Behavior (Prediction) (Audio Available)

48. Human Behavior (Prediction) (Audio Available)

49. Pavlov Experiment (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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49. Pavlov Experiment (Prediction) (Audio Available)

50. Superman (Prediction) (Audio Available)

51. Invention (Prediction) (Audio Available)

52. Springtime (Prediction) (Audio Available)

53. Rice (Prediction) (Audio Available)

54. Arctic and Antarctic (Prediction) (Audio Available)

55. Civilization and Art (Prediction) (Audio Available)

56. Immigration Control (Prediction) (Audio Available)

57. London Taxi Drivers (Prediction) (Audio Available)

58. Music and Wellbeing (Prediction) (Audio Available)

59. Taxonomy (Prediction) (Audio Available)

60. Happiness (Prediction) (Audio Available)

61. Sugar (Prediction) (Audio Available)

62. London Fog (Prediction) (Audio Available)

63. Early Robot (Prediction) (Audio Available)

64. Australia Immigration History (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

65. Chest X-Ray (Prediction) (Audio Available)

66. Climate Change (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

67. Brain Development (Prediction) (Audio Available)

68. Vietnam's Coffee (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

69. Bomb Calorimeter (Prediction) (Audio Available)

70. Brain_development (Prediction) (Audio Available)

71. Civil Society (Prediction) (Audio Available)

72. Historic Library (Prediction) (Audio Available)

73. Green Economy (Prediction) (Audio Available)

74. Linguistic Change (Prediction) (Audio Available)

75. Guiding Principles (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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B. Writing

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1. Bank Overdraft (New) (Prediction) (Explanation)

2. Dogs (Prediction)

3. Leadership (Prediction)

4. New Women (Prediction) (Incomplete)

5. Legume (Prediction)

6. UNV (Prediction) (Explanation)

7. Carbon Dioxide (Prediction)

8. Image of Africa (Prediction) (Incomplete)

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8. Image of Africa (Prediction) (Incomplete)

9. Sustainable Development (Prediction) (Explanation)

10. Importance of Soil (Prediction) (Explanation)

11. Solar Energy (Prediction) (Explanation)

12. Skipping Breakfast（B） (Prediction) (Explanation)

13. Negotiation (Prediction) (Explanation)

14. World Wide Web (Prediction) (Explanation)

15. Energy Demand (Prediction) (Incomplete)

16. Modern Art (Prediction) (Explanation)

17. Benefit of Honey (Prediction) (Explanation)

18. Silent Movies (Prediction) (Explanation)

19. Asda (Prediction) (Explanation)

20. Reading (Prediction) (Explanation)

21. Wine Industry (Prediction) (Explanation)

22. Vividity of TV and Newspaper (Prediction) (Explanation)

23. Tree Rings (Prediction) (Explanation)

24. Technology Prediction (Prediction) (Explanation)

25. Primary Carers (Prediction) (Explanation)

26. Plug-in Vehicle (Prediction) (Explanation)

27. Paleolithic People (Prediction) (Explanation)

28. Overqualified Employees (Prediction) (Explanation)

29. Online Teaching & Learning (Prediction) (Explanation)

30. Museology (Prediction) (Explanation)

31. Back to Countryside (Prediction) (Explanation)

32. Mini War/Small War (Prediction) (Explanation)

33. Malaysia Tourism (Prediction) (Explanation)

34. House Mice (Prediction) (Explanation)

35. Hookham (Prediction) (Explanation)

36. Frog Amber (Prediction) (Explanation)

37. Crime Rate (Prediction) (Explanation)

38. America and India IT (Prediction) (Explanation)

39. Compulsory Reburial (Prediction) (Explanation)

40. Australian Indigenous Food (Prediction) (Explanation)

41. American English (Prediction) (Explanation)

Write Essay

1. Humanities (Prediction)

2. Play Writing (Prediction)

3. New Inventions (Prediction)

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3. New Inventions (Prediction)

4. Television (Prediction)

5. Inventions (Prediction)

6. Dangerous Activities (Prediction)

7. Law Effect (Prediction)

8. Marketing in Companies (Prediction)

9. Studying Climate Change (Prediction)

10. Distraction (Prediction)

11. Life Experience (Prediction)

12. Credit Cards (Prediction)

13. Digital Media (Prediction)

14. Problems and Benefits (Prediction)

15. Building Effects (Prediction)

16. Medical Technology (Prediction)

17. Deduction (Prediction)

18. Experiential Learning (Prediction)

19. Legal Responsibility (Prediction)

20. Personal Life (Prediction)

21. Right Balance (Prediction)

22. Shopping Malls (Prediction)

23. Getting Married (Prediction)

24. Information Revolution (Prediction)

25. Inventions (Prediction)

26. Formal Written Examination (Prediction)

27. Global Issue (Prediction)

28. Transportation Networks (Prediction)

C. Reading

Multiple Choice (Single)

1. Social Scientists (Prediction)

2. John Robertson (Prediction)

3. Lighthouse (Prediction) (Incomplete)

4. Euripides (Prediction) (Incomplete)

Multiple Choice (Multiple)

1. Children Care (Prediction) (Incomplete)

2. Optional Courses (Prediction) (Incomplete)

3. (Prediction) (Incomplete)

4. (Prediction) (Incomplete)

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5. Decision (Prediction)

Re-order Paragraphs

1. Group Discussions (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

2. Language and Music (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

3. Far From Content （远离⽆⽤内容） (Prediction)

4. Workforce (Prediction) (Incomplete)

5. History (Prediction) (Incomplete)

6. Sydney (Prediction) (Incomplete)

7. Television Tube (Prediction) (Incomplete)

8. Pay Cut（降薪） (Prediction) (Incomplete)

9. Panda（熊猫） (Prediction)

10. Snakes（蛇） (Prediction)

11. Major Review（主要报告） (Prediction)

12. Probability of Event (Prediction) (Incomplete)

13. Decline（下降） (Prediction)

14. 2100-2013 (Prediction)

15. Child Temptation（孩⼦的诱惑） (Prediction)

16. Book Writing（写本书） (Prediction)

17. Essential Skill（必要技能） (Prediction)

18. Children's Clothes（⼉童服装） (Prediction)

19. Namesakes Bay（以名字命名的港湾） (Prediction)

20. Mobile Phone（⼿机） (Prediction)

21. Memory Capacity（内存） (Prediction)

22. DRM (Prediction)

23. Physician（外科医⽣） (Prediction)

24. Soda Water（苏打⽔） (Prediction)

25. African Woman（⾮洲⼥⼈） (Prediction)

26. Turkey（⼟⽿其） (Prediction)

27. Center of Health（国际健康中⼼） (Prediction)

28. Survey in 1999（1999 年的调查） (Prediction)

29. German Books（德国书） (Prediction)

30. Predators（捕⻝者） (Prediction)

31. Two-and-a-half（2.5升空⽓） (Prediction)

32. Montana Two Ways（两条路） (Prediction)

33. Protein（蛋⽩质） (Prediction)

34. International Environment（国际环境） (Prediction)

35. Be Objective（保持客观） (Prediction)

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36. Birds（⻦类是好是坏） (Prediction)

37. Results Measurement (Prediction) (Incomplete)

38. TV Program（电视节⽬） (Prediction)

39. 21st Century Human Development（21世纪⼈类发展） (Prediction)

40. 11th Century Ancestors（11世纪的祖先） (Prediction)

41. Country’s Most Elite（最精英的国家） (Prediction)

42. 50 cm - 1 m (Prediction)

43. Top Executives Short（⾼管寿命变短） (Prediction)

44. Believe 1987（相信1987） (Prediction)

45. San Diego（圣地亚哥） (Prediction)

46. Mother of Storms（⻛暴之⺟） (Prediction)

47. Mathematical Reasoning（数学逻辑） (Prediction)

48. Local Looger（当地⽊⼯） (Prediction)

49. Mechanical Engineering（机械⼯程） (Prediction)

50. Keep Quiet（保持安静） (Prediction)

51. Straight Line（排成⼀排） (Prediction)

52. Indian businessmen（印度商⼈） (Prediction)

53. 300 Elephants Running Bees（300只⼤象追蜜蜂） (Prediction)

54. Company Poses（在公司摆 pose） (Prediction)

55. One Week Before（⼀周前） (Prediction)

Fill in the Blanks (Reading)

1. Good School (New) (Prediction)

2. Corn and Modified Food (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

3. Long-term Goal (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

4. Toys (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

5. Bilingual and Monolingual (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

6. Political Platforms (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

7. Noise (New) (Prediction)

8. Modern Wealth (New) (Prediction)

9. Online Learning (New) (Prediction)

10. Kimbell (New) (Prediction)

11. Power Station (Prediction)

12. Sports (Prediction) (Incomplete)

13. Gender Equality (Prediction)

14. Development of Language (Prediction) (Incomplete)


16. John Milton (Prediction)

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17. Bumble Bees (Prediction)

18. New Ideas (Prediction)

19. Textile Industry (Prediction)

20. Cultural Ideas (Prediction)

21. Green Spaces (Prediction)

22. Fossil Fuel (Prediction)

23. Sydney (Prediction)

24. Active Learning Classrooms (Prediction)

25. Sandra Lousada (Prediction)

26. Chemistry (Prediction)

27. Leading Business Schools (Prediction)

28. Jury (Prediction)

29. Economic Dimension (Prediction)

30. Paris Stage (Prediction)

31. E-Learning (Prediction)

32. Folklore (Prediction)

33. Suez Canal (Prediction)

34. Charles Darwin (Prediction)

35. Medicare (Prediction)

36. Private School (Prediction)

37. Coffee (Prediction)

38. The University of Maryland (Prediction)

39. Radioactivity (B) (Prediction)

40. Shakespeare's Work (Prediction)

41. Housing Agency (Prediction)

42. Japan and China (Prediction)

43. Mathematics and Statistics (Prediction)

44. Viper (Prediction)

45. Enigma (Prediction)

46. Walt Disney World (Prediction)

47. Dog Emotion (Prediction)

48. Shipwrecks (Prediction)

49. Low Fertility (Prediction)

50. Work-ready International Students (Prediction)

51. Most Respected Companies (Prediction)

52. Climate (Prediction)

53. Symbiosis (Prediction)

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54. Kids Distinguish Commercial Ads (Prediction)

55. Kashmiri (Prediction)

56. Ice Storm (Prediction)

57. Microorganism (Prediction)

Fill in the Blanks (Reading & Writing)

1. Accountants (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

2. Human Brain (Prediction)

3. Sandra Lousada (Prediction)

4. Bees and Flowers (Prediction)

5. Behaviorists (Prediction)

6. Astronomy Comparison (Prediction) (Incomplete)

7. Repeated Syllables (Prediction)

8. Novel Device (Prediction)

9. Dog Emotion (Prediction)

10. Studying Law (Prediction)

11. Migrating Birds (Prediction)

12. Kashmiri (Prediction)

13. Welfare Morality (Prediction)

14. Killer Whale (Prediction) (Incomplete)

15. Ozone (Prediction)

16. Ikebana (Prediction)

17. Colonial Era (Prediction)

18. Colour Preference (Prediction)

19. Fossil Fuels (Prediction)

20. Marriage Decline (Prediction)

21. Abstract (Prediction)

22. Paraphrasing (Prediction)

23. Mass Extinction (Prediction)

24. School-skipping (Prediction)

25. Australia's Dwellings (Prediction)

26. Mechanical Engineering (Prediction)

27. Noble Gas (Prediction)

28. Laptop (Prediction)

29. Small Lakes (Prediction)

30. Bones (Prediction)

31. Wrinkle Cure (Prediction)

32. Constitutional Interpretation (Prediction)

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33. Radioactivity (Prediction)

34. Trinity Sport and Fitness (Prediction)

35. Retirement (Prediction)

36. Most Respected Companies (Prediction)

37. Brains or Brawn (Prediction)

38. Sydney (Prediction)

39. Pop Mega-stars (Prediction)

40. Linda Finch (Prediction)

41. Wholeness of Thought (Prediction)

42. Seminars (Prediction)

43. Global Textile Industry (Prediction)

44. Women’s Participation in Labour Force (Prediction)

45. Fresh Water (Prediction)

46. EE&AVG (Prediction)

47. High-protein Diet (Prediction)

48. Sigmund Freud (Prediction)

49. Population Change (Prediction)

50. Progressive Enhancement (Prediction)

51. SpaceX (Prediction)

52. Effective Leader (Prediction)

53. Sleep Patterns (Prediction)

54. Australian Women Novelists (Prediction)

55. Investment Choice (Prediction)

56. Parasitic Plants (Prediction) (Incomplete)

57. Foreign Policy (Prediction)

58. Dictatorship (Prediction)

59. Emerald (Prediction)

60. Zika (Prediction)

61. Ironbridge Gorge (Prediction)

62. DNA (Prediction)

63. Romans (Prediction)

64. Tutankhamun (Prediction)

65. Hairstyles (Prediction)

66. Questions (Prediction)

67. EE and AVG (Prediction)

68. Anesthetics (Prediction)

69. Canadian Arctic (Prediction)

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70. Shakespeare (Prediction)

71. Essay (Prediction)

72. Complementary Therapies (Prediction)

73. Wine and Ale (Prediction)

74. Good Schools (Prediction)

75. Teen Writing (Prediction)

76. Medalists (Prediction)

77. Egg-eating Snakes (Prediction)

78. Non-indigenous Plants (Prediction)

79. Kimbell (Prediction)

80. Ocean Floor (Prediction)

81. Edison (Prediction)

82. Push and Pull (Prediction)

D. Listening

Summarize Spoken Text

1. Childhood Death (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

2. Service (Prediction) (Incomplete)

3. Speech Therapy (Prediction) (Incomplete)

4. Population Growth (Prediction) (Incomplete)

5. Drug Safety (Prediction) (Audio Available)

6. Australian Culture (Prediction) (Incomplete)

7. Importance of Tea (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

8. Internet and Journalism (Prediction) (Incomplete)

9. Absolutism (Prediction) (Audio Available)

10. Generalist (Prediction) (Incomplete)

11. Clone (Prediction) (Incomplete)

12. Hook Sentence (Prediction) (Audio Available)

13. Energy of Internet (Prediction) (Incomplete)

14. Approach and Avoidance (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

15. Green Tea (Prediction) (Incomplete)

16. Boys and Girls (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

17. Credit Card (Prediction) (Incomplete)

18. Definition of Literature (Prediction) (Incomplete)

19. DNA Pieces (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

20. Sugar (B) (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

21. Needs (Prediction) (Incomplete)

22. Global Marketing (Prediction) (Incomplete)

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23. Nuts (Prediction) (Incomplete)

24. Newspaper Industry (Prediction) (Audio Available)

25. Competence (Prediction) (Incomplete)

26. Children's Lost Life (Prediction) (Incomplete)

27. Automatic Driving (Prediction) (Incomplete)

28. Memory (B) (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

29. Literature in Poem (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

30. History of English (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

31. Genetic Impact (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

32. HTML (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

33. Housing Price in Australia (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

34. Misuse of Drugs (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

35. Decline of Bees (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

36. Einstein (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

37. Brand Image (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

38. Wildlife as Food (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

39. Ugly Building (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

40. Industrial Revolution (B) (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

41. Internet (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

42. Architecture Design (Prediction) (Audio Available)

43. IT Development (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

44. The Republic (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

45. Definition of Risk (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

46. Telescope (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

47. Traveling & Transport in Paris (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

48. Youth Communities (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

49. Human Rights (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

50. Globalization (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

51. Vitamin D (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

52. Good Ideas (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

53. Power Devolution (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

54. Big Bang (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

55. Recycling Water (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

56. Dropping from School (Prediction) (Incomplete)

57. Language Levels (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

58. Food Production (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

59. Negative Emotions (Prediction) (Incomplete)

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60. Time Machine (Prediction) (Incomplete)

61. Roman Building (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

62. Climate and Crops (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

63. Globalization and Detraditionalization (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

64. Earthquake and Fault (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

65. Talent War（B） (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

66. Canned Food (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

67. Fight or Flight (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

68. Indian Peasant Debt（2） (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

69. University Competition (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

70. Smile of Mother (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

71. Children Literature (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

72. Global Warming (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

73. Monster (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

74. Language Death (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)

Multiple Choice (Multiple)

1. Complaints (Prediction) (Incomplete)

2. Nano-gold (Prediction) (Incomplete)

3. Sharks (Prediction) (Incomplete)

Multiple Choice (Single)

1. Lost Dog (Prediction) (Incomplete)

2. Children Genders (Prediction) (Incomplete)

3. Timetable (Prediction) (Incomplete)

4. Wright Brothers (Prediction) (Incomplete)

5. Bibliography and Reference (Prediction) (Incomplete)

Highlight Correct Summary

1. Ambassador (Prediction) (Incomplete)

2. Ugly Building (Prediction) (Audio Available)

3. Pancake Ice (Prediction) (Audio Available)

Select Missing Word

1. ageing population (Prediction) (Incomplete)

2. Eclipse (Prediction) (Incomplete)

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1. Facial Expression (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

2. Cars in America (Prediction) (Audio Available)

3. Kimbell (Prediction) (Audio Available)

4. The 400th Anniversary (Prediction) (Incomplete)

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5. Social Harm (Prediction) (Audio Available)

6. Candace Galen (Prediction) (Audio Available)

7. Green Chemistry (Prediction) (Audio Available)

8. Weather Change (Prediction) (Audio Available)

9. Radio Telescope (Prediction) (Audio Available)

10. Nanotechnology (Prediction) (Audio Available)

11. Oceanographer (Prediction) (Audio Available)

12. CPG (Prediction) (Audio Available)

13. Shakespeare (Prediction) (Audio Available)

14. Public Views (Prediction) (Audio Available)

15. Japanese Researchers (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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1. Article (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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A. SpeakingRead AloudRepeat Rate: 50%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion: Payattention to intonation and pauses (practice with Shadowing)

1. Physical Activities (New) (Prediction)Participating regularly in physical activity has been shown to benefit an individual's health andwellbeing. Regular physical activity is important in reducing the risk of chronic diseases, such as heartdisease and stroke, obesity, diabetes and some forms of cancer. The National Physical ActivityGuidelines for Adults recommends at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity,preferably every day of the week, to obtain health benefits.(APEUni Website / App RA #450)

2. Istanbul (New) (Prediction)Straddling Asia and Europe across the strait, the old city of Istanbul, Turkey, has embraced diversecultural influences. Known for its monumental architecture, Istanbul has become a cherished traveldestination.(APEUni Website / App RA #449)

3. Chaplin and Sydney (New) (Prediction)Charlie Chaplin and his brother Sydney were placed in an orphanage at a very early age. Becoming avaudeville performer, he joined Fred Karno's company in 1906. He made his film debut in Making aLiving (1914) and introduced the famous seedy and soft-hearted gentleman-tramp routine, whichbecame his hallmark. Numerous films for various studios brought him world fame, all based on hismastery of pathos and slapstick acrobatics.(APEUni Website / App RA #446)

4. Artificial Neural Networks (New) (Prediction)Artificial Neural Networks have recently become the state-of-the-art technique for crucial signalprocessing applications such as specific frequencies classification, structural health monitoring,diseases detection in power electronics circuitry and motor-fault detection. This is an expectedoutcome as there are numerous advantages of using an adaptive and compact deep counterparts.Particularly, it can be efficiently trained with a limited dataset of signals, besides requiring datatransformation.(APEUni Website / App RA #440)

5. Biology (Prediction)Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure,chemical processes, physiological mechanisms and evolution. Certain unifying concepts consolidate itinto a single and coherent field that recognizes genes as the basic unit of heredity, and evolution asthe engine that propels the creation and extinction.(APEUni Website / App RA #443)

6. Coronavirus Pandemic (Prediction)

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The legislation, which Democrats hope to push through the Senate by the weekend, remains amongthe largest federal relief packages in modern American history. It would deliver hundreds of billions ofdollars for vaccine distribution, hospitals, state and local governments and families struggling torecover from the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic.(APEUni Website / App RA #442)

7. Decisions (Prediction)These decisions are highly nuanced. Of course we use a lot of data to inform our decisions, but wealso rely very heavily on iteration, research, testing, intuition and human empathy. Now, sometimes thedesigners who work on these products are called "data-driven," which is a term that totally drives usbonkers. The fact is, it would be irresponsible of us not to rigorously test our designs when so manypeople are counting on us to get it right.(APEUni Website / App RA #438)

8. Human and Planet (Prediction)Conservation scientists have long tried to map how much of the planet remains undegraded by humanactivity. Previous estimates using satellite imagery or raw demographic data found anywhere from 20to 40 percent of the globe was free from obvious human incursions, such as roads, light pollution orthe gaping scars of deforestation. But an intact forest canopy can hide an emptied-out ecosystembelow.(APEUni Website / App RA #437)

9. Gombe National Park (Prediction)The audio, which includes more than 1,000 separate data files, was captured in the early 1970s by thelate Hetty van de Rijt. She recorded the various screams, barks, and how calls made by a group ofchimps, including 17 youngsters, living in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania.(APEUni Website / App RA #436)

10. Ozone (Prediction)A total of five ozone ascents were taken at Bharati station (Indian mission) Antarctica from April toJune 2016. As a stratospheric temperature reduced to -82.24 ℃ on 20th June 2016 indicating theformation of stratospheric clouds, leading scientists at Bharati station feared that Montreal Accord hasnot succeeded to control the emission of ozone-depleting gases in the atmosphere.(APEUni Website / App RA #435)

11. Dynamics (Prediction)How quickly this occurs depends on the dynamics of fertility, mortality and overseas migration. While amoderate pace of demographic change allows for gradual adjustment of the economy and policies tothe changing population demographics, rapid changes are more difficult to manage. As a result,governments and society as a whole may need to take actions to address these issues.(APEUni Website / App RA #434)

12. Sleep Behavior (Prediction)Sleep behavior is also known as sleep disorder. People with sleep disorder often talk or walk in theirsleep. They are not aware of what they are talking about or where they are going. There isn't anyserious effects on body in general but it may be connected to the mental health. People withchildhood traumas, unspeakable problem or depression are the ones with different sleep behavior.(APEUni Website / App RA #433)

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13. Summary and Abstract (Prediction)The terms summary and abstract are often used interchangeably resulting in some confusion. Thisproblem arises because there are two distinct types of abstracts — descriptive and informative. Theinformative abstract is another name for a summary; the descriptive is not. The descriptive abstract isusually only two or three sentences in length, hence it is not a summary or very informative.(APEUni Website / App RA #432)

14. Deaf Children (Prediction)Deaf children learning a sign language could certainly pursue the development of listening and spokenlanguage skills if desired, and doing so would carry much less risk knowing the child would havemastery in at least one language. If a child does not succeed in mastering either a spoken language ora sign language, we must then ask how much benefit the child derived from interventions in eachlanguage relative to the amount of time and resources dedicated to those interventions.(APEUni Website / App RA #431)

15. Drug Overdose Deaths (Prediction)The slight decline in drug overdose deaths in 2018 coincides with Chinese regulations on the powerfulopioid carfentanil, rather than the result of domestic U.S. efforts to curb the epidemic, a new analysisreveals. What many — including President Donald Trump — perceived as a decline in overdose deathsin 2018, appears to be a return to the historic exponential curve.(APEUni Website / App RA #430)

16. European Wildcats (Prediction)European wildcats, thought to be extinct 50 or so years ago in the Jura mountains, have sincerecolonized part of their former territory. This resurgence in an area occupied by domestic cats hasgone hand-in-hand with genetic crosses between the two species. A team of biologists modeled theinteractions between the two species to predict that hybridization will entail the irreversible geneticreplacement of wildcats.(APEUni Website / App RA #429)

17. X-ray (Prediction)Using an X-ray laser, a research team has investigated how water heats up under extreme conditions.In the process, the scientists were able to observe water that remained liquid even at temperatures ofmore than 170 degrees Celsius. The investigation revealed an anomalous dynamic behavior of water,which is of fundamental importance for the analysis of sensitive samples using X-ray lasers.(APEUni Website / App RA #428)

18. Aromatic Substance (Prediction)Researchers have found a way to convert the aromatic substance vanillin into a redox-activeelectrolyte material for liquid batteries. The technology is an important step towards ecologicallysustainable energy storage.(APEUni Website / App RA #427)

19. Barley Grains (Prediction)University of Adelaide researchers have uncovered fundamental new information about the maltingcharacteristics of barley grains. They say their finding could pave the way to more stable brewingprocesses or new malts for craft brewers. Published in the Nature publication Scientific Reports, theresearchers discovered a new link between one of the key enzymes involved in malt production for

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brewing and a specific tissue layer within the barley grain.(APEUni Website / App RA #426)

20. Hydrogen Fuel (Prediction)The power of the sun, wind and sea may soon combine to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel,according to researchers. A team integrated water purification technology into a new proof-of-concept design for a seawater electrolyzer, which uses an electric current to split apart the hydrogenand oxygen in water molecules.(APEUni Website / App RA #425)

21. Organic Molecules (Prediction)New research identifies a process that might have been key in producing the first organic moleculeson Earth about 4 billion years ago, before the origin of life. The process, which is similar to what mighthave occurred in some ancient underwater hydrothermal vents, may also have relevance to the searchfor life elsewhere in the universe.(APEUni Website / App RA #424)

22. Injury or Disease (Prediction)Injury or disease that afflicts a relatively small number of brain cells causes a chain reaction that stopsactivity across a vast network of neural circuits, according to new research. The study may help toexplain why people can suffer from temporary but severe loss of cognitive function in cases oftraumatic brain injury or disease.(APEUni Website / App RA #423)

23. Protein Tau (Prediction)Researchers have found a novel form of the Alzheimer's protein tau in the fluid surrounding the brainand spinal cord. This form of tau -- known as MTBR tau -- indicates what stage of Alzheimer's aperson is in and tracks with tangles of tau protein in the brain.(APEUni Website / App RA #421)

24. Effects of Alcohol (Prediction)The evidence for the harmful effects of alcohol on brain health is compelling, but now experts havepinpointed three key time periods in life when the effects of alcohol are likely to be at their greatest.(APEUni Website / App RA #420)

25. Stretchable System (Prediction)A stretchable system that can harvest energy from human breathing and motion for use in wearablehealth-monitoring devices may be possible, according to an international team of researchers.(APEUni Website / App RA #419)

26. Black Hole (Prediction)Researchers used the Frontera supercomputer to model for the first time a black hole merger of twoblack holes with very different sizes (128:1). The research required seven months of constantcomputation. The results predict the gravitational waves such a merger would produce, as well ascharacteristics of the resulting merged black hole.(APEUni Website / App RA #417)

27. Planet Nine (Prediction) (Incomplete)

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Points: Astronomers think planets can exist in orbits far from their star, and propose a two-stepprocess: interactions with the star or inner planets kick it out of the inner system, and then a passingstar stabilizes the orbit to keep it bound. Such a scenario could explain the hypothesized 'Planet Nine'in our solar system. Astronomers have now confirmed that one binary star system, HD 106906, has aplanet in a bound, highly eccentric orbit.(APEUni Website / App RA #414)

28. Memory Coding (Prediction)Two new studies shed new light on how the brain encodes time and place into memories. The findingsnot only add to the body of fundamental research on memory, but could eventually provide the basisfor new treatments to combat memory loss from conditions such as traumatic brain injury orAlzheimer's disease.(APEUni Website / App RA #407)

29. Chasing the Flame (Prediction)It is precisely in observing the intertwinings of success and failure that Chasing the Flame makes itsgreatest mark. With piercing insight and relentless logic, it reveals the pitfalls of international politicsand details an intricate struggle between individual and institution. It haunts us with the poignant truththat even a great man can do only so much to reinvent the world.(APEUni Website / App RA #397)

30. Problem of Funding (Prediction)The most important issue is concerned with the problem of funding. Social services receive differentdonations or grants from the government. However, these sums are not sufficient for the solution ofall problems. The second most important issue consists in the huge spending. The money socialservices achieve is not enough for normal functioning. The third problem, affecting human services, isthe lack of skilled and experienced employees.(APEUni Website / App RA #396)

31. Electricity Discoveries (Prediction)The Royal Institution is an organization that has been around for 209 years. Many of the people thathave worked here have been scientists themselves, including Michael Faraday. He made thediscoveries that may be generating a using electricity much easier, making it possible for us all toswitch on lights, cook our dinner, play games consoles much, much more.(APEUni Website / App RA #381)

32. Telecommunication (Prediction) (Shadowing)Today, telecommunication is widespread and devices that assist the progress are common in manyparts of the world. There is also a vast array of networks that connect these devices, includingcomputer, telephone and cable networks. Computer communication across the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging, is just one of many examples of telecommunication.(APEUni Website / App RA #380)

33. Microscopic Invaders (Prediction) (Shadowing)We all know about bacteria, viruses and microscopic protozoa. We can watch the way that these tinyagents move into our bodies and damage our organs. We have a growing understanding of how ourbody mounts defensive strategies that fight off these invaders, and have built some clever chemicalthat can help mount an assault on these bio-villains.

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(APEUni Website / App RA #375)

34. Executive Order (Prediction)But on May 3, a couple of weeks later, Lincoln issued an executive order calling for 43,000 three-yearvolunteers for the army, and also increasing the size of the regular army and navy by 40,000 men.Both of these actions were in apparent violation of the constitution.(APEUni Website / App RA #266)

35. Colloquialism (Prediction) (Shadowing)Australian speak English of course. But for many tourists and even some locals, Australian English hasonly tenuous links with mother tone. Our speech is prepared with words and phrases whose arcanemeanings are understood only by the initiate. It is these colorful colloquialisms that Australian slang setto truly explain.(APEUni Website / App RA #317)

36. MBA (Prediction)Exhilarating, exhausting and intense. There are just some of the words used to describe doing anMBA. Everyone’s experience of doing MBA is, of course, different through denying that it’s hard and ademanding work whichever course you do. MBA is one of the fastest growing areas of studying in theUK so that must be a sustainable benefit against form in one pain.(APEUni Website / App RA #318)

37. Tea Ceremony (Prediction) (Shadowing)The Japanese tea ceremony is a ritual tour influenced by Buddhism in which green tea is prepared andserved to a small group of guests in a peaceful setting. The ceremony can take as long as four hoursand there are many traditional gestures that both the server and the guest must perform.(APEUni Website / App RA #314)

38. Recycling (Prediction) (Shadowing)When we recycle, used materials are converted into new products, reducing the need to consumenatural resources. If used materials are not recycled, new products are made by extracting fresh, rawmaterial from the Earth, through mining and forestry. Recycling helps conserve important raw materialsand protects natural habitats for the future.(APEUni Website / App RA #313)

39. Domestic Division (Prediction)Traditional divisions of domestic work are understood to persist because of the strong association ofthe home with femininity and paid work with masculinity - to challenge who does what in the home isarguably tantamount to challenging what it is to be a woman or a man.(APEUni Website / App RA #309)

40. Elephant (Prediction) (Shadowing)The elephant is the largest living land mammal. During evolution, its skeleton has greatly altered fromthe usual mammal, designed for two main reasons. One is to cope with the great weight of hugegrinding cheek teeth and elongated tusk, making the skull particularly massive. The other is to supportthe enormous bulk of such a huge body.(APEUni Website / App RA #302)

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41. Shrimp Farm (Prediction) (Shadowing)Shrimp farmers used to hold animals in nursery ponds for 30 to 60 days; now they try to move theminto grow-out ponds in less than 30 days. This reduces stress on the animals and dramaticallyincreases survivals in the grow-out ponds. Many farms that abandoned nursery ponds have gone backto them, and the results have been surprisingly positive. They're using the old, uncovered, earthen,nursery ponds.(APEUni Website / App RA #300)

42. Brain (Prediction)The brain is divided into its 'hemispheres' by a prominent groove. At the base of this lies nerve fiberswhich enable these two halves of the brain to communicate with each other. But the left hemisphereusually controls movement and sensation in the right side of the body, while the right hemispheresimilarly controls the left side of the body.(APEUni Website / App RA #77)

43. Grand Canyon 2 (Prediction)Few things in the world produce such amazement as one's first of glimpse of the Grand Canyon; ittook around more than 2 billion years to create this vast wonder - in some places. 17 miles wide,largely through the relentless force of Colorado River, which runs 277 miles along its length, a milebeneath its towering rims.(APEUni Website / App RA #295)

44. Tesla (Prediction)Tesla's theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power systems.Thomas Edison promised him almost one million dollars in today's money to undertake motor andgenerator improvement. However, when Tesla asked about the money, Edison reportedly replied"Tesla, you don't understand our American humor." The pair became arch-rivals.(APEUni Website / App RA #293)

45. MBA Students (Prediction) (Shadowing)Along with customary classes on subjects such as finance, accounting, and marketing, today's MBAstudents are enrolling on courses for environmental policy and stewardship. Indeed, more than half ofbusiness schools require a course in environmental sustainability or corporate social responsibility,according to a survey of 91 US business schools, published in October 2005.(APEUni Website / App RA #115)

46. Bookkeeper Fraud (Prediction) (Shadowing)A national study into fraud by bookkeepers employed at small and medium-sized businesses hasuncovered 65 instances of theft in more than five years, with more than $31 million stolen. Of thecases identified by the research, 56 involved women and nine instances involved men. However, malebookkeepers who defrauded their employer stole three times, on average, the amount that womenstole.(APEUni Website / App RA #183)

47. Lenient Parents (Prediction) (Shadowing)Two sisters were at a dinner party when the conversation turned to upbringing. The elder sister startedto say that her parents had been very strict and that she had been rather frightened of them. Hersister, younger by two years, interrupted in amazement. "What are you talking about?" she said. "Our

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parents were very lenient."(APEUni Website / App RA #280)

48. Vanilla (Prediction) (Shadowing)The uniquely scented flavor of vanilla is second only to chocolate in popularity on the world’s palate.It’s also the second most expensive spice after saffron. But highly labor intensive cultivation methodsand the plant’s temperamental life cycle and propagation mean production on a global scale isstruggling to keep up with the increasing demand for the product.(APEUni Website / App RA #152)

49. Industrial Revolution (Prediction) (Shadowing)As to the Industrial Revolution, one cannot dispute today the fact that it has succeeded ininaugurating in a number of countries a level of mass prosperity which was undreamt of in the dayspreceding the Industrial Revolution. But, on the immediate impact of the Industrial Revolution, therewere substantial divergences among writers.(APEUni Website / App RA #150)

50. Pluto (Prediction) (Shadowing)Pluto lost its official status as a planet yesterday, when the International Astronomical Uniondownsized the solar system from nine to eight planets. Although there had been a passionate debateat the IAU General Assembly Meeting in Prague about the definition of a planet, and whether Plutomet the specifications, the audience greeted the decision to exclude it with applause.(APEUni Website / App RA #137)

51. Augustus (Prediction) (Shadowing)Augustus was given the powers of an absolute monarch, but he presented himself as the preserver ofrepublican traditions. He treated the Senate, or state council, with great respect, and was madeConsul year after year. He successfully reduced the political power of the army by retiring manysoldiers, but giving them land or money to keep their loyalty.(APEUni Website / App RA #133)

52. Blue (Prediction) (Shadowing)While blue is one of the most popular colors, it is one of the least appetizing. Blue food is rare innature. Food researchers say that when humans searched for food, they learned to avoid toxic orspoiled objects, which were often blue, black, or purple. When food dyed blue is served to studysubjects, they lose appetite.(APEUni Website / App RA #131)

53. Botanic Gardens (Prediction)Botanic gardens are scientific and cultural institutions established to collect, study, exchange anddisplay plants for research and for the education and enjoyment of the public. There are majorbotanic gardens in each capital city. Zoological parks and aquariums are primarily engaged in thebreeding, preservation and display of native and exotic fauna in captivity.(APEUni Website / App RA #125)

54. Fiscal Year (Prediction) (Shadowing)At the beginning of each fiscal year, funds are allocated to each State account in accordance withthe University's financial plan. Funds are allocated to each account by objects of expenditure. Account

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managers are responsible for ensuring that adequate funds are available in the appropriate objectbefore initiating transactions to use the funds.(APEUni Website / App RA #112)

55. Edison and Tesla (Prediction)Tesla came over from Graz and went to work for Thomas Edison. Nonetheless Edison offered him ajob, promising Tesla fifty thousand dollars if Tesla could redesign Edisons breakdown-prone DCgenerator designs. The new generator designs were a vast improvement over Edisons originals. Uponcompleting the job Tesla went to Edison to collect the $50,000 promised for the task. "Tesla", Edisonreplied, "you don't understand our American humour." And Tesla was never paid. These two menbecame arch-rivals.(APEUni Website / App RA #88)

56. Grand Canyon (Prediction) (Shadowing)The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile. While thespecific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate bygeologists, recent evidence suggests the Colorado River established its course through the canyon atleast 17 million years ago.(APEUni Website / App RA #7)

57. Akimbo (Prediction) (Shadowing)Akimbo, this must be one of the odder-looking words in the language and puzzles us in part becauseit doesn't seem to have any relatives. What's more, it is now virtually a fossil word, until recentlyalmost invariably found in arms akimbo, a posture in which a person stands with hands on hips andelbows sharply bent outward, one signaling impatience, hostility, or contempt.(APEUni Website / App RA #5)

58. Yellow (Prediction)Yellow is considered as the most optimistic color. Yet surprisingly, people lose their tempers moreoften in yellow rooms and babies cry more in them. The reason may be that yellow is the hardest colorfor eyes to take in. So it can be overpowering if overused.(APEUni Website / App RA #4)

59. Shakespeare (Prediction) (Shadowing)A young man from a small provincial town -- a man without independent wealth, without powerfulfamily connections and without a university education -- moved to London in the late 1580's and, in aremarkably short time, became the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How wasthis achievement of magnitude made? How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare ?(APEUni Website / App RA #2)

60. Lincoln (Prediction) (Shadowing)Lincoln's apparently radical change of mind about his war power to emancipate slaves was caused bythe escalating scope of war, which convinced him that any measure to weaken the Confederacy andstrengthen the Union war effort was justifiable as a military necessity.(APEUni Website / App RA #1)

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Repeat SentenceRepeat Rate: 41%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion: Payattention to fluencyAudio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. We have three distinctive libraries which are nationally acclaimed. #1091 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 2. Parking permits can be collected through the student service office. #1090 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 3. Please don't forget to check your email for the updates of the week. #1089 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 4. Tuesday sessions will last for approximately two hours. #1088 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 5. We should focus on innovation, and if we don’t, we are bound to lose out. #1087 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 6. Many industries have moved to the countryside where manufacturing costs are lower. #1086 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 7. Everyone should get access to art galleries no matter where they live. #1085 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 8. Until you complete the form, you cannot attend. #1084 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 9. There is too much information on this topic. #1083 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 10. Presentation skills are important to both universities and workplaces. #1082 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 11. Major sports on campus include rugby, soccer and tennis. #1081 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 12. It is clear that the effects of climate change will damage the world economy. #1080 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 13. The framework will help pose more research questions systematically. #1079 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 14. The light can be seen as waves or particles. #1078 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 15. Experience would be an advantage for this managerial role. #1077 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 16. Points: ... only can select one subject from ... and ... #1076 (Prediction) (Incomplete) 17. The library is located on the north side of the campus. #1075 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 18. Today, I'd like to talk a little bit about the other theories that can explain the variations in climate.#1074 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 19. Good research presents many benefits to the real people. #1073 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 20. You should include your name and identity number in the registration form. #1072 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 21. Half of the marks in mathematics are allocated to the correct working. #1071 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 22. What is the most effective way of interaction between teachers and students in class? #971 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 23. The development in the information technology has greatly changed the way people work. #935 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 24. I would like the assignment less than 2000 words. #902 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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25. We can meet in my office after the lecture. #827 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 26. The sports team members often practice on weekdays and play games on weekends. #867 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 27. Talented people do special marketing. #707 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 28. I have a sandwich and milk for my breakfast. #1070 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 29. The course will be tested at the end of the semester. #1069 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 30. Biographical information should be removed prior to the publication of the results. #1068 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 31. The United States is the largest chocolate manufacturing country. #1067 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 32. Children are not allowed to be in the laboratory at any time. #719 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 33. If you forget your password, you need to contact the student center. #1066 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 34. If you forget your passport, you need to contact the student center. #1065 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 35. The characteristics of the newly discovered insects match the ones we have on record. #1061 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 36. Many people approached and were eager to help, but he didn’t want their help. #1060 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 37. It was a groundbreaking discovery, but they had to pay a very high price for it. #1056 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 38. The renewable energy alternatives were the main aspect of debate during the meeting. #1046 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 39. Globalization problems need to find globalized solutions. #1029 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 40. The course comprises twenty hours of lectures, seminars and tutorials each week. #1021 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 41. To get further extension, you need to call the education executive on 401. #1020 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 42. Professor Gordon just called me a few minutes ago. #1014 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 43. You need to use a Bunsen burner and a test tube. #1013 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 44. Sea levels are expected to rise during next century. #1009 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 45. There won't be any space for me in the car. #1007 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 46. The books are filled with drawings of machines invented when he was a student. #1004 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 47. The burning of fossil fuels leads to pollution and global warming. #997 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 48. 85% of people say they fear speaking in public. #994 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 49. People tend to be least happy in middle age. #991 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 50. I think of those leaders who inspire us to go beyond the call of duty. #985 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 51. Please read the first five chapters to prepare for next week's tutorial. #978 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 52. When the demand for the course rose, university authorities took on additional academic staff.#977 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 53. I will be in my office every day from 11 to 12. #976 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 54. Being a vegan means not consuming any animal product. #974 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 55. Applicants for the course preferably have a degree in English or journalism. #516 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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56. The cafeteria closes soon but the snack machine is accessible throughout the night. #826 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 57. The puppets do comedy routines and there is some terrific formation dancing. #225 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 58. Ideally, free trade is beneficial to both trading partners. #968 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 59. In English, the first letters of the months of the year are always capitalized. #931 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 60. I'm glad you arrived here with safety. #963 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 61. My laptop has crashed and cannot save any file. #957 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 62. You are required to submit the assignment before Friday. #949 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 63. They have enough works to keep them going. #947 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 64. The United States has developed a coffee culture in recent years. #945 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 65. The lecture theatre one is located on the ground floor of the Pack Building. #944 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 66. Most printers in the library are out of ink. #941 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 67. Our capacity to respond to national needs will determine our ability to flourish. #933 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 68. In my free time, I would like to read current affairs and newspapers. #930 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 69. Negative discourse continues to be predominant in discussions about gender. #929 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 70. Lots of students had money and passports stolen especially at night. #924 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 71. Internet provides unusual opportunities for students and current events. #911 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 72. The university has a number of travel scholarships that students can apply for. #909 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 73. If she doesn't speak the language, she's not going to sit around and wait for a translator. #906 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 74. To answer such a complex question with a simple yes or no is absolutely impossible. #905 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 75. Fishing is a sport and a means for surviving. #904 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 76. Arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart to other parts of the body. #901 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 77. Since the problems we face are global, we need to find the global solutions. #900 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 78. Many of the universities' original buildings are still in use. #899 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 79. Companies are aiming to earn the money not to change the society. #895 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 80. Animals grow larger and stronger to help them to hunt better. #891 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 81. Don’t hesitate to email me if you have any questions. #883 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 82. The hypothesis on black hole is rendered moot as the explanation of the explosion. #103 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 83. The older equipment has been put at the back of the building. #853 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 84. Nearly half of television outputs are given away for educational program. #782 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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85. The minimum mark for Distinction grade is no less than 75%. #780 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 86. A renowned economist is selected to have a speech tonight at eight. #721 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 87. She is an expert of the eighteenth century French literature. #862 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 88. Newspapers across the world are reporting stories of presidents. #843 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 89. This small Indian state is a land of forests, valleys and snowy islands. #823 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 90. He was constantly looking for ways to bring industry and agriculture together. #817 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 91. Globalization has been an overwhelming urban and urbanization phenomenon. #816 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 92. She used to be everywhere, but today she is missing. #758 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 93. Put the knife and fork next to the spoon near the edge of the table. #754 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 94. It’s the words of common occurrence that have different referential value. #739 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 95. Elephant is the largest land living mammal. #731 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 96. Your watch is fast, you need to reset it. #700 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 97. Please pass the handouts along to the rest of the people in your row. #699 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 98. To measure distance could take as much as three weeks. #698 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 99. Our university has strong partnerships with industry as well as collaborative relationships withgovernment bodies. #664 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 100. What distinguishes him from others is the dramatic use of black and white photography. #663 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 101. Meeting with mentors can be scheduled for students who require additional support. #648 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 102. She doesn't even care about anything but what is honest and true. #632 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 103. Please sort and order the slides of the presentation according to topic and speech time. #614 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 104. Our class is divided into two groups. You come with me, the others stay here. #609 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 105. Students should take advantage of the online resources before attending the lecture. #521 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 106. She was always here, but today she is missed. #517 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 107. Meteorology is a detailed study of earth’s atmosphere. #509 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 108. It is important to take gender into account when discussing the figures. #502 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 109. I didn’t understand the author’s point of view on immigration. #479 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 110. The library is located at the other side of the campus behind the student center. #447 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 111. Residence Hall is closed prior to the academic building closing time in the semester. #446 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 112. Basketball was created in 1891 by a physician in physical structure. #432 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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113. The tutor is there for help, so do ask if you don't understand anything. #413 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 114. Biographical information should be removed before the publication of the results. #412 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 115. Anatomy is the study of internal and external body structures. #411 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 116. You can get a student card at the reception. #400 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 117. Being a vegan means not eating any meat. #386 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 118. Remember to sign the attendance register before leaving the lecture hall. #384 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 119. A full list of bibliography is needed at the end of all filed assignments. #380 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 120. Just wait a minute, I will be with you shortly. #360 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 121. Company exists for money, not for society. #344 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 122. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. #305 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 123. Knife and fork should be placed next to the spoon on the edge of the table. #280 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 124. Most teaching staff make their lecture notes available online. #205 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 125. New timetables will be posted on the student noticeboard. #183 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 126. Please sign your name here if you want to join the social club. #157 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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Describe ImageRepeat Rate: 46%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Fluent with templates

1. Litchfield Population (New) (Prediction)

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2. Age Group (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the age group. The items include female and male.According to this graph, in eighty-five plus, the value of female age is around zero point four percent.You can see from this graph that the highest value of female age is in one to fifteen, which is fifteenpoint five percent. You can also see from this graph that the smallest value of male age is zero pointeight percent. In conclusion, female and male have the almost same percentage in any age group.(APEUni Website / App DI #556)

3. Favorite Movies (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about favorite type of movie. The items include comedy, action,romance, drama and science fiction. According to this graph, in comedy, the value of fans is aroundfour, and that of action is higher, which is around five. You can see from this graph that the highestvalue of fans is in romance, which is six. You can also see from this graph that the lowest value offans is drama. In conclusion, romance has the highest value.(APEUni Website / App DI #555)

4. Air Composition (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about compositions of air. The items include oxygen, nitrogen,and other gases. You can see from this graph that, in oxygen, the value is around 20 percent. Youcan see from this graph that, in other gases, the value is around one percent, which is lower. You cansee from this graph that, in nitrogen, the value is around seventy-nine percent，which is the highest.You can also see from this graph that, in oxygen, the color is pink. And other gases include carbondioxide, argon and water vapour. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #554)

5. Main Hall (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about a floor plan. The items include a main hall, an office, akitchen and toilets. You can see from this graph that there is a main hall, which is in the upper area ofthe plan. You can see from this graph that there are toilets for males and females，which are on theright of the plan. You can see from this graph that there is a toilet for the handicapped，which is inthe bottom right corner with a sign of wheelchair. You can see from this graph that there are akitchen in the bottom left corner and an office in the middle of the plan. In conclusion, this graph isvery informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #553)

6. Recycling (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about different types of recycling. The items include thermalrecycling, chemical recycling, and material recycling. You can see from this graph that, in unrecycling,the value is around one point eighty-five million tons. You can see from this graph that, in materialrecycling, the value is around two million tons, which is higher. You can see from this graph that, inthermal recycling, the value is around five point two million tons，which is the highest. You can alsosee from this graph that, in chemical recycling, the value is around zero point thirty-eight million tons,which is the lowest. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #551)

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7. Renewable Energy (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about renewable energy. The items include heating and cooling,transport and power. You can see from this graph that there are two thermometers in heating andcooling，which is fifty-one percent with ten percent renewable energy in it. You can see from thisgraph that there are a ship and a plane in transport，which is thirty-two with three percent renewableenergy in it. You can see from this graph that there is a plug in power，which is seventeen withtwenty-six renewable energy in it. You can see from this graph that there is an arrow belowpower，which means an increase of the share of renewable energy. It’s a beautiful picture and itshows a lot of things. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #550)

8. Internet Users (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about internet users who accessed via mobile phone. The itemsinclude sixteen to twenty-four, fifty-five to sixty-four, and sixty-five plus. You can see from thisgraph that, in forty-five to fifty-four, the value is around thirty-two percent. You can see from thisgraph that, in thirty-five to forty-four, the value is around fifty, which is higher. You can see from thisgraph that, in sixteen to twenty-four, the value is around seventy percent，which is the highest. Youcan also see from this graph that, in sixty-five plus, the value is around eight percent, which is the

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lowest. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #549)

9. E-waste (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about E-waste. The items include electronic waste, electricwaste, and their percentages. You can see from this graph that, in electronic waste, the value ofmonitors is around ten percent. You can see from this graph that, in electronic waste, the value ofcomputers, telephones, fax and printers is around fifteen percent, which is higher. You can see fromthis graph that, in electric waste, the value of washing machines, dryers, air-conditioners, vacuumcleaners is around thirty percent，which is the highest. You can also see from this graph that, inelectronic waste, the value of televisions is around ten percent, which is the lowest. In conclusion, thisgraph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #546)

10. Water Cycle (C) (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about water cycle in nature. It shows how the process is done.The items include evaporation, transportation, precipitation and run-off. You can see from this graphthat the first step is water vapour rising from the blue sea. You can see from this graph that thesecond step is the vapour growing into clouds in the skies. You can see from this graph that the third

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step is clouds transported into mountainous areas raining or snowing. You can see from this graphthat the next step is precipitation turning into run-off on the ground. The final step is the run-offconverging back into the sea. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #545)


Answer:The following graph gives information about historic garden noticeboard. The items include icons,characters and background. You can see from this graph that there is a notice board，which is saying'please respect and enjoy these historic gardens' with black characters. You can see from this graphthat there is a notice board，which has three red icons and one green icon on it. You can see fromthis graph that there are forbidden icons，which say 'no cycling', 'no drinking' and 'no football'. Youcan see from this graph that there is a permitted activity on the board，which is a guide dog. It’s abeautiful picture and it shows a lot of things. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #543)

12. Mosquito Life Cycle (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the mosquito life cycle. It shows how the process is done.The items include adult, eggs, larva and pupa. You can see from this graph that the first step is theadult laying eggs into water. You can see from this graph that the second step is eggs developing as

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the larva below the water surface. You can see from this graph that the third step is the larvadeveloping as the pupa. You can see from this graph that the next step is the adult emerging on thewater surface. The final step is a new fully developed adult flying out of water. In conclusion, thisgraph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #372)

13. Ice Thickness (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about minimal ice thickness guidelines. The items include anadult, a kid, a car and a truck. You can see from this graph that, in the kid, the value of ice thicknessis around four inches. You can see from this graph that, in the sled, the value of ice thickness isaround five to seven inches, which is higher. You can see from this graph that, in the green truck, thevalue of ice thickness is around twelve to fifteen inches，which is the highest. You can also see fromthis graph that, in the adult, the value of ice thickness is around zero, which is the lowest. Inconclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #542)

14. Women in Labor Force (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about women in the labor force. The items include percentage,years, and marital status. You can see from this graph that, in nineteen twenty, the value of married is

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around ten percent. You can see from this graph that, in nineteen ten, the value of not married isaround sixty percent, which is higher. You can see from this graph that, in nineteen ninety, the valueof not married is around eighty percent，which is the highest. You can also see from this graph that,in nineteen hundred, the value of married is around five percent, which is the lowest. In conclusion,this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #539)

15. World Population Density (B) (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about world population density. The items include Asia, Africa,America and Europe. You can see from this graph that the values of central Europe and some easternareas of the United States are around 350 people per square kilometer. You can see from this graphthat the values of coastal areas of north Africa, southeast Asia and Turkey are around 400, which arehigher. You can see from this graph that the values of eastern China and India are around 700 peopleper square kilometer, which is the highest. You can see from this graph that the values of Antarctic,northern Russia and the inland area of Australia are around 0, which is the lowest. In conclusion, thisgraph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #505)

16. Fruits and Vegetables Market (Prediction)

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The following graph gives information about a fruit and vegetable Market. The items include marketstalls, products, traders and customers. You can see from this graph that there are bunches ofbananas, which are yellow and piled next to green grapes on the stall. You can see from this graphthat there is a woman standing in front of the stall, who is buying some green vegetables, with a blackplastic bag on the left arm. You can see from this graph that there are many basins，which are redand blue, and put on the electronic balances. It’s a beautiful picture and it shows a lot of things. Inconclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #466)

17. Rhino Distribution Comparation (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about rhino distribution. The items include Pakistan, India,Bangladesh and Nepal. You can see from this graph that there is inferred historic distribution in thenorth of Pakistan and India. You can see from this graph that there is inferred historic distribution inthe south of Nepal and the north of Bangladesh. You can see from this graph that there is currentdistribution only in some black spots in Nepal and the Northeast of India. You can see from this graphthat there is no rhino distribution in Myanmar. In conclusion, the rhino distribution has decreasedsharply.(APEUni Website / App DI #465)

18. Coffee House (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about a coffee house. The items include sale clerks, customersand the counter. You can see from this graph that there is a coffee house，which is bright withsunshine through big windows. You can see from this graph that there is a female sale clerk in whiteand black，who is smiling and taking a customer's order on an ipad. You can see from this graph thatthere is a male customer，who is wearing glasses with black rims and a blue T-shirt. You can seefrom this graph that there are some coffee facilities including cabinets and coffee makers，which arebehind the sale clerks It’s a beautiful picture and it shows a lot of things. In conclusion, this graph isvery informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #464)

19. A Food Chain (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about a food chain. It shows how the process is done. The itemsinclude bees, small fish, bear, and a tree. You can see from this graph that the first step is beesfeeding on flowers of the tree. You can see from this graph that the second step is small fish feedingon bees. You can see from this graph that the third step is a bear feeding on fish and a fish skeletonremaining. You can see from this graph that the next step is the dead bear decaying into a skeleton.The final step is dead bear nourishing the tree. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #463)

20. South American Rainforest (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about the rain forest distribution in South America. According tothis graph, the largest part of rain forest is in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Suriname, which istropical rain forest, coloured with light green. We can also see a narrow, long stretch of tropical rainforest lying along the eastern coast of South America, next to Atlantic Ocean. And aother stretch islocated along the northwest coast of South America, next to Pacific Ocean. We see temperate rainforests in Chile, the southmost area of South America, coloured with dark green. In conclusion, this isan informative map.(APEUni Website / App DI #448)

21. Formation of Iceberg (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the formation of iceberg. The steps is snow, which comesdown from the sky. The second step is snow turning into ice sheet on the bedrock, which is colouredbrown. According to this graph, the third the ice sheet continuing to stretch beyond the ground lineinto the sea, which means the formation of ice shelf. The forth step is the ice shelf melting with warmocean water. The final step is small part of the ice shelf coming off and iceberg coming into being. Inconclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #444)

22. UK Income by Age&Gender (Prediction)

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Answer:The following line chart gives information of median pre-tax income by age and gender in the UK.According to the graph we can see three lines, in which the blue one is male, the red one both, andthe green one female. We can see male rises from 12 thousand at under 20, reaches the highest pointof 30 thousand at 45 to 49, and falls to the lowest point of 18 thousand at 70 to 74. We can also seefemale rises from 11 thousand, reaches the highest point of 21 thousand at 30 to 34, and falls to thelowest point of 15 thousand at and over. Finally both reaches the highest point of 25 thousand at 35 to39, and falls to the lowest point of 17 thousand at and over. In conclusion female is the lower thanboth, with both lower than male.(APEUni Website / App DI #432)

23. Computer Then and Now (Prediction)

Answer:This picture gives a comparison between computer then and now. In the left half, there is a primitivecomputer with a black and white screen, a green keyboard, and a black panel, which is verycumbersome and can only be placed on the ground. In the right half, there is a modern computer witha blue screen, a black keyboard and a black mouse, which is light-weight and is also called desktop. Inconclusion, this picture about computer then and now is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #428)

24. Water Cycle (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about water cycle in nature. It shows how the process is done.The steps include evaporation, transportation, precipitation and surface run-off. According to thisgraph, the first step is evaporation in the sun, with water forming clouds into the sky from the bluesea. The second step is clouds' transportation into the sky above green and grey mountains, followedby the third step of precipitation, in which water forms surface run-offs. The final step is surface run-offs going to the sea. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #423)

25. Germination (Prediction)

Answer:This picture gives information about the process of germination. In the first step, a seed is buried inthe soil, before it develops its green embryo in the second step. In the third step, the seed coat beginsto peel off and the black root begins to grow. After that, the light green cotyledon can be seen andthe seed rises from the soil. Finally, the dark green foliage leaves grow. In conclusion, this picture tellshow a seed grows.(APEUni Website / App DI #421)

26. Journeys in the UK (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about journeys made in the UK in 2006 according to theirpurpose. The items include walking, education, shopping, personal business, school run, day trip, sport,entertainment, and commuting. According to this graph, in walking, the value of men and women arearound 4%. You can see from this graph that the highest value of women is in shopping, which is23%, and the highest value of men is in commuting and business, which is 23%. In conclusion, menand women have the lowest value in holiday and day trip, which around 3%.(APEUni Website / App DI #407)

27. Commuting Time (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about commuting time in different regions in Britain, 2014. Theitems include London, Yorkshire, South east, North west, and South west. According to this graph, inLondon, the value of the commuting time is around 107 minutes, which is the highest value. You cansee from this graph that the second highest value of the commuting time is in East of England, whichis 71. The lowest value of commuting time is in South west, which is around 56. In conclusion, Londonhas the highest value of commuting time.(APEUni Website / App DI #350)

28. China Age Group (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about age group in China. The items include male, female, agegroup, and the population. According to this graph, in male, the population of age from 20 to 24 isaround 52 million, and that of age from 0 to 4 is lower, which is around 45 million. You can see fromthis graph that the highest population of age from 80 to 84 is in female, which is around 10 million.You can also see from this graph that the lowest population of age from 90 to 94 is in male, which isaround 0.5 million. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #338)

29. London Fleet Street (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about London's street view. This is a very beautiful picture, andit shows a number of things. According to this graph, at the left area, there is a street view of the 19thcentury; the colour of it is black and white. You can see from this graph that, at the right area, thereis a today's street view; the colour of it is colorful. You can see from this graph that, at thebackground, there is Saint Paul's Cathedral, the colour of those are white. The weather is sunny. Thesky is blue and clear. In conclusion, this picture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #302)

30. Rain Forest Distribution (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about the rain forest distribution. Data of different areas aredisplayed on the map. According to this graph, the largest areas of the distribution of tropical rainforests are in South America. In comparison, the smallest areas of the distribution of tropical rainforests are in Asia. You can see from this graph that the largest areas of the distribution of rain forestare in South America. In conclusion, the area of the distribution of tropical rain forest in South Americais much larger than that of Asia.(APEUni Website / App DI #277)

31. Common Languages (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the most common languages in the world. The itemsinclude language, the approximate number of the native speaker, and countries with substantialnumbers of native speakers. You can see from this graph that, in Mandarin Chinese, the value of theapproximate number of the native speaker is around 874 million. You can see from this graph that, inMandarin Chinese, the value of countries with substantial numbers of native speakers is around 16,which is close to that in Hindu. You can see from this graph that, in Bengali, the value of theapproximate number of the native speaker is around 207 million, which is the lowest. You can see fromthis graph that, in English, the value of countries is around 104, which is the highest. In conclusion, thisgraph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #196)

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32. Climate Zones (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about different zone globally. When we look at the pinkrepresenting polar zone that can be found over 60 degrees north and south. When we look at yellowstanding for the temperate zone which can be found between 30 to 60 degree north and south. Whenwe look at the area lower than 30 degrees north and south including equator, we can see the greenzone representing the tropical zone. In conclusion, there are different zones in a different latitude.(APEUni Website / App DI #13)


Answer:The following graph gives information about the Australian population density. Data of different areasare displayed on the map, based on statistical local area boundaries, with one dot equal to onethousand people. According to this graph, the most densely populated cities are Sydney, Canberra andMelbourne which are located in southeast coast, followed by eastern Australia's Brisbane, southernAustralia's Adelaide, Hobart, western Australia's Perth, northern Australia's Darwin. In comparison, themost sparsely populated areas are the vast outback in the middle of the continent. In conclusion, themost highly populated areas are in the southeast coast.(APEUni Website / App DI #33)

34. Food Pyramid (Prediction)

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Answer:This picture shows the pyramid of food. At the bottom of the pyramid, we can see water, which is themost essential to human bodies. Above water, on the second layer of the pyramid, we can see fruits,bread, and cereals. Above the fruits, bread, and cereals., there is a milk, cheese and meat level.Above the milk products and meat, we can see junk food, which at the top of the pyramid. Inconclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #538)

35. Beijing Weather (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about temperate of Beijing, China. The items include daily highand daily low throughout the year. You can see from this graph that, in daily high, the value of Januaryis around 1 degree centigrade. You can see from this graph that, in daily high, the value of July isaround 30 degrees centigrade, which is the highest. You can see from this graph that, in daily low, thevalue of July is around 22 degrees centigrade, which is lower. You can see from this graph that, indaily low, the value of December is around minus 10 degrees centigrade, which is the lowest. Inconclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #535)

36. Population Age Groups (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about the population age groups in Australia. The items includefemale, male, and age. According to this graph, in female, the value of age from 40 to 59 is around 13.and that of the male is higher, which is around 13.5. You can see from this graph that the highestvalue of age from 0 to19 is in male, which is around 14. You can also see from this graph that thehighest value of age from 20 to 39 is in male. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #455)

37. Diameter of Planets (Prediction)

Answer:The graph gives information about the diameter from the earth for different planets. As we can seethe largest is taken up by Jupiter, which is 150000 km away. After that Saturn has occupied thesecond largest, this is 120000 km away. Following that, Neptune and Uranus have a similar diameter,which is 50000 km away. However, Pluto has the smallest which is only 1 km. In conclusion, differentplanets have different diameters from the earth.(APEUni Website / App DI #405)

38. Past Transport (Prediction)

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Answer:The graph shows the major transportation modes in the past from 1500 to 2000. As we can see fromthe graph, from 1500 to 1850, the transportation relies on horses carriage and bicycle, etc with theaverage speed is 15mph. After 1850, people traveled by locomotive in average speed at 75mph,followed by automobile become the major transportation in modern society. In conclusion, 500 yearstime experience the changes in major transportation modes.(APEUni Website / App DI #387)

39. Not Attending School (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about reasons for no longer attending school. The items includemale and female. The data of the completed study, obtained employment, illness and so on aredisplayed. According to this graph, for the female, the highest value is the completed study, which is65%. On the contrary, the lowest value is illness, which is 5%. For the male, you can see from thisgraph that the largest proportion is 60%. You can also see from this graph that the smallest proportionis 3%. In conclusion, the completed study is the most popular reasons for both male and female.(APEUni Website / App DI #352)

40. London Street View (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about London's Fleet Street Then and Today. This is a verybeautiful picture, and it shows a number of things. According to this graph, in the central area, there isa carriage; the colour of it is black. You can see from this graph that, in the right area, there is a bus;the colour of it is red. You can see from this graph that, in the background, there is a temple, thecolour of it is white. The weather is sunny. The sky is blue and clear. In conclusion, this picture is veryinformative.(APEUni Website / App DI #346)

41. Australian Climate Zones (Prediction)

Answer:This picture gives information about climate zones for temperature and humidity. According to thepicture, the largest area can be found in the hot dry summer, cold winter in yellow. It is in the middleof Australia. However, the smallest area can be found in the cool temperature in blue. It is in thesoutheast of Australia. It also mentions information about other areas, including hot humid, warmhumid, temperature and so on. In conclusion, different areas in Australia have different climates.(APEUni Website / App DI #340)

42. Iron Age Hut (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information of the iron age hut. According to this graph, this is a crosssection of an ancient hut, which is triangular in shape. In the middle of the graph, you can see a pillarsupporting the sloping rafters. And the roofs are covered by reed thatch. In the hut, you can seeashes and seats below the ground level. On the ground level, you can see the turf wall. In conclusion,this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #334)

43. The Eatwell Plate (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the proportion of the Eatwell plate. The items include fruitand vegetables, bread&rice, food&drinks and so on. According to this graph, the proportion of fruit andvegetables is around 35%, and that of milk and dairy food is lower, which is around 18%. You can seefrom this graph that the highest proportion is fruit and vegetables, which is around 35%. You can alsosee from this graph that the lowest proportion is food and drinks high in fat/sugar, which is around8%. In conclusion, fruit and vegetables have the highest proportion of the Eatwell plate.(APEUni Website / App DI #331)

44. Start Quiz (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about how to start a quiz. It shows how the process is done. Thesteps include click the start button, question 1, right answer, wrong answer and so on. According tothis graph, the first step is to click the start button. According to this graph, the second step is toanswer question 1. You can see from this graph that if your answer is yes which is the wrong answerthen go to question 2. You can also see from this graph that if your answer which is the right answerthen go to question 5, and then go to question 2. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #329)

45. Water Cycle 1 (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the water cycle. It shows how the process is done. Thesteps include transpiration, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and percolation. According to thisgraph, the first step is transpiration. According to this graph, the second step is evaporation. You cansee from this graph that the third step is condensation. The final step is precipitation and percolation.In conclusion, the process will repeat.(APEUni Website / App DI #323)

46. World Water (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about the world’s water distribution. It can be seen that 97.5%of the world’s water is salt water and only 2.5% is freshwater. In the freshwater sector, glaciers andpermanent snow occupy the largest proportion at 68.7%, followed by which groundwater occupies30.06% of the fresh water. Ground ice and permafrost takes 0.86% of fresh water and otherresources take 1.22% of fresh water. In the other sector, lakes occupy the majority of the proportionat 0.26%. In conclusion, this image gives very thorough information about the world’s waterdistribution.(APEUni Website / App DI #23)

47. World Income Distribution (Prediction)

Answer:The following line charts give information about world income distribution over the population.According to the upper line chart, in nineteen seventy the world population is three point severnbillions, and those spending less than one dollar per day accounts for thirty-eight percent, one pointfour billions. We see in nineteen ninety the world population is five point three billions, and the poor tothe left of the poverty line accounts for twenty-six percent, one point four billions. In conclusion, thepoor decrease from nineteen seventy to nineteen ninety.(APEUni Website / App DI #274)


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Answer:The following graph gives information about ancient Egypt trading. It shows how the process is done.The steps include import goods and export goods. According to this graph, the first step is to importcedar oil and timber from Lebanon. According to this graph, the second step is to import copper,precious stones and gold from Nubia. You can see from this graph that the third step is to importslaves and animals from Africa. You can also see from this graph that the next step is to importhorses, fruit, and honey from other countries. The final step is to exports linen, tools, bread andweapons to other countries. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #268)

49. World Population Density (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about world population density. Data of different areas aredisplayed on the map. According to this graph, the area with the largest population is in China andIndia. In comparison, the area with the smallest population is in the east of Russia. You can see fromthis graph that the population of China is much larger than the population of Europe. In conclusion,this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #242)

50. Arctic Food Chain (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about the arctic food chain. It shows how the process is done.The steps include algae, diatoms, and copepods and so on. According to this graph, the first step isthat diatoms eat algae. According to this graph, the second step is that copepods eat diatoms. Youcan see from this graph that the third step is that arctic cod eat copepods. You can also see fromthis graph that the next step is that ringed seals eat arctic cods. According to this graph, the nextstep is that polar bears eat ringed seals. The final step is that algae absorb excrement. In conclusion,the process will repeat.(APEUni Website / App DI #236)

51. Government Expenditure (Prediction)

Answer:This graph shows the government expenditure in different sectors of education. It is shown on thegraph that $11 billion are invested in education in total. At the top of the pyramid, we can see highereducation in which $1.8 billion are invested, followed by which vocational educational training andschools get $2 billion and $3-4 billion respectively. At the bottom of the pyramid, we can see the earlychildhood in which $0.8-1.4 billion are invested. It can be seen that schools get the highest investmentwhile early childhood gets the least. In conclusion, this graph gives very interesting information.(APEUni Website / App DI #235)


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Answer:The following graph gives information about bird migration in the continent of America. In this graphCanada is marked as a breeding area in blue, and the north of South America is marked as a winteringarea in orange. According to this graph, birds will fly northwards in the spring from the wintering areato the breeding area, as the yellow arrow shows. And birds will come back in the fall to the winteringarea, as the green arrow shows. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #231)

53. Bird Feeder (Prediction)

Answer:The graph gives information about how to use a plastic bottle as a bird feeder. According to thepicture, it is clear that on the first stage, there is a water bottle with two pencils in it, which is brownand blue, respectively, and the bottle is full of food. After that, on the second stage, the two pencilsare replaced with two spoons, which are made of wood. In conclusion, the little bird standing on thespoon can get food from the bottle, and we can see the caps of two bottles have different colors,namely blue and white.(APEUni Website / App DI #224)

54. Solar Eclipse 1 (Prediction)

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Answer:The graph shows different eclipse. When we look at the left-hand side of the picture, we can see thesun. In the middle of the picture, we can see the moon, which is on the moon’s orbit. On the right ofthe picture, there is the Earth, which orbits around the sun. As we can see in the graph when the sun,moon, and Earth parallel each other. we can see the shade of moon called penumbra creating thepartial eclipse. we also can see the middle of a shade called umbra, which means that there is a totaleclipse. In conclusion, this graph shows the formation of different eclipses.(APEUni Website / App DI #223)

55. Parts of Tree (Prediction)

Answer:The graph shows a different part of the tree. When we look at the top of the picture, we can see thecrown of the tree, which includes leaves on top, a twig in the middle, and branches at the bottom inthe crown. Followed by the crown we can see a trunk, which connects the roots in the soil. Finally, thecrown of the tree shares a similar size with roots so that they provide a lot of information to scientists.In conclusion, this picture demonstrates the structure of trees.(APEUni Website / App DI #222)

56. Tree Ring and Saw (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about the evidence of tree growth rings. This is a very beautifulpicture, and it shows a number of things. According to this graph, in the central area, there is a treering; the colour of it is brown. You can see from this graph that, in the right area, there is a saw; thecolour of it is black. You can see from this graph that, in the background, there are grasses, thecolour of those is green. The weather is sunny. The sky is blue and clear. In conclusion, this picture isvery informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #219)

57. Food Pyramid 1 (Prediction)

Answer:This picture shows the pyramid of food required by human bodies. At the bottom of the pyramid, wecan see water, which is the most essential to human bodies. Above water, on the second layer of thepyramid, we can see whole grain foods such as rice, cakes, and biscuits. Above the whole grain foodslevel, there is a fruits and vegetable level . We can see grapes, oranges, and apples in the fruitsection, and broccoli, potatoes, and carrots in the vegetable section. Above the fruits and vegetables,we can see milk products and fish, poultry and eggs. At the top of the pyramid, there is a sugar andsalt level. In conclusion, all the levels in the pyramid are important for human bodies.(APEUni Website / App DI #215)

58. Water Wheel (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about water wheels with different rotational directions. On theleft, we can see a water wheel, which is rotating anticlockwise. On the right, we can see another waterwheel, which is rotating clockwise. According to this graph, the water wheels are both overshot ones,with a flume overhead, through which water flows down on the wheels. And we can see tail races lyingbelow the water wheels, in which water falling down from the wheels flow away. In conclusion, thegraph is informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #199)

59. Apple Life Cycle (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about how an apple seed can become an apple tree. It showshow the process is done. The steps include apple seed, a small apple tree, the blossom of the tree.According to this graph, the first step is the apple seed. According to this graph, the second step is tobecome a small apple tree. You can see from this graph that the third step is the blossom of the tree.The final step is small apples will come out of the blossoms. Finally, we can get red and big applesfrom the apple tree. n conclusion, the process will repeat.(APEUni Website / App DI #178)


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Answer:This map gives information about the population density in Australia, measured in people per squarekilometer and categorized by 100 people or more, 10 to 100 people and less than 0.1 people. It is clearthat the majority of Australia has a population density of fewer than 0.1 people per sq km, which isrepresented in very light orange. You can find these areas in the middle of Australia. On the west edgeof Australia, the population density is about 0.1 to 1.0 people per sq km. On the east coast ofAustralia, the population is a little bit denser, about 10 to 100 people per sq km, represented in orange.In conclusion, this map shows very significant information about population density in Australia.(APEUni Website / App DI #142)

61. Fly Life Cycle (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about how houseflies work, that is, the life cycle of a fly. It startswith eggs which are laid by an adult fly, and then the eggs become 1st larva stage. In this stage, thelarva is relatively small. Then the cycle goes to the 2nd larval stage where the larva grows larger butthe color remains relatively constant. When it comes to the 3rd larva stage, the larva becomes muchlarger and the color starts to become darker. After that, the cycle reaches the pupa stage where thelarva is covered with dark skin. The pupa becomes an adult fly eventually which can lay eggs againand let the process continues. In conclusion, this image gives a vivid illustration of the life cycle of afly.(APEUni Website / App DI #135)

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62. Water Treatment (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about water treatment. It shows how the process is done. Thesteps include drinking water, recycled water, and household water. According to this graph, the firststep is Water transferred from dam to water treatment plant. According to this graph, the second stepis to transfer drinking water to the house. You can see from this graph that the third step is totransfer household wastewater to the wastewater treatment plant. You can also see from this graphthat the next step is to transfer excess treated water to the river. The final step is the rivertransferred water to the dam. In conclusion, the process will repeat.(APEUni Website / App DI #94)

63. Fatigue&Response (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the relationship between fatigues and response times. Theitems include alert, moderately fatigued, and highly fatigued. According to this graph, in alert, thevalue of the response times is around 0.5. and that of moderately fatigued is higher, which is around 1.You can see from this graph that the highest value of response times is in highly fatigued, which is3.5. You can also see from this graph that the lowest value of times is alert. In conclusion, highlyfatigued has the highest response times.(APEUni Website / App DI #61)

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64. Tree Ring (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the tree ring. This is a very beautiful picture, and it showsa number of things. According to this graph, the outermost layer is a circle of moss. According to thisgraph, the next layer is a brown protective layer. You can see from this graph that the next layerrepresents the annual ring, reflecting the age of the tree. The weather is sunny. The sky is blue andclear. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #39)

65. Tropical Rainforest 1 (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about the tropical rainforests of the world. As we can see fromthe map, all the continents include North America, South America Europe, Africa, and Australia.However, when it comes to the tropical rainforests, we can only find them in the northern part ofSouth America, a middle part of Africa and the Philippines, Borneo and New Guinea. In conclusion, wecan see that the tropical rainforests are largely distributed near the equator.(APEUni Website / App DI #29)

66. Virus Replication (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about Virus Replication. It shows how the process is done. Thesteps include adsorption, entry, replication, assembly, release, According to this graph, the first step isadsorption. According to this graph, the second step is the entry. You can see from this graph thatthe third step is replication. You can also see from this graph that the next step is assembly.According to this graph, The final step is to release. In conclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #19)

67. Moon&Fish (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about lunar and fish. As we can see for the first quarter moon,the fish are located at the bottom of the sea. When entering into the next stage, fish begin to moveupwards and are located in the middle part of the sea. Next, when it comes to the full moon, the fishare distributed all over the sea. Finally, for the last quarter moon period, the fish are located near thesurface of the sea. In conclusion, the picture shows that lunar and fish are closely related to eachother.(APEUni Website / App DI #17)

68. Simple Circuit (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about simple circuit with light. This is a very beautiful picture,and it shows a number of things. According to this graph, at the central area, there is a battery; thecolour of it is black and yellow. You can see from this graph that, at the left area, there is a bulb; thecolour of it is white. You can see from this graph that, there is a line connecting the bulb and thebattery. The electricity flows from the negative pole to the positive pole. In conclusion, this picture isvery informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #16)

69. Global Warming (Prediction)

Answer:The following graph gives information about global warming predictions. Light color represents lowtemperature and dark color represents high temperature. From the map, we can see that the highesttemperature can be found in North America, which is 6-8 degrees. Following that, the second highesttemperature can be found in Africa and Europe, which is around 3-5 degrees. And the lowesttemperature can be found in Australia and North America, which is around 1-3 degrees. In conclusion,the world is going to have global warming as predicted.(APEUni Website / App DI #11)

70. Height of Tree (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about the height of trees. The items include hemlock, cedar,spruce, douglas fir. According to this graph, in Hemlock, the value of height is around 130 feet, andthat of Cedar is higher, which is around 200 feet. You can see from this graph that the highest valueof height is in Douglas Fir, which is around 280 feet. In conclusion, Douglas Fir has the highestnumber.(APEUni Website / App DI #7)

71. Typing Hands (Prediction)

Answer:At the upper left area, there is a keyboard, the color of it is black, and there are hands which parallelwith each other, which is right. At the lower left area, there is a hand which parallels with thekeyboard. And it is the right gesture. At the upper right area, there are two hands which are twistedagainst each other.,and it is wrong. The second picture in the right area, 2 hands are the point in theopposite direction, which are wrong. The third picture at the right area, there is a hand forming anangle with the keyboard. At the lower right area, there is a hand whose wrist forming a right angle. Inconclusion, this graph is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #2)

72. Solar System (Prediction)

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Answer:The following graph gives information about the solar system. This is a very beautiful picture, and itshows a number of things. According to this graph, the largest planet is Jupiter; the colour of it isbrown. You can see from this graph that, the second largest planet is Saturn; the colour of it is brown.And the smallest planet is Mercury, followed by Mars, Earth, Venus, Neptune, Uranus. In conclusion,this picture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App DI #1)

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Retell LectureRepeat Rate: 75%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Fluent with templatesAudio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. School Policies (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A female lecturer talks about changes on policies in schools, especially in secondary schools.She presented a map of policies in 2001 and also they presented their data in conferences andseminars. They always got a question like: how much teachers show resistance against new rules andhow much this is challenging to use these new principles.(APEUni Website / App RL #319)

2. Circumstance (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A picture with a pan and a piece of lined paper in it. A person will get used to some oncebizarre phenomena if they stay in the circumstance too long. For example, new employees come to acompany and feel surprised with something.(APEUni Website / App RL #318)

3. Seven Continents (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A video starting with a map of Antarctic and turning to a world map. There are sevencontinents all over the world. ... historically, ... map in the early greek... ... early greeks' work ... ... theidea is seven continents...(APEUni Website / App RL #317)

4. Parenting (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A picture in which a smiling girl holds a pen and adults are behind her. Adults should not offertoo much help to children. They should only pay attention to children's safety and the safety is veryimportant. They can teach children some basic skills and children have to learn by themselves andshould self-responsibility. Many parents want to give their children the best education.(APEUni Website / App RL #316)

5. Fashion (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A video about the history of fashion dress. … king grand land … dutch duke … provideservices to the king … It’s like a show in the street，where people enjoy looking at others and beinglooked at. Key words: aesthetic, hat, Paris, London, stage, French fashion, society development.(APEUni Website / App RL #158)

6. Dietary Health (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A picture of vegetables including green pepper, eggplant, chili. The lecture is about dietaryhealth. ... from farm to table.(APEUni Website / App RL #55)

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To be a successful entrepreneur, you should have good ideas, but the definition of a good idea variesdepending on whom you ask. A great idea should have several features. Firstly, the great idea shouldbe various and novel. Secondly, the great idea should be unique, which means no one has thoughtabout it. Thirdly, it is essential for great ideas to be transformative and productive. All ideas areessentially a combination of other smaller ideas, but this doesn’t mean they can’t be unique. Merelycopying doesn’t make anything idiosyncratic, it’s the individuality that one puts in which makes aconcept stand out. Constant innovation leaves no room for stagnation and thus, adds on to the basicidea, effectively making it unique. Unique ideas are inspired by basic things, they are simply extensionsof pre-existing notions. And, an idea or a concept is unique only when it transcends its predecessorand serves its purpose in a better and more precise way.(APEUni Website / App RL #315)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

8. Online Lectures (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A video about benefits of online lectures. Semester’s first lecture is held online. Benefits: 1.different modules bring different skills and knowledge(?); 2. take notes; 3. listen to different subjectsand lectures and make a choice.(APEUni Website / App RL #314)

9. Sunrise and Sunset in Space (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: When watching the earth from space, the first view is beautiful, phenomenal. A sunrise and asunset can be seen every 90 minutes, 45 minutes in darkness and 45 minutes in light, so a sunriseevery 45 minutes and a sunset every 45 minutes. Orbit is also mentioned.(APEUni Website / App RL #312)

10. Bilingual Parents (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Many parents communicate and educate their children with two languages, probably because theyboth know more than one language, or they come from different countries. Most of these parentsthink this can benefit their children’s language learning. But actually kids will get confused when theirparents use different languages from each other to describe the same object. If one parent sticks toone language, and the other one sticks to another language, their children will not be confused anymore.(APEUni Website / App RL #311)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

11. Research (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About the the main goal of doing research, which is to support your own idea in your paper. Ifyou use research paper from only one source, that does not mean it is not accurate, but you shouldbe careful. To save time, the best way is to make sure the researches you use are reliable, latest atthe first time.(APEUni Website / App RL #310)

12. Glass Ceiling (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A picture of a female surgeon in blue. A glass ceiling is a metaphor which refers to an invisiblebarrier typically applied to minorities to keep them from rising beyond a certain level in workplaces.

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Key words: women role, leadership in surgery, making decisions.(APEUni Website / App RL #309)

13. DNA (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Genes decide, produce and make the protein in the cells. The process from genes to proteinsis complex. They are the fundamental building blocks of all organisms. DNA, as shown in the picture, islike a chain.(APEUni Website / App RL #308)

14. Soot (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Soot, which comes from combustion of many different things, is black so it's a strong absorber. In factit's second only to CO2 in terms of warming, so it's actually ahead of methane, which you hear a lotabout. The interesting thing about soot and aerosols' impact on climate is that their lifetimes are somuch shorter. So if we can reduce the soot we can make changes within months versus tens of years.It's not to say we should ignore the CO2 and the greenhouse gases but it could buy us some timewhile we actually do the right strategies to reduce the greenhouse gases.(APEUni Website / App RL #307)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

15. Leadership (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:A leader can define or clarify goals by issuing a memo or an executive order, an edict or a fatwa or atweet, by passing a law, barking a command, or presenting an interesting idea in a meeting ofcolleagues. Leaders can mobilize people’s energies in ways that range from subtle, quiet persuasion tothe coercive threat or the use of deadly force. Sometimes a charismatic leader such as Martin LutherKing Jr. can define goals and mobilize energies through rhetoric and the power of example. We canthink of leadership as a spectrum, in terms of both visibility and the power the leader wields. On oneend of the spectrum, we have the most visible: authoritative leaders like the president of the UnitedStates or the prime minister of the United Kingdom, or a dictator such as Hitler or Qaddafi. At theopposite end of the spectrum is casual, low-key leadership found in countless situations every dayaround the world, leadership that can make a significant difference to the individuals whose lives aretouched by it. Over the centuries, the first kind–the out-in-front, authoritative leadership–hasgenerally been exhibited by men. Some men in positions of great authority, including Nelson Mandela,have chosen a strategy of “leading from behind”; more often, however, top leaders have been quitevisible in their exercise of power. Women (as well as some men) have provided casual, low-keyleadership behind the scenes. But this pattern has been changing, as more women have taken upopportunities for visible, authoritative leadership.(APEUni Website / App RL #305)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

16. Amazon (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A picture about the Amazon Company. Two examples are given, with one being that kindlescan cancel the wrong orders. The lecture mainly talks about how to be customer centric.(APEUni Website / App RL #300)

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17. Windmill (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A picture with 'windmill' and 'watermill' written on it. The speaker tells for how many people theelectricity can be generated by windmills.(APEUni Website / App RL #298)

18. Hans Krebs (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:This is Hans Krebs, who in 1937 published a paper showing the sequence of chemical reactions, bywhich energy is released in individual cells. It is called the Krebs cycle, which some of you mayremember from your chemistry course in your high school. Krebs is a wonderful example to me of howa scientist who is determined can overcome all kinds of human obstacles. Krebs’ father constantlydiscouraged him and told him that he had just mediocre intelligence whenever to anything important inhis life, as a teenager. What Krebs remembers in his memoir, his father said to him "you can't make asilk purse out of a sow's ear". And later on, when Krebs studied with the great biochemist OttoWarburg, Warburg also told him the same thing. Not the same quote but that he had only mediocreability and would never be a great scientist. And we all hear about how important it is for parents toencourage their children, but sometimes the children will go on to do great things no matter what wesay to them.(APEUni Website / App RL #296)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

19. IT Department (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:And our survey, over 100 CEOs who had recently been through an acquisition or merger were askedwhich areas of their activities needed the most effort. As you can see, the most frequent response tothis question was that information technology requires the most integration effort. According to 58percent of those we surveyed, IT was the most time consuming and needed the most work. This isunderstandable as many of the IT issues are extremely complex and the consequences of any changein IT can have a significant impact. The key is how quickly and effectively IT integration can beachieved and there has to be a clear understanding of the consequences there maybe of not gettingit right. The two other areas requiring significant attention, sales, marketing and business developmenton the one hand and financial management on the other, both were selected by forty nine percent ofthe respondents.(APEUni Website / App RL #295)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

20. Edmund Wilson (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Wilson came then from a different world and he became the focal point of a broad mainstreamAmerican culture that thought that modern literature and wanted modern literature to be able to beread and appreciated by ordinary people. They were not modernists in an abstract sense and certainlysome of them like TS Eliot and Faulkner were too difficult for some of their writings to be read byordinary people, but this was a world before the division between the brows or between elite orwhatever had established itself as part of our consciousness. Wilson was a major player in thesuccessful effort of his generation to establish at the heart of American life and innovative literaturethat would equal the great cultures of Europe. And he knew that the great cultures of Europe were

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there he was not a product of a narrow American Studies kind of training at all. He joined a highartistic standard with an openness to all experience and a belief that literature was as much a part oflife for everyone as conversation. He thought that Proust and Joyce and Yeats and Eliot could andshould be read by ordinary Americans and helped that to happen. Wilson was a very various man overa period of almost 50 years. He was a dedicated a literary journalist, an investigative reporter, abrilliant memoirist and a dedicated journal keeper.(APEUni Website / App RL #142)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

21. Children Obesity (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: There are 20% of children in the USA today have obesity. As a result, heart diseases havebecome more and more common among children. The smallest is 5 years old. This has to be solvedbecause obesity will lead to more negative health consequences, such as Type 2 Diabetes, kidneyfailure, and strokes.(APEUni Website / App RL #287)

22. Cloud Formation (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Absolutely. There's a lot of interest in what forms those clouds. Why are those clouds there, why dothey stick around? At the center of every cloud drop is a particle. You can't grow a cloud drop withouthaving a particle there for the water to condense on. The key questions that people have not directlyaddressed until very recently is what actually forms those clouds. And so the ones that you’re lookingat over the ocean, it turns out sea salt is a very effective nucleator for forming clouds,, so there’s areally good chance that those are loaded with sea salt. But as you go inland you start to have pollutioncome from all different kinds of sources, and so different sources form clouds more effectively thanothers. And we're trying to unravel which sources are actually contributing to the clouds. The cloudsare incredibly important players in climate change in that they reflect the light back to space, and sothey're keeping things much, much cooler than they would be if they weren't there. They also play ahuge role in regional weather. So we're actually starting to see shifts where having more pollution inputinto the clouds is affecting weather patterns, and in particular it's actually reducing the amount ofprecipitation, so we're starting to see drought in areas with super high levels of air pollution.(APEUni Website / App RL #249)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

23. Kids in the Museum (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:So, we were founded just over ten years ago, when I was in the Royal Academy, a museum in thecentre of London, with my three children, at the Aztec exhibition. I don't know if any of you saw it. Ihad an older child and two younger children, twins, strapped in a pushchair, and one of my children,three years old, shouted and I've never denied he shouted he shouted, 'Monster, monster ! ' at thisstatue which looked just like a monster, had snakes for hair, a big beak for a nose. And, I thought, thisis fantastic. I've got a three-year-old that's appreciating art. How good can it get? So, I bent downand I said, 'Yes, it looks just like a monster' And, at that moment, a room warden came over, a galleryassistant came over and said we were being too noisy, and threw us out to the wrong family. I was, atthat time, a journalist with The Guardian newspaper, and two days later wrote a big piece in TheGuardian about being thrown out of the Royal Academy. What was really interesting was, by the end of

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that day, we had had, at the paper, over 500 emails from other families saying, museums aren'tworking for us. Let's try and make it work. So, that's what we did. In the Guardian, we set up acampaign. We called it the Kids in Museums campaign, but it didn't really exist. It was just a fewpages. We ran loads of stories on it; I began touring the country talking about how to make yourmuseum family-friendly.(APEUni Website / App RL #283)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

24. Child Birth Rate (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:The western countries women are becoming more and more reluctant to give birth to babies. However,the male's status in society remains as strong as it ever has in recent years. The birth rates increasedduring 20's century but it starts to decrease over these last two decades. In the year 2000, as anexample, the birth rate remained at around 1%. There are even some negative birth rates in othercountries. Birth rates dropped to its lowest point that has never been seen in the society. It also hasimpacts on male in the society especially young man, and it might have some connection withunemployment rates as well.(APEUni Website / App RL #130)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

25. Fatherhood (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A picture in which a pair of hands hold a baby. The role of father in parenting is mentioned.Fatherhood makes children feel safe so they can take risks to develop independence and autonomy.Thus children can grow up into responsible and compassionate citizens.(APEUni Website / App RL #282)

26. Increasing Productivity (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The development of technology during Industrial Revolution has increased productivity. Thus,there is more output for every unit of input, which reduces cost significantly. For example, in the past,the cost of computer production was relatively high because the price of semiconductors wasexpensive. With increased productivity, the cost of computer parts goes down and computers becomecheaper.(APEUni Website / App RL #279)

27. Globalization (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:I've been thinking a lot about the world recently and how it's changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years.Twenty or thirty years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sneezed and died in a remote village in EastAsia, it would have been a tragedy for the chicken and its closest relatives, but I don't think there wasmuch possibility of us fearing a global pandemic and the deaths of millions. Twenty of thirty years ago,if a bank in North America lent too much money to some people who couldn't afford to pay it backand the bank went bust, that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower, but we didn't imagine itwould bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade. This is globalization. This isthe miracle that has enabled us to transship our bodies and our minds and our words and our picturesand our ideas and our teaching and our learning around the planet ever faster and ever cheaper. It'sbrought a lot of bad stuff, like the stuff that I just described, but it's also brought a lot of good stuff. A

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lot of us are not aware of the extraordinary successes of the Millennium Development Goals, severalof which have achieved their targets long before the due date. That proves that this species ofhumanity is capable of achieving extraordinary progress if it really acts together and it really tries hard.(APEUni Website / App RL #276)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

28. Performance of Genders (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:You can see that the two charts, each give quite a different picture of the performance of boys andgirls in the two key subjects of Math and English. It shows that in English, girls consistently outperformboys over a period of 6 years, achieving scores about 10% above their male peers. There is quite adifferent picture when we look at the Math results with no real difference between genders in theresults. What is the explanation for these key differences? To answer this question, researchers lookat biological and cognitive factors, and a range of social factors. The interaction between thesedifferent components in early childhood development are seen as maintained and reinforced in theschool context. And this leads to distinct gender patterns of behavior and skills with directconsequences for school performance and achievement. The ultimate uses of this evidence (are) toshow that biological factors, such as patterns of cognitive developments are closely linked to socialfactor, such as learned gender categories. This cognitive skills are learned both pre-school andsubsequently at school, supported by the responses of teachers, creating a reinforcement of patterns.(APEUni Website / App RL #273)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

29. Knee Cracking (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:The sound of a cracking knee isn't particularly pleasant. But it gets worse when you listen up close.Knee-cracking recording "It does for most people. But for me, it actually just makes me excited."Omer Inan, an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech. "I actually feel like there's some real information inthem that can be exploited for the purposes of helping people with rehab." Inan's experience withcracking knees goes back to his days as an undergrad at Stanford, where he threw discus. "If I had areally hard workout, then the next day, of course, I'd be sore, but I'd also sometimes feel this catchingor popping or creaking every now and then in my knee." A few years later, he found himself buildingtiny microphones at a high-end audio company. So when he got to Georgia Tech and heard theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, wanted better tech for knee injuries, hethought: knee-cracking recording Why not strap tiny microphones to people's knees, to eavesdrop astheir legs bend? "What we think it is, is the cartilage and bone rubbing against each other, thesurfaces inside the knee rubbing against each other, during those movements." He and a team ofphysiologists and engineers built a prototype with stretchy athletic tape and a few tiny mics and skinsensors. And preliminary tests on athletes suggest the squishy sounds the device picks up are moreerratic, and more irregular, in an injured knee than in a healthy one. Which Inan says might allowpatients and doctors to track healing after surgery. Details appear in the IEEE Transactions onBiomedical Engineering. "The primary application we're targeting at first is to give people a decision aidduring rehabilitation, following an acute knee injury, to help them understand when they can performparticular activities, and when they can move to different intensities of particular activities." A usefulthing to take a crack at.(APEUni Website / App RL #272)

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30. Animal Behavior (B) (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Why should we bother studying animal behavior? Well, first and foremost, because we are interested inunderstanding why animals do what they do. There are lots of other reasons for studying animalbehavior. Conservation biologists need to know what animals do if they’re going to save them. Arethose animals social or solitary? How much space do they need and how many mates do they have?Sometimes you can’t predict the outcome of the research. Fernando Nottebohm started out beinginterested in how birds know what to sing. Yet his research eventually led to a complete overhaul ofthe entire field of neurobiology, a totally unanticipated yet utterly monumental effect. And this is thecourse textbook by John Alcock the fact that this is in its ninth edition tells you how fast an afieldanimal behavior is. There are lots of new developments.(APEUni Website / App RL #271)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

31. Housing Affordability (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:The impact on young Australians who are interested in buying a home of their own has been verysignificant. Australia's housing affordability now shapes the typical housing cycle or housing career assome people call it. Most Australians in the normal course of events are people who move through thehousing cycle in a way that matches the stages of life that they're at. So, they move out of the familyhome in their late teens or early 20s as they gain their independence from their families, then theyrent save for a home they can afford as either a group, or maybe a couple. And maybe they canupgrade it when they have a family in their middle age, they are more than likely to have paid off theirmortgage. And that means they have housing security in their old age. That's no longer the typicalhousing cycle for Australians, young people generally live at home for much longer than they once did.They generally rent for longer and they're more likely to be saddled with a mortgage not just into theirmiddle age but more often than not into their retirement as well. In fact, in 2006, 65,000 retireehouseholds were still paying off the mortgage. Affordable rent is also an elusive right around Australia.We have very low rental vacancies, we see high turnover as landlords want to maximize their profits intight market, and we see less long-term or lifelong rental, as we see in other countries and othereconomies.(APEUni Website / App RL #270)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

32. Armor (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Hello, I'm David Brown, curator of Italian and Spanish paintings at the National Gallery of Art. Thetreasures in our exhibition, The Art of Power, Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain, comefrom the royal armory in Madrid. They range from the 15th to the 17th century and include some ofthe finest examples of Renaissance armor in the world. Fabricated by master craftsmen and artists,the shields, helmets and armor were made for Holy Roman emperors, kings, and the flower of Spanishroyalty. This is parade armor, made for show, not combat. In form, it looks back to a worldtournaments, jousts and noble gesture. And among the images worked into the steel is something

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quite different, a subtle advertising campaign for the imperial ambitions of the Spanish monarchy andthe Hapsburg dynasty. Those who wore it took the words Holy, Roman and Empire very seriously.(APEUni Website / App RL #269)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

33. Happiness and Social Relations (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Happiness comes from frequency and quality of social relation. The higher the frequency is, the morehappiness relations with friends and family and others produce. It is not sure why social relation iscorrelated with happiness. But there’s evidence that when people feel more satisfied with their socialrelations, they will feel happier, in turn, when people feel happier, they will get more satisfied withsocial relations. Happy people tend to be social more with friends and have more interaction betweenfamily. Some people wonder if their social activities make them happier or their happy personalitiesdrive them to be social more with their friends and families.(APEUni Website / App RL #259)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

34. Truth and Rhetoric (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:But Aristotle says the reason we need rhetoric is we have to be able to use it. To use rhetoricinfluence the ramble, we try to get them to understand truth. Truth is suggest ... is different than XXRhetoric is the dressing, is the body, right? Truth is the spirit, is the soul, is abstract. It doesn't have abody. It's not particular. If you wanna get somebody to the truth, you might have to use some kind oftricks. Right? Because most of people are not sound and can see the truth. That's what we think.Most people are rambles. Really. Only the educated be erudite are actually capable of seeing thetruth. If you wanna get the general mass there, you may have to do a little bit. So Aristotle that isrhetoric. Rhetoric is something that is used to influence people. Right? And it's a kind of mentallypromised a logic.(APEUni Website / App RL #258)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

35. Ageing Population (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: As the world population grow, the ageing population has become more serious. Ageingpercentage in the US is now 13% and is expected to be 23% in 2030. The situation is the same inJapan and Germany. There will be more than 20% of the German population aged over 65 years old in2030. Ageing problem is related to industrialization.(APEUni Website / App RL #257)

36. Absolute Zero (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Can we never get to absolute zero? What a wonderful question. I wish I had a wonderful answer to gowith it. Here is the problem, there is actually a law of physics called the third law of thermodynamics,that says you cannot get to the absolutely zero, but we don' t really know it’s true, but we are prettysure it is for the following reason: every time you think of some way of cooling something down a littlebit, it means you try to get energy out of that thing and make the temperature lower. Well if you can

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get energy out, usually there is a way that the energy can go in as well. And that always means thereis a competition between taking the energy out and putting the energy in. Now you can try to make it,so you are favoring getting energy out, but you can’t completely stop the energy from going in andthat means you might be able to get colder and colder, but you won' t be able to get all the way toabsolute zero. Could we go back to my power point, because I think that one of these slides willillustrate that point a little bit better. Yes, here, remember the logarithmic thermometer? There is nozero on this logarithmic thermometer, just keeps going down, you make it a fact of 10 colder, you' renot a zero. You make it a fact of 10 colder, you’re still not a zero. You make it a fact of 10 colder, you're still not a zero. So, you start a million of a degree, now you are 10 millions of a degree, now you are100 millions of a degree. Now you are billions of degree. You never get to zero that way. You getcloser and closer, but you never get to zero. So that’s why we cannot get to absolute zero.(APEUni Website / App RL #253)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

37. Survey (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Let’s say if I'm asking which source do you often use to get information. Newspaper? Radio? And thesurvey shows 62% of the people chose internet. You might be thinking I am going to say, howimportant the internet is, or how quickly it has changed the world for a few years. But what if I tell youthis survey is conducted on the website global and mail.com? Our answer will be different. Becausethe people who did this survey on a website must be frequent users of internet. This sample is abiased sample. So we have to pay attention to how a survey is conducted.(APEUni Website / App RL #248)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

38. Linguistic Training (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:I think with our linguistic training we also get all this invisible training to be authorities, to be the peoplewho know. It is part of that process that you come out as a world authority on your chosen subject.But when we move into working with communities, we have to recognise that the communities have tobe the authority in their language. Actually, a woman in the class I'm teaching at Sydney at themoment, a career woman, expressed this very nicely, although she was talking about something else,she was distinguishing expertise from authority. And certainly linguists, because of our training we do,have expertise in certain very narrow areas of language, but we don't have the authority over what todo with that knowledge or what to do with other knowledge that the community produces. I guess forme the bottom line is languages are lost because of the dominance of one people over another. That'snot rocket science, it's not hard to work that out. But then what that means is if in working withlanguage revival we continue to hold the authority, we actually haven't done anything towards undoinghow languages are lost in the first place, so in a sense the languages are still lost if the authority isstill lost.(APEUni Website / App RL #247)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Today, I wanna talk about an important aspect of education which is the education expenditure of theUK, compared with other European countries. Based on a recent paper published in the economistjournal, UK has only spent 1% of its total GDP on tertiary education, which was insufficient ascompared with other European countries such as Finland and Denmark. For instance, the expenditureof Spain is close to the UK in some cases in 2007 and this survey conducted among 50 major citiesaround the country. However, Denmark and Finland spent much more than the other Europeancountries. So, if we decide to compare the education expenditure of the UK with various developingcountries, we will find mindboggling figures in this regard compared to the other countries.(APEUni Website / App RL #79)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

40. Ship (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Our civilization, which subsumes most of its predecessors, is a great ship steaming at speed into thefuture. It travels faster, further, and more laden than any before. We may not be able to foresee everyreef and hazard, but by reading her compass bearing and headway, by understanding her design, hersafety record, and the abilities of her crew, we can, I think, plot a wise course between the narrowsand bergs looming ahead. And I believe we must do this without delay, because there are too manyshipwrecks behind us. The vessel we are now aboard is not merely the biggest of all time; it is also theonly one left. The future of everything we have accomplished since our intelligence evolved will dependon the wisdom of our actions over the next few years. Like all creatures, humans have made their wayin the world so far by trial and error; unlike other creatures, we have a presence so colossal that erroris a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.(APEUni Website / App RL #235)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

41. Loggerhead Turtle (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Main points: The lecture talks about loggerhead turtle, one of the largest turtles in the world,and almost distinct in the USA. They have big heads and short necks. In September, 1986, scientistsput a tracker on a turtle’s shell, and use satellites to track and locate the migration route of the turtle.They reach different localities in different time. The migration takes three months, from the southFlorida to the north. The text to be confirmed: It is time for this young loggerhead Turtle to go to work.We can tether turtles in these little cloth harnesses, put them in this tank and they'll swim in place.University of North Carolina Biologist Ken Lohmann studies sea turtles that are programmed from birthfor an extraordinary journey. The mother turtles bury the eggs on the beach and then return to thesea and the eggs hatch about 50-60 days later. With support from the National Science Foundation,Lohmann is learning how these reptiles use the Earth magnetic field to navigate a 5-10-year joumeyaround the Atlantic Ocean. The turtle seems to inherit a set of responses that tell them what to dowhen they encounter specific magnetic field at particular locations. This animal magnetism can be alife saver. One filed off Portugal triggers the turtles to turn south. If they don't, they will likely die,swept into frigid North Atlantic waters. In one lab test, turtles responded to magnetic fields similar towhat they would encounter off coast of Florida. The great majority of them turned southeast. Now,this is an exciting finding because south easterly orientation in this part of the world, would presumablytake turtles further into the Gulf Stream. So turtles actually have, what might be considered, a crudeglobal positioning system that is based on the Earth magnetic field. And check out this experiment,these turtle moves may look odd. The turtles will actually act out their swimming behaviour in air. But

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this wave simulator recreates the first environmental cue hatchling turtles respond to, and soswimming into waves is a highly reliable trick that turtles use to guide themselves offshore. I guess youcan call it, TPS, the turtle positioning system and while we humans spend hundreds of dollars fordevice like this that tells us where in the world we are, the turtles just know. Understanding how thatworks will help us protect the species. Now the only question is, how can we help them get out of theirshell?(APEUni Website / App RL #233)

42. Motivation (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About two types of motivation, Approach Motivation and Avoidance Motivation. ApproachMotivation means moving to things that are positive, such as vocational plans. Avoidance Motivation isdriving away things that are negative and whose purpose is to reduce anxiety. Avoidance Motivation isquite intense.(APEUni Website / App RL #225)

43. Soot Emission (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Sometimes it's the little things that can make big things happen. Fleas and the plague, atoms andnuclear bombs. Diminutive leaders in world history. Soot is one of these little things. Soot also knownas black carbon is released when you burn dung, coal, diesel fuel and wood. From Los Angeles toMumbai, soot causes respiratory illnesses like lung cancer and asthma and contributes to one point sixmillion premature deaths every year. Mostly among the poor. And it gets worse. Atmospheric currentscarry soot thousands of miles from where it is produced, to the Himalayas and the Arctic. Blackcarbon being black, absorbs sunlight, so even a little soot on snow makes it melt faster. And whensnow melts global sea levels rise, threatening our freshwater indigenous communities and polar bearswho hunt on the Arctic ice. Climate Change has been a big thing for a while and carbon dioxide hasbeen its main cause. Scientists estimate that soot causes twenty five percent of human-causedglobal warming. It’s the second leading cause of Arctic warming after carbon dioxide. Let’s notunderestimate the impact of this tiny particle. But there’s good news, reducing black carbon may bethe fastest way to slow global warming. Buy time for the Arctic. Yes even more so than changing alight bulb. Since black carbon only stays in the atmosphere for a couple of weeks, reducing it willproduce results immediately. Of course, reducing soot alone won’t solve global warming, but solvingour soot problem now will help buy time for the Arctic and allow us to deal with the bigger problem ofcarbon dioxide. We have the cleaner industries, cook stoves, and diesel now we have to use them. Indeveloped nations, we’ve significantly reduced our black carbon, but we still have much more to do.We need to tighten our standards at home and invest in cleaner technologies in developing nations. Ina world going on seven billion people, you might feel rather little yourself. But if you urge the USgovernment and the European Union to take the lead on black carbon reduction, you can make a bigdifference.(APEUni Website / App RL #223)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

44. Language Learning (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:It is wrong, however, to exaggerate the similarity between language and other cognitive skills, becauselanguage stands apart in several ways. For one thing, the use of language is universal-all normallydeveloping children learn to speak at least one language, and many learn more than one. By contrast,

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not everyone becomes proficient at complex mathematical reasoning, few people learn to paint well,and many people cannot carry a tune. Because everyone is capable of learning to speak andunderstand language, it may seem to be simple. But just the opposite is true-language is one of themost complex of all human cognitive abilities.(APEUni Website / App RL #192)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

45. Melatonin (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:I'm just going to take on where stuff left off. The hormone I want to now talk about it's calledmelatonin. The synthesis is in the Pineal Gland, which is very small. It is the size of a pea in your brain.Descartes called it the 'seat of soul', and it is where melatonin is made. And it has a rhythm as well.And in the sense, it is the opposite of the cortisol. It peaks at night. We call it as the darknesshormone. In every species that we studied, melatonin occurs at night. And it's hormone that preparesyou for the things, that your species, does at night. So, of course, in humans we sleep, but animals,like rodents, they are awake. So, it's a hormone that is related to darkness behavior.(APEUni Website / App RL #188)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

46. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Protons are finally transferred to the LHC (both in a clockwise and an anticlockwise direction) wherethey are accelerated for 20 minutes to 6.5 TeV. Beams circulate for many hours inside the LHC beampipes under normal operating conditions. For each collision, the physicist's goal is to count, track andcharacterize all the different particles. The charge of the particle, for instance, is obvious sinceparticles with positive electric charge bend one way and those with negative charge bend the oppositeway. Also the momentumof the particle can be determined. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world'slargest particle accelerator lies in a tunnel. The LHC is a ring roughly 28km around that acceleratesprotons almost to the speed of light before colliding them head-on. Protons are particles found in theatomic nucleus, roughly one thousand-million-millionth of a meter in size. The LHC starts with a bottleof hydrogen gas, which is sent through an electric field to strip away the electrons, leaving just theprotons Electric and magnetic fields are the key to a particle accelerator.(APEUni Website / App RL #184)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

47. Animal Behavior (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:We can ask 2 fundamental questions about animal behavior they referred to as proximate andultimate. Proximate questions are those concerned with the mechanisms that bring about behavior.Ultimate questions are those concerned with the evolution of behavior. We can divide the proximateand ultimate into 2 sub-questions. For proximate, how does behavior develop and secondly whatcauses the behavior. For ultimate, you can ask how did the behavior evolve and secondly what is theadaptive of significance of the behavior. What’s its purpose? Together these comprise what are calledTinbergen’s 4 questions about animal behavior. Niko Tinbergen was one of the founding fathers of thestudy of the animal behaviors. These questions represent different ways of studying animal behavior

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48. Human Behavior (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Determinant, human behavior is affected by internal and external factors. At the end of lecture, thespeaker mentioned that psychologists are interested in explaining human behavior. Determinant isinfluenced by two factors, the personal factors which are internal and the environmental factors whichare external. The personal factors include people's belief on certain things and their individual thinkingabout it, while the environmental factors include temperature, air pressure and the others' thinkingabout them. In conclusion, one's determinants are affected by both himself and the environment.Sample answer: This lecture is about determinants of human behavior. It is affected by both internaland external factors. At the end of lecture, the speaker mentioned that psychologists are interested inexplaining human behavior. Generally, the personal factors are considered to be internal andenvironmental factors are external. Personal factors include people’s belief on certain things and theirindividual thinking about it, while the environmental factors include temperature, air pressure and theothers’ thinking about them. In conclusion, human behavior is affected by both himself and theenvironment.(APEUni Website / App RL #173)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

49. Pavlov Experiment (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:During this time my goals are going to be to talk about the phenomenon that we may share impartwith other animals, and our language and that is emotion. And also talk about some new technology,brain imaging, functional magnetic imaging. And we try to answer some very old questions about howlsdoes motivation and emotion work. I’m going to put you with the scenario first and some of you maybe familiar with. This was developed by Pavlov over a century years ago. And in this scenario the dogpresented with the sound, the dog waits, and then feeds food powder and this happened repeatedly,things starts to happen in the middle of the experiment there. Interesting things start to happen here.Pavlov’s study was salivation the dog, the salivation increases more time to paralyzes. But other thingshappened here, too. You have a dog move around here more, all kinds of things are going on here.What we trying to capture was the experiment 11m going on to describe today is what is going on inthe brain to generate that state which we called it competitive state. But you can also think aboutstate in terms of how the dogs' feeling layer, how you feeling about eating lunch today.(APEUni Website / App RL #165)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

50. Superman (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Today we’re going to recount heroic tales of superhuman feats of strength, when in the face ofdisaster, some people are said to have summoned up incredible physical power to lift a car off of an

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accident victim, move giant rocks, or like Big John of song, single-handedly hold up a collapsing beamto let the other miners escape. Are such stories true? There are many anecdotes supporting the idea,but we’re going to take a fact-based look at whether or not it truly is possible for an adrenalin-charged person to temporarily gain massive strength. In proper terminology, such a temporary boost ofphysical power would be called hysterical strength. The stories are almost always in the form of oneperson lifting a car off of another. In each of these cases, some aspect of leverage or buoyancyprobably played some role in reducing the magnitude of the feat to something more believable. Andeven lifting many cars by several inches still leaves most of its weight supported by the suspensionsprings. But our purpose today is not to "debunk" any of the specific stories. The majority of them areanecdotal, and interestingly not repeatable; in many cases, the person who summoned thesuperstrength later tried it again only to find that they couldn’t do it. Basically, what we have is arespectably large body of anecdotal evidence that suggests that in times of crisis, danger, or fear,some people have the ability to temporarily exercise superhuman strength.(APEUni Website / App RL #164)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

51. Invention (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:All of my research and that I conducted was my 60 plus graduate students, was motivated by theirneed to learn, so that we can teach. Of course, in some inventions happened along the way but I'vealways considered the end the result. And I always consider that this invention to be byproduct,byproducts of the learning process. The end product for me was always better understanding or whenone really succeeded in unifying theory that can help us in teaching the subject. I've also looked atteaching as a vehicle to try new ideas, of new ways to doing things on an intelligent group of learners.That is as the vehicle for the teaching research results. And in my experience, this kind of teaching isthe most stimulated and motivating to students. I am also uncovered many interesting researchproblems is the cause of teaching assumption. It is this unity of research and teaching their closeconnection and the benefits gathered by exercising and the interplay that to me characterizes thesuccessful professor.(APEUni Website / App RL #163)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

52. Springtime (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:The Earth’s temperature is rising. And as it does, springtime phenomena—like the first bloom offlowers—are getting earlier and earlier. But rising temperatures aren't the only factor. Urban lightpollution is also quickening the coming of spring. "So temperature and light are really contributing to adouble whammy of making everything earlier." Richard ffrench-Constant, an entomologist at theUniversity of Exeter. He and his colleagues compiled 13 years of data from citizen scientists in theU.K., who tracked the first bud burst of four common trees. Turns out, light pollution—from streetlightsin cities, and along roads—pushed bud burst a full week earlier. Way beyond what rising temperaturescould achieve. This disruptive timing can ripple through the ecosystem. "The caterpillars that feed ontrees are trying to match the hatching of their eggs to the timing of bud burst. Because thecaterpillars want to feed on the juiciest and least chemically protected leaves. And it's not just thecaterpillars, of course, that are important. But the knock-on effect is on nesting birds, which are alsotrying to hatch their chicks at the same time that there's the maximum number of caterpillars." So

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earlier buds could ultimately affect the survival of birds, and beyond. The findings are in theProceedings of the Royal Society B. The world's becoming increasingly urbanized, and light pollution isgrowing—which ffrench-Constant says could trick trees into budding earlier and earlier. But smarterlighting—like LEDs that dial down certain wavelengths—could help. "Perhaps the exciting thing is, if weunderstand more about how light affects this bud burst, we might be able to devise smarter sort ofstreet lighting that has less red components, and therefore less early bud burst." Thus keepingspringtime an actual springtime phenomenon.(APEUni Website / App RL #161)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

53. Rice (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:In 1943, what became known as the Green Revolution began when Mexico, unable to feed its growingpopulation, shouted for help. Within a few years, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations founded theInternational Rice Research Institute in Asia, and by 1962, a new strain of rice called IR8 was feedingpeople all over the world. IR8 was the first really big modified crop to make a real impact on worldhunger. In 1962 the technology did not yet exist to directly manipulate the genes of plants, and so IR8was created by carefully crossing existing varieties: selecting the best from each generation, furthermodifying them, and finally finding the best. Here is the power of modified crops: IR8, with no fertilizer,straight out of the box, produced five times the yield of traditional rice varieties. In optimal conditionswith nitrogen, it produced ten times the yield of traditional varieties. By 1980, IR36 resisted pests andgrew fast enough to allow two crops a year instead of just one, doubling the yield. And by 1990, usingmore advanced genetic manipulation techniques, IR72 was outperforming even IR36. The GreenRevolution saw worldwide crop yields explode from 1960 through 2000.(APEUni Website / App RL #159)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

54. Arctic and Antarctic (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:So, when we talk about the polar regions, just to clarify exactly what we mean. And we have first of allthe Arctic at the top of the earth and the Antarctic at the bottom, and so the Arctic was named afterthe Greek word for bear. Now surprisingly it’s not after the polar bears that live in the Antarctic or livein the Arctic and based on it’s after the little and great bear constellations that can be seen in thesky. Now the Greek also hypothesize that there would be the Anti-arctic, which is how we get thename Antarctica and of course it wasn’t discovered until much later on. Now these regions areopposite in many ways other than just their names and their location on the globe, and so if we look atthe arctic first of all, and the Arctic is actually ocean surrounded by land, and so you can see herethis is the UK down here and this kind of Russia and then American Canada around here, and so thereis a bit of land cover in our ice on the top in the Arctic, which is Greenland here and Macie all thisarea here. Surprisingly a lot of people don’t realize that this isn’t actually land. The north pole isn’t onland. It’s just one big ocean.(APEUni Website / App RL #157)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Original:I have said before that you can't have a civilization that doesn't have art. When we think about thegreat civilizations historically, all of them had great production of culture and art, because a societyhas to be able to observe itself. And the sophistication of the great civilizations were their ability tolook at themselves and what allows a society to do that. Are the producers of Art and Culture mirrorback to the core of the society? Exactly what is being produced at that moment? How people arethinking of themselves and how individuals are relating to the social structure at that time? Art is thevehicle through which we understand that. Were you to take away art? What would be thatmirror？How would we see what we are about? How would we understand what was going on in Parisat the time of the impressionists when people were learning to see in a completely different way. Precinematograph appear all of these things are just emerging and here are people looking at the world ina very different way which was considered so radical at the time.(APEUni Website / App RL #156)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

56. Immigration Control (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Now the economists’ calculated, it’s a-back-of-the-envelope calculation, that removing allimmigration controls would double the size of the world economy, and even a small relaxation ofimmigration controls would lead to disproportionally big gains. Now for an ethical point of view, it’shard to argue against a policy that will do so much to help people that are much poorer thanourselves. The famous Rand Study reckons that a typical immigrant who arrives in US ends up with$20,000 a year, that’s rough. It’s not just the migrants themselves who gain, it’s the countries theycome from. Already, the migrants working for poor countries working in rich countries send homearound 200 billion dollars a year, through formal channels, and about twice as that through informalchannels. And that compares to the neat a hundred million dollars that Western governments give inaid. These remittances are not wasted on weapons or siphoned off into Swiss bank accounts; they gostraight into the pockets of local people. They pay for food, clean water, and medicines, they help kidsin school, they help start up new business. Sample answer: Removing immigration control would doublethe world economy. This policy will do so much to help poor people. Immigrants ends up with 20000 ayear from gain and countries they come from. They send home around 200 billion dollars a yearthrough formal channels which are twice as that through informal channels. These remittances canhelp local people for living straightly.(APEUni Website / App RL #155)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

57. London Taxi Drivers (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:But we can really thank the Great Exhibition of 1851 for giving us the world’s premier taxi service, for itwas going to this exhibition, and this fabulous exhibition inventions from all around the four corners ofthe Empire that the visitors were appalled, dismayed and vexed by their journeys to this exhibitionbecause the cabbies of the day, and their horse-drawn carts were absolutely terrible, could not findtheir way to this exhibition. And, so, a great public outcry, the London Authority sets up PublicCarriage Office, which is an organization that still exists. And you can take a short walk to PentonStreet up the road. And this Public Carriage office took on the responsibility of licensing all major taxidrivers in London. All taxi drivers from 1851 onwards had to pass what is now known as the London

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knowledge, was phenomenal knowledge of London. What is the London knowledge? It’s the ability toremember the 25,000 streets, have it all interconnected and all the main arterial roads in and out ofLondon. Cabbies need to know all this plus a thousand points of specific interest cafes, bars, publicoffices. They need to know them all as part of their training.(APEUni Website / App RL #154)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

58. Music and Wellbeing (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:So what do we mean by well-being? Health, happiness, a sense of achievement and contentment, astate of mind and body where people can thrive. Well-being is not something that is purely limited topeople who are facing extraordinary challenges in their lifestyle, health or personal circumstances,everybody here has a level of well-being. Music so often forms an intuitive part of our well-beingmanagement, music to pick us up, music to calm us down, music to heal our sorrows. Our aim throughresearch is to move from this level of intuitive application of music through to informed use in ourcommunities to take the next step in the understanding of the power of music in human life. Musicalready works for us on so many levels whether it's soothing and teaching our infants bringing peopleand communities together adding spirit to our work and personal endeavors, but there is no reason tostop here.(APEUni Website / App RL #152)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

59. Taxonomy (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Welcome to today's lesson. We're continuing with our study of taxonomy. Taxonomy is how scientistsclassify organisms into different groups based on the characteristics that they share. So, for instance,a good way to think about taxonomy is the US Postal Service. If we want to send a letter to someone,we first start off by addressing it to the nation they are in. By default, we usually assume that'sAmerica but it doesn't have to be in England or Costa Rica or Spain. You put their nation or theirkingdom. Then within that kingdom, you address it to a slightly more specific level their states. So, forinstance, South Carolina would be the same as a phylum. And within that state, you would address itto their city and then to their street number, the street they live on. Then you would address it to saytheir apartment complex and within that complex, you'd address it by their last name to their familyand then finally their first name to the specific person you want to get it to and in that way we're ableto weed out all the 400 million people we don't want to send our letter to in America and pinpoint theexact person we want the letter to reach. And in the same way, scientists use a taxonomy chart topinpoint a living creature and organism and how it relates to everything else in the world.(APEUni Website / App RL #151)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

60. Happiness (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:As Joanne pointed out, only one country, tiny little Bhutan, wedged between China and India, hasadopted the Gross National Happiness as the central index of the government policy, and actually hasa good deal of success in education and in health and in economic growth and in environmental

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preservation. They have a rather sophisticated way of measuring the effects of different policies onpeople's happiness. They are the only country to go that far. But you are now beginning to get othercountries interested enough to do kind of white paper policy analyses of happiness research—whateffects would it have if we used it more for public policy? You are beginning to get countries likeAustralia, France, Great Britain, that are considering publishing regular statistics on happiness. So it isbeginning to become a subject of greater interest for policymakers and legislators in differentadvanced countries.(APEUni Website / App RL #150)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

61. Sugar (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:There's sugar in a lot of foods where you don't expect it. Of course there's lots of sugar in donuts ofice cream, or pastries, or other things that are sweet; candy of course, but there are other placeswhere you see it and you don't necessarily expect it. So as an example: peanut butter. Here's a list ofingredients from Skippy Peanut Butter and you see that sugar is the second most common ingredient.So that you may know from the reading food labels that these ingredients in any food labels that arelisted in order of how much there is in the food itself, so sugar comes right after peanuts. Here'sanother example, Beef stew, you wouldn't necessarily expected to find sugar in beef stew but it'sthere. Now it's down the list of ingredients, it's actually toward the end, but if you look at themarketing of this and food at the can, it says, there's fresh potatoes and carrots, but actually there'smore sugar in this than there is carrots. And so you wouldn't eat something like beef stew and expectto find this to be the case.(APEUni Website / App RL #148)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

62. London Fog (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Turner, not surprisingly, painted one of the earliest pictures of London's fog, in the 1835 painting theThames above Waterloo Bridge. Turner is a trueborn Londoner, is advertising his familiarity withLondon's air problem by putting smoke, an atmospheric pollution at its center. And as you can see, inhere, the bridge is the central elements, which is a theme that's later taken up by Monet. And it'spartly obscured by the steam and smoke which rises from both sides of the river. Here, we see ashot-tower. I think you can just about to see, which was constructed in 1826. Do you know what shot-towers are? They produce shot for guns, ammunition. And they were very smoky, one of the moresmoking industries. But it's barely visible, as you can see, as are the various industries on the Lambuthside of the river. There's, on this side, there's a steamship about to dock or preparing to leave. It'sblack smoke thrusting up to join the kind of swirling arc of smoke there. William Rodner sees thispainting as a potent essay on the energy and complexity of modern polluted organism. Smoke, I think,here represents for a flourishing economy, which brings employment and food on tables but also thedirt and pollution associated with the fumes all seems to be tainted by sulfurous yellow.(APEUni Website / App RL #147)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Original:This is a kind of object that you're probably all familiar with when you had the term robot, but I'mgonna show you the very, very first robots. These were the very first robots. They were characters in aplay in the 1920s called Rossum's Universal Robots and they, the play was written by Czech writercalled Karel Capek. And basically, these robots, you know, people tend to think of robots as kind ofcute cuddly toys or, you know, Hollywood depictions kind of devoid of politics. But the first robots wereactually created and imagined in a time of absolute political turmoil. You just had the First World War,you know, it finished had a devastating impact across Europe and so people will kind and people arekind of reflecting on what does it mean to be human, what makes us human, those kinds of question.And this kind of context is what inspired Capek to kind of write this play. And interestingly, theserobots being human, they are actually in the play assembled on a production line, a bit like the Fordmanufacturing production line. So even though they are human, they are assembled and these robotsare designed to labor, and that is their primary purpose in society.(APEUni Website / App RL #124)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

64. Australia Immigration History (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:The first inhabitants in Australia were the ancestors of the present indigenous people. Whether thesefirst migrations involved one or several successive waves and distinct peoples is still subject toacademic debate, as is its timing. The minimum widely accepted time frame places presence ofhumans in Australia at 40000to 43000 years Before Present, while the upper range supported byothers is 60000 to 70000 years BP.In any event, this migration was achieved during the closing stagesof the Pleistocene epoch, when sea levels were typically much lower than they are today. Repeatedepisodes of extended glaciation resulted in decreases of sea levels by some 100150 m. The continentalcoastline therefore extended much further out into the Timor Sea than it does today, and Australiaand New Guinea formed a single landmass( known as Sahul), connected by an extensive land bridgeacross the Arafura Sea, Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait.The ancestral Australian Aboriginalpeoples were thus long established and continued to develop, diversity and settle through much of thecontinent. As the sea levels again rose at the terminus of the most recent glacial period some 10000years ago the Australian continent once more became a separated landmass. However ,the newlyformed 150 km wide Torres Strait with its chain of islands still provided the means for cultural contactand trade between New Guinea and the northern Cape York Penisula.During the 1970s and 1980saround 120000 southern Asian refugees migrated to Australia. During that twenty years, Australia firstbegan to adopt a policy of what Minister of Immigration AI Grass by termed "multiculturalism". In2004-5, Australia accepted 123000 new settles , 19 a 40% increase over the past 10 years. Thelargest number of immigrants (40000 in 200405) moved to Sydney. The majority of immigrants camefrom Asia, led by China and India.(APEUni Website / App RL #144)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

65. Chest X-Ray (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:This is one picture that you probably you all know what it is when you see it. It's a familiar lookingimage. It's something that probably we all have some personal experience with, right? This is a chestx-ray that would be taken in your doctor's office, for example, or a radiologist's office. And it is a good

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example of Biomedical Engineering and that it takes a physical principle, that is how do x-rays interactwith the tissues of your body, and it uses that physics, that physical principle to develop a picture ofwhat's inside your body, so to look inside and see things that you couldn't see without this device. Andyou'll recognize some parts of the image, you can see the ribcage here, the bones you can see theheart is the large bright object down here. If you, have good eyesight from the distance,you can seethe vessels leading out of the heart and into the lungs, and the lungs are darker spaces within theribcage.(APEUni Website / App RL #143)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

66. Climate Change (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Climate change, some adverse effects of climate changes to agricultural productions. Some lands areunsuitable for growing crops. There will be millions of people facing hunger in Africa in the future.Climate change will result in less production and less food. It is difficult for developing countries todeal with climate change due to their financial status and other issues. There are many people living inhunger especially in Africa. The climate change has devastating effects on world economy. Thetropical areas on earth are dry and hot, and are originally not suitable for food production. The changeof the climate leads to extreme weather conditions such as flood and hurricane, which exacerbatesthe food production. As a result, it leads to a continuous decline in food supply annually around 10-17%. And this trend is perceived to be continue in the future by 2070. The regions suffering the mostwill be some African countries.(APEUni Website / App RL #141)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

67. Brain Development (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:3 stages of Brain development- brain development during childhood, there are three stages, startingfrom the primitive brain (the action brain), limbic brain(feeling brain), and finally to the neocortex(thought brain).Although interrelated, the three had its own function. Primitive brain functions tomanage the physical to survive, manage reflex, motor motion control, monitoring body funtions, andprocess information coming from sensing. Limbic brain functioning as a liaison to process emotionsand the brain thinks, and the primitive brain.While the thinking brain, which is the most objective partof the brain, receiving input from the primitive brain and the limbic brain. However, he needed moretime to process information from the primitive brain and the limbic brain. The brain thinks the mergeris also a place of experience, memory, feeling, and thinking ability to give birth to ideas andactions.Nerve myelination of the brain take place in sequence, starting from the primitive brain, thelimbic brains, and brain thought. Neural pathways are more frequently used to make more myelinthicken. Increasingly thicker myelin,the faster the nerve impulses or signals travel alone nerves.Therefore, a growing child is encouraged to receive input from the environment in accordance with itsdevelopment.(APEUni Website / App RL #137)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Original:With the help of the wealthy countries such as US, Vietnam became second largest coffee producerand exporter. This impact other coffee producers like Colombia. The lecture is about the changes thathave taken place in coffee production. Coffee production increased from 6 billion to 30 billion. Thehuge demand of Europe and America has made Vietnam the second biggest producer which hasgreatly affected Columbia's production. The output of Central America is witnessing dramaticdecrease. People's drinking habit also undergoing changes. Coffee was introduced to Vietnam in 1857by the French and slowly grew as producer of coffee in Asia. The height of coffee production occurredin the early 20th century as small-scale production shifted towards plantations. By 2000, coffeeproduction had grown to 900,000 tons per year. Price decreases, however, led annual production todrop to around 600,000 tons/year in 2003.[3] In 2009, Reuters report Vietnamese coffee exports at"an estimated 1.13 million tones" for the previous year stating that coffee was second only to rice invalue of agro-products exported from Vietnam. The country's 2013/2014 coffee crop is expected tobe a bumper harvest of around million to 29.5 million 60-kg bags. Such a large production will add to aglobal oversupply beans and will pressure coffee prices which have lost about 10 percent sinceOctober 20. The country's coffee industry has taken a hit; of the 127 local coffee export firms thatoperated in 2012, 56 have ceased trading or shifted to other businesses after having taken out loansthey can't repay. A few firms, such as Vietnam's top coffee exporter the Intimex Group, will benefitfrom the 2013 harvest. Intimex accounts for a quarter of the country's coffee exports and made $1.2billion in revenue in 2012.(APEUni Website / App RL #126)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

69. Bomb Calorimeter (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:This is a bomb calorimeter; this is the actual piece of equipment that researchers used to calculatethe energy content of either biodiesel or maybe even the potato chips that you had for lunch today.When they calculate the amount of energy. They’re going to calculate it in heat unites which wouldeither be joules or calories. I want you to look inside the bomb calorimeter inside here, you can seethat there’s a silver bucket water goes all in here and this is actually the bomb is the smaller silvercylinder what you do is put your fuel sample in there then these two electrodes are connected to thebomb. These provide the spark that will ignite your sample when your sample burns or combust thatgives off energy. So how is the energy collected or how did a scientist figure out how much energy isbeing given off. Well, it’s a closed system, there’s a lid here that goes on top of this calorimeter andwhat’s in here in the lid is a stirrer. The stir is going to stir the water. That’s in this big pool here sothat the heat given off from the sample is going to warm the water in a uniform way. This is thetemperature probe, this goes down in the water also and measures the change in temperaturebecause as the sample is burned, it will give off heat and the temperature the water will increase. Sothe lid goes on the sample is prepared. The last thing that you need to make a combustion reactionhappen is oxygen and at some point during the process, some oxygen is added by a tank. That’sconnected to the calorimeter here. So we are going to burn a sample of the biodiesel that you’veprepared and get some feedback on the energy content of it. You’ll be able to use this to compare itto petroleum-based fuels like octane.(APEUni Website / App RL #72)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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70. Brain_development (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:The key to forming strong brain architecture is what's known as " serve and return" interaction withadults. In this developmental game, new neural connections form in the brain as young childreninstinctively serve through babbling, facial expressions, and gestures, and adults return the serve,responding in a very directed, meaningful way. It starts very early in life when a baby coos and theadults interacts and directs the baby's attention to a face or hand. This interaction forms thefoundation of brain architecture upon which all future development will be built. It helps create neuralconnections between all the different areas of the brain, building the emotional and cognitive skillschildren need in life. For example, here's how it works for literacy and language skills. When the babysees an object, the adult says its name. This makes connections in the baby's brain betweenparticular sounds and their corresponding objects. Later, adults show young children that thoseobjects and sounds can also be represented by marks on a page. With continued support from adults,children then learn how to decipher writing and, eventually, to write themselves. Each stage builds onwhat came before. Ensuring that children have adult caregivers who consistently engage in serve andreturn interaction, beginning in infancy, builds the foundation in the brain for all the learning, behavior,and health that follow.(APEUni Website / App RL #71)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

71. Civil Society (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:But in the face of the sense of disempowerment, there surprisingly is no decline in involvement inorganizations which seek to share wealth and opportunities, protect one another's right and worktowards the common good. according to the United Nations, Civil Society groups have Grown 40-foldsince the turn of last century. Internationally the nonprofit sector is worth 1 trillion dollars, and thereare 700,000 such organizations in Australia alone. the UN recognizes 37000 specifically Civil Societyorganizations across the global, and gave 3500 accreditation to the 2002 World Summit on sustainabledevelopment. This profound movement towards harnessing voices and resources from outside realm ofgovernments and officialdom reflects a profound growth in NGOs, "the third sector" as some call it.Putnam discovered in the field of local government in ltaly, the best predictor of governmental successwas the strength and density of a region's civic associations.(APEUni Website / App RL #61)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

72. Historic Library (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Indeed, the library. We've all been to a historic library. We've all enjoyed the smell of a historic library.But what is it? And what does it mean? When we've recently, when at UCL Center for SustainableHeritage, we've recently been asked to assess the environment at another historical library at SaintPaul's Cathedral, the Wren library, an incredible place. And it has a such an intensive smell of oldbooks, and we were also asked for the first time really I was actually taken aback by the brief, we wereasked what you do please preserve the smell. It is so important to our audience. It is so important howpeople perceive the library. So, that is, that was quite an important message in our research. Andindeed the smell is an important way of how we communicate with the environment. This piece ofresearch was done by an advertising company because advertisers are so interested in how we, how

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we interact with each other and the environment. And we see that the majority of people use sightobviously to interact with the environment, but on the second place, we see the smell is also very, veryimportant.(APEUni Website / App RL #58)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

73. Green Economy (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:The green economy could easily be the next Industrial Revolution. I mean energy is... you know, we allneed energy. We do an annual report which studies how much oil is left in the world and demand foroil. And with China, India, South America, Africa even, growing at the rate they're now growing, youknow, we think that four or five years from now the demand for fuel will exceed supply. That couldpush prices, you know, through the roof. For that reason you know, forget global warming for oneminute just for that reason alone, we should be hurrying up, you know, saving on energy and creatingalternative sources of energy. And I think those people who invest in this sector, hopefully, you know,will get their thanks, and get the right; get their just returns.(APEUni Website / App RL #35)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

74. Linguistic Change (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:The Internet is changing everything. The world of language in the future is totally different from theworld of language in the past and the reason is quite simple. There is more written language on theInternet now than all the libraries in the world combined. We've never seen anything like it before andwe haven't seen anything yet. When you're talking about the future of a language. We are askingabout its long-term prospects, where do they essentially lie? And my answer is they lie in the youngpeople, they lie especially in the hands of teenagers. The teenagers are the parents of next generationof children. If teenagers are going to succeed in maintaining the intergenerational transmission of alanguage, then they have got to be infused about the minority language, the endangered languagethat their parents and others speak, so how would you get teenagers infused is the question. Wellthere is no question today, the only thing that infuses teenagers, apart from sex, is internet and all theelectronic world. And so that is the area where one has got to focus. A minority language has got toget itself up electronically in all the varieties that are available to it. Now in the case of something likewelsh, there is already quite a strong welsh presence on the World Wide Web and increasingly thereare welsh chat rooms, welsh blogs, welsh face book interactions and so on. Well this is a very verypositive sign, and it needs to be reinforced as much as possible. The future of the welsh language, Ithink all languages actually lies in the electronic domain.(APEUni Website / App RL #17)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

75. Guiding Principles (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:From reading philosophy, I came up with three principles as the guiding principles for a just city, of theprinciples of equity, democracy and diversity. Of these were derived from the works of a number ofphilosophers, most preeminently I supposed on Ross. My choice of word equity rather than equality is

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in fact based on Ross's argument that a policy ought to distribute benefits to people where the worstoff become better off. So the worst off don't have to become equal to everybody else but no policyshould in fact make those who are most disadvantaged more disadvantaged. And it means that wehave to talk about the policy at the time it's being enacted. To say, while we have to make our citymore competitive because sometime and by and by, the benefits will trickle down to those people whowere worst off doesn't justify making them worst off as that time. We have a lot of examples on theworld of people whose homes were destroyed in the name of the greater good and say eventually theywill benefit. But equity means that you do not in fact take advantage of those people who areweakest.(APEUni Website / App RL #5)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Answer Short QuestionRepeat Rate: 95%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions.Audio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. How do we describe a person who enjoys the company of others?Answer: extrovert (APEUni Website / App ASQ #844) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

2. What do we call the joint that joins the leg to the rest of the body?Answer: hip joint (APEUni Website / App ASQ #834) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

3. What do we call someone who studies languages?Answer: linguist (APEUni Website / App ASQ #833) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

4. What do we call a group of mountains such as the Himalayas?Answer: range (APEUni Website / App ASQ #832) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

5. In winter, what activities do people usually do on snow mountains by standing on long, thin boards?Answer: skiing (APEUni Website / App ASQ #831) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

6. What is the storyline or the series of scenes of novels, movies, short stories or plays?Answer: plot (APEUni Website / App ASQ #828) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

7. What part of a plant has petals?Answer: flower (APEUni Website / App ASQ #822) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

8. What do you call your nephew's dad?Answer: brother (APEUni Website / App ASQ #820) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

9. What is the opposite of "dangerous"?Answer: safe (APEUni Website / App ASQ #817) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

10. We call numbers like one, three, five odd numbers, then what do we call numbers like two, four,six?Answer: even numbers (APEUni Website / App ASQ #816) (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

11. What do we call a dream that is very frightening or unpleasant?Answer: nightmare (APEUni Website / App ASQ #814) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

12. What is the joint connecting the foot to the leg?Answer: ankle (APEUni Website / App ASQ #813) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

13. What do we call people who help others get insurance?Answer: insurance agents / insurance brokers (APEUni Website / App ASQ #812) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

14. What do we call one of four equal parts of something?Answer: quarter (APEUni Website / App ASQ #657) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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15. Which one is more shining, gold or silver?Answer: gold (APEUni Website / App ASQ #806) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

16. What do we call a person who defends a criminal?Answer: lawyer / advocate (APEUni Website / App ASQ #805) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

17. What do we call the action of a ball that immediately moves upwards from the ground after hittingit?Answer: bounce / bouncing (APEUni Website / App ASQ #804) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

18. What do you call a flight that you buy for going and return?Answer: round trip (APEUni Website / App ASQ #803) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

19. What do we call a car that needs to be charged?Answer: electric car (APEUni Website / App ASQ #802) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

20. What do we call three children born at the same time to the same mother?Answer: triplets (APEUni Website / App ASQ #801) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

21. What do we call a person whose responsibility is to correct others' mistakes?Answer: corrector (APEUni Website / App ASQ #800) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

22. Points:Answer: (APEUni Website / App ASQ #799) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

23. What do they call the pieces of puzzle which players try to piece together?Answer: jigsaw (APEUni Website / App ASQ #798) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

24. What is the couple's formal relationship called?Answer: marriage (APEUni Website / App ASQ #797) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

25. What do we call a long, metal stick a player use to hit the ball in golf?Answer: club (APEUni Website / App ASQ #796) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

26. What is the low land between two hills or mountains?Answer: valley / canyon (APEUni Website / App ASQ #795) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

27. What is the subject studying the nature of society?Answer: sociology (APEUni Website / App ASQ #792) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

28. We call a person used to using the right hand a right-hander, and what do we call a person if theleft hand?Answer: left-hander (APEUni Website / App ASQ #791) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

29. What do we call a photo of a person's face taken from the side?Answer: profile (APEUni Website / App ASQ #790) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

30. Where is basketball played?Answer: basketball court (APEUni Website / App ASQ #789) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

31. What do we call comments in a movie given by a person unseen on the screen?Answer: voice-over (APEUni Website / App ASQ #788) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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32. How do we call the flat surface at the front of a television or computer, on which we can seepictures?Answer: screen (APEUni Website / App ASQ #785) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

33. How do we describe something between continents?Answer: intercontinental (APEUni Website / App ASQ #784) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

34. What is the second month of the year?Answer: february (APEUni Website / App ASQ #783) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

35. Who are the drivers of the journals?Answer: editors (APEUni Website / App ASQ #781) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

36. What do we call an experienced person who advises and helps less experienced people?Answer: mentor (APEUni Website / App ASQ #780) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

37. What do we call the selling and transporting of goods to another country?Answer: export / exportation (APEUni Website / App ASQ #778) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

38. In sport, what do we call the cloths that end above the knee?Answer: shorts (APEUni Website / App ASQ #776) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

39. What do we call a child who will soon be a teenager?Answer: preteen / tween (APEUni Website / App ASQ #775) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

40. What do we call a sudden shake of the Earth’s surface?Answer: earthquake (APEUni Website / App ASQ #773) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

41. What is the opposite of 'wet'?Answer: dry (APEUni Website / App ASQ #769) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

42. What do you call a person who lives next to your house?Answer: neighbor (APEUni Website / App ASQ #768) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

43. If knees are located in your legs, where are elbows located?Answer: arms (APEUni Website / App ASQ #245) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

44. What do we call the cloth that covers the screen after a movie ends in cinema?Answer: curtain (APEUni Website / App ASQ #756) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

45. What do people usually use to cut food？Answer: knife (APEUni Website / App ASQ #755) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

46. What is the name of the liquid in the pen?Answer: ink (APEUni Website / App ASQ #752) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

47. What do you call a person from Netherlands?Answer: dutch (APEUni Website / App ASQ #751) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

48. What do we call a period of 1000 years?Answer: millennium (APEUni Website / App ASQ #275) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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49. Points: If you are eating soup, what kind of utensils do you use?Answer: spoon / spoons (APEUni Website / App ASQ #744) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

50. How many sides does a hexagon have?Answer: six (APEUni Website / App ASQ #743) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

51. What do you call a statue or a building that is dedicated in memory of someone?Answer: monument (APEUni Website / App ASQ #740) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

52. What is the joint between your shoulder and your forearm?Answer: elbow (APEUni Website / App ASQ #123) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

53. In the sentence: “He has been quite upset since he went back to school.” Which word uses a pasttense?Answer: went (APEUni Website / App ASQ #736) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

54. Points: There are three eggs, what is the location of the special egg?Answer: on the right (there is a picture including three eggs: the left two have eggshells while the rightone does not (APEUni Website / App ASQ #735) (Prediction) (Incomplete)

55. What are buses, trains, and cars used for?Answer: travel / transport / transportation (APEUni Website / App ASQ #724) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

56. What will ice become when it melts?Answer: water (APEUni Website / App ASQ #613) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

57. What is the opposite of north?Answer: south (APEUni Website / App ASQ #732) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

58. What is the heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine?Answer: headline (APEUni Website / App ASQ #731) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

59. What is the term used to describe a period of seven days?Answer: week (APEUni Website / App ASQ #730) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

60. Which organ is the blood pumped from?Answer: heart (APEUni Website / App ASQ #174) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

61. How many years are there in a century?Answer: one hundred (APEUni Website / App ASQ #727) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

62. What is the section in the library where books can be read but cannot be borrowed?Answer: reserve collection (APEUni Website / App ASQ #726) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

63. What organ on your face do you breathe with?Answer: nose (APEUni Website / App ASQ #723) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

64. What can bring astronauts to space?Answer: spacecraft (APEUni Website / App ASQ #720) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

65. What is the political system in which a country is ruled by a king or a queen?

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Answer: monarchy (APEUni Website / App ASQ #214) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

66. How many days are there in a fortnight？Answer: fourteen (APEUni Website / App ASQ #712) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

67. What do you call a person who is guilty in terms of law?Answer: convict / criminal / offender (APEUni Website / App ASQ #710) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

68. What vehicle runs on railways?Answer: train (APEUni Website / App ASQ #707) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

69. What is the opposite of even numbers?Answer: odd numbers (APEUni Website / App ASQ #702) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

70. How often is a centennial celebrated?Answer: one hundred years (APEUni Website / App ASQ #698) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

71. What do you call the people who work on boats?Answer: sailors / mariner (APEUni Website / App ASQ #697) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

72. What does 'subterranean' mean?Answer: underground (APEUni Website / App ASQ #696) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

73. What do you call the complete control of trade in particular goods or the supply of a particularservice?Answer: monopoly (APEUni Website / App ASQ #695) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

74. What are the external organs used for hearing?Answer: ears (APEUni Website / App ASQ #694) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

75. What is the opposite of the word 'public'?Answer: private (APEUni Website / App ASQ #693) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

76. What is the boat that carries people from one side of a river to the other?Answer: ferry (APEUni Website / App ASQ #692) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

77. What do you call the people who visit sightseeing locations?Answer: tourists (APEUni Website / App ASQ #691) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

78. Where on campus are the periodical collections located?Answer: library (APEUni Website / App ASQ #690) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

79. What do you call the buildings of a university or college and the land around them?Answer: campus (APEUni Website / App ASQ #689) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

80. How do you call the money that you pay in advance for receiving newspapers or journals?Answer: subscription (APEUni Website / App ASQ #688) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

81. How many sides does an octagon have?Answer: eight (APEUni Website / App ASQ #687) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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82. What do you call the persons who study religions?Answer: theologians / theologists (APEUni Website / App ASQ #686) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

83. If an event happens annually, how often does it happen?Answer: once a year (APEUni Website / App ASQ #685) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

84. If you are celebrating a biannual activity, how many years ago did you celebrate it last time?Answer: half a year (APEUni Website / App ASQ #684) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

85. What gas will be generated from the boiling water?Answer: water vapor / steam (APEUni Website / App ASQ #683) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

86. What is the line where the sky meets the land?Answer: horizon / skyline (APEUni Website / App ASQ #682) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

87. What animal is a shepherd responsible for?Answer: sheep / goat (APEUni Website / App ASQ #681) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

88. What clothing do people wear, such as students or nurses, to show that they belong to the sameorganizations?Answer: uniform (APEUni Website / App ASQ #679) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

89. In what room do scientists usually do experiments?Answer: laboratory (APEUni Website / App ASQ #678) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

90. What will students receive at the end of the term?Answer: transcript (APEUni Website / App ASQ #674) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

91. What is the yellow stuff that can be found on beaches or deserts?Answer: sand (APEUni Website / App ASQ #671) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

92. What will you hear after a flash of lightning?Answer: thunder (APEUni Website / App ASQ #654) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

93. What do we call a cat's baby?Answer: kitten / kitty (APEUni Website / App ASQ #645) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

94. What is the verb describing the process that water becomes ice?Answer: freeze (APEUni Website / App ASQ #644) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

95. What is the horizontal line that separates the globe into two halves?Answer: equator (APEUni Website / App ASQ #642) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

96. What document does a student get when graduating from the university?Answer: graduation certificate (APEUni Website / App ASQ #637) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

97. How many quarters are there in a calendar year?Answer: four (APEUni Website / App ASQ #633) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

98. When trains or cars need to go through a mountain, where do they enter the mountain?Answer: tunnel (APEUni Website / App ASQ #629) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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99. What do you call the document that tells your qualification and work experience?Answer: cv / curriculum vitae / resume (APEUni Website / App ASQ #606) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

100. What device do you type on when you use a computer?Answer: keyboard (APEUni Website / App ASQ #280) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

101. What day is the first day of a week which starts with T?Answer: tuesday (APEUni Website / App ASQ #597) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

102. What do you call a difficult time when economic activities slow down, and there are more peopleunemployed?Answer: recession (APEUni Website / App ASQ #590) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

103. What do you call students in universities who have not yet graduated?Answer: undergraduates (APEUni Website / App ASQ #586) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

104. What do you call the son of your sister or brother?Answer: nephew (APEUni Website / App ASQ #585) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

105. Jack is having a presentation on Wednesday. Today is Tuesday. When will Jack have his speech,today, tomorrow or next week?Answer: tomorrow (APEUni Website / App ASQ #580) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

106. What is the frozen type of water called?Answer: ice (APEUni Website / App ASQ #579) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

107. What is the list that shows the names of actors and actresses in a movie?Answer: cast (APEUni Website / App ASQ #394) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

108. If you have a toothache, who will you go to?Answer: dentist (APEUni Website / App ASQ #573) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

109. What is the legal document protecting someone's intellectual property?Answer: patent (APEUni Website / App ASQ #565) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

110. What do people hold overhead when it is raining?Answer: umbrella (APEUni Website / App ASQ #562) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

111. What do we call counting people who are living in a state or country?Answer: census (APEUni Website / App ASQ #555) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

112. What does a barometer measure?Answer: air pressure (APEUni Website / App ASQ #554) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

113. Apart from coffee and hot chocolate, what beverages also contain caffeine?Answer: tea / coke / cocoa (APEUni Website / App ASQ #547) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

114. What is the musical instrument which has both pedals and strings?Answer: harp / piano (APEUni Website / App ASQ #546) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

115. Which part of our bodies do we use nasal spray in?

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Answer: nose / nostril (APEUni Website / App ASQ #356) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

116. What do you throw underwater to keep ships staying on rivers or oceans without drifting away?Answer: anchor (APEUni Website / App ASQ #542) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

117. What do we call the condition that people cannot sleep?Answer: insomnia / sleeplessness (APEUni Website / App ASQ #538) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

118. What is the opposite of division in mathematics?Answer: multiplication (APEUni Website / App ASQ #320) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

119. How often does a biennial convention take place?Answer: every two years (APEUni Website / App ASQ #536) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

120. Which sense is related to your ears?Answer: hearing (APEUni Website / App ASQ #534) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

121. What instrument would scientists use to examine very small life forms?Answer: microscope (APEUni Website / App ASQ #532) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

122. What is the habitat of camels?Answer: desert (APEUni Website / App ASQ #531) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

123. What is the force that draws objects toward a planet's center?Answer: gravity / gravitation (APEUni Website / App ASQ #530) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

124. How many sides are there in a pentagon?Answer: five (APEUni Website / App ASQ #529) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

125. What do we call the person who plays musical instruments as a job?Answer: musician (APEUni Website / App ASQ #527) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

126. Where do people go to watch plays?Answer: theatre / theater (APEUni Website / App ASQ #526) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

127. What is the act of students to be present at school?Answer: attendance (APEUni Website / App ASQ #524) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

128. What do we call the ship that runs underwater?Answer: submarine (APEUni Website / App ASQ #521) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

129. What subject involves the study of the Periodic Table?Answer: chemistry (APEUni Website / App ASQ #520) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

130. What is the magazine that is dedicated to academic news?Answer: journal / academic journal (APEUni Website / App ASQ #519) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

131. What rises from the east in the morning and sets to the west in the evening everyday?Answer: sun (APEUni Website / App ASQ #518) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

132. How many years are there in a bicentennial?Answer: two hundred (APEUni Website / App ASQ #516) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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133. What is the device that shows the time of the day according to the shadow of sunlight?Answer: sundial (APEUni Website / App ASQ #513) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

134. What do we call dollars, cents, pounds and euros?Answer: currency (APEUni Website / App ASQ #509) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

135. How do you call the doctor who treats sick animals?Answer: vet / veterinarian (APEUni Website / App ASQ #508) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

136. What do we call the legal document that states how people's property should be allocated aftertheir deaths?Answer: testament / will (APEUni Website / App ASQ #505) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

137. What do you call the strap that circles a person in a car or an airplane?Answer: seatbelt (APEUni Website / App ASQ #296) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

138. What do you need to submit for completing a degree in the university?Answer: dissertation / thesis (APEUni Website / App ASQ #234) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

139. If there are 8 black balls and 1 white ball, and I randomly pick one, which color is mostly likely tobe picked?Answer: black (APEUni Website / App ASQ #489) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

140. What do birds use to fly?Answer: wings (APEUni Website / App ASQ #485) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

141. What are the two holes in your nose to breathe?Answer: nostrils (APEUni Website / App ASQ #484) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

142. What’s the color of the medal that a champion gets?Answer: golden (APEUni Website / App ASQ #32) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

143. How do you call the siblings born by your mother at the same time?Answer: twins (APEUni Website / App ASQ #291) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

144. If you want to read tragedies or comedies, what kind of book do you read?Answer: fiction books / novels (APEUni Website / App ASQ #477) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

145. What do you use to test the body temperature?Answer: thermometer (APEUni Website / App ASQ #474) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

146. How do you describe the money that citizens must contribute to the government for public use?Answer: tax / taxes (APEUni Website / App ASQ #452) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

147. How would you describe an animal that no longer exist on the earth?Answer: extinct (APEUni Website / App ASQ #454) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

148. Where can you find index in the book?Answer: at the end of the book (APEUni Website / App ASQ #653) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

149. What are the people who study history and historical evidence?Answer: historian (APEUni Website / App ASQ #649) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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150. Which part of body do optometrists examine?Answer: eyes / eye (APEUni Website / App ASQ #631) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

151. How many wheels does the tricycle have?Answer: three (APEUni Website / App ASQ #468) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

152. What is the opposite of artificial?Answer: natural (APEUni Website / App ASQ #465) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

153. What is H2O in chemical substances?Answer: water (APEUni Website / App ASQ #463) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

154. In mathematics and arithmetic, there are addition, multiplication, division. What's the other one?Answer: subtraction (APEUni Website / App ASQ #462) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

155. What kind of shoes do you wear to keep it comfortable when hiking?Answer: hiking boots / hiking shoes (APEUni Website / App ASQ #460) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

156. What do bees collect from flowers?Answer: pollen / nectar (APEUni Website / App ASQ #458) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

157. Which literacy genre describes all details of a famous person's life?Answer: biography (APEUni Website / App ASQ #457) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

158. What material is the tire made of?Answer: rubber (APEUni Website / App ASQ #456) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

159. What is the hard object in the center of peaches, apples and pears?Answer: core / stone (APEUni Website / App ASQ #662) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

160. What does human and animal skeleton consist of?Answer: bone / bones (APEUni Website / App ASQ #660) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

161. What are the people who study ancient bones or plants in rocks?Answer: paleontologists / paleontologist / archaeologists / archaeologist (APEUni Website / App ASQ#646) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

162. How many eggs are there in a dozen?Answer: twelve (APEUni Website / App ASQ #607) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

163. Which color do we make by blending black and white?Answer: grey (APEUni Website / App ASQ #441) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

164. What do we call the liquid which is in a car?Answer: gasoline / petrol / gas (APEUni Website / App ASQ #312) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

165. Before airplanes were invented, how did people travel from America to Europe?Answer: by ship (APEUni Website / App ASQ #438) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

166. Who is a physician who performs surgical operations?Answer: surgeon (APEUni Website / App ASQ #437) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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167. In the word ‘postgraduate’, what does the ‘post’ mean?Answer: after (APEUni Website / App ASQ #436) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

168. What natural resource is used by a carpenter?Answer: wood / timber (APEUni Website / App ASQ #435) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

169. How many times does a biannual magazine published in one year?Answer: two / twice (APEUni Website / App ASQ #426) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

170. What do we call the first paragraph of a report?Answer: introduction (APEUni Website / App ASQ #418) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

171. What do we call a doctor who can sell prescribed medicines?Answer: pharmacist / chemist (APEUni Website / App ASQ #415) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

172. What natural resource is used in paper industry?Answer: wood (APEUni Website / App ASQ #408) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

173. What category do the bee, the butterfly, and the mosquito fall into?Answer: insect (APEUni Website / App ASQ #407) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

174. What is the collection of pictures called?Answer: album (APEUni Website / App ASQ #321) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

175. How many extra days in February in a leap year?Answer: one (APEUni Website / App ASQ #282) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

176. What do we call a festival which is held every four years gathering people together as a sportingevent?Answer: the olympic games (APEUni Website / App ASQ #396) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

177. What do we call the person who can speak two languages?Answer: bilingual (APEUni Website / App ASQ #388) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

178. What type of shape has four right corners, four lines that are equal in length?Answer: square (APEUni Website / App ASQ #384) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

179. If a couple have a pair of children, how many children do they have?Answer: two (APEUni Website / App ASQ #378) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

180. What do we call the "Times New Roman" in word？Answer: typeface / font (APEUni Website / App ASQ #374) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

181. Which kind of mountain can erupt?Answer: volcano / volcanos (APEUni Website / App ASQ #373) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

182. The instructions that tell you how to cook food?Answer: recipe / recipes (APEUni Website / App ASQ #371) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

183. Which part at the end of book can be used for further reading? An index or a bibliography?Answer: a bibliography (APEUni Website / App ASQ #354) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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184. A dozen is a grouping of which number?Answer: twelve (APEUni Website / App ASQ #349) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

185. What century are we now in?Answer: twenty first (APEUni Website / App ASQ #346) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

186. In addition to the A, E, I, O, what is the other vowel?Answer: u (APEUni Website / App ASQ #338) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

187. What is the opposite to “predecessor”?Answer: successor (APEUni Website / App ASQ #335) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

188. What do we call the thread in the center of the candle?Answer: wick (APEUni Website / App ASQ #332) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

189. How do you call the pointing device that is connected to the computer?Answer: mouse (APEUni Website / App ASQ #330) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

190. What do we call the animals with white ivory and long trunk?Answer: elephant / elephants (APEUni Website / App ASQ #325) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

191. What do we call the things of 88 keys covered by color white and black?Answer: pianos (APEUni Website / App ASQ #322) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

192. What is the ceremony called for marriage?Answer: wedding (APEUni Website / App ASQ #318) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

193. What do we call the piece of paper that proves you have bought an item?Answer: a receipt (APEUni Website / App ASQ #304) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

194. What is the meeting point of sea and sky called?Answer: the horizon (APEUni Website / App ASQ #286) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

195. How many years are there in a decade?Answer: ten years (APEUni Website / App ASQ #283) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

196. What kind of liquid do mammals feed their babies?Answer: milk (APEUni Website / App ASQ #279) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

197. What is the antonym of vertical?Answer: horizontal (APEUni Website / App ASQ #277) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

198. Some calendars begin the week on Sunday, what is the other day which commonly starts a week?Answer: monday (APEUni Website / App ASQ #270) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

199. What is the name of the field of study that studies the human mind and behavior?Answer: psychology (APEUni Website / App ASQ #262) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

200. Which symbol is used to complete a sentence?Answer: full stop / period (APEUni Website / App ASQ #261) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

201. How many days are in a week?

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Answer: seven days (APEUni Website / App ASQ #246) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

202. Where would you expect to find equipment like microscopes, a Bunsen burner, beaker and petridish?Answer: laboratory (APEUni Website / App ASQ #243) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

203. In which direction does the sun come up?Answer: east (APEUni Website / App ASQ #237) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

204. What is the name of the instrument used to measure variations in temperature?Answer: thermometer (APEUni Website / App ASQ #220) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

205. What do we call a period of ten years?Answer: decade (APEUni Website / App ASQ #203) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

206. What we call it when the moon completely blocks out the light from the sun?Answer: a solar eclipse / an eclipse (APEUni Website / App ASQ #198) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

207. What is the study of stars and planet called?Answer: astronomy / uranological / uranology / cosmology (APEUni Website / App ASQ #179) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

208. What is the job of someone that looks after your teeth and gums?Answer: dentist / surgeon dentist (APEUni Website / App ASQ #171) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

209. What is the name of a building where you can borrow books?Answer: library (APEUni Website / App ASQ #156) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

210. What is the red liquid that flows through a body?Answer: blood (APEUni Website / App ASQ #153) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

211. What kind of book is written by a person about their own life?Answer: autobiography (APEUni Website / App ASQ #152) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

212. What do employees get at the end of the month?Answer: salary / salaries (APEUni Website / App ASQ #135) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

213. What special document do most people traveling between one country and another need tocarry?Answer: a passport (APEUni Website / App ASQ #130) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

214. How many years does a millennium have?Answer: one thousand (APEUni Website / App ASQ #122) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

215. If telescopes are used to locate distant objects, what instrument is employed to magnify minisculeobjects?Answer: microscope / microscopes (APEUni Website / App ASQ #111) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

216. What is the source of solar energy?Answer: sun (APEUni Website / App ASQ #102) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

217. If a figure is hexagonal, how many sides does it have?

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Answer: six (APEUni Website / App ASQ #75) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

218. What is the name of ceremony in which two people get married?Answer: wedding (APEUni Website / App ASQ #61) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

219. Which one word is used for a brother or sister?Answer: sibling (APEUni Website / App ASQ #55) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

220. What is the word in geometry for a shape that has three sides?Answer: triangle (APEUni Website / App ASQ #53) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

221. Which sweet food is produced by bees?Answer: honey (APEUni Website / App ASQ #51) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

222. What do we call the study of living things?Answer: biology (APEUni Website / App ASQ #43) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

223. What do you call the alphabetical list at the end of a textbook that tells you where to find specificinformation?Answer: index / reference (APEUni Website / App ASQ #25) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

224. What is the word for a building or room where art exhibitions are held?Answer: art gallery / art museum (APEUni Website / App ASQ #14) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

225. What is the word for a period of one hundred years?Answer: century (APEUni Website / App ASQ #12) (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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B. WritingSummarize Written TextRepeat Rate: 95%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Ensure correct spelling & grammar (APEUni AI Score)

1. Bank Overdraft (New) (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Banks provide short-term finance to companies in the form of an overdraft on a current account. Theadvantage of an overdraft is its flexibility. When the cash needs of the company increase withseasonal factors, the company can continue to write cheques and watch the overdraft increase. Whenthe goods and services are sold and cash begins to flow in, the company should be able to watch theoverdraft decrease again. The most obvious example of a business which operates in this pattern isfarming. The farmer uses the overdraft to finance the acquisition of seed for arable farming, or feedthrough the winter for stock farming and to cover the period when the crops or animals are growingand maturing. The overdraft is reduced when the crops or the animals are sold. The maindisadvantage of an overdraft is that it is repayable on demand. The farmer whose crop fails becauseof bad weather knows the problem of being unable to repay the overdraft. Having overdraft financingincreases the worries of those who manage the company. The other disadvantage is that the interestpayable on overdrafts is variable. When interest rates increase, the cost of the overdraft increases.Furthermore, for small companies there are often complaints that the rate of interest charged is highcompared with that available to larger companies. The banks answer that the rates charged reflectrelative risk and it is their experience that small companies are more risky.

Answer:Banks provide short-term finance to companies in the form of an overdraft，with the advantage offlexibility， and the most obvious example is farming, but the main disadvantages of an overdraft arethat it is repayable on demand and the interest payable on overdrafts is variable because wheninterest rates increase, the cost of the overdraft increases. 银⾏以透⽀的形式向公司提供短期融资，具有灵活性的优势，最明显的例⼦是农业，但透⽀的主要缺点是，它是按需偿还的，透⽀的应付利息是可变的，因为当利率上升时，透⽀的费⽤增加了。(APEUni Website / App SWT #189)

2. Dogs (Prediction)Original:By living in close contact with humans, dogs have developed specific skills that enable them tointeract and communicate effectively with people. Recent studies have shown that the canine braincan pick up on emotional cues contained in a person's voice, body odor and posture, and read theirfaces.In this study, the authors observed what happened when they presented photographs of thesame two adults' faces (a man and a woman) to 26 feeding dogs. The images were placedstrategically to the sides of the animals' line of sight and the photos showed a human face expressingone of the six basic human emotions: anger, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, disgust or beingneutral. The dogs showed greater response and cardiac activity when shown photographs thatexpressed arousing emotional states such as anger, fear and happiness. They also took longer toresume feeding after seeing these images. The dogs' increased heart rate indicated that in these

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cases they experienced higher levels of stress.In addition, dogs turned their heads to the left whenthey saw human faces expressing anger, fear or happiness. The reverse happened when the faceslooked surprised, possibly because dogs view it as a non-threatening, relaxed expression. Thesefindings, therefore, support the existence of an asymmetrical emotional modulation of dogs' brains toprocess basic human emotions.

Answer:Dogs have developed specific skills that enable them to interact and communicate effectively withpeople because recent studies have shown that the canine brain can pick up on emotional cuescontained in a person's voice, body odor and faces by observing what happened when they presentedphotographs of the same two adults' faces to dogs and findings support the existence of anasymmetrical emotional modulation of dogs' brains to process basic human emotions.(APEUni Website / App SWT #187)

3. Leadership (Prediction)Original:A leader can define or clarify goals by issuing a memo or an executive order, an edict or a fatwa or atweet, by passing a law, barking a command, or presenting an interesting idea in a meeting ofcolleagues. Leaders can mobilize people’s energies in ways that range from subtle, quiet persuasion tothe coercive threat or the use of deadly force. Sometimes a charismatic leader such as Martin LutherKing Jr. can define goals and mobilize energies through rhetoric and the power of example. We canthink of leadership as a spectrum, in terms of both visibility and the power the leader wields. On oneend of the spectrum, we have the most visible: authoritative leaders like the president of the UnitedStates or the prime minister of the United Kingdom, or a dictator such as Hitler or Qaddafi. At theopposite end of the spectrum is casual, low-key leadership found in countless situations every dayaround the world, leadership that can make a significant difference to the individuals whose lives aretouched by it. Over the centuries, the first kind–the out-in-front, authoritative leadership–hasgenerally been exhibited by men. Some men in positions of great authority, including Nelson Mandela,have chosen a strategy of “leading from behind”; more often, however, top leaders have been quitevisible in their exercise of power. Women (as well as some men) have provided casual, low-keyleadership behind the scenes. But this pattern has been changing, as more women have taken upopportunities for visible, authoritative leadership.

Answer:A leader can define goals and mobilize people’s energies, so we can think of leadership as aspectrum, including authoritative leaders and casual leadership that can make a significant differenceto individuals; authoritative leadership has generally been exhibited by men, but this pattern has beenchanging, as more women have taken up opportunities for visible, authoritative leadership.(APEUni Website / App SWT #186)

4. New Women (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About New Women in British and North America, which was a concept brought forward by awriter named Sarah, who wrote a book which triggered dispute between two kinds of commentators.The book mainly talks about women's position in the middle class, including a few aspects, such asfinance, employment, marriage, etc.. The write advocated protecting women's position. Although theidea did not go well, it was still commemorated as women's movement.(APEUni Website / App SWT #180)

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Original:Gardeners can feed their families and enrich the soil by growing legumes, such as green beans,soybeans, lentils and peas. Legume roots produce their own nitrogen, which is a major fertilizernutrient needed by all plants for growth. Nitrogen is produced in nodules that form on the roots oflegumes, which contain Rhizobium bacteria. The bacteria take nitrogen from the air and convert it intoa form the plants can use. When legumes are pulled up in the fall, excess nitrogen from the nodules isleft in the soil. The excess organic nitrogen can be used by other plants the following growing season.It's considered organic nitrogen because it was produced naturally, making green beans or peas greatrotational crops in an organic crop production system. Organic growers prefer organic nitrogenbecause of its natural origins and because it breaks down slowly in the soil, thus slowly feeding plantsthroughout the growing season. Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers tend to release nitrogen quickly and areharsher on the environment. Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers are generally applied in split applicationsduring the season to mimic the slow release of organic nitrogen sources. Each specific legumegenerally requires a specific type of Rhizobium bacteria to produce nodules on their roots. Gardenerswho have never grown green beans before can purchase small bags of inoculum or bacteria frommost popular vegetable seed catalogs. Before planting beans, open the package and pour in the dust-like bacteria among the seed. Shake the package and then plant. Nodules will form on the roots asthey develop. The bacteria will remain in the soil, making it unnecessary to inoculate the seed nextyear. Do not apply extra nitrogen fertilizer to bean crops. Doing so makes bacteria in the nodules lazy,encouraging them to stop producing their own nitrogen. Legumes that are particularly popular in thehome vegetable garden include lima beans, peas, edible soybeans, lentils and fava beans. In a recentsurvey, 44 percent of gardeners trained through New Mexico State University's Master GardenerProgram said they grew green beans and other legumes in their home gardens. When planting, be sureto purchase appropriate strains of Rhizobium bacteria for each type of legume.(APEUni Website / App SWT #178)

6. UNV (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:If you are inspired to take concrete action for global peace and development, take a look at the UnitedNations Volunteers (UNV) program. Every year, up to 8,000 qualified and experienced women and menof some 160 different nationalities volunteer at least six months of their lives to help others. These UNVolunteers work in some 130 countries promoting peace, responding to disasters, empoweringcommunities and helping to build sustainable livelihoods and lasting development. UN Volunteers comefrom dozens of professional backgrounds but all of them are catalysts of positive change. They areencouraged to be creative and entrepreneurial, and foster volunteerism for peace and developmentboth within and beyond their assignments. They work at the heart of communities in partnership withgovernments, United Nations entities and civil society. Being a UN Volunteer is not a career (you arecurrently limited to four years of service), but it is rich with opportunities and experience and offershuge personal rewards. As a UN Volunteer you receive a Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) whichcovers basic needs, housing and utilities. Additionally, UNV will provide a settling-in-grant, life, health,and permanent disability insurance, return airfares and a nominal resettlement allowance.

Answer:In the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program, rich with opportunities and experience and offeringhuge personal rewards, volunteers from dozens of professional backgrounds as catalysts of positivechange, work in some 130 countries promoting peace, responding to disasters, empoweringcommunities and helping to build sustainable livelihoods and lasting development, and work at theheart of communities in partnership with governments, United Nations entities and civil society.

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(APEUni Website / App SWT #177)

7. Carbon Dioxide (Prediction)Original:Carbon dioxide, mostly produced by human activities, is the most significant one of greenhouse gasesand has caused the rise of the global temperature and the sea level, so businesses should takeresponsibilities to tackle the problems inherited in the business models, and World Wildlife Fundpartners with companies should ensure the sustainability of the entire market.(APEUni Website / App SWT #175)

8. Image of Africa (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The generalization of the negative image of Africa is unfair because African countries are richin natural resources and cultural diversity, and hardworking Africans are struggling to address issues ofpoverty, disease and war, so Africa can be an attractive place for business development and culturaltourism if concerted international support and assistance are provided.(APEUni Website / App SWT #174)

9. Sustainable Development (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:The Brundtland Report, Our Common Future (1987), defines sustainable development as "developmentwhich meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meettheir own needs'. Implicit in this definition is the idea that the old pattern of development could not besustained. Is this true? Development in the past was driven by growth and innovation. It led to newtechnologies and huge improvements in living standards. To assume that we know what thecircumstances or needs of future generations will be is mistaken and inevitably leads to the debilitatingsense that we are living on borrowed time. Only if we assume that society will remain static can weunderstand the needs of the future. The way we live today could not have been predicted twentyyears ago. The sustainability paradigm fails to recognize this. It is a static view and thus places limitson human ingenuity. Similarly, a whole host of false assumptions dominate environmental thought; thescale of problems is exaggerated, the amount of resources is underestimated and spurious links aremade between areas such as green policies and profit, poverty and environmental degradation. Thoseof us who want a better future need to question these assumptions.

Answer:Although the implicit of sustainable development is that the old pattern of development which wasdriven by innovation and led to huge improvements could not be sustained, we assume that societyremains static and we can understand the needs of the future, which means that sustainabilityparadigm fails to recognize that the way we live today couldn’t be predicted and placed limits onhuman ingenuity, so we need to question these assumptions.(APEUni Website / App SWT #172)

10. Importance of Soil (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:It's very easy to forget about what's in the ground beneath our feet and why it's so important toprotect it. One tablespoon of soil contains more organisms than there are people on Earth; billions ofbacteria, fungi and other microorganisms combine with minerals, water, air and organic matter tocreate a living system that supports plants and, in turn, all life. Healthy soil can store as much as3,750 tons of water per hectare, reducing the risk of flooding, and the International Panel on Climate

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Change (IPCC) has said that 89% of all agricultural emissions could be mitigated if we improved thehealth of our soil. Good soil management also increases disease resistance in livestock and ultimatelydrives profits for farmers - yet soil and its impact on the health of our animals has, over recentdecades, been one of the most neglected links in UK agriculture. Over the last 50 years' agriculturehas become increasingly dependent on chemical fertilizers, with applications today around 10 timeshigher than in the 1950s. Farmers often think the chemical fertilizer NPK (nitrogen, phosphorous andpotassium) provides all the nutrition a plant requires, but it also has a detrimental effect on the long-term health of the land: research suggests there are fewer than 100 harvests left in many of theworld's soils.

Answer:Soil, containing so many organisms, combine with minerals, water, air and organic matter to create aliving system for all life, which reduces the risk of flooding, mitigates agricultural emissions, increasesdisease resistance in livestock and ultimately drives profits for farmers, but soil and its impact on thehealth of our animals has been one of the most neglected links in UK agriculture because they usefertilizers, which has a detrimental effect on the land.(APEUni Website / App SWT #153)

11. Solar Energy (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:The advantages and disadvantages of solar power compared to other forms of renewable energy havebeen greatly debated. While obviously superior to some forms of energy, solar power's high cost andefficiency dependent on geography have limited its appeal. However, a large number of advantagesalso merit further development and even possible adaptation for residences. Advantages of SolarPower Solar energy remains popular because it is both a renewable and clean source of energy. Theseadvantages along with the hope that eventually nations can use solar power to decrease globalwarming ensure its popularity. Renewable Solar energy is a true renewable resource. All areas of theworld have the ability to collect some amount of solar power and solar power is available for collectioneach day. Clean Solar energy is non-polluting. It does not create greenhouse gases, such as oil-based energy does, nor does it create waste that must be stored, such as nuclear energy. It is also farmore quiet to create and harness, drastically reducing the noise pollution required to convert energy toa useful form. Residential size solar energy systems also have very little impact on the surroundingenvironment, in contrast with other renewable energy sources such as wind and hydroelectric power.Low Maintenance Solar panels have no moving parts and require very little maintenance beyondregular cleaning. Without moving parts to break and replace, after the initial costs of installing thepanels, maintenance and repair costs are very reasonable.

Answer:Despite great debate, solar energy, whose advantages merit further development and possibleadaptation for residences, remains popular because it is a true renewable resource which is availablefor collection in all areas of the world each day and it is non-polluting, creating no greenhouse gasesor wast, reducing noise pollution and having very little impact on the surrounding environment, withoutreasonable maintenance and repair costs.(APEUni Website / App SWT #129)

12. Skipping Breakfast（B） (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Skipping Breakfast Has Drawbacks - It's no mystery why so many people routinely skip breakfast: badtiming. It comes at a time when folks can be more occupied with matters of grooming, attire and

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otherwise making themselves presentable for a new day. However, studies conducted both in theUnited States and internationally have shown that skipping breakfast can affect learning, memory andphysical well-being. Students who skip breakfast are not as efficient at selecting critical informationfor problem-solving as their peers who have had breakfast. For school children, skipping breakfastdiminishes the ability to recall and use newly acquired information, verbal fluency, and control ofattention, according to Ernesto Pollitt, a UC Davis professor of pediatrics whose research focuses onthe influence of breakfast on mental and physical performance. Skipping breakfast can impair thinkingin adults, also. For both children and adults, a simple bowl of cereal with milk goes a long way towardproviding a sufficiently nutritious start to the day. Green-Burgeson recommends choosing a cerealthat's low in sugar — less than five grams per serving — and using nonfat or one percent milk.Frederick Hirshburg, a pediatrician at UC Davis Medical Group, Carmichael, says that babies and otherpreschoolers rarely skip breakfast because they're usually the hungriest at the beginning of the day.Breakfast then becomes more of a "learned experience" than a response to a biological need,Hirshburg says.

Answer:Skipping breakfast has drawbacks for both children and adults, for whom a simple bowl of cereal milkcan provide a nutritious start to the day, but babies and other preschoolers rarely skip breakfastbecause they are usually the hungriest at the beginning of the day, so breakfast then becomes moreof a "learned experience" than a response to a biological need.(APEUni Website / App SWT #167)

13. Negotiation (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Negotiation is a common process in business to mainly solve business conflicts between both parties.Compromise is a basic negotiation state in which both parties give up something that they want inorder to get something else they want more. Compromise usually occur in unfair parties when there isa fixed pie to be divided up, and whatever on one side gets, the other side loses. In compromisesituations, neither side gets all of what they really want, but they each make concessions in order toreach an agreement that is acceptable to both. Both parties usually can reach win-win conceptthrough compromise. However, negotiation cannot resolve all the conflict if one party is unwilling toresolve the problem.

Answer:In the process of negotiation, compromise is a basic negotiation state in which both parties give upsomething and get something else in order to reach an agreement that is acceptable to both, butnegotiation cannot resolve all the conflict if one party is unwilling to resolve the problem.(APEUni Website / App SWT #162)

14. World Wide Web (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Tim Berners-Lee believes the internet can foster human understanding and even world peace. He isthe man who has changed the world more than anyone else in the past hundred years. Sir TimBerners-Lee may be a mild-mannered academic who lives modestly in Boston, but as the inventor ofthe world wide web he is also a revolutionary. Along with Galileo, William Caxton and Sir Isaac Newton,he is a scientist who has altered the way people think as well as the way they live Since the web wentglobal 20 years ago, the way we shop, listen to music and communicate has been transformed. Thereare implications for politics, literature, economics even terrorism because an individual can now havethe same access to information as the elite. Society will never be the same. The computer scientist

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from Oxford, who built his own computer from a television screen and spare parts after he wasbanned from one of the university computers, is a cultural guru as much as a technological one. It isamazing how far we've come, he says. But you're always wondering what’s the next crazy idea, andworking to make sure the web stays one web and that the internet stays open. There isn't much timeto sit back and reflect. We speak for more than an hour about everything from Facebook to fatwas,Wikipedia to Google. He invented the web, he says, because he was frustrated that he couldn't find allthe information he wanted in one place. It was an imaginary concept that he realized.

Answer:Tim- Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, is a revolutionary scientist who has altered theway people think as well as the way they live, believing the internet can foster human understandingand even world peace, because an individual now have the same access to information as the elite;there is not much time to sit back and reflect because society will never be the same.(APEUni Website / App SWT #154)

15. Energy Demand (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: With the population growth, the demand for resources has been growing as well. There is anexpected increase in demand for various alternative resources, raw materials, timber for paper using,(…energy… materials…). The increase of demand also happen in the non-renewable resource field,such as metal. The demand for petrol, diesel and crude oil is also huge to cope with the demand formanufacturing plastics.People should ensure natural world can still work well to earn the future well-being because the world population rises.

Answer:There is an expected increase in demand for various alternative resources, but people should ensurenatural world can still work well to earn the future well-being because the world population rises.(APEUni Website / App SWT #123)

16. Modern Art (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Broadly speaking, there are two different ways of thinking about modern art, or two different versionsof the story. One way is to view art as something that can be practised (And though of) as an activityradically separate from everyday life or worldly concerns. From this point of view, art is said to be“autonomous” from society – that is, it is believed to be self-sustaining and self-referring. Oneparticularly influential versions of this story suggest that modern art should be viewed as process bywhich features extraneous to a particular branch of art would be progressively eliminated, and paintersor sculptors would come to concentrate on problems specific to their domain. Another way of thinkingabout modern art is to view it as responding to the modern world, and to see modern artists immersingthemselves in the conflicts and challenges of society. That is to say, some modern artists sought waysof conveying the changing experiences generated in European by the twin processes ofcommercialisation (the commodification of everyday life) and urbanisation. From this point of view,modern art is a way of reflecting on the transformation that created what we call, in a sort ofshorthand, “modernity”.

Answer:One way of thinking about modern art is to view art as something that can be practiced when art is'autonomous' from society, and another way is to view it as responding to the modern world and tosee modern artists immersing themselves in the conflicts and challenges of society, which meansthere are two different ways of thinking about modern art or two different versions of the story.

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(APEUni Website / App SWT #119)

17. Benefit of Honey (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:In order to have a competitive edge, athletes often use drugs with high athletic performance. TheNational Honey Board recently found that honey has the same functions but less negative impact. Thisclinical trial is the third in a series of studies focusing on the use of honey by athletes. The first study(involving 71 subjects) determined that honey has a milder effect on blood sugar than other popularforms of carbohydrate gel. The second study in the series (with 39 weight trained subjects)investigated the combination of honey with a protein supplement and suggested that honey speedsmuscle recovery after a workout.

Answer:Honey, with the same functions as drugs used by athletes for high athletic performance and lessnegative impact, has a milder effect on blood sugar than other popular forms of carbohydrate gel, andspeeds muscle recovery after a workout.(APEUni Website / App SWT #114)

18. Silent Movies (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:The 1920's movie goers experience was largely dominated by silent movies but saw the introduction ofsynchronized sound. In the 1920's movie stars were really stars - with huge salaries, the fashions andactivities of the Hollywood greats echoed around the world and 100,000 people would gather in citiesall over the world, including such diverse cities as London and Moscow, to greet Mary Pickford andDouglas Fairbanks when they toured of Europe. Early silent movies were often accompanied by livepiano or organ music and provided enormous entertainment value to audiences captivated by theexperience of watching moving pictures on the silver screen. Although there had been previousattempts to introduce sound, it wasn’t until 1923 that a synchronized sound track was photographicallyrecorded and printed on to the side of the strip of motion picture film and made it on to acommercially distributed movie. It would still be seven long years before talking pictures gained totalsupremacy and finally replaced the silent film era. The first movie theatres were called Nickelodeons,and were very basic compared the luxurious picture palaces that followed but what an aura ofexcitement, of laughter, fun and tears surrounded them! Before the introduction of movie soundtracks,movies were often accompanied by scripted music from a piano.

Answer:With early silent movies often accompanied by live piano or organ music and audiences captivated bythe experience of watching moving pictures on the silver screen, and it wasn't until 1923 that asynchronized sound track was photographically recorded and printed on to the side of the strip ofmotion picture film and made it on to a commercially distributed movie, and the first movie theatreswere called Nickelodeons.(APEUni Website / App SWT #103)

19. Asda (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Asda has become the first food retailer in the country to measure how much customers can save bycutting back on food waste, thanks to a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the University ofLeeds. The idea behind the KTP was for the University, using Asda’s customer insight data, to applyits research to identify, investigate and implement ways of helping customers to reduce their food

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waste. This was one of the first times that a major retailer had tried to deliver large-scalesustainability changes, with the two year project seen as a way for Asda to position themselves astrue innovators in this area. The campaign focused on providing customers with advice on everythingfrom food storage and labelling, to creative recipes for leftovers. Meanwhile, in-store eventsencouraged customers to make changes in their own they will make changes to how they deal withfood waste in their own homes, leading to an average saving of 57 pounds per customer, as well as areduction in waste. A key aspect of a KTP is that an associate is employed by the University to workin the firm and help deliver the desired outcomes of the KTP. As a part of the collaboration with Asda,Laura Babbs was given the task of driving forward the sustainability changes in the retailer. As a resultof the success of her work, Laura eventually became a permanent member of the team at Asda.

Answer:Asda has become the first food retailer in the country to measure how much customers can save bycutting back on food waste, with a campaign focusing on providing customers with advice oneverything from food storage and labelling, to creative recipes for leftovers, and with in-store eventsencouraging customers to make changes in their own, and an associate is employed by the Universityto work in the firm.(APEUni Website / App SWT #101)

20. Reading (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:It might seem a little eccentric, but reviewing your work by reading it aloud can help to identify thewoolliest areas. This works best if you perform your reading in a theatrical way, pausing at thecommas and ends of sentences. If you run out of breath during a sentence, it is probably too long.You ought to be able to convert your writing into a speech in this way if it sounds too stilted andconvoluted, perhaps you could rework these parts until they sound fluid. It is unlikely that your readerwill be fooled by the idea that long words make you sound clever. Cluttering a sentence with too manycomplicated words can prevent its meaning from being understood at all. A short word is alwayspreferable to a long one. Why should anyone choose the word erroneous over the word wrong in anessay? Usually, writers who employ more obscure words are trying to sound impressive but can appearpretentious. Direct words enable you to control what you are saying, and are not necessarily babyish,but the most appropriate ones for the job. When you read your writing aloud, you will notice that thekey stress comes at the end of your sentence. It is, therefore, most effective to end with a short andemphatic word to secure your point. Try to resist the impulse to waffle at the end of your sentence bytrailing off into qualifying clauses. It might be worth relocating the clause to the beginning of thesentence or losing it altogether if you feel that it adds little to its meaning. Your sentences might bethe most grammatically perfect in the world, but still, cause your writing to sound wrong if you havemisjudged its tone. A colloquial style, which uses slang and exclamations, is an inappropriately chattytone for an essay. However, style can be equally jarring if your vocabulary is too formal or ambitiousfor its context. It is much more impressive to make complicated points using simple language andgrammar.

Answer:Reviewing your work by reading it aloud can help to identify the woolliest areas, including cluttering asentence with too many complicated words, which can prevent its meaning from being understoodbecause direct words enable you to control what you are saying, and your sentences might be themost grammatically perfect while a colloquial style is an inappropriate tone for an essay and style canbe jarring if your vocabulary is too formal or ambitious.(APEUni Website / App SWT #88)

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21. Wine Industry (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:In 1920, the eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution created yet another setback forthe American wine industry. The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, prohibitedthe manufacture, sale, transportation, importation, delivery, or possession of intoxicating liquors forbeverage purposes. Prohibition, which continued for thirteen years, nearly destroyed what had becomea thriving and national industry. One of the loopholes in the Volstead Act allowed for the manufactureand sale of sacramental wine, medicinal wines for sale by pharmacists with a doctor’s prescription,and medicinal wine tonics (fortified wines) sold without prescription. Perhaps more important,prohibition allowed anyone to produce up to two hundred gallons yearly of fruit juice or cider. The fruitjuice, which was sometimes made into concentrate, was ideal for making wine. People would buygrape concentrate from California and have it shipped to the East Coast. The top of the container wasstamped in big bold letters: caution: do not add sugar or yeast or else fermentation will take place!Some of this yield found its way to bootleggers throughout America who did just that. But not for long,because the government stepped in and banned the sale of grape juice, preventing illegal wineproduction. Vineyards stopped being planted, and the American wine industry came to a halt.

Answer:While the National Prohibition Act prohibited the manufacture, sale, transportation, importation,delivery, or possession of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, Americans still found a loopholethat they could make wine from fruit juice or cider, but this was banned by the government eventually,with the American wine industry coming to a halt.(APEUni Website / App SWT #79)

22. Vividity of TV and Newspaper (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:To understand the final reason why the news marketplace of ideas dominated by television is sodifferent from the one that emerged in the world dominated by the printing press, it is important todistinguish the quality of vividness experienced by television viewers from the “vividness” experiencedby readers. I believe that the vividness experienced in the reading of words is automatically modulatedby the constant activation of the reasoning centers of the brain that are used in the process ofconcreating the representation of reality the author has intended. By contrast, the visceral vividnessportrayed on television has the capacity to trigger instinctual responses similar to those triggered byreality itself—and without being modulated by logic, reason, and reflective thought. The simulation ofreality accomplished in the television medium is so astonishingly vivid and compelling compared withthe representations of reality conveyed by printed words that it signifies much more than anincremental change in the way people consume information. Books also convey compelling and vividrepresentations of reality, of course. But the reader actively participates in the conjuring of the realitythe book’s author is attempting to depict. Moreover, the parts of the human brain that are central tothe reasoning process are continually activated by the very act of reading printed words: Words arecomposed of abstract symbols—letters—that have no intrinsic meaning themselves until they arestrung together into recognizable sequences. Television, by contrast, presents to its viewers a muchmore fully formed representation of reality—without requiring the creative collaboration that wordshave always demanded.

Answer:The news marketplace of ideas dominated by television is so different from the one that emerged inthe world dominated by the printing press, because the quality of vividness experienced by television

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viewers is different from that by readers, and the simulation of reality accomplished in the televisionmedium is much more compelling and vivid compared with the representation of reality conveyed byprinted words.(APEUni Website / App SWT #74)

23. Tree Rings (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Here’s how tree ring dating, known to scientists as dendrochronology, works. If you cut a tree downtoday, it’s straightforward to count the rings inwards, starting from the tree’s outside. Hence thesequence of the rings in a tree cross-section is like a message in Morse code formerly used forsending telegraph messages; dot-dot-dash-dot-dash in the Morse code, wide-wide-narrow-wide-narrow in the tree ring sequence. Actually, the tree-ring sequence is even more diagnostic and richerin information than the Morse code, because trees actually contain rings spanning much differentwidth, rather than the Morse code choice between dot and dash. Tree ring specialists(known asdendrochronologists) proceed by noting the sequence of wider and narrower rings in a tree cut downin a known recent year, and also noting the sequences in beams from trees cut down at various timesin the past. In that way, dendrochronologists have constructed tree ring records extending back forthousands of years in some parts of the world. A bonus of dendrochronology is that the width andsubstructure of each ring reflect the amount of rain and the season at which the rain fell during thatparticular year. Thus, tree ring studies also allow one to reconstruct the past climate.

Answer:While tree ring dating is straightforward to count the rings inwards, a bonus of dendrochronology isthat the width and the substructure of each ring reflect the amount of rain and the season at whichthe rain fell during that particular year to reconstruct the past climate, which suggests that the tree-ring sequence is even more diagnostic and richer in information because trees actually contain ringsspanning much different width.(APEUni Website / App SWT #72)

24. Technology Prediction (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:As far as prediction is concerned, remember that the chairman of IBM predicted in the fifties that theworld would need a maximum of around half a dozen computers, that the British Department forEducation seemed to think in the eighties that we would all need to be able to code in BASIC and thatin the nineties Microsoft failed to foresee the rapid growth of the Internet. Who could have predictedthat one major effect of the automobile would be to bankrupt small shops across the nation? Couldthe early developers of the telephone have foreseen its development as a medium for person toperson communication, rather than as a form of broadcasting medium? We all, including the 'experts',seem to be peculiarly inept at predicting the likely development of our technologies, even as far as thenext year. We can, of course, try to extrapolate from experience of previous technologies, as I dobelow by comparing the technology of the Internet with the development of other information andcommunication technologies and by examining the earlier development of radio and print. But howjustified I might be in doing so remains an open question. You might conceivably find the history of theBritish and French videotext systems, Prestel and Minitel, instructive. However, I am not entirelyconvinced that they are very relevant, nor do I know where you can find information about themonline, so, rather than take up space here, I've briefly described them in a separate article.

Answer:We all, seem to be peculiarly inept at predicting the likely development of our technologies, like the

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world needing a maximum of around half a dozen computers in the fifties, our inability to code inBASIC in the eighties, and Microsoft's failure to foresee the rapid growth of the Internet, by trying toextrapolate from the experience of previous technologies, with how justified we might be in doing soremaining an open question.(APEUni Website / App SWT #65)

25. Primary Carers (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Slightly less than one in five carers (19%) were primary carers (475,000 people). That is, they were themain carer of a person who was limited in carrying out the core everyday activities of mobility,communication or self-care. Both primary carers and the larger group of other carers (close to 2million) contribute to the wellbeing of older people and people with disabilities. However, because theycare for people who otherwise would have difficulty carrying out basic everyday activities, there isparticular interest in primary carers: in the contribution they make, their wellbeing, labour forceexperiences, motivations and the support they receive in caring. Primary carers were more likely thanother carers to be assisting someone who lived in the same household (81% compared with 76%). Aswith caring as a whole, the likelihood of being a primary carer increased with age to peak at age 55-64 years, where one in twenty people were primary carers. However, rather than then declining, thelikelihood of being a primary carer remained at around this level among the older age groups.Consequently, primary carers had a somewhat older age profile than other carers. The median age ofprimary carers was 52 years, compared with 47 years for other carers. Primary carers were more likelythan other carers to be female (71% compared with 50%) and less likely to be in the labour force(39% compared with 60%). Women not in the labour force were by far the largest single group amongprimary carers (44%). In contrast, men employed full-time were the largest single group among othercarers (25%).

Answer:While primary carers, the main carer of a person who would otherwise have difficulty carrying outbasic everyday activities, have a somehow older age profile, they are more likely to be females whoare less likely in the labor force, and men employed full-time were the largest single group amongother carers.(APEUni Website / App SWT #57)

26. Plug-in Vehicle (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Here's a term you're going to hear much more often: plug-in vehicle, and the acronym PEV. It's whatyou and many other people will drive to work in ten years and more from now. At that time, before youdrive off in the morning you will first unplug your car - your plugin vehicle. Its big on board batterieswill have been fully charged overnight, with enough power for you to drive 50-100 kilometers throughcity traffic. When you arrive at work you'll plug in your car once again, this time into a socket thatallows power to flow from your car's batteries to the electricity grid. One of the things you did whenyou bought your car was to sign a contract with your favorite electricity supplier, allowing them todraw a limited amount of power from your car's batteries should they need to, perhaps because of ablackout, or very high wholesale spot power prices. The price you get for the power the distributorbuys from your car would not only be most attractive to you, it would be a good deal for them too,their alternative being very expensive power form peaking stations. If, driving home or for some otherreason your batteries looked like running flat, a relatively small, but quiet and efficient engine runningon petrol, diesel or compressed natural gas, even bio-fuel, would automatically cut in, driving a

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generator that supplied the batteries so you could complete your journey. Concerns over 'peak oil',increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and the likelihood that by the middle of this century there couldbe five times as many motor vehicles registered worldwide as there are now, mean that the world'salmost total dependence on petroleum-based fuels for transport is, in every sense of the word,unsustainable.

Answer:While people can charge their plug-in vehicles overnight before driving, they can plug vehicles intosockets allowing the power to flow from your car's batteries to the electricity grid, and an enginedriving a generator will supply alternative power, which means more people will drive plug-in vehicles inthe future because the world’s almost total dependence on petroleum-based fuels for transport isunsustainable.(APEUni Website / App SWT #56)

27. Paleolithic People (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:The ways of life Upper Paleolithic people are known through the remains of meals scattered aroundtheir hearths, together with many tools and weapons and the debris left over from their making. Thepeople were hunter-gathers who lived exclusively from what they could find in nature withoutpracticing either agriculture or herding. They hunted the bigger herbivores, while berries, leaves, roots,wild fruit and mushrooms probably played a major role in their diet. Their hunting was indiscriminate;perhaps because so many animals were about they did not need to spare pregnant females or theyoung. In the cave of Enlene, for example, many bones of reindeer and bison fetuses were found.Apparently, upper Paleolithic people hunted like other predators and killed the weakest prey first. Theydid, however, sometimes concentrate on salmon suns and migrating herds of reindeer. Contrary topopular beliefs about cave man, upper Paleolithic people did not live deep inside caves. They ratherclose the foot of cliffs, especially when an overhang provided good shelter. On the plains and in thevalleys, they used tents made from hides of the animals they killed. At time, on the great Russianplains, they built huts with huge boned and tusks collected from skeletons of mammals. Men huntedmostly with spears, the bow and arrow were probably not invented until the Magdalenian period thatcame at the end of the Upper Paleolithic.

Answer:While Upper Paleolithic people were hunter-gathers who lived exclusively from what they could find innature without practicing either agriculture or herding, they did not live deep inside caves but ratherclose to the foot of cliffs and hunted with spears, the bow and arrow, which suggest their living waysare known through the remains of meals scattered around their hearths, with many tools and weaponsand the debris left over from their making.(APEUni Website / App SWT #51)

28. Overqualified Employees (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:If your recruiting efforts attract job applicants with too much experience—a near certainty in this weaklabor market—you should consider a response that runs counter to most hiring managers’ MO: Don’treject those applicants out of hand. Instead, take a closer look. New research shows that overqualifiedworkers tend to perform better than other employees, and they don’t quit any sooner. Furthermore, asimple managerial tactic—empowerment—can mitigate any dissatisfaction they may feel. Theprejudice against too-good employees is pervasive. Companies tend to prefer an applicant who is a“perfect fit” over someone who brings more intelligence, education, or experience than needed. On

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the surface, this bias makes sense: Studies have consistently shown that employees who considerthemselves overqualified exhibit higher levels of discontent. For example, over-qualification correlatedwell with job dissatisfaction in a 2008 study of 156 call-center reps by Israeli researchers Saul Fineand Baruch Nevo. And unlike discrimination based on age or gender, declining to hire overqualifiedworkers is perfectly legal. But even before the economic downturn, a surplus of overqualifiedcandidates was a global problem, particularly in developing economies, where rising education levelsare giving workers more skills than are needed to supply the growing service sectors. If managers canget beyond the conventional wisdom, the growing pool of too-good applicants is a great opportunity.Berrin Erdogan and Talya N. Bauer of Portland State University in Oregon found that overqualifiedworkers’ feelings of dissatisfaction can be dissipated by giving them autonomy in decision making. Atstores where employees didn’t feel empowered, “overeducated” workers expressed greaterdissatisfaction than their colleagues did and were more likely to state an intention to quit. But thatdifference vanished where self-reported autonomy was high.

Answer:Prejudice against too-good employees is pervasive as employees who consider themselvesoverqualified exhibit higher levels of discontent and declining to hire overqualified workers is perfectlylegal, but the growing pool of too-good applicants is a great opportunity for managers becauseoverqualified workers tend to perform better than other employees, and empowerment can mitigateany dissatisfaction they may feel.(APEUni Website / App SWT #50)

29. Online Teaching & Learning (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:What makes teaching online unique is that it uses the internet, especially the World Wide Web, as theprimary means of communication. Thus, when you teach online, you don’t have to be someplace toteach. You don’t have to lug your briefcase full of paper or your laptop to a classroom, stand at alectern, scribble on a chalkboard (or even use your high-tech, interactive classroom “smart”whiteboard), or grade papers in a stuffy room while your students take a test. You don’t even have tosit in your office waiting for students to show up for conferences. You can hold “office hours” onweekends or at night after dinner. You can do all this while living in a small town in Wyoming or a bigcity like Bangkok, even if you are working for a college whose administrative office is located in Floridaor Dubai. You can attend an important conference in Hawaii on the same day you teach your class inNew Jersey, logging on from your laptop via the local café’s wireless hotspot or your hotel room’shigh-speed network. Or you may simply pull out your smartphone to quickly check on the latestpostings, email, or text messages from students. Online learning offers more freedom for students aswell. They can search for courses using the Web, scouring their institution or even the world forprograms, classes, and instructors that fit their needs. Having found an appropriate course, they canenroll and register, shop for their books, read articles, listen to lectures, submit their homeworkassignments, confer with their instructors, and receive their final grades-all online.

Answer:Because teaching online uses the internet as the primary means of communication, teachers don’thave to be someplace to teach and they can hold “office hours” on weekends or at night after dinner;online learning offers more freedom for students as they can search for courses using the Web,scouring their institution or even the world for programs, classes, and instructors that fit their needs.(APEUni Website / App SWT #48)

30. Museology (Prediction) (Explanation)

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Original:What is museology? A simple definition might be that it is the study of museums, their history andunderlying philosophy, the various ways in which they have, in the course of time, been establishedand developed, their avowed or unspoken aims and policies, their educative or political or social role.More broadly conceived, such a study might also embrace the bewildering variety of audiences —visitors, scholars, art lovers, children -at whom the efforts of museum staff are supposedly directed,as well as related topics such as the legal duties and responsibilities placed upon (or incurred by)museums, perhaps even some thought as to their future. Seen in this light, museology might appear atfirst sight a subject so specialized as to concern only museum professionals, who by virtue of theiroccupation are more or less obliged to take an interest in it. In reality, since museums are almost, ifnot quite as old as civilization itself, and since the plethora of present-day museums embracesvirtually every field of human endeavor - not just art, or craft, or science, but entertainment,agriculture, rural life, childhood, fisheries, antiquities, automobiles: the list is endless - it is a field ofenquiry so broad as to be a matter of concern to almost everybody.

Answer:Museology, a study of museums, their history and underlying philosophy, not only embraces thebewildering variety of audiences and different topics but also specializes as to concern museumprofessionals, and it is a field of enquiry so broad as to be a matter of concern to almost everybodysince it embraces every field of human endeavor.(APEUni Website / App SWT #42)

31. Back to Countryside (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:I knew it was a good idea because I had been there before. Born and reared on a farm I had beenseduced for a few years by the idea of being a big shot that lived and worked in a city rather than onlygoing for the day to wave at the buses. True, I was familiar with some of the minor disadvantages ofcountry living such as an iffy private water supply sometimes infiltrated by a range of flora and fauna(including, on one memorable occasion, a dead lamb), the absence of central heating in farm housesand cottages, and a single track farm road easily blocked by snow, broken down machinery orescaped livestock. But there were many advantages as I told my wife back in the mid Seventies. Townborn and bred, eight months pregnant and exchanging a warm, substantial Corstorphine terrace for awindswept farm cottage on a much lower income, persuading her that country had it over town mighthave been difficult.

Answer:While living in the country had some minor disadvantages including an iffy water supply and theabsence of central heating, the author still thought it was a good idea to move back because he hadbeen there before and had been seduced for a few years, but persuading my wife back to the countrymight be hard because she wouldn’t exchange a warm terrace for a windswept farm cottage on amuch lower income.(APEUni Website / App SWT #41)

32. Mini War/Small War (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:In such an environment, warfare is no longer purely directed against the military potential ofadversarial states. It is rather directed at infiltrating all areas of their societies and to threaten theirexistences. The comparatively easy access to weapons of mass destruction, in particular relatively andlow-cost biological agents, is of key concern. Both governmental and non-governmental actors prefer

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to use force in a way that can be characterized as “unconventional” or also as “small wars.” Warwaged according to conventions is an interstate phenomenon. The “small war” is the archetype ofwar, in which the protagonists acknowledge no rules and permanently try to violate what conventionsdo exist. The protagonists of the “small war” observe neither international standards nor arms controlagreements. They make use of territories where they do not have to fear any sanctions because thereis no functioning state to assume charge of such sanctions or because the state in question is tooweak to impose such sanctions. This type of war does not provide for any warning time. It challengesnot only the external security of the nation states and international community, but also their internalsafety.

Answer:Since warfare is directed at infiltrating all areas of society, the easy access to weapons of massdestruction is of key concern, but both governmental and non-governmental actors prefer to use“small wars” in which the protagonists acknowledge no rules and observe neither internationalstandards nor arms control agreements by making use of territories with no sanctions, whichchallenges both the external security and the internal safety of the nation states and the internationalcommunity.(APEUni Website / App SWT #40)

33. Malaysia Tourism (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Malaysia is one of the most pleasant, hassle-free countries to visit in Southeast Asia. Aside from itsgleaming 21st century glass towers, it boasts some of the most superb beaches, mountains andnational parks in the region. Malaysia is also launching its biggest-ever tourism campaign in effort tolure 20 million visitors here this year. Any tourist itinerary would have to begin in the capital, KualaLumpur, where you will find the Petronas Twin Towers, which once comprised the world tallestbuildings and now hold the title of second-tallest. Both the 88-story towers soar 1,480 feet high andare connected by a sky-bridge on the 41st floor. The limestone temple Batu Caves, located 9 milesnorth of the city, have a 328-foot-high ceiling and feature ornate Hindu shrines, including a 141-foot-tall gold-painted statue of a Hindu deity. To reach the caves, visitors have to climb a steep flight of272 steps. In Sabah state on Borneo island not to be confused with Indonesias Borneo you'll find thesmall mushroom-shaped Sipadan island, off the coast of Sabah, rated as one of the top five divingsites in the world. Sipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia, rising from a 2,300-foot abyss in theCelebes Sea. You can also climb Mount Kinabalu, the tallest peak in Southeast Asia, visit the SepilokOrang Utan Sanctuary, go white-water rafting and catch a glimpse of the bizarre Proboscis monkey, aprimate found only in Borneo with a huge pendulous nose, a characteristic pot belly and strangehonking sounds. While you're in Malaysia, consider a trip to Malacca. In its heyday, this southern statewas a powerful Malay sultanate and a booming trading port in the region. Facing the Straits ofMalacca, this historical state is now a place of intriguing Chinese streets, antique shops, old templesand reminders of European colonial powers. Another interesting destination is Penang, known as thePearl of the Orient. This island off the northwest coast of Malaysia boasts of a rich Chinese culturalheritage, good food and beautiful beaches.

Answer:While Malaysia is one of the most pleasant countries to visit in Southeast Asia, it is also launching itsbiggest-ever tourism campaign to lure more visitors this year, and people can visit lots of places, suchas the Petronas Twin Tower in Kuala Lumper, the limestone temple Batu Caves, the Sipadan island inSabah, the Mount Kinabalu as well as Malacca.(APEUni Website / App SWT #39)

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34. House Mice (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:According to new research, house mice (Mus musculus) are ideal biomarkers of human settlement asthey tend to stow away in crates or on ships that end up going where people go. Using mice as aproxy for human movement can add to what is already known through archaeological data and answerimportant questions in areas where there is a lack of artifacts, Searle said. Where people go, so domice, often stowing away in carts of hay or on ships. Despite a natural range of just 100 meters (109yards) and an evolutionary base near Pakistan, the house mouse has managed to colonize everycontinent, which makes it a useful tool for researchers like Searle. Previous research conducted bySearle at the University of York supported the theory that Australian mice originated in the British Islesand probably came over with convicts shipped there to colonize the continent in the late 18th and 19thcenturies. In the Viking study, he and his fellow researchers in Iceland, Denmark and Sweden took it astep further, using ancient mouse DNA collected from archaeological sites dating from the 10th to 12thcenturies, as well as modern mice. He is hoping to do just that in his next project, which involvestracking the migration of mice and other species, including plants, across the Indian Ocean, fromSouth Asia to East Africa.

Answer:House mice can be used as ideal biomarkers of human settlement to add to what is already knownthrough archaeological data and answer important questions where there is a lack of artifacts, whichhas been supported by the research conducted by Searle of Australian mice and the DNA matching ofancient mouse and modern mouse in the Viking study.(APEUni Website / App SWT #35)

35. Hookham (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:THE BOOKSELLERS OF HOOKHAM AND CARPENTER (hereafter referred to only as Hookham) werelocated on New Bond Street in London, and their records span the most politically turbulent decade ofthe eighteenth-centurythe 1790's. Clients who frequented Hookham were primarily from thearistocratic or gentry classes. In fact, of Hookhams total buyers, 22% were aristocracy, and 35% ofthe aristocracy purchased novels. We can also confidently assume that untitled female customerswere of gentry income because their addresses were primarily in London's fashionable West End.Hookhams ledgers not only reveal a dramatic increase in the proportion of female purchasers ofnovels by comparison to earlier studies of provincial women, but they also reveal a remarkableincrease in the proportion of female purchases of novels authored by females. Such a markedincrease illustrates that Hookhams leisured female customers were able to buy more novels.Furthermore, the fact that these female aristocrats and gentry have accounts under their own name,not their husbands, demonstrates the greater degree of agency and independence that these urban,moneyed women had relative to provincial women. However, because our study does not include anexamination of male customers, we are very limited in what claims we can make about whether or notthese women behaved according to the clich that women were the predominant consumers of novelsin the eighteenth-century. Moreover, while more disposable income and leisure time certainlyaccounts for the significant increase in female purchases of novels authored by women in the 1790s,this increase also strongly suggests a desire on the part of women readers to engage in this politicallycharged decade. Thus, novel-reading provided women readers with the means through which theywere able to participate in the male-dominated world of politics. The latter part of our paper will morefully explore this hypothesis in the context of certain recent literary scholars claims that both Gothicand sentimental novels are actively engaged in political debate and discussion.

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Answer:According to the Hookham's found, there is a dramatic increase in the proportion of femalepurchasers of novels and purchases of novels authored by females, and also, these female aristocratsand gentry have accounts under their own names, and more disposal income and leisure time certainlyaccount for the significant increase, thus more female were able to participate in the male-dominatedworld of politics.(APEUni Website / App SWT #34)

36. Frog Amber (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 millionyears, a researcher said. If authenticated, the preserved frog would be the first of its kind found inMexico, according to David Grimaldi, a biologist and curator at the American Museum of NaturalHistory, who was not involved in the find. The chunk of amber containing the frog, less than half aninch long, was uncovered by a miner in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state in 2005 and was bought by aprivate collector, who loaned it to scientists for study. A few other preserved frogs have been found inchunks of amber — a stone formed by ancient tree sap — mostly in the Dominican Republic. Likethose, the frog found in Chiapas appears to be of the genus Craugastor, whose descendants stillinhabit the region, said biologist Gerardo Carbot of the Chiapas Natural History and Ecology Institute.Carbot announced the discovery this week. The scientist said the frog lived about 25 million years ago,based on the geological strata where the amber was found. Carbot would like to extract a sample fromthe frog’s remains in hopes of finding DNA that could identify the particular species but doubts theowner would let him drill into the stone.

Answer:A miner in Mexico found a tiny tree frog preserved in amber for 25 million years, which would be thefirst of its kind found in Mexico, with a few other preserved frogs found in chunks of amber, andCarbot would like to extract a sample from the frog’s remains to find DNA that could identify theparticular species but the owner may not allow.(APEUni Website / App SWT #29)

37. Crime Rate (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:The Home Office’ s periodic British Crime Survey estimates that the true level of crime (the sorts,anyway, which inform the official figures) is about four times that which is registered in the annualstatistics. Quite often, especially in the financial services sector, businesses do not report crimesagainst themselves for fear of lowering their public image. Many citizens today are not insured againstcar theft or property loss (because they cannot afford the premiums) so they have no incentive to tellthe police if they become victims. A steep statistical rise in crime can sometimes arise not from a realgrowth in a particular type of conduct but from a new policing policy - offences of "lewd dancing"rose by about 300 per cent during 12 months in the 1980s in Manchester, but only because thezealous Chief Constable James Anderton had deployed a great many officers in gay night clubs.Sometimes the enactment of a new range of offences or the possibility of committing old offences ina new way (like computer offences involving fraud and deception) can cause an upward jolt in crimelevels. The figures just released show a startling jump in street robbery but much of this seems to bea very particular crime: the theft of the now ubiquitous mobile phones. Conversely, if crimes likejoyriding and some assaults are kept out of the categories measured in the annual statistics, as is thecase, the official figures do not reflect even what is reported to the police as criminal. The way that

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criminal statistics are compiled by the Home Office is also relevant. From April 1998, police forcesstarted to count crime in a way which, according to the government, will give "a more robust statisticalmeasure".

Answer:There are several reasons that contribute to a rise in crime rate including that businesses do notreport crimes against themselves for fear of lowering their public image, that citizens have noincentive to tell police if they become victims, a new policing policy, the enactment of a new range ofoffenses or the possibility of committing old offenses in a new way, and the way that criminal statisticsare compiled by the Home Office.(APEUni Website / App SWT #21)

38. America and India IT (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Consider the current situation: like their counterparts in the United States, engineers and techniciansin India have the capacity to provide both computer programming and innovative new technologies.Indian programmers and high-tech engineers earn one-quarter of what their counterparts earn in theUnited States; Consequently, India is able to do both jobs at a lower dollar cost than the UnitedStates: India has absolute advantage in both. In other words, it can produce a unit of programming forfewer dollars than the Unites States, and it can also produce a unit of technology innovation for fewerdollars. Does that mean that the United States will lose not only programming jobs but innovativetechnology job, too? Does that mean that our standard of living will fall if the United States and Indiaengage in the international trade? David Ricardo would have answered no to both questions - as wedo today. While India may have an absolute advantage in both activities, that fact is irrelevant indetermining what India or the United States will produce. India has a comparative advantage in doingprogramming in part because of such activity requires little physical capital. The flip side is that theUnited States has a comparative advantage in technology innovation partly because it is relativelyeasy to obtain capital in this country to undertake such long-run projects. The result is that Indianprogrammers will do more and more of what U.S. programmers have been doing in the past. Incontrast, American firms will shift to more and more innovation.

Answer:While India might has absolute advantage in providing both computer programming and innovative newtechnologies because of the low cost, the United States has a comparative advantage in technologyinnovation because of easier capital obtaining, which suggests that Indian programmers will do moreand more of what U.S. programmers have been doing in the past and American firms will shift to moreand more innovation.(APEUni Website / App SWT #20)

39. Compulsory Reburial (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:Human remains are a fundamental part of the archaeological record, offering unique insights into thelives of individuals and populations in the past. Recently a new set of challenges to the study ofhuman remains has emerged from a rather unexpected direction: the British government revised itsinterpretation of nineteenth-century burial legislation in a way that would drastically curtail the abilityof archaeologists to study human remains of any age excavated in England and Wales. This paperexamines these extraordinary events and the legal, political and ethical questions that they raise. InApril 2008 the British government announced that, henceforth, all human remains archaeologicallyexcavated in England and Wales should be reburied after a two-year period of scientific analysis. Not

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only would internationally important prehistoric remains have to be returned to the ground, removingthem from public view, but also there would no longer be any possibility of long-term scientificinvestigation as new techniques and methods emerged and developed in the future. Thus, while faunalremains, potsherds, artifacts and environmental samples could be analyzed and re-analyzed in futureyears, human remains were to be effectively removed from the curation process. Archaeologists andother scientists were also concerned that this might be the first step towards a policy of reburying allhuman remains held in museum collections in England and Wales including prehistoric, Roman, Saxon,Viking and Medieval as well as more recent remains.

Answer:While human remains are the fundamental part for analysis and interpretation of any archaeologicalrecords, they still need to be reburied after a two-year scientific period because of the appearanceand development of new technologies and methods, so human remains should be removed from thecuration process with scientists concerned that this might be the first step towards a policy ofreburying all human remains.(APEUni Website / App SWT #19)

40. Australian Indigenous Food (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:In its periodic quest for culinary identity, Australia automatically looks to its indigenous ingredients, thefoods that are native to this country. 'There can be little doubt that using an indigenous product mustqualify a dish as Australian notes Stephanie Alexander. Similarly, and without qualification, states that‘A uniquely Australian food culture can only be based upon foods indigenous to this country , although,as Craw remarks, proposing Australian native foods as national symbols relies more upon theirassociation with 'nature' and geographic origin than on common usage. Notwithstanding the lack ofjustification for the premise that national dishes are, of necessity, founded on ingredients native to thecountry—after all, Italy's gastronomic identity is tied to the non-indigenous tomato, Thailand's to thenon-indigenous chili—the reality is that Austrians do not eat indigenous foods in significant quantities.The exceptions are fish, crustaceans and shellfish from oceans, rivers and lakes, most of which areunarguably unique to this country. Despite valiant and well-intentioned efforts today at promoting andencouraging the consumption of native resources, bush foods are not harvested or produced insufficient quantities for them to be a standard component of Australian diets, nor are they generallyaccessible. Indigenous foods are less relevant to Australian identity today than lamb and passionfruit,both initially imported and now naturalized.

Answer:In its periodic quest for culinary identity, Australia automatically looks to its indigenous ingredients, thefoods that are native to this country, notwithstanding the lack of justification for the premise thatnational dishes are founded on ingredients native to the country and the reality that Austrians do noteat indigenous foods in significant quantities, and indigenous foods are less relevant to Australianidentity today than lamb and passionfruit, both initially imported and now naturalized.(APEUni Website / App SWT #10)

41. American English (Prediction) (Explanation)Original:American English is, without doubt, the most influential and powerful variety of English in the worldtoday. There are many reasons for this. First, the United States is, at present, the most powerfulnation on earth and such power always brings with it influence. Indeed, the distinction between adialect and a language has frequently been made by reference to power. As has been said, a

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language is a dialect with an army. Second, America’s political influence is extended through Americanpopular culture, in particular through the international reach of American films (movies, of course) andmusic. As Kahane has pointed out, the internationally dominant position of a culture results in aforceful expansion of its language... the expansion of language contributes... to the prestige of theculture behind it. Third, the international prominence of American English is closely associated with theextraordinarily quick development of communications technology. Microsoft is owned by an American,Bill Gates. This means a computer’s default setting for language is American English, although ofcourse this can be changed to suit one’s own circumstances. In short, the increased influence ofAmerican English is caused by political power and the resultant diffusion of American culture andmedia, technological advance, and the rapid development of communications technology.

Answer:While American English is a dialect with an army because the United States is the most powerfulnation on the earth and such power brings with it influence, America’s political influence is extendedthrough American popular culture which also results in an expansion of its language, and theinternational prominence of American English is associated with the quick development ofcommunications technology, which suggests American English is the most influential and powerfulvariety of English.(APEUni Website / App SWT #6)

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Write EssayRepeat Rate: 98%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Ensure correct spelling & grammar (APEUni AI Score)

1. Humanities (Prediction)Question:Some say that in today’s world the value of humanities has been eclipsed by the necessity ofpreparing for specific wealth-producing careers, such as medicine. What is your opinion about a rolein today’s changing world for study of the humanities?(APEUni Website / App WE #67)

2. Play Writing (Prediction)Question:What is the role of writing theater plays and discussing ancient writings in the study of high schoolstudents?(APEUni Website / App WE #58)

3. New Inventions (Prediction)Question:In our technological world, the number of new inventions has been increasing. Please make anexample with its impact on our life, and explain if it is beneficial or not.(APEUni Website / App WE #29)

4. Television (Prediction)Question:Television serves many functions. Watching TV makes us relax. We can learn knowledge andinformation from TV programs. Besides, TV can also be seen as a companion. To what extent do youagree with this?(APEUni Website / App WE #160)

5. Inventions (Prediction)Question:In our technological world, the number of new inventions has been increasing. Please describe a newinvention, and determine whether it will bring advantages or disadvantages.(APEUni Website / App WE #159)

6. Dangerous Activities (Prediction)Question:Nowadays, more and more people engage in dangerous activities, such as sky diving and motorcycling.Are you in favour of such activities or not? Use examples to support your opinion.(APEUni Website / App WE #158)

7. Law Effect (Prediction)Question:Some people think human behaviors can be limited by law, others think laws have little effect. What is

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your opinion?(APEUni Website / App WE #149)

8. Marketing in Companies (Prediction)Question:Should marketing in companies which produce consumer goods like food and clothing, place emphasison reputation of the company or short-term strategies like discount and special offers? Why?(APEUni Website / App WE #195)

9. Studying Climate Change (Prediction)Question:Imagine you are have been assigned on the study of the climate change. Which area of climatechange will you choose and why? Use examples.(APEUni Website / App WE #155)

10. Distraction (Prediction)Question:To study effectively requires time, comfort and peace so it is impossible to combine study andemployment. Study and employment distract one from another. To what extent do you think thestatements are realistic? Support your opinion with examples?(APEUni Website / App WE #106)

11. Life Experience (Prediction)Question:Experience is the best teacher. Some people think that life experience is more important than theformal teacher and books in schools and universities. How far do you agree with this statement? Giveexamples to support.(APEUni Website / App WE #102)

12. Credit Cards (Prediction)Question:In a cashless society, people use more credit cards instead of cash. Cashless society seems to be areality, and how realistic do you think it might be? What are the benefits and problems of thisphenomenon?(APEUni Website / App WE #95)

13. Digital Media (Prediction)Question:With the increase of digital information available online, the role of the library has become obsolete.Universities should only procure digital materials rather than constantly textbooks. Discuss both theadvantages and disadvantages of this position and give your own point of view.(APEUni Website / App WE #86)

14. Problems and Benefits (Prediction)Question:There are both problems and benefits for high school students to study plays and works of theatreswritten centuries ago. Discuss and use your own experience.(APEUni Website / App WE #77)

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15. Building Effects (Prediction)Question:Do you think the design of building affects positively or negatively where people live and work?(APEUni Website / App WE #72)

16. Medical Technology (Prediction)Question:The advanced medical technology will extend human’s life. Do you think it is a blessing or a curse?(APEUni Website / App WE #71)

17. Deduction (Prediction)Question:Some universities deduct students’ marks if assignment is given late. What is your opinion and suggestsome alternative actions?(APEUni Website / App WE #63)

18. Experiential Learning (Prediction)Question:Some people point that experiential learning (i.e. learning by doing it) can work well in formaleducation. However, others think a traditional form of teaching is the best. Do you think experientiallearning can work well in high schools or colleges?(APEUni Website / App WE #56)

19. Legal Responsibility (Prediction)Question:Parents should be held legally responsible for their children’s acts. What is your opinion? Support itwith personal examples.(APEUni Website / App WE #43)

20. Personal Life (Prediction)Question:Nowadays, people spend too much time at work to the extent that they hardly have time for theirpersonal life. How widespread do you think it is? Discuss the problems caused by the shortage of time.(APEUni Website / App WE #40)

21. Right Balance (Prediction)Question:Nowadays, it is increasingly more difficult to maintain the right balance between work and otheraspects of one’s life, such as leisure time with family members. How important do you think thisbalance is? What are the reasons that caused this problem？(APEUni Website / App WE #39)

22. Shopping Malls (Prediction)Question:Large shopping malls are replacing small shops. What is your opinion on this? Do you think this is agood or bad change?(APEUni Website / App WE #30)

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23. Getting Married (Prediction)Question:It is argued that getting married before finishing school or getting a job is foolish. To what extent doyou agree or disagree?(APEUni Website / App WE #27)

24. Information Revolution (Prediction)Question:Information revolution brought about by modern mass media has both positive and negativeconsequences to individuals and society. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Discusswith your own experience.(APEUni Website / App WE #24)

25. Inventions (Prediction)Question:In the past 100 years, there have been many inventions such as antibiotics, airplanes and computers.What do you think is the most important of them? Why?(APEUni Website / App WE #22)

26. Formal Written Examination (Prediction)Question:Many education systems assess students using formal written examinations. Those kinds of exams area valid method. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give examples with your own experience.(APEUni Website / App WE #17)

27. Global Issue (Prediction)Question:Climate change is a concerning global issue. Who should take the responsibilities, governments, bigcompanies or individuals?(APEUni Website / App WE #9)

28. Transportation Networks (Prediction)Question:As cities expand, some people claim governments should try to create better networks of publictransportation available for everyone rather than building more roads for vehicle owning population.What’s your opinion? Give some examples or experience to support.

Answer:Nowadays, whether better networks of public transportation available for everyone or more roads forvehicle owning population have higher priority has attracted numerous controversies and drawn theattention from the public. Some people believe that public transportation , while others hold the viewthat the latter should be attached more importance to. In my opinion, governments should focus moreattention to public transportation than that to roads for vehicle-owners due to political and economicreasons. First and foremost, it has been argued that the political reason is why I think governmentsshould prioritize the construction of public transportation facilities. Although potentially negativeimpacts of public transportation must be taken into account, I still reckon that improvement of publicconvenience has in many ways enormously enriched people’s lives. For example, a well-knownAmerican scientist Albert Einstein once said, “Care for the public pays off,” which had a significant

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influence on many politicians’ policy-making. It is thus clearly shown that governments should have abias in favor of the public tranportation. Moreover, another factor that should be considered is theeconomic reason. As far as society is concerned, the ultimate aim of any construction is to boost theeconomy. For instance, a recent research published on Scientist American/The Economist revealedthat things that benefit the majority have the highest economic value. Undoubtedly, this is a clearindication that the better the public transportation, the more beneficial it is for the economy. To sumup, I hold the view that governments should invest more in public transportation than that intransportation just for vehicle-owners because of the political and economic reasons outlined above.To optimize the devision of funds invested in the two fields, the government, and society should makea concerted effort to find solutions.(APEUni Website / App WE #5)

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C. ReadingMultiple Choice (Single)Repeat Rate: 5%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Unimportant question, has only a few marks

1. Social Scientists (Prediction)Original:Social scientists use particular methods to gather qualitative evidence, from observation to interview,but they also use autobiographical accounts, journalism, and other documentary material to flesh outand add meaning to statistics. As with reading numbers, reading textual evidence requires us topractice, to set time aside to learn how to do it, and to understand the conventions of writing whichoperate in the different forms of writing we encounter. One of the main problems with reading textualevidence, though, is that, unlike the relationship most of us have with numbers where we may usethem at a pretty basic level, most of us are, if anything, over-familiar with words. When we want tounderstand their value as social science evidence we need to forget how familiar we are with firstperson accounts and everyday speech - for example, in newspapers, magazines, and books - andlearn a different approach to them. Social scientists use observation, interviews and even printjournalism as evidence for the claims they make. They may collect evidence through questionnaireswith pre-set questions and by open-ended interviews which allow respondents to speak forthemselves. They may observe social relations explicitly as social scientists or may participatethemselves in a particular community to gain 'inside' information. Social scientists also draw on printjournalism on occasion and may use the same sources, for example official statistics, and the work ofother social scientists to support their claims. We need to remember, though, that journalists do notneed to present the same rigorous referencing and support for their claims as social scientists arerequired to do. Most importantly, newspaper and magazine articles are written under commercialpressures; for example they must help to sell the newspaper by being deliberately provocative, or byreflecting the dominant views of its readers.

Question:According to this passage, what do social scientists use written sources to do?

Options:A) Formulating questionnaires and interview questions.B) Advising them on how to collect qualitative evidence.C) Adding information to other data they have collected.D) Change their understanding of numbers.

Answer:C(APEUni Website / App RMCS #115)

2. John Robertson (Prediction)Original:When he was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Newcastle, even John Robertsonhimself must surely have looked back in wonder at his astonishing rise to success. The year was 1910,

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and those assembled were to hear not only of his generosity to the University, which enabled it tocontribute to the pioneering research into tropical diseases being carried out at that time, but also ofhis humanitarian work in southern Africa, where he was ahead of his time in improving the workingconditions of local mine workers. To those who knew John in his youth, it will have come as nosurprise to hear of his success. He was now enjoying the rewards of the fierce determination, desireto succeed and extraordinary ability to acquire knowledge, which they had noticed in the young man.

Question:What does the reader of this text learn about John Robertson?

Options:A) He was born in Africa.B) His abilities were evident at a young age.C) He studied medicine.D) He completed his degree in 1910.

Answer:B(APEUni Website / App RMCS #114)

3. Lighthouse (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 要点：欧洲国家有⼀航空公司收购⼀个灯塔改造成旅馆，很多国际旅客想体验，旅游⼈数增加。选项：航空公司拥有这个⼩旅馆。（答案）(APEUni Website / App RMCS #106)

4. Euripides (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 要点：介绍古希腊剧作家欧⾥庇得斯 Euripides 问该作家的作品有什么特点？不再关注英雄式的主题，更加注重平⺠的普通⽣活(APEUni Website / App RMCS #97)

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Multiple Choice (Multiple)Repeat Rate: 5%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Unimportant question, has only a few marks

1. Children Care (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 要点：关于child care 。选项：government child care 更有效；（答案）带mother的选项。（答案）(APEUni Website / App RMCM #91)

2. Optional Courses (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 要点：关于美国的教育制度，提到secondary school和high school。本来提供很多课程是为了学⽣可以向⾃⼰喜欢的⽅向发展，结果学⽣只是和关系好的⼈选同⼀⻔或选容易的课程，使得课程设置原本的⽬的没有达到。选项：结果不如intended那样；（答案）学⽣可以⾃主选择课程。（答案）(APEUni Website / App RMCM #90)

3. (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 要点：关于新能源公交⻋electronic buses, 提到两个公司，公司1占有市场份额的60%。 government购买这种bus to be environmentally friendly。选项：A: 政府为了环保购买这种bus ；（答案） B: 公司1的market share⼤于公司2 ；（答案）(APEUni Website / App RMCM #87)

4. (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: ANZAC（Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) in the battle field of World War One inGallipoli, Turkey. 选项：对澳洲现代⼈的values有深远影响；（正确答案）⼠兵互扔⼿榴弹（grenade）（对应原⽂第⼀段back and forth，因为ANZAC离攻击⽬标⾜够近）；（正确答案）他们在挖⼯事的过程中起⽤了很多⼈； 13,000⼟⽿其⼈死亡；（错误选项）这些阵亡⼠兵从别的战役过来；（错误选项） ANZAC侵占了⼟⽿其。（错误选项）(APEUni Website / App RMCM #74)

5. Decision (Prediction)Original:By the laws of probability, most decisions made under pressure should be flawed ones, yetpsychologists have found that people routinely make correct judgments most of the time, even withlimited information. One of Gladwell's surprising points is that we can actually learn how to make bettersnap judgments, in the same way that we can learn logical, deliberative thinking. But first we have toaccept the idea that thinking long and hard about something does not always deliver us better results,and that the brain actually evolved to make us think on our feet.

Question:Which of the following does the passage tell us about decision making?

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Options:A) The brain is designed to enable quick decision making.B) Quick decision making can be improved.C) Quick decision making routinely leads to error.D) To make correct decisions we require all relevant information.E) Thinking things through thoroughly will lead to greater success.

Answer:A, B(APEUni Website / App RMCM #50)

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Re-order ParagraphsRepeat Rate: 48%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Must understand the passage. Don't memorise the answers

1. Group Discussions (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Every college conduct group discussions. Sometimes it stuck in the middle. Could you take thestep and continue the discussion? For example, do you need a coordinator to help?(APEUni Website / App RO #280)

2. Language and Music (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Language has advantages. One is that ... But not all people can sing well and be good atmusic. Techniques are all complicated.(APEUni Website / App RO #279)

3. Far From Content （远离⽆⽤内容） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Your first draft is complete, but your paper is far from finished.2) The next step is to revise your paper: strengthen the content.3) Start this at least a week before your paper is due.4) In fact, you don't need to wait until you have a complete first draft to start revising.5) You can revise individual paragraphs as you finish them as well.(APEUni Website / App RO #278)

4. Workforce (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About some movement. People don’t know information about it so arrangements are made andthe public officials will discuss the key points. Employees will then understand pay cut is necessary,and with that understanding it’s better to have a small work force.(APEUni Website / App RO #277)

5. History (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 1. ... history, event, role; 2. the history … also chronology presentation; 3. Example: it is …students … chronology presentation … principal purpose; 4. This is ... other purpose.(APEUni Website / App RO #276)

6. Sydney (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About how architecture of those buildings affect Sydney...(APEUni Website / App RO #275)

7. Television Tube (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About television, red blue yellow (some colors), cathode or some tube, black and white.(APEUni Website / App RO #274)

8. Pay Cut（降薪） (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Some movement, which people don’t know information about. So arrangements are made andthe public officials will discuss the key points. Employees will then understand pay cut is necessary.

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With that understanding it’s better to have a small work force.(APEUni Website / App RO #273)

9. Panda（熊猫） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) People didn't know pandas well.2) Now, people can attach a GPS to them.3) This GPS can transmit data every couple of hours for up to two years.4) Then it is found five pandas' habitats sometimes overlap.(APEUni Website / App RO #184)

10. Snakes（蛇） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Big Country Snake Removal responded to a home in Albany, Texas, after a man who was trying torestore his cable, climbed under the house and saw some snakes.2) "He saw a 'few' snakes and quickly crawled out," said a post on Big Country Snake Removal'sFacebook page.3) "We arrived around lunchtime and as soon as I crawled under I could immediately see that therewas far more than a 'few,'" the post said.4) The company ended up removing 45 rattlesnakes from beneath the house.(APEUni Website / App RO #178)

11. Major Review（主要报告） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) A major review of antidepressants has found they are largely ineffective and may even be harmfulfor children and teens' depression in the Amazon.2) The true effectiveness and risk of serious harms is found in the borders of Amazon such as suicidalthoughts remain unclear because of the small number of trials and the selective reporting findings inpublished trials and clinical study reports.3) The study authors recommend that children and adolescents taking antidepressants should becarefully monitored closely and permanently, however, prohibits the study of children'santidepressants.4) This was widely opposed by multi-billion companies that have already invested antidepressants.5) It is therefore recommended a child could self-reproach starting with a low dose and build upgradually within to prevent the side effects.(APEUni Website / App RO #268)

12. Probability of Event (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1.(APEUni Website / App RO #182)

13. Decline（下降） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) The decline in marriage rates and increase in divorce rates has led to a decrease in the proportionof the population that is formally married.2) In 1986, 60% of the population aged 15 years and over were married; by 2001 this proportion haddecreased to 55%.3) Conversely the proportion of the population aged 15 years and over who were never married

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increased from 29% in 1986 to 32% in 2001.4) At the same time, the proportion of the population who were divorced increased, from 5% in 1986to 7% in 2001, while the proportion of the population who were widowed remained at around 6%.(APEUni Website / App RO #264)

14. 2100-2013 (Prediction)Correct Order:1) By 2100, human-induced climate change threatens to raise temperatures by 2-4℃ and push uptide-lines by 4-6m.2) The government has promised to help counter this global trend by reducing UK carbon emissions by80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050.3) And with the second largest tidal range in the world, British marine energy could play an importantrole in this shift.4) But harnessing the power of the tides is not without consequence.5) In 2013, plans to construct a 34 billion pounds barrage across the Severn estuary were rejectedafter concerns were raised about its effect on local ecosystems.(APEUni Website / App RO #263)

15. Child Temptation（孩⼦的诱惑） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) A four-to-six-year-old child sits alone in a room at a table facing a marshmallow on a plate.2) The child is told: if you don't eat this treat for 15 minutes you can have both this one and a secondone.3) Kids on average wait for five or six minutes before eating the marshmallow.4) The longer a child can resist the temptation has been correlated with higher general competencylater in life.(APEUni Website / App RO #259)

16. Book Writing（写本书） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) For many years, I had been thinking of writing a book.2) Not an ordinary book, but a literature book.3) I would do extensive literature reading and think about how I could do as well as they had done.4) What I did is what you will need to do.(APEUni Website / App RO #257)

17. Essential Skill（必要技能） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Many of us happily drive a car without understanding what goes on under the bonnet.2) So is it necessary for children to learn how to program computers?3) After all, some experts say coding is one of the human skills that will become obsolete as artificialintelligence grows.4) Nevertheless, governments believe coding is an essential skill.(APEUni Website / App RO #255)

18. Children's Clothes（⼉童服装） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) During the past few years, some of the world's biggest names in high-end fashion have begun to

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see children's clothes as a promising sideline with which to extract more value from their mainbusiness.2) Jean Paul Gaultier, Chloe and John Galliano have all launched children's clothes lines.3) But for France's Bonpoint, making kids' clothing is the main business.4) Since Bonpoint was founded 40 years ago by clothes store owner Marie-France and BernardCohen, children and babies have been at the centre of the brand's development.(APEUni Website / App RO #254)

19. Namesakes Bay（以名字命名的港湾） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Aboard the ship Discovery, Hudson left England in April 1610.2) He and his crew, which again included his son John and Robert Juet, made their way across theAtlantic Ocean.3) After skirting the southern tip of Greenland, they entered what became known as the Hudson Strait.4) The exploration then reached another of his namesakes, the Hudson Bay.(APEUni Website / App RO #249)

20. Mobile Phone（⼿机） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Bitcoin is an online money.2) That's to say you need to download mobile phone app to use such money.3) With above done it generates a bitcoin address.4) This address can only be used once.(APEUni Website / App RO #248)

21. Memory Capacity（内存） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Researchers studied groups of people from the University of Wisconsin-Madison community,ranging in age from 18 to 65.2) The first group was asked to perform simple tasks, like pressing a button every time they took abreath or clicking in response to a letter popping up on a computer screen; these tasks were so easythat their minds were likely to wander, the researchers figured.3) The researchers checked in periodically, asking the participants if their minds were on task orwandering.4) When the task was over, they measured each participant's working memory capacity by havingthem remember letters while doing math equations.(APEUni Website / App RO #245)

22. DRM (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Due to its ability to solve all main problems associated with digital goods, Digital Rights Managementis the favorite option used by companies to tackle privacy.2) The aim of this article is to discuss the consequences of DRM for consumers, firms and society.3) The rationales of DRM are discussed and the expected benefits for firms are presented.4) In contrast, consumers are shown to be likely to see few benefits in DRM.5) The article concludes with some public policy recommendations.(APEUni Website / App RO #235)

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23. Physician（外科医⽣） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Formal medical education in Manchester began in 1814 when Joseph Jordan opened the firstanatomy school in the English provinces.2) Previous lecture courses in medicine had included a series given by Peter Mark Roget, then aphysician at Manchester Infirmary (1804-1808), but better known for his later Thesaurus.3) Jordan, however, offered dissections as well as lectures, and medical education proved goodbusiness.4) In London, the private anatomy schools, which had competed with each other for decades, becameincorporated with the hospitals, but in the provinces, private medical schools continued beyond 1870,using the hospitals for clinical teaching but not formally attached to them.(APEUni Website / App RO #227)

24. Soda Water（苏打⽔） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Sherbet powder is a mix of baking soda and citric acid.2) When it is mixed with water in your mouth, an endothermic reaction occurs, taking heat energyfrom your mouth and making it feel cooler.3) Another example of an endothermic reaction is the cold packs used by athletes to treat injuries.4) This process is endothermic-taking heat energy from the surroundings and cooling the injured partof your body. In this way, the cold pack acts as an ice pack.(APEUni Website / App RO #225)

25. African Woman（⾮洲⼥⼈） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) It was there that Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to vacate her seat in the middleof the bus so that a white man could sit in her place.2) She was arrested for her civil disobedience.3) Parks' arrest, a coordinated tactic meant to spark a grassroots movement, succeeded in catalyzingthe Montgomery bus boycott.4) Parks was chosen by King as the face for his campaign because of Parks' good standing with thecommunity, her employment and her marital status.5) In many ways, the Montgomery bus boycott kicked off a national struggle to eliminate nationaldiscrimination, with King leading the way and ultimately become the nation's racial equality movement.(APEUni Website / App RO #223)

26. Turkey（⼟⽿其） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) If you want to visit Mars, visit Turkey.2) That's where you'll find lakes so salty that the only bugs able to live there are species that couldprobably survive on Mars as well.3) For that reason, microbiologists in Turkey have surveyed the array of species that inhabit theAcigol, Salda and Yarisli lakes.4) They're hopeful that studying some of them will yield useful insights into the kinds of biology thatcould help microbes exist on Mars or other potentially habitable planets and moons.(APEUni Website / App RO #222)

27. Center of Health（国际健康中⼼） (Prediction)

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Correct Order:1) University of Otago Centre of International Health co-directors Professor Philip Hill and ProfessorJohn Crump share a view that global health is a multidisciplinary activity.2) In their work from Tanzania to the Gambia, from Myanmar to Indonesia and beyond, they tap into awide range of expertise from across the University, including clinicians, microbiologists and molecularmicrobiologists, public health experts, economists and mathematicians.3) They have also forged relationships and collaborations with research and aid agencies around theworld.4) For the past seven years Professor Philip Hill has been part of a collaborative tuberculosis researchproject in Indonesia, with the University of Padjadjaran in Bandung, West Java, undertaking European-Commission-funded research into the causative links between infectious and non-communicablediseases, which in this case are tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus.(APEUni Website / App RO #221)

28. Survey in 1999（1999 年的调查） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 young people about their eating habits in 1999.2) When they surveyed the same group five years later, most of the teenagers were eating fewer fruitsand vegetables.3) The researchers, led by Nicole I. Larson of University of Minnesota School of Public Health, foundtwo dips in the intake of fruits and vegetables during the teenage years.4) The first occurred in early adolescence, when consumption went down by more than half a serving.The second came in late adolescence and was about the same size as the first.(APEUni Website / App RO #220)

29. German Books（德国书） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) This site contains a comprehensive listing of the works of Norbert Elias, a German sociologist.2) The site lists not only his published books and articles but also manuscripts and oralcommunications, in a variety of media and including reprints and translations.3) The material has been catalogued, cross-referenced and organized by date.4) There is, however, no search facility.(APEUni Website / App RO #203)

30. Predators（捕⻝者） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Australia's native plants and animals adapted to life on an isolated continent over millions of years.2) Since European settlement they have had to compete with a range of introduced animals forhabitat, food and shelter.3) Some have also had to face new predators.4) These new pressures have also caused a major impact on our country's soil and waterways and onits native plants and animals.(APEUni Website / App RO #199)

31. Two-and-a-half（2.5升空⽓） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) To gauge optimism and pessimism, the researchers set up an experiment involving 22 calves.2) Before they started the experiment, they trained the calves to understand which of their choices

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would lead to a reward.3) In the training, each calf entered a small pen and found a wall with five holes arranged in ahorizontal line, two-and-a-half feet apart.4) The hole at one end contained milk from a bottle, while the hole at the opposite end contained onlyan empty bottle and delivered a puff of air in calves' faces.5) The calves learned quickly which side of the pen held the milk reward.(APEUni Website / App RO #188)

32. Montana Two Ways（两条路） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) In Montana as elsewhere, companies that have acquired older mines respond to demands to pay forcleanup in either of two ways.2) Especially if the company is small, its owners may declare the company bankrupt, in some casesconceal its assets, and transfer their business efforts to other companies or to new companies that donot bear responsibility for cleanup at the old mine.3) If the company is so large that it cannot claim that it would be bankrupted by cleanup costs (as inthe case of ARCO that I shall discuss below), the company instead denies its responsibility or elseseeks to minimize the costs.4) In either case, either the mine site and areas downstream of it remain toxic, thereby endangeringpeople, or else the U.S. federal government and the Montana state government (hence ultimately alltaxpayers) pay for the cleanup through the federal Superfund and a corresponding Montana statefund.(APEUni Website / App RO #202)

33. Protein（蛋⽩质） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Fibers suitable for clothing have been made for the first time from the wheat protein gluten.2) The fibers are as strong and soft as wool and silk.3) But they are up to 30 times cheaper.4) Narenda Reddy and Yiqi Yang, who produced the fibers at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, saythat because they are biodegradable they might be used in biomedical applications such as surgicalsutures.(APEUni Website / App RO #197)

34. International Environment（国际环境） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) International Economics: Theory and Policy is a proven approach in which each half of the bookleads with an intuitive introduction to theory and follows with self-contained chapters to cover keypolicy applications.2) The Eighth Edition integrates the latest research, data, and policy in hot topics such asoutsourcing, economic geography, trade and environment, financial derivatives, the subprime crisis,and China's exchange rate policies.3) New for the Eighth Edition, all end-of-chapter problems are integrated into MyEconLab, the onlineassessment and tutorial system that accompanies the text.4) Students get instant, targeted feedback, and instructors can encourage practice without needing tograde work by hand. For more information visit MyEconLab.(APEUni Website / App RO #196)

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35. Be Objective（保持客观） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Experts especially journalists, inevitably find it difficult to be objective because of their culturebackground.2) Journalists tried their best not to be biased.3) However, including every aspect of an issue is as easy as calling for every candidate to participatein presidential debate.4) Some aspects are not included in the reporting.(APEUni Website / App RO #173)

36. Birds（⻦类是好是坏） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) According to experts, feeding birds is probably the most common way in which people interact withwild animals today.2) More than 50 million Americans engage in the practice, collectively undertaking an unwittingexperiment on a vast scale.3) Is what we're doing good or bad for birds?4) Recently, researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology sought to answer this question, analyzingnearly three decades' worth of data from a winter-long survey called Project Feeder Watch.5) Preliminary results suggest the species visiting our feeders the most are faring exceptionally well inan age when one-third of the continent's birds need urgent conservation.(APEUni Website / App RO #214)

37. Results Measurement (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Psychologists measure results in terms of validity and reliability. Validity is defined as … Forexample, when a survey is asking about someone’s personality, it shouldn’t ask him chemistryquestions. Meanwhile, a survey also values reliability.(APEUni Website / App RO #191)

38. TV Program（电视节⽬） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Recycling electronic waste such as old computers, TVs, and monitors is a daunting challengeconsidering how much technology we all use today.2) The challenge didn't deter IU students, who persuaded the IT Services department to launch itsElectronic Waste Collection Days program.3) On numerous dates throughout the year, students, faculty, and staff can drop off their oldequipment to be completely recycled nothing ends up in a landfill.4) Collection days netted more than 650,000 pounds of waste in 2010.(APEUni Website / App RO #175)

39. 21st Century Human Development（21世纪⼈类发展） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) It is a truism to say that in 21st century society science and technology are important.2) Human existence in the developed world is entirely dependent on some fairly recent developmentsin science and technology.3) Whether this is good or bad is, of course, up for argument.4) But the fact that science underlies our lives, our health, our work, our communications, ourentertainment and our transport is undeniable.

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(APEUni Website / App RO #151)

40. 11th Century Ancestors（11世纪的祖先） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Over the years many human endeavors have had the benefit of language.2) In particular a written language can convey a lot of information about past events, places, peopleand things.3) But it is difficult to describe music in words, and even more difficult to specify a tune.4) It was the development of a standard musical notation in the 11th century that allowed music to bedocumented in a physical form.5) Now music could be communicated efficiently, and succeeding generations would know somethingabout the music of their ancestors.(APEUni Website / App RO #145)

41. Country’s Most Elite（最精英的国家） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) England's most selective universities must do more to attract teenagers from disadvantagedbackgrounds if they want to charge higher tuition fees, the country's fair access watchdog haswarned.2) Professor Les Ebdon, director of Fair Access to Higher Education, has said universities can nolonger make excuses about the number of poorer students they take on.3) In a statement issued yesterday, Prof Ebdon dismissed the argument from the country's mostselective universities, which claim that young people from poorer backgrounds generally secure worsegrades.4) Such defenses from the country's most elite universities "do not hold water", Prof Ebdon said, as heurged the institutions to do more to widen their intakes.(APEUni Website / App RO #143)

42. 50 cm - 1 m (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Sea level raise led to 36 thousand people died every year.2) This number can be raised if sea level ceaseless goes up, scientists notified.3) According to the research, if sea level raises 50 centimeters, 86 million people will die.4) If sea level raises 1 meter, 168 million people will die all around the world.(APEUni Website / App RO #140)

43. Top Executives Short（⾼管寿命变短） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) The top executives of the large, mature, publicly held companies hold the conventional view whenthey stop to think of the equity owners' welfare.2) They assume that they’re using their shareholders' resources efficiently if the company’sperformance - especially ROE and earning per share - is good and if the shareholders don’t rebel.3) They assume that the stock market automatically penalizes any corporation that invests itsresources poorly.4) So companies investing well grow, enriching themselves and shareholders alike, and ensurecompetitiveness; companies investing poorly shrink, resulting, perhaps, in the placement ofmanagement.5) In short, stock market performance and the company’s financial performance are inexorably linked.

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(APEUni Website / App RO #136)

44. Believe 1987（相信1987） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Whatever happened to the idea of progress and a better future? I still believe both.2) The Brundtland Report, our Common Future (1987) defines sustainable development as'development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of futuregenerations to meet their own needs'.3) Implicit in this definition is the idea that the old pattern of development could not be sustained. Isthis true?4) Development in the past was driven by growth and innovation. It led to new technologies and hugeimprovements in living standards.5) To assume that we know what the circumstances or needs of future generations will be is mistakenand inevitably leads to the debilitating sense that we are living on borrowed time.(APEUni Website / App RO #134)

45. San Diego（圣地亚哥） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) In 1992 a retired engineer in San Diego contracted a rare brain disease that wiped out his memory.2) Every day he was asked where the kitchen was in his house, and every day he didn’t have thefoggiest idea.3) Yet whenever he was hungry he got up and propelled himself straight to the kitchen to getsomething to eat.4) Studies of this man led scientists to a breakthrough: the part of our brains where habits are storedhas nothing to do with memory or reason.5) It offered proof of what the US psychologist William James noticed more than a century ago thathumans 'are mere walking bundles of habits' .(APEUni Website / App RO #67)

46. Mother of Storms（⻛暴之⺟） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Unlike Barnes' previous books, Mother of Storms has a fairly large cast of viewpoint characters.2) This usually irritates me, but I didn't mind it here, and their interactions are well-handled andinformative, although occasionally in moving those about the author's manipulations are a bit blatant.(Especially when one character's ex-girlfriend, who has just undergone a sudden and not entirelycredible change in personality, is swept up by a Plot Device in Shining Armor and transported directlyacross most of Mexico and a good bit of the States to where she happens to bump into anotherviewpoint character.)3) They're not all necessarily good guys, either, although with the hurricanes wreaking wholesaledestruction upon the world's coastal areas, ethical categories tend to become irrelevant.4) But even the Evil American Corporate Magnate is a pretty likable guy.(APEUni Website / App RO #59)

47. Mathematical Reasoning（数学逻辑） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) It is wrong to exaggerate the similarity between language and other cognitive skills, becauselanguage stands apart in several ways.2) For one thing, the use of language is universal — all normally developing children learn to speak at

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least one language, and many learn more than one.3) By contrast, not everyone becomes proficient at complex mathematical reasoning, few people learnto paint well, and many people cannot carry a tune.4) Because everyone is capable of learning to speak and understand language, it may seem to besimple.5) But just the opposite is true — language is one of the most complex of all human cognitive abilities.(APEUni Website / App RO #51)

48. Local Looger（当地⽊⼯） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Sephua, a ramshackle town on the edge of Peru's Amazon jungle, nestles in a pocket on the mapwhere a river of the same name flows into the Urubamba.2) That pocket denotes a tiny patch of legally loggable land sandwiched between four naturalreserves, all rich in mahogany and accessible from the town. “Boundaries are on maps,” says a locallogger, “maps are only in Lima, the capital.3) In 2001 the government, egged on by WWF, a green group, tried to regulate logging in the relativelysmall part of the Peruvian Amazon where this is allowed.4) It abolished the previous system of annual contracts.5) Instead, it auctioned 40-year concessions to areas ruled off on a map, with the right to log 4% ofthe area each year. The aim was to encourage strict management plans and sustainable extraction.(APEUni Website / App RO #47)

49. Mechanical Engineering（机械⼯程） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Mechanical engineering student Ne Tan is spending the first semester of this year studying at theUniversity of California, Berkeley as part of the Monash Abroad program.2) Ne (Tan), an international student from Shanghai, China, began her Monash journey at MonashCollege in October 2006.3) There she completed a diploma that enabled her to enter Monash University as a second-yearstudent.4) Now in her third year of study, the Monash Abroad program will see her complete four units ofstudy in the US before returning to Australia in May 2009.(APEUni Website / App RO #28)

50. Keep Quiet（保持安静） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Many students sit in a tutorial week after week without saying anything.2) Why is that?3) Maybe they do not know the purpose of a tutorial.4) They think it is like a small lecture where the tutor gives them information.5) Even if students do know what a tutorial is for, there can be other reasons why they keep quiet.(APEUni Website / App RO #27)

51. Straight Line（排成⼀排） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Jet stream, narrow, swift currents or tubes of air found at heights ranging from 7 to 8 mi (11.3–12.9km) above the surface of the earth.2) They are caused by great temperature differences between adjacent air masses. There are four

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major jet streams.3) Instead of moving along a straight line, the jet stream flows in a wavelike fashion; the wavespropagate eastward (in the Northern Hemisphere) at speeds considerably slower than the wind speeditself.4) Since the progress of an airplane is aided or impeded depending on whether tail winds or headwinds are encountered.5) In the Northern Hemisphere the jet stream is sought by eastbound aircraft, in order to gain speedand save fuel, and avoided by westbound aircraft.(APEUni Website / App RO #25)

52. Indian businessmen（印度商⼈） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Innovation in India is as much due to entrepreneurialism as it is to IT skills, says Arun Maria,chairman of Boston Consulting Group in India.2) Indian businessmen have used IT to create new business models that enable them to provideservices in a more cost-effective way.3) This is not something that necessarily requires expensive technical research.4) He suggests the country’s computer services industry can simply outsource research to foreignuniversities if the capability is not available locally.5) “This way, I will have access to the best scientists in the world without having to produce themmyself” says Mr. Maria.(APEUni Website / App RO #22)

53. 300 Elephants Running Bees（300只⼤象追蜜蜂） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Earlier this year, researchers from Duke University went to Gabon to monitor that country'sdwindling elephant population. They took along three drones, which they planned to use to count theelephants, follow their herds, and map their migrations.2) Only things didn't exactly go as planned.3) The elephants noticed the drones, which hovered anywhere from 25 feet to 300 feet above them.And it wasn’t just that the elephants noticed them; in many cases, the elephants were clearlyagitated. Some of them took off running. In at least one case, an elephant used her trunk to hurl mudin the drone's direction.4) The elephants reacted so strongly, the researchers believe, because drones, it turns out, sound alot like bees. And elephants do not like bees. At all.(APEUni Website / App RO #14)

54. Company Poses（在公司摆 pose） (Prediction)Correct Order:1) Decades ago, we connected computers and got today's powerful Internet.2) In the last few years, we started to connect everyday objects using machine-to-machine (M2M)technologies, to create the Internet of Things.3) But what does this really mean to you, your company and your country?4) What are the possibilities it offers, and the threats it poses?(APEUni Website / App RO #12)

55. One Week Before（⼀周前） (Prediction)Correct Order:

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1) A requirement of Humanities 104 is to write a persuasive paper on a topic of your choice.2) The topic you choose should be supported by a range of sources.3) The source should be cited under APA guidelines, and the final draft should be written in APAstyles.4) The final draft is due one week before the final exam.(APEUni Website / App RO #2)

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Fill in the Blanks (Reading)Repeat Rate: 45%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Must understand the passage. Don't memorise the answers

1. Good School (New) (Prediction)A big rise in state schools rated among the best institutions in the country is revealed in the latestedition of the Good Schools Guide. Middle-class parents facing financial pressures in the downturn areincreasingly looking beyond the private sector to educate their children. The 23 year-old Good SchoolsGuide -- a popular reference book for fee-paying families set on the best private school -- hasincreased the number of state schools in this year's edition to 251, pushing the figure to more than aquarter of its 1,000 entries for the first time. And, explaining why the guide has more than doubled thenumber of schools it features outside the private sector in only five years, Sue Fieldman, regionaleditor, told the Financial Times: "The parents we speak to want more information on the state sectorand the best it has to offer. "

Options:return, reserved, popular, downturn, explaining, imitating(APEUni Website / App FIBR #438)

2. Corn and Modified Food (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Blanks: unscientific, view, review, like, since(APEUni Website / App FIBR #437)

3. Long-term Goal (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The long term goal can be divided into short term (realistic/naturalistic) goal ... (in order to)achieve this you need to ... (along the way/ timely).(APEUni Website / App FIBR #129)

4. Toys (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About laws on materials used in children toys and products. Some additives are (prohibited) ...types ... ... (categories) ...(APEUni Website / App FIBR #436)

5. Bilingual and Monolingual (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About the difference between bilingual and monolingual. 'cognitive function' is mentioned.(APEUni Website / App FIBR #435)

6. Political Platforms (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Universities offer students platforms to fulfil their political (ideal). They can communicate ideasthrough (debate). Students should grasp (opportunities) to realize their political ideas. Other option:agreements(APEUni Website / App FIBR #434)

7. Noise (New) (Prediction)We don't have any databases on this sort of information. As well as that, these records of sound levelstake no account of the fact that people vary in their perceptions of noise-so someone like me with

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years of working in acoustics might be very different from you in that regard. But anyway, even thoughthese noise maps are fairly crude they've been useful in providing information and raising awareness.That noise matters. We need to deal with it and so it's a political matter. And that's important-weneed rules and regulations , because noise can cause all sort of problems. Those of you who are city-dwellers know that things go on 24 hours a day.

Options:telltale, raising, regulations, taking, perceptions, crude(APEUni Website / App FIBR #433)

8. Modern Wealth (New) (Prediction)Modern wealth has been created mainly through the action of market forces, which now dominate thewhole of the industrial world. It is based on the false premise that we all start at an equal point. Ofcourse nobody starts at the same point. Market forces help a few to become very wealthy atthe expense of the many who become poorer. This is taking place all over the world. There is anincreasing number of hungry and desperate people living in utter poverty. Yet there are millionaires ofall nationalities throughout the developed world. Market forces are inevitably acting to divide our worldbecause they separate one section of society from another. Strangely enough, to create a societybased on the free play of market forces, there must be a very strict control over the economy toensure business efficiency. This is the poison of commercialization. It imposes restrictions on thenatural needs of society. When the politicians are not meeting the needs of society, the people revolt .When the people's voice is not heard, there will inevitably be revolution. Part of that revolution is thegrowing crime rate and the violent street protests which are the result of the imbalance of our society- too great wealth side by side with too great poverty.

Options:expense, imposes, imbalance, level, false, vague, lifts(APEUni Website / App FIBR #432)

9. Online Learning (New) (Prediction)If you are interested in studying but have other commitments , our online and distance learningcourses offer an alternative flexible mode of study. Teaching is conducted through a mixture of audio-visual, written and interactive materials. There are also opportunities for online discussion andcollaborative projects with tutors and other students. Some programmes includeresidential modules taught on campus, giving you the chance to meet and work alongside your tutorsand fellow students face-to-face. Our Graduate School provides comprehensive support for distanceand part-time researchers, many of whom study for up to six years or more.

Options:opportunities, rate, charges, mode, modules, commitments, comments(APEUni Website / App FIBR #431)

10. Kimbell (New) (Prediction)The first section of the book covers new modes of assessment. In Chapter 1, Kimbell (GoldsmithCollege, London) responds to criticisms of design programs as formalistic and conventional, statingthat a focus on risk-taking rather than hard work in design innovation is equally problematic. Hisresearch contains three parts that include preliminary exploration of design innovation qualities,investigation of resulting classroom practices, and development of evidence-based assessment. Theassessment he describes is presented in the form of a structured worksheet, which includes a

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collaborative element and digital photographs, in story format. Such a device encourages stimulatingideas, but does not recognize students as design innovators . The assessment sheet includes holisticimpressions as well as details about 'having, growing, and proving' ideas. And colloquial judgments areevident in terms such as 'wow' and 'yawn' and reward the quality and quantity of ideas with the term,'sparkiness', which fittingly is a pun as the model project was to design light bulb packaging. Inaddition, the assessment focuses on the process of optimizing or complexity control as well as provingideas with thoughtful criticism and not just generation of novel ideas. The definitions for qualities suchas 'technical' and 'aesthetic' pertaining to users, are too narrow and ill-defined. The author providesexamples of the project, its features and structures, students' notes and judgments, and theirsketches and photographs of finished light bulb packages, in the Appendix.

Options:disruption, element, criticisms, formal, discretions, colloquial(APEUni Website / App FIBR #430)

11. Power Station (Prediction)The ruins of the South Fremantle Power Station have stood empty since 1985, home only to urbanexplorers and street artists . Opened in 1951, the power station was once a pillar of progress for theexpanding energy demands of Perth. Here it stood proud and strong for 34 years, supplying energy toits surrounding metropolis until 1985 when it was deemed to no longer be worth the money . The doorswere shuttered , and the plant's four tall chimney stacks were demolished , leaving the rest of theplant to rot by the sea.

Options:shuttered, demolished, progress, demands, collectors, artists, money(APEUni Website / App FIBR #429)

12. Sports (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Sports was firstly of survival skills ... (tightly) ... but now is ... （recreational) ... and enjoyment... ... hunting and fishing were (originally) for food, but is now a competitive sport. Option: actually(APEUni Website / App FIBR #428)

13. Gender Equality (Prediction)With the popularity of the gender equality campaign and the cultural change, the traditional roles ofmen as the earner , and of women in which they stay at home, are challenged today.

Options:authority, traditional, earner, appreciated, protested, challenged(APEUni Website / App FIBR #427)

14. Development of Language (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About the development of language. Nowadays people have been only caught up and have apart of ... Key words: subtle, improvement, proved, newer(APEUni Website / App FIBR #426)

15. Bird Migration (Prediction)For birdwatchers in southern New Mexico, September can be highly entertaining. Good numbers ofmany diverse species are on the move during this time, traveling southward fromnorthern breeding grounds to places they will spend the winter, and there's always a chance that some

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rare or unusual bird will turn up.

Options:genes, chance, breeding, warmer, species, quantity, traveling(APEUni Website / App FIBR #424)

16. John Milton (Prediction)John Milton wrote in a wide range of genres, in several languages, and on an extraordinary range ofsubjects. His was a more general education than is offered at Cambridge these days, and it continuedafter his seven years here, equipping him with the tools to write some of themost groundbreaking literature ever seen, and to engage as a polemicist on many different social,political, and theological questions .

Options:discipline, few, several, questions, groundbreaking, simulations, mediocre, education(APEUni Website / App FIBR #422)

17. Bumble Bees (Prediction)According to a research conducted by Cambridge University, flowers can find their own ways toattract insects to help them pollinate. Flowers will release an irresistible smell. A scientist andher colleagues did an experiment in which they use fake flowers to attract bees and insects. In theirexperiments, they freed many bumblebees from their origins repeatedly and got the same results.

Options:origins, irresistible, subjects, colleagues, orchestral(APEUni Website / App FIBR #166)

18. New Ideas (Prediction)First, new ideas are the wheels of progress. Without them, stagnation reigns . Whether you're adesigner dreaming of another world, an engineer working on a new kind of structure,an executive charged with developing a fresh business concept, an advertiser seeking a breakthroughway to sell your product, a fifth-grade teacher trying to plan a memorable school assembly program,or a volunteer looking for a new way to sell the same old raffle tickets, your ability to generate goodideas is critical to your success.

Options:rise, assembly, changes, reigns, generate, engineer, executive(APEUni Website / App FIBR #411)

19. Textile Industry (Prediction)The environmental impact of the global textile industry is hard to overstate. One-third of the waterused worldwide is spent fashioning fabrics. For every ton of cloth produced , 200 tons of water ispolluted with chemicals and heavy metals. An estimated 1 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity powersthe factories that card and comb, spin and weave, and cut and stitch materials into everything fromT-shirts to towels, leaving behind mountains of solid waste and a massive carbon footprint. "Wherethe industry is today is not really sustainable for the long term," says Shreyaskar Chaudhary, chiefexecutive of Pratibha Syntex, a textile manufacturer based outside Indore, India. With something of an"if you build it, they will come" attitude, Mr.Chaudhary has steered Pratibha toward the leading edge ofeco-friendly textile production. Under his direction, Pratibha began making clothes with organic cottonin 1999. Initially, the company couldn't find enough organic farms growing cotton in central India

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to supply its factories. To meet production demands, Chaudhary's team had to convince conventionalcotton farmers to change their growing methods. Pratibha provided seeds, cultivation instruction, anda guarantee of fairtrade prices for their crops. Today, Pratibha has a network of 28,000 organic cottongrowers across the central states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa.

Options:leaving, supply, toward, off, designed, produced, lagging, fund(APEUni Website / App FIBR #410)

20. Cultural Ideas (Prediction)People modify cultural ideas in their minds, and sometimes they pass on the modified versions.Inevitably, there are unintentional modifications as well, partly because of straightforward error, andpartly because inexplicit ideas are hard to convey accurately: there is no way to download themdirectly from one brain to another like computer programs. And, even native speakers of a languagewill not give identical definitions of every word. So it can be only rarely, if ever , that two people holdprecisely the same cultural idea in their minds. That is why, when the founder of a political orphilosophical movement or a religion dies, or even before, schisms typically happen. The movement'smost devoted followers are often shocked to discover that they disagree about what its doctrinesreally are.

Options:articulate, convey, ever, convert, identical, even, discover, deny(APEUni Website / App FIBR #409)

21. Green Spaces (Prediction)Green spaces contribute significantly to a reduction of soil and aerial temperatures during spells of hotweather, so contributing to human wellbeing. In the garden context , there is, however, littleinformation as to what extent various types of plants differ in their cooling potential and how certainplanting combinations may maximise cooling under a scenario of low rainfall and minimal water inputs.

Options:addition, focus, background, low, differ, context, high, reduction(APEUni Website / App FIBR #408)

22. Fossil Fuel (Prediction)But look beyond fossil fuels for the most intriguing trends. One is that the energy intensity of the worldeconomy -- the amount of energy it takes to produce one dollar's worth of income -- keeps falling,at a rate of about 2 percent. What this means is that even without any change in the relative sharesof fossil-based and fossil-free sources in the world's energy mix, we could have 2 percent annualeconomic growth without increasing carbon emissions from energy use. Of course that is not enoughto address climate change and we need more economic growth than that. It is nonetheless a stunningnumber, which refutes the claim by some environmentalists that permanent economic growth isfundamentally incompatible with finite physical resources.

Options:nonetheless, address, irrelevant, outcome, merge, income, relative, however, with, by(APEUni Website / App FIBR #407)

23. Sydney (Prediction)Sydney is becoming effective in making the best of its limited available unconstrained land. Sydney is

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suitable for integrating suitable business, office, residential, retail and other development in accessiblelocations so as to maximise public transport patronage and encourage walking and cycling. Also thiscity can reduce the consumption of land for housing and associated urban development on the urbanfringe. For the proposed mixed business, mixed use and business park areas, there was noemployment data available for comparable areas. It is also concluded that lack of housing supply willaffect affordability in Sydney.

Options:consumption, patronage, comparable, alternative, expectation, affordability, contemporary(APEUni Website / App FIBR #393)

24. Active Learning Classrooms (Prediction)Active learning classrooms (ALCs) are student-centered, technology-rich classrooms. They are easilyidentified with their large circular tables and movable seating designed to improvestudent engagement in class. Typically, each table is accompanied by a whiteboard and flat-screenmonitor to display student work and larger rooms frequently have miniature bulb and microphones andat each table. In this way, students are able to signal if they have questions or want to speak tothe entire room.

Options:sign, circular, entire, engagement, partly, signal, arrangement, square(APEUni Website / App FIBR #387)

25. Sandra Lousada (Prediction)London's National Portrait Gallery is currently celebrating the fifty-year career of photographer SandraLousada. The twenty one portraits on display depict key figures in literature, film and fashion from theearly 1960s. Subsequent to the acquisition of forty portraits by Lousada, the display at The NationalPortrait Gallery highlights shots taken between 1960 and 1964, many of which feature in Lousada'sbook Public Faces Private Places (2008). Formal commissioned portraits are shown alongside behindthe scenes photographs taken on films sets and unguarded portraits of sitters captured at home.

Options:sets, elements, status, career, figures(APEUni Website / App FIBR #385)

26. Chemistry (Prediction)Chemistry is an extremely important topic in physiology. Most physiological processes occur asthe result of chemical changes that occur within the body. These changes include the influx/efflux ofions across a neuron's membrane, causing a signal to pass from one end to the other. Other examplesinclude the storage of oxygen in the blood by a protein as it passes through the lungsfor usage throughout the body.

Options:result, prerequisite, situation, signal, usage, storage(APEUni Website / App FIBR #376)

27. Leading Business Schools (Prediction)In an attempt to lure new students, leading business schools - including Harvard, Stanford, theUniversity of Chicago and Wharton - have moved away from the unofficial admissions prerequisite offour years' work experience and instead have set their sights on recent college graduates and so-

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called early career professionals with only a couple years of work under their belt.

Options:professionals, conclusion, instead, lure, juveniles, thus, prerequisite, check(APEUni Website / App FIBR #375)

28. Jury (Prediction)Serving on a jury is normally compulsory for individuals who are qualified for jury service. A juryis intended to be an impartial panel capable of reaching a verdict. There are often procedures andrequirements, including a fluent understanding of the language and the opportunity to test juror'sneutrality or otherwise exclude jurors who are perceived as likely to be less than neutral or partial toone side.

Options:qualified, detained, negative, entrances, neutral, intended, procedures(APEUni Website / App FIBR #371)

29. Economic Dimension (Prediction)The difference in views is so great that one wonders, are the protesters and the policy makers talkingabout the same phenomenon ? Are they looking at the same data? Are the visions of thosein power so clouded by special and particular interests ?'

Options:power, suspicions, coherence, parts, depth, views, phenomenon, interests(APEUni Website / App FIBR #365)

30. Paris Stage (Prediction)In the preceding hundred years, Paris had been center stage for political and social movements thathad deeply affected all of Europe. The many ways in which tradition had already been challengedand shaken during those years helped make it easier for those to achieve a break with tradition art.

Options:movements, rehearsals, concocted, shaken, overhead, center(APEUni Website / App FIBR #360)

31. E-Learning (Prediction)E-Learning is the new way forward. We believe passionately in E-Learning. Our innovative approachopens up new opportunities for busy professionals that simply did not previously exist — the chance tocombine a prestigious Masters programme with a demanding professional and personal life . Our smallvirtual classrooms facilitate intensive interaction and collaboration among professionals from all overthe world.

Options:competitions, opportunities, interaction, passionately, reality, life, proportionately, chance(APEUni Website / App FIBR #342)

32. Folklore (Prediction)Folklore, a modern term for the body of traditional customs, superstitions , stories, dances, and songsthat have been adopted and maintained within a given community by processes of repetition notreliant on the written materials.Along with folk songs and folktales, this broad category of cultural

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forms embraces all kinds of legends, riddles, jokes, proverbs, games, charms, omens, spells, andrituals, especially those of pre-literate societies or social classes. Those forms of verbal expressionthat are handed on from one generation or locality to the next by word of mouth are saidto constitute an oral tradition .

Options:consist, regime, body, constitute, community, allegiance, category, word, revolutions, deprivation,letter, superstitions(APEUni Website / App FIBR #341)

33. Suez Canal (Prediction)Britain became the largest shareholder in the canal in 1875, purchasing its interest from the Egyptiankhedive. The Convention of Constantinople signed by the major European powers in 1888 keeps itopen for free passage to all nations in time of peace or war. Britain became the guarantor of thecanal's neutrality and management was left to the Paris-based Suez Canal Co.

Options:guarantor, kingdom, tariff, shareholder, passage, solicitor(APEUni Website / App FIBR #336)

34. Charles Darwin (Prediction)Charles Darwin knew intuitively that tropical forests were places of tremendous intricacy and energy.He and his cohort of scientific naturalists were awed by the beauty of the Neotropics, where theycollected tens of thousands of species new to science. But they couldn't have guessed at thecomplete contents of the rainforest, and they had no idea of its value to humankind.

Options:tremendous, awed, fathomable, deterred, species, appreciation, skeletons, value(APEUni Website / App FIBR #333)

35. Medicare (Prediction)It is understandable that the government would look outside of Medicare to get the efficiency-related changes it wants . If Medicare was capable of delivering those things, it wouldhave already done so. Finding another organisation that can deliver these services at a reduced costwith increased functionality, especially to the consumer of these services, makes absolute sense.Theobjections to making such a move will be about the potential loss of jobs from Medicare. Given howlabour-intensive the current system is, this will be a genuine concern, but one that is facing allindustries dealing with modernisation through improved technology.

Options:budgets, wants, changes, jobs, consistency, already, delivering, never, monitoring, reduced, increased(APEUni Website / App FIBR #331)

36. Private School (Prediction)Private schools in the UK are redoubling their marketing efforts to foreigners. Almost a third of the68,000 boarding pupils at such schools already come from overseas. But now, with many UKresidents unwilling or unable to afford the fees and a cultural shift away from boarding, many schoolsare looking abroad to survive. Overseas students now account for about 500m pounds of fee income ayear for boarding schools in the UK.

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Options:weigh, already, unwilling, fuss, account, seldom, shift, unweaned(APEUni Website / App FIBR #330)

37. Coffee (Prediction)Coffee is enjoyed by millions of people every day and the 'coffee experience' has become a staple ofour modern life and culture . While the current body of research related to the effects ofcoffee consumption on human health has been contradictory, a study in the June issue ofComprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, which is published by the Institute of FoodTechnologists (IFT), found that the potential benefits of moderate coffee drinking outweigh the risks inadult consumers for the majority of major health outcomes considered.

Options:costs, cult, consumption, cares, outcomes, expenditure, benefits, culture(APEUni Website / App FIBR #307)

38. The University of Maryland (Prediction)The University of Maryland boasts 78 academic programs ranked in the top 25 nationally and 29academic programs in the top 10 according to U.S. News and World report. By drawing top-notchfaculty, attracting the brightest students and investing in the quality of our academic programs, we area force to reckon with on a national basis .

Options:extent, agree, reckon, investing, ranked, involving, basis, ranged(APEUni Website / App FIBR #293)

39. Radioactivity (B) (Prediction)So why the concern? It's partly because radioactivity is invisible. If you receive a large dose, or ifyou ingest radioactive heavy metals, it is certainly toxic, and we tend to associate it with cancer, agreat fear in modern society . Nuclear waste is also highly concentrated. While this is seen as a"problem" it can be an advantage - it is very localized and its radioactive nature, means we candetect easily, the movement of tiny amounts of material.

Options:attract, volatile, ingest, world, that, associate, induce, because, society(APEUni Website / App FIBR #274)

40. Shakespeare's Work (Prediction)Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies andhistories - genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century.He then wrote tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth,considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrotetragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

Options:work, collaborated, designed, genres, actors, examples(APEUni Website / App FIBR #272)

41. Housing Agency (Prediction)Housing agencies pay the utility costs , generally because units in developments don't have individual

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meters. Some buildings have individual meters, and each family pays its own to the utility company ,so agencies will deduct the amount from your rent .

Options:costs, units, company, allowance, spends, amount, debt, collect, rent(APEUni Website / App FIBR #175)

42. Japan and China (Prediction)At times, a broad stream of knowledge flowed from China to Japan. At other times, this transferwas halted on one side or the other, and Japan developed on its own. But whether in isolation or not,Japan was always itself. Everything that arrived from China was adapted to suit Japanese tastes andneeds.

Options:adapted, remained, arrived, halted, hoisted, developed(APEUni Website / App FIBR #172)

43. Mathematics and Statistics (Prediction)Mathematics and statistics play a part in almost all daily activities. They are at the heart of advancesin science and technology, as well as providing indispensable problem-solving and decision-makingtools in many areas of life. They underpin the rigorous analysis and modelling required for new policies,designs and systems. Mathematical and statistical knowledge is much sought after by employers for awide variety of jobs, not least in teaching the subject, and a qualification in any one of the areas weoffer can bring real benefits in your professional life.

Options:process, heart, areas, novel, part, indispensable, content, radius, variety(APEUni Website / App FIBR #259)

44. Viper (Prediction)The horned desert viper's ability to hunt at night always has puzzled biologists. Though it lies withits head buried in the sand, it can strike with great precision as soon as prey appears. Now, Young andphysicists Leo van Hemmen and Paul Friedel at the Technical University of Munich in Germany havedeveloped a computer model of the snake's auditory system to explain how the snake "hears" its preywithout really having the ears for it. Although the vipers have internal ears that can hear frequenciesbetween 200 and 1000 hertz, it is not the sound of the mouse scurrying about that they are detecting." The snakes don't have external eardrums ," says van Hemmen. " So unless the mouse wears bootsand starts stamping, the snake won't hear it."

Options:head, hearing, system, eardrums, ability(APEUni Website / App FIBR #229)

45. Enigma (Prediction)And if the voice of an animal is not heard as message but as art, interesting things start to happen:Nature is no longer an alien enigma but something immediately beautiful, an exuberant opus withspace for us to join in. Bird melodies have always been called songs for a reason .

Options:opus, exuberant, enigma, bearing, season, reason, accuse

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(APEUni Website / App FIBR #216)

46. Walt Disney World (Prediction)Walt Disney World has become a pilgrimage site partly because of the luminosity of its crossculturaland marketing and partly because its utopian aspects appeal powerfully to real needs in thecapitalist society . Disney' s marketing is unique because it captured the symbolic essenceof childhood but the company has gained access to all public shows, comic books, dolls, apparels,and educational film strips all point to the parks and each other.

Options:theoretical, utopian, lifetime, comedy, society, unrealistic, childhood, educational(APEUni Website / App FIBR #215)

47. Dog Emotion (Prediction)Can dogs tell when we are happy, sad or angry? As a dog owner, I feel confident not only that I cantell what kind of emotional state my pets are in, but also that they respond to my emotions. Yet as ahard-headed scientist, I try to take a more rational and pragmatic view. These personal observationsseem more likely to result from my desire for a good relationship with my dogs.

Options:emotional, confidential, personal, rational, confident, communal, pathological(APEUni Website / App FIBR #209)

48. Shipwrecks (Prediction)The few people who live in Alaska's the Aleutian Islands have long been accustomed to shipwrecks.They have been part of local consciousness since a Japanese whaling ship ran aground near thewestern end of the 1,100-mile (1,800-km) volcanic archipelago in 1780, inadvertently naming what isnow Rat Island when the ship's infestation scurried ashore and made itself at home. Since then, therehave been at least 190 shipwrecks in the islands.

Options:areas, ran, archipelago, afloat, aground, scurried(APEUni Website / App FIBR #207)

49. Low Fertility (Prediction)Low fertility is a concern for many OECD countries as they face the prospect of population aging. Thisarticle makes comparisons between Australia and seven other OECD countries in fertility ratesbetween 1970 and 2004. Changing age patterns of fertility are also compared and show that for mostof the countries, women are postponing childbirth and having fewer babies. The associations ofwomen's education levels and rates of employment with fertility are also explored .

Options:sense, patterns, notions, postponing, associations, comparisons, gaps, accelerating, explored,completed(APEUni Website / App FIBR #90)

50. Work-ready International Students (Prediction)Work-ready international students are providing greater options for local employers who are havingdifficulties finding local staff due to high employment rates and ongoing labour shortages. Internationalstudents in accounting and information technology take part in a year-long program consisting of

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classroom work and practical experience, which provides them with valuable skills, industry contactsand a working knowledge of Australian workplace.

Options:finding, founding, managing, high, low, consisting, consists, valuable, precocious, knowledge,experience(APEUni Website / App FIBR #159)

51. Most Respected Companies (Prediction)Look at the recent "Most Respected Companies" survey by the Financial Times. Who are the mostrespected companies and business leaders at the current time? Rather predictably, they are JackWelch and General Electric, and Bill Gates and Microsoft. Neither has achieved their world class statusthrough playing nice. Welch is still remembered for the brutal downsizing he led hisbusiness through and for the environmental pollution incidents and prosecutions. Microsoft has hadone of the highest profile cases of bullying market dominance of recent times- and Gates has beenable to achieve the financial status where he can choose to give lots of money away by being ruthlessin business.

Options:current, past, Neither, Either, Both, through, by, highest, biggest, achieve, finish(APEUni Website / App FIBR #156)

52. Climate (Prediction)Climate is the word we use for weather over a long period of time. The desert has a dry climate,because there is very little rain, The UK has a temperate climate, which means winters are, overall,mild and summers, generally don't get too hot.

Options:is, are, describe, use, dry, damp, that, which, but, and(APEUni Website / App FIBR #145)

53. Symbiosis (Prediction)Symbiosis is a biological relationship in which two species live in close proximity to each other andinteract regularly in such a way as to benefit one or both of the organisms. When both partnersbenefit, this variety of symbiosis is known as mutualism.

Options:metaphor, close, variety, neither, distant, both, relationship(APEUni Website / App FIBR #104)

54. Kids Distinguish Commercial Ads (Prediction)From a child's point of view, what is the purpose of TV advertising? Is advertising on TV done to giveactors the opportunity to take a rest or practice their lines ? Or is it done to make people buy things?Furthermore, is the main difference between programs and commercials that commercials are for real,whereas programs are not, or that programs are for kids and commercials for adults? As has beenshown several times in the literature (e.g. Butter et al. 1981 Donohue, Henke, and Donohue 1980Macklin 1983 and 1987 Robertson and Rossiter 1974 Stephens and Stutts 1982), some children areable to distinguish between programs and commercials and are aware of the intent of TV advertising,whereas others are not.

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Options:known, distinguish, difference, exercise, disparity, lines, conflict, practice, tell, aware(APEUni Website / App FIBR #82)

55. Kashmiri (Prediction)Two decades ago, Kashmiri houseboat-owners rubbed their hands every spring at the prospect of theannual influx of tourists . From May to October, the hyacinth-choked waters of Dal Lake saw flotillasof vividly painted Shikaras carrying Indian families, boho westerners, young travelers and wide-eyedJapanese. Carpet-sellers honed their skills, as did purveyors of anything remotely embroidered whilethe house boats initiated by the British Raj provided unusual accommodation. Then, in 1989, separatistand Islamist militancy attacked and everything changed. Hindus and countless Kashmiri businesspeople bolted, at least 35,000 people were killed in a decade, the lake stagnated, and the houseboatsrotted. Any foreigners venturing there risked their lives, proved in 1995 when five young Europeanswere kidnapped and murdered.

Options:attacked, competed, beliefs, tourists, employees, waters(APEUni Website / App FIBR #72)

56. Ice Storm (Prediction)An ice storm is a type of weather when cold rainfall comes down into the cold air and the water turnedinto ice. Once there were more than 16,000 households which had a blackout during an ice storm asthe ice storm would smash the cables.

Options:weather, cold, icy, more, during, rather, climate, before(APEUni Website / App FIBR #80)

57. Microorganism (Prediction)Although for centuries preparations derived from living matter were applied to wounds todestroy infection ,the fact that a microorganism is capable of destroying one of another species wasnot established until the latter half of the 19th century. When Pasteur noted the antagonistic effect ofother bacteria on the anthrax organism and pointed out that this action might be putto therapeutic use.

Options:convinced, capable, infection, material, therapeutic, established, contamination, matter(APEUni Website / App FIBR #16)

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Fill in the Blanks (Reading & Writing)Repeat Rate: 50%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Must understand the passage. Don't memorise the answers

1. Accountants (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About accountants. Accountants are in short supply in the labour market and employers haveto find candidates in graduates to fill the vacancies. Accountants are in (much/less/few) exposure tothe economic peak than sellers, etc.. Accountants have many alternatives, and (even though) theydon't work as accountants any more, they can do well in other fields.(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #206)

2. Human Brain (Prediction)We now know through the work of neuroscientists that the human brain is wired to mimic other people,and this mimicry involves actual involuntary physiological experience in the observer. Human beingstend to imitate actions that they see. Physiologically, our brains include mirror neurons, which react toactions that are seen as if we are doing the action ourselves. It is largely an unconscious andautomatic experience. When we hear people speak, observe their vocal nuances , watch their posture,gestures, and facial expressions, etc, neural networks in our brains are stimulated by the 'sharedrepresentations'generating feelings within us that reflect the experience of those we are observing.

Options:1) emotion, experience, expression, expectation2) prevent, imitate, limit, discipline3) recover, refer, react, lead4) appearances, nuances, volumes, shapes5) circle, multiply, reflect, subscribe(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #205)

3. Sandra Lousada (Prediction)London's National Portrait Gallery is currently celebrating the fifty-year career of photographer SandraLousada. The twenty one portraits on display depict key figures in literature, film and fashion from theearly 1960s. Subsequent to the acquisition of forty portraits by Lousada, the display at The NationalPortrait Gallery highlights shots taken between 1960 and 1964, many of which feature in Lousada'sbook Public Faces Private Places (2008). Formal commissioned portraits are shown alongside behindthe scenes photographs taken on films sets and unguarded portraits of sitters captured at home.

Options:1) invitation, promotion, training, career2) figures, gadgets, fashions, genres3) gists, sets, tickets, aisles(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #203)

4. Bees and Flowers (Prediction)Bees and flowers have evolved together for millions of years. It is a mutual relationship where the beeis provided with food (nectar or pollen) and the stationary plant gets to disperse its pollen (sperm cells)to other plants of the same species. For the plant this is much more efficient than using wind to reach

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the goal. Consequently, over millions of years plants have developed flowers with increasinglyspecialized features to attract visiting bees who, in turn, would distribute pollen grains and optimize theplant's reproductive capabilities . Simultaneously, bees underwent physiological, behavioral andstructural adaptations to take advantage of the nutritional benefits offered by flowering plants. This isan example of a co-evolutionary relationship.

Options:1) copy, disperse, transplant, extract2) reluctant, efficient, apparent, frequent3) accumulations, capabilities, sequences, criteria4) repeated, parallel, co-evolutionary, hostile(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #202)

5. Behaviorists (Prediction)Another way of looking at personality is the behaviorist approach. According to the behaviorists, theinner facts of the consciousness are not important. Instead they believed that our behaviors, andtherefore our personalities are learned primarily through our experiences. The theories of behaviorismarose through experiments largely on animals in which behaviors were learned through carefullycontrolled stimuli .

Options:1) assumptions, matters, missions, facts2) implications, personalities, durations, appearances3) experiments, imaginations, transitions, epitomes4) stimuli, judgements, discriminations, conclusions(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #200)

6. Astronomy Comparison (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About ancient astronomers near Baghdad, compared with the modern astronomy.(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #198)

7. Repeated Syllables (Prediction)Assessments of language learning in 18-month-olds suggest that children are better at grasping thenames of objects with repeated syllables, over words with non-identical syllables. Researchers say thestudy may help explain why some words or phrases, such as 'train' and 'good night', have given rise toversions with repeated syllables, such as choo-choo and night-night. The researchers say such wordsare easier for infants to learn, and may provide them with a starter point for vocabulary learning. Ateam from the University of Edinburgh assessed the infants' language learning behavior in a seriesof visual and attention tests using pictures on a computer screen of two unfamiliar objects. The twoobjects were named with made-up words which were communicated to the infants by a recordedvoice - one with two identical syllables, for example neenee, and the other without repeated syllables,such as bolay. The infants were then tested for their recognition of each word. Recordings of their eyemovements showed they looked more reliably at the object labeled with repeated syllables, than theother object. Researchers validated their results with a control test, in which the infants responded topictures of familiar objects - such as a dog or an apple.

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Options:1) that, whether, however, why2) under, above, in, with3) audio, accessible, deceptive, visual4) communicated, accumulated, accommodated, accelerated5) another, dual, each, one(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #195)

8. Novel Device (Prediction)A novel invention for helping farmers to dry out hay more quickly has won a University of Glasgowgraduate a prestigious design award.Gavin Armstrong, 23, from Kippen, Stirlingshire scooped theGlasgow 1999 Design Medal for his design for a swath inverter— a device for flipping over a hay cropto help dry out the damp underside. Dry hay is an essential farmyard food source for sheep and cows.Gavin came up with the design as part of his Product Design Engineering degree course, runin conjunction with Glasgow School of Art. He built a working prototype of the device which is poweredand towed by a tractor and uses a pair of parallel belts to invert the swath. The rollers are driven fromone hydraulic motor and are geared so as to spin at the same speed and in oppositedirections ensuring that the touching inner two faces of the belt that perform the inversion moverearwards at the same speed.

Options:1) forged, consigned, renewed, scooped2) suggestion, prediction, situation, device3) comparison, accordance, conjunction, contrast4) denying, supposing, imposing, ensuring(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #194)

9. Dog Emotion (Prediction)Can dogs tell when we are happy, sad or angry? As a dog owner, I feel confident not only that I cantell what kind of emotional state my pets are in, but also that they respond to my emotions. Yet as ahard-headed scientist, I try to take a more rational and pragmatic view. These personal observationsseem more likely to result from my desire for a good relationship with my dogs.

Options:1) relieved, sententious, embarrassed, confident2) political, emotional, financial, physical3) irregular, chaste, stoical, rational4) communal, discrete, absurd, personal(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #191)

10. Studying Law (Prediction)It is important to emphasize the need for hard work as an essential part of studying law, because fartoo many students are tempted to think that they can succeed by relying on what they imagine to betheir natural ability, without bothering to add the expenditure of effort. To take an analogy somepeople prefer the more or less instant gratification which comes from watching television adaptation ofa classic novel to the rather more laborious process of reading the novel itself. Thosewho prefer watching television to reading the book are less likely to study law successfully, unless theyrapidly acquire a taste for text-based materials.

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Options:1) expenditure, exhaustion, explanation, exclusion2) gratification, excitement, temptation, obsession3) simple, complex, effortless, laborious4) prefer, Enjoy, interest, like5) knowledge, idea, motivation, taste(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #189)

11. Migrating Birds (Prediction)For birdwatchers in southern New Mexico, September can be highly entertaining. Good numbers ofmany diverse species are on the move during this time, traveling southward from northern breedinggrounds to places they will spend the winter, and there's always a chance that some rare or unusualbird will turn up. Key to the flow of migrating birds through the area is our geography. Birds crossingover the southwest deserts tend to follow north-south watercourses like the Rio Grande and/orcorridors of relatively green vegetation , whether that be cottonwoods and willows lining the valleys orthe coniferous forests of the higher mountains. Shorebirds, gulls, ducks and other birds that areclosely associated with water typically follow the river southward, unless a desert playa along the wayhappens to catch their eye and divert them. Migrating land birds, on the other hand, are looking forplaces to stop and rest on the southward journey, where they can feed on seeds, berries or insects torefuel for the next leg of their trip. Heading south out of Albuquerque, where the surrounding highmountains and lush, wide cottonwood bosques offer an abundance of habitat, they reach our area andare funneled into a relatively narrow sliver of foraging choices.

Options:1) characters, limitations, species, positions2) staying, eating, traveling, living3) inventory, haze, herald, vegetation4) carve, heave, subvert, divert5) spiritual, psychological, appetite, foraging(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #188)

12. Kashmiri (Prediction)Two decades ago, Kashmiri houseboat-owners rubbed their hands every spring at the prospect of theannual influx of tourists . From May to October, the hyacinth-choked waters of Dal Lake saw flotillasof vividly painted Shikaras carrying Indian families, boho westerners, young travellers and wide-eyedJapanese. Carpet-sellers honed their skills, as did purveyors of anything remotely embroidered whilethe house boats initiated by the British Raj provided unusual accommodation. Then, in 1989, separatistand Islamist militancy attacked and everything changed. Hindus and countless Kashmiri businesspeople bolted, at least 35,000 people were killed in a decade, the lake stagnated, and the houseboatsrotted. Any foreigners venturing there risked their lives , proved in 1995 when five young Europeanswere kidnapped and murdered.

Options:1) volunteers, watchdogs, employees, tourists2) waters, connection, atmosphere, volume3) enacted, registered, honed, wasted4) fell, enacted, followed, attacked5) credits, insurances, lives, contributions(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #187)

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13. Welfare Morality (Prediction)The morality of the welfare state depends on contribution and responsibility. Since some people don'tcontribute and many are irresponsible, the choices of those who do contribute and are responsible areeither to tolerate the free riders, refuse to pay for the effects of their irresponsibility or trust the stateto educate them. Hence the government campaigns against smoking, alcoholism, obesity and gasguzzling ‐ the first two solidly in place, the other two ramping up. But the British state now goesfurther: it acts in favor of sexual and racial minorities. In the case of gay men and women this meansprogressively removing the legal disadvantages under which they have lived, and ensuring that societyas a whole observes the new order.

Options:1) tolerate, believe, overlook, misunderstand2) effects, contents, appearances, causes3) educate, breach, divide, muster(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #186)

14. Killer Whale (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About killer whale. The killer whale is not like other animals because other animals go huntingby a fixed sex.(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #182)

15. Ozone (Prediction)Clones of an Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) in the Bronx and other city spots grew to doublethe biomass of clones planted outside small towns upstate or on Long Island, says Jillian Gregg, nowof the Environmental Protection Agency's western-ecology division in Corvallis, Ore. The growth gapcomes from ozone damage, she and her New York colleagues report. Ozone chemists have knownthat concentrations may spike skyscraper high in city air, but during a full 24 hours, rural trees actuallyget a higher cumulative ozone exposure from urban pollution that blows in and lingers. A series of newexperiments now shows that this hang-around ozone is the overwhelming factor in tree growth, theresearchers say in the July 10 Nature. "This study has profound importance in showing us most vividlythat rural areas pay the price for urban pollution," says Stephen P. Long of the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign. "This work should be a wake-up call," he adds.

Options:1) implanted, supplanted, fused, planted2) climbs, stays, blows, strikes3) overwhelming, overrated, overacting, overestimated4) quote, pay, refund, copy(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #179)

16. Ikebana (Prediction)More than simply putting flowers in a container ,Ikebana is a disciplined art form in which nature andhumanity are brought together. Contrary to the idea of a particolored or multicolored arrangement ofblossoms, Ikebana often emphasizes other areas of the plant ,such as its stems and leaves, and putsemphasis on shape, line, and form. Though Ikebana is an expression of creativity, certain rules governits form. The artist's intention is shown through a piece's color combinations, natural shapes, gracefullines, and the implied meaning of the arrangement .

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Options:1) shape, way, container, fashion2) restricted, random, disciplined, fleeting3) stipulation, idea, muddle, dictation4) flora, plant, organism, fauna5) stimulation, arrangement, duplication, augmentation(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #178)

17. Colonial Era (Prediction)At the end of the colonial era, as many new nations gained independence, relative levels of economicdevelopment became an important criterion by which to distinguish between countries. The formercolonial powers and wealthier parts of the world generally became known as advanced industrial, ordeveloped, countries, while former colonies and poorer nations became known as less developed, ormore positively, developing countries. Critics of the uneven distribution of wealth across the globehighlighted the role which wealth creation in some places had played in impoverishing poorer nationsand, rather, described them as actively underdeveloped. The question as to whether economic changeis developing or underdeveloping countries remains a vital issue, as the debate over sweatshopshighlights.

Options:1) wealthier, richer, healthier, warmer2) while, although, so, because3) odd, uneven, ubiquitous, sporadic4) whether, which, what, when(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #172)

18. Colour Preference (Prediction)Colour Preferences Many tests have shown that, in a very broad way, peoples in most parts of theworld have similar colour preferences. Blue is the most preferred and popular hue, followed in order byred, green, purple, yellow and orange. Overlaying this basic order of colour preference, however , arethe responses of individuals, which of course vary widely and may also be very powerful. Children arelikely to have strong preferences for some colours and aversions to others, but sometimes will notadmit to them, since outside factors may be influential in determining both colour preferences and theway that they are expressed or suppressed. Current fashions in clothes and accessories, gender-stereotyping and peer-group pressure may all play a significant part. Boys in particular may bereluctant to admit to any strong preferences for colours other than those of favourite football teams,because colour awareness may be regarded by their peer-group as feminine.

Options:1) Unlike, Similarly, Overlaying, Nonetheless2) however, thus, therefore, so3) widely, slightly, badly, surprisingly4) preferences, similarities, divergences, comparisons5) pressures, factors, appearances, differences6) ahead of, rather than, together with, other than(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #171)

19. Fossil Fuels (Prediction)But look beyond fossil fuels for the most intriguing trends. One is that the energy intensity of the world

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economy - the amount of energy it takes to produce one dollar's worth of income - keeps falling, at arate of about 2 percent. What this means is that even without any change in the relative shares offossil-based and fossil-free sources in the world's energy mix, we could have 2 percent annualeconomic growth without increasing carbon emissions from energy use. Of course that is not enoughto address climate change and we need more economic growth than that. It is nonetheless a stunningnumber, which refutes the claim by some environmentalists that permanent economic growth isfundamentally incompatible with finite physical resources.

Options:1) plenty, money, value, worth2) relevant, similar, communal, relative3) outline, address, point, highlight4) thus, thereby, also, nonetheless5) over, with, within, by(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #168)

20. Marriage Decline (Prediction)The decline in marriage rates and increase in divorce rates has led to a decrease in the proportion ofthe population that is formally married. In 1986, 60% of the population aged 15 years and over weremarried; by 2001 this proportion had decreased to 55%. Conversely the proportion of the populationaged 15 years and over who were never married increased from 29% in 1986 to 32% in 2001. At thesame time, the proportion of the population who were divorced increased, from 5% in 1986 to 7% in2001, while the proportion of the population who were widowed remained at around 6%.

Options:1) calculation, significance, decline, estimation2) view, change, decrease, multiplication3) So, Conversely, Therefore, Consequently4) doubled, rounded, increased, divided(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #164)

21. Abstract (Prediction)It is an original work, not an excerpted passage. An abstract must be fully self-containedand make sense by itself, without further reference to outside sources or to the actual paper. Ithighlights key content areas, your research purpose, the relevance or importance of your work, andthe main outcomes. It is a well-developed single paragraph of approximately 250 words in length,which is indented and single spaced. The function of the abstract is to outline briefly all parts of thepaper. Although it is placed at the beginning of your paper, immediately following the title page, theabstract should be the last thing that you write, once you are sure of the conclusions you will reach.

Options:1) get, give, take, make2) contemplate, content, account, comment3) from, within, to, in4) it is placed, it has omitted, it is transferring, it started5) once, then, before, and(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #156)

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Paraphrasing is often defined as putting a passage from an author into your own words. However,what are your own words? How different must your paraphrase be from the original? The answer is itshould be considerably different. The whole point of paraphrasing is to show you have read andunderstood another person's ideas, and can summarize them in your own writing style ratherthan borrowing their phrases. If you just change a few words, or add some bits of your own to anotherwise reproduced passage, you will probably be penalised for plagiarism. You should aim tocondense and simplify a writer's ideas and describe them using different sentence structures andexpressions. It is also important to credit the original writer by referencing.

Options:1) considerable, considerate, considering, considerably2) together with, rather than, conforming to, relating to3) despite, of, on, off4) be penalising, be penalised, have penalised, penalise5) That has, It is, There is, That is6) redundant, important, innocuous, astonishing(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #155)

23. Mass Extinction (Prediction)In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the universities ofNottingham and Durham and the British Geological Survey (BGS), have discovered the cause of amass extinction within marine organisms called foraminifera. Foraminifera are an important group inrelation to biomass in the deep ocean and the cause of their extinction was previously unknown.Scientists tested various possible causes for the mass extinction and were able to discount otherssuch as ocean cooling. Instead they discovered that the extinction was caused by a global change inplankton at the surface of the ocean.

Options:1) publishing, has published, published, be publishing2) occasionally, necessarily, previously, currently3) causes, consequences, effects, factors4) Hence, Thus, So, Instead(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #151)

24. School-skipping (Prediction)Children who skip school are increasingly on family holidays, government figures revealedtoday. Fewer children played truant this spring term compared with the spring term last year. Childrenmissed 3m unauthorised days of school last term, compared with 3.7m days of school in the sameperiod last year. But a hardcore group of truants - 6% of the school population - who account formore than three-quarters of all those on unauthorised absence, are more likely to be on a familyholiday than they were in the same period last year. Some 1.2% of all absence was for family holidaysnot agreed by their school last term, compared with 0.9% for the same term last year. More than 60%of all absences were for illness, the same figure as last year.

Options:1) Same, More, Fewer, Total2) mere, hardcore, residual, flimsy3) slot, span, period, position4) consent, recommended, agreed, contradicted

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(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #150)

25. Australia's Dwellings (Prediction)The stock of Australia's dwellings is evolving , with current homes having more bedrooms on averagethan homes ten years ago. At the same time, households are getting smaller on average withdecreasing proportions of couple families with children and increasing couple only and lone personhouseholds. This article examines the changes in household size and number of bedrooms from 1994-95 to 2003-04.

Options:1) evanescent, eternal, erupting, evolving2) interests, proportions, appearances, durations3) flopping, increasing, fluctuating, declining4) witness, suggestion, article, index(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #148)

26. Mechanical Engineering (Prediction)Mechanical engineering was at the heart of Taylor's theorizing, providing the context for itsdevelopment, the world view by which it was sustained and, finally, the justification for its widespreadapplication. Scientific management aimed to analyse and control the activities of people in the sameway that engineers analysed and controlled machines. Central to Taylor's system was the desire torationalize and standardize production techniques in the interests of economy, efficiency and mutualprosperity. His primary point of interest was the individual worker pursuing individual goals andmotivated by incentive payments. Undoubtedly Taylor's view of human motivation was somewhatsimplistic and his apprehension of the significance of groups was limited and generally negative.

Options:1) in the same way which, as far as which is concerned, to some extent in which, in the same waythat2) around, within, to, from3) of rationalized, on rationalized, with rationalize, to rationalize4) purchasing, purging, pursuing, pending5) Unnecessarily, Undoubtedly, Undesirably, Unthinkably(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #144)

27. Noble Gas (Prediction)Uniquely stable, they seemed to participate in no chemical reactions. But by understanding thestability of the noble gases, physicists discovered the key to chemical bonding itself . Dmitri Mendeleevadded the noble gases to his periodic table in 1902, where he arranged the elements in rows andcolumns according to their atomic weight. Mendeleev was able to see repeating (or periodic) patternsin their properties. The noble gases appeared regularly in the periodic table, occurring in every eighthposition, at least amongst the lighter elements.

Options:1) seemed, refused, insisted, cared2) itself, only, well, proper3) disproportionate, opposite, additional, according4) unevenly, regularly, vagariously, vaguely(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #143)

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28. Laptop (Prediction)UMN's ALCs features large circular tables that seat nine students and can accommodate laptopcomputers for collaborative work. Typically, students bring their own computers to class and use thebuilding's ubiquitous wireless capability. The classrooms are designed to facilitate hands-on activitiesand problems that require students to interact with each other to reach a solution. Students candisplay their work on large LCD screens mounted around the room to promote small- and large-groupdiscussions. Each table is allotted three gooseneck microphones so that students can makethemselves heard without shouting during group discussions. Additionally, students can press a buttonon their table console to light a signal lamp to indicate when they need help or wish to speak. Tofacilitate brainstorming and group reporting, the room is also lined with erasable marker-boards.

Options:1) populated, perpendicular, cellular, circular2) collaborative, exchangeable, sedate, independent3) spoil, facilitate, fabricate, stabilize4) primitive, signal, pristine, primary(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #137)

29. Small Lakes (Prediction)Small lakes with a surface area of less than 100 square meters represent the majority of globalfreshwater ecosystems. Many of these lakes are found in remote, often mountainous areas with noinflow and outflow. Yet in most of these lakes, there are fish. So how do fish reach lakes and pondsthat are not connected to other bodies of water? This question was already addressed by some of theleading natural scientists of the 19th century such as Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace andCharles Lyell, who all came to the same conclusion—water birds must be responsible for fish dispersal.And they had a plausible explanation for this: fish eggs of some species are sticky and can survive forsome time out of water. The theory is thus that the fish eggs stick to water birds' feathers or feet; thebirds then fly from one body of water to the next, where the fish hatch from their eggs.

Options:1) find, are found, were found, have found2) how, why, whether, where3) has already, has yet, is also, was already4) responsibility to, responding to, responsible to, responsible for5) stick, were stuck, stuck, sticking(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #130)

30. Bones (Prediction)Bones are extremely strong. One of their main functions is to protect organs. For example, the skullprotects the brain; ribs protect the heart and lungs. There are three types of joints, including fixedjoints, slightly moveable joints, and freely moving joints.

Options:1) main, individual, auxiliary, nominal2) a, the, these, their3) countless, few, any, three(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #124)

31. Wrinkle Cure (Prediction)

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Barrie Finning's, a professor at Monash University's college of pharmacy in Melbourne, and PhDstudent Anita Schneider, recently tested a new wrinkle cure. Twice daily, 20 male and femalevolunteers applied a liquid containing Myoxinol, a patented extract of okra (Hibiscus esculentus) seed,to one side of their faces. On the other side they applied a similar liquid without Myoxinol. Every weekfor a month their wrinkles were tested by self-assessment, photography and the size of depressionsmade in silicon moulds. The results were impressive. After a month the depth and number of wrinkleson the Myoxinol-treated side were reduced by approximately 27 per cent. But Finnin's research,commissioned by a cosmetics company, is unlikely to be published in a scientific publication .It's hardto even find studies that show the active ingredients in cosmetics penetrate the skin, let alonemore comprehensive research on their effects. Even when rigorous studies are commissioned,companies usually control whether the work is published in the traditional scientific literature.

Options:1) example, exertion, explanation, extract2) concentration, depth, prowess, strength3) encyclopedia, publicity, publication, enclosure4) commendable, mandatory, complimentary, comprehensive5) ritual, erratic, rough, rigorous(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #113)

32. Constitutional Interpretation (Prediction)One of the Supreme Court's most important responsibilities is to decide cases that raise questions ofconstitutional interpretation. The Court decides if a law or government action violates the Constitution.This is known as judicial review and enables the Court to invalidate both federal and state laws whenthey conflict with the Constitution. Since the Supreme Court stands as the ultimate authority inconstitutional interpretation, its decisions can be altered only by another Supreme Court decision or bya constitutional amendment.

Options:1) legislations, purviews, permissions, responsibilities2) auction, action, state, speculation3) tally, conflict, accord, overlap4) charged, changed, followed, altered(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #105)

33. Radioactivity (Prediction)Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by the French physicist, Antoine Henri Becquerel. He left anunexposed photographic plate in the dark near a sample of a uranium salt. When the platewas developed it was found to be fogged , just as it might if it had been exposed to light. which wascaused by a form of radiation from the uranium. The term radioactivity was coined by Marie Curie andher husband Pierre Curie. They worked together and showed that radioactivity was an atomic propertynot a chemical change. The discovery of radioactivity won the Curies and Ekcquerel the Nobel Prizefor Physics in 1903.

Options:1) developed, unraveled, overlapped, transmitted2) transparent, corrugated, fogged, clarified3) concocted, coined, created, designed4) fabrication, invention, discharge, discovery

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34. Trinity Sport and Fitness (Prediction)Whether you want to exercise and stay healthy , train professionally with like-minded people, orindulge your competitive streak, Trinity Sport and Fitness has it covered . We've got a dedicatedsupport development team on campus to support every student taking part in sports. You might wantto participate in sports competitions volunteer with a local sports class or simply play for fun with oursocial sport program. Trinity fitness members of our public-facing sports facility will also entitle you todiscounts when you are booking a sports facility and fitness class. You will also get an opportunityto benefit from tailored personal training, free activities events, and lots more.

Options:1) healthy, wealthy, humble, hungry2) has it covered, makes covering, have covered, does it covering3) taking, having, getting, doing4) idle, fun, kidding, exchange5) enact, encourage, entitle, enroll6) result, upgrade, benefit, proceed(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #91)

35. Retirement (Prediction)For a start, we need to change our concept of 'retirement', and we need to change mind-sets arisingfrom earlier government policy which, in the face of high unemployment levels, encouraged matureworkers to take early retirement. Today, government encourages them to delay their retirement. Wenow need to think of retirement as a phased process, where mature age workers gradually reducetheir hours, and where they have considerable flexibility in how they combine their work and non worktime. We also need to recognise the broader change that is occurring in how people work, learn, andlive. Increasingly we are moving away from a linear relationship between education, training, work, andretirement, as people move in and out of jobs, careers, caregiving, study, and leisure. Employers ofchoice remove the barriers between the different segments of people's lives, by creating flexibleconditions of work and a range of leave entitlements. They take an individualised approach toworkforce planning and development so that the needs of employers and employees can bemet simultaneously . This approach supports the different transitions that occur across the life course- for example, school to work, becoming a parent, becoming responsible for the care of olderrelatives, and moving from work to retirement.

Options:1) contempt, confrontation, concept, conclusion2) delay, commence, protract, drag3) radically, disruptively, abruptly, gradually4) hinges, barriers, nexus, bans5) condescendingly, simultaneously, hypocritically, spontaneously(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #57)

36. Most Respected Companies (Prediction)Look at the recent "Most Respected Companies" survey by the Financial Times. Who are the mostrespected companies and business leaders at the current time? Rather predictably, they are JackWelch and General Electric, and Bill Gates, and Microsoft. Neither has achieved their world-classstatus through playing nice. Welch is still remembered for the brutal downsizing he led his

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business through , and for the environmental pollution incidents and prosecutions. Microsoft has hadone of the highest profile cases of bullying market dominance of recent times - and Gates has beenable to achieve the financial status where he can choose to give lots of money away by being ruthlessin business.

Options:1) past, before, last, current2) Also, Both, Neither, All3) through, out, by, along4) largest, highest, biggest, most5) archive, acquaint, receive, achieve(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #53)

37. Brains or Brawn (Prediction)While workers worry about whether robots will take their jobs, teachers are wondering how to useeducation to insulate the next generation from such a fate. This has worked before. When the lastwave of automation swept the developed world at the start of the 20th century, policymakers decidededucation was the answer. If machines were going to substitute for brawn, they reasoned , morepeople would need to use their brains. The US invested heavily in education, with good results.Workers reaped the benefits through better jobs and higher wages. Economists Andrew McAfee andErik Brynjolfsson summed it up like this: 'The industrial revolution started a race between technologyand education -- and, for most of the 20th century, humans won that race.'

Options:1) would work, was working, has worked, has yet to work2) it was, they objected, they reasoned, it were3) inadvertently, heavily, stingily, expensively4) started, installed, adapted, stalled(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #34)

38. Sydney (Prediction)Sydney is becoming effective in making the best of its limited available unconstrained land. Sydney issuitable for integrating suitable business, office, residential, retail and other development in accessiblelocations so as to maximise public transport patronage and encourage walking and cycling. Also thiscity can reduce the consumption of land for housing and associated urban development on the urbanfringe. For the proposed mixed business, mixed use and business park areas, there was noemployment data available for comparable areas. It is also concluded that lack of housing supply willaffect affordability in Sydney.

Options:1) profit, perspective, percentage, patronage2) consumption, replenishment, inventory, accumulation3) compensatory, competitive, communicative, comparable4) durability, floridity, fluidity, affordability(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #22)

39. Pop Mega-stars (Prediction)A music student at the University of Salford who wrote a song in two weeks is celebrating after beingfeatured on a compilation album produced by Metropolis Studios. Pop mega-stars including Adele,

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Michael Jackson and Sir Elton John have all recorded music at the world-famous Metropolis Studios.Last year, the recording studios set about compiling an album called ' Lost Songs', which featuressongs from relatively unknown musicians. First-year student Zak Taylor Fray decided to submit hissong demo to be included in Volume Two of the Lost Songs album which was released this year, afterhe saw how successful Volume One had been. Zak 24, said: ' I found this competition whensimply searching the internet for songwriting competitions one day, and was lucky that there wasstill time to enter. It amazes me that people who have worked with huge pop stars thought my songwas good and worth something.'

Options:1) except, without, before, after2) off, on, up, about3) how, that, which, if4) search, searching, have searched, searched5) expiry, chance, opportunity, time(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #20)

40. Linda Finch (Prediction)Over sixty years after Amelia Earhart vanished mysteriously in the Pacific during her attempt tobecome the first person to circumnavigate the world along the equator, Linda Finch, a San Antoniobusinesswoman, accomplished pilot, and aviation historian, recreated and completed her idol's lastflight as a tribute to the aviation pioneer's spirit and vision. On March 17, 1997, Ms. Finch and anavigator took off from Oakland International Airport, California, in a restored Lockheed Electra 10E,the same make and model aircraft that Earhart used on her last journey. The mission to fulfill AmeliaEarhart's dream was called ' World Flight 1997.' Although Ms. Finch was not the firstto attempt Earhart's around-the-world journey, she was the first to do it in a historic airplane. LindaFinch closely followed the same route that Earhart flew, stopping in 18 countries before finishing thetrip two and a half months later when she landed back at the Oakland Airport on May 28. Over amillion school children and others were able to follow the flight daily through an interactive web sitepart of a free multimedia educational program called ' You Can Soar', provided by the project'ssponsor.

Options:1) tribute, retribution, contribution, turbulence2) shuttle, aircraft, vessel, rocket3) acquire, claim, obtain, attempt4) ditched, shut, landed, detoured5) inadvertently, gradually, daily, urgently6) inherent, inactive, interactive, intractable7) improvisational, compositional, educational, additional(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #19)

41. Wholeness of Thought (Prediction)The writer, or, for that matter, the speaker conceives his thought whole, as a unity, but must expressit in a line of words; the reader, or listener, must take this line of symbols and from it reconstruct theoriginal wholeness of thought. There is little difficulty in conversation, because the listener receivesinnumerable cues from the physical expressions of the speaker; there is a dialogue, and the listenercan cut in at any time. The advantage of group discussion is that people can overcome linearsequence of words by converging on ideas from different directions; which makes for wholeness of

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thought. But the reader is confronted by line upon line of printed symbols, without benefits ofphysical tone and emphasis or the possibility of dialogue or discussion.

Options:1) recover, respect, reconstruct, reduce2) little, no, many, few3) lean, cut, intrude, get4) inventing, spending, conceiving, converging5) tune, thumb, tone, tile(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #18)

42. Seminars (Prediction)Seminars are not designed to be mini-lectures. Their educational role is to provide an opportunity foryou to discuss interesting and/or difficult aspects of the course. This is founded onthe assumption that it is only by actively trying to use the knowledge that you have acquired fromlectures and texts that you can achieve an adequate understanding of the subject. If you do notunderstand a point it is highly unlikely that you will be the only person in the group in that position; youwill invariably be undertaking a service for the entire group if you come to the seminar equipped withquestions on matters which you feel you did not fully understand. The seminar isto provoke discussion.

Options:1) result, team, role, regulation2) awareness, resolution, consolation, assumption3) similarly, likely, possible, unlikely4) service, study, reservation, education5) stir, provoke, rinse, commit(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #103)

43. Global Textile Industry (Prediction)The environmental impact of the global textile industry is hard to overstate. One-third of the waterused worldwide is spent fashioning fabrics. For every ton of cloth produced 200 tons of water ispolluted with chemicals and heavy metals. An estimated 1 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity powersthe factories that card and comb, spin and weave, and cut and stitch materials into everything fromT-shirts to towels, leaving behind mountains of solid waste and a massive carbon footprint. “Wherethe industry is today is not really sustainable for the long term,” says Shreyaskar Chaudhary, chiefexecutive of Pratibha Syntex, a textile manufacturer based outside Indore, India. With something of an“if you build it, they will come” attitude, Mr.Chaudhary has steered Pratibha toward the leading edgeof eco-friendly textile production. Under his direction, Pratibha began making clothes with organiccotton in 1999. Initially, the company couldn't find enough organic farms growing cotton in central Indiato supply its factories. To meet production demands, Chaudhary's team had to convince conventionalcotton farmers to change their growing methods. Pratibha provided seeds, cultivation instruction, anda guarantee of fairtrade prices for their crops. Today, Pratibha has a network of 28,000 organiccotton growers across the central states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa.

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Options:1) produced, made, progressed, prohibited2) moving, leaving, processing, looking into3) against, onto, toward, behind4) offer, buy, supply, provide5) their, theirs, they, them(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #87)

44. Women’s Participation in Labour Force (Prediction)With the increase in women's participation in the labour force, many mothers have lesstime available to undertake domestic activities. At the same time, there has beenincreasing recognition that the father's role and relationship with a child is important. A father canhave many roles in the family, ranging from income provider to teacher, carer, playmate and rolemodel. Therefore, balancing paid work and family responsibilities can be an important issue for bothfathers and mothers in families.

Options:1) anticipation, substitution, participation, definition2) available, related, consumable, useful3) recognition, discrimination, resolution, recreation4) scholarship, relationship, worship, employment5) members, players, workers, roles(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #99)

45. Fresh Water (Prediction)Everybody needs fresh water. Without water people, animals and plants cannot live. Although a fewplants and animals can make do with saltwater, all humans need a constant supply of fresh water ifthey are to stay fit and healthy. Of the total supply of water on the Earth, only about 3 percent of it isfresh, and most of that is stored as ice and snow at the poles, or is so deep under the surface of theEarth that we cannot get to it. Despite so much of the water being out of reach, we still have a millioncubic miles of it that we can use. That's about 4,300,000 cubic kilometers of fresh water to share outbetween most of the plants, animals and people on the planet.

Options:1) Without, Despite, As, With2) excited, here, up, fit3) wide, hard, deep, common4) can, won't, don't, cannot(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #738)

46. EE&AVG (Prediction)There has been increased research interest in the use of active video games (in which playersphysically interact with images onscreen) as a means to promote physical activity in children. The aimof this review was to assess active video games as a means of increasing energy expenditure andphysical activity behavior in children. Studies were obtained from computerized searches of multipleelectronic bibliographic databases. The last search was conducted in December 2008. Eleven studiesfocused on the quantification of the energy cost associated with playing active video games, and eightstudies focused on the utility of active video games as an intervention to increase physical activity inchildren. Compared with traditional non-active video games, active video games elicited greater

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energy expenditure, which was similar in intensity to mild to moderate intensity physical activity. Theintervention studies indicate that active video games may have the potential to increase free-livingphysical activity and improve body composition in children; however, methodological limitationsprevent definitive conclusions. Future research should focus on larger, methodologically soundintervention trials to provide definitive answers as to whether this technology is effectivein promoting long-term physical activity in children.

Options:1) examine, obstruct, inspect, promote2) inversion, infusion, aversion, intervention3) elicited, consumed, reduced, spread4) composition, element, tissue, nutrition5) optimal, definitive, positive, optimistic6) obstructing, promoting, reviewing, assessing(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #732)

47. High-protein Diet (Prediction)In our studies, those people on a high-protein diet lost the same amount of weight as those on ahigher-carbonhydrate diet, since the two diets offered an equal amount of kilojoules and the sameamount of fat. However, body composition (that is, the ratio of fat to muscle) showed greaterimprovement among those people on the higher-protein diet. When the participants in other studieswere allowed to eat until they were no longer hungry, those on the higher protein diet lost more weightthan those on the higher carbonhydrate diet, even after more than a year. The reduction in hungerand the beneficial effect on muscle provided by the higher-protein diet is mostly related to its proteincontent, while the reduced triglyceride levels and enhanced fat-loss seem to be related to its loweramounts of carbonhydrate. The diet is healthy because its protein comes from lean red meat, fish,chicken and low-fat dairy products, all of which provide good nutrition. A high-protein diet in whichthe protein comes from protein powders and supplements is unlikely to be healthy, unless thesupplements are fortified with vitamins and minerals.

Options:1) suffered, done, offered, created2) researchers, audience, scientists, participants3) provide, release, consisting, provides4) supplied, fortified, interacted, teemed(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #726)

48. Sigmund Freud (Prediction)That Sigmund Freud became a major intellectual presence in twentieth-century culture is not indoubt. Nor is there any doubt that at all times there was both fervent enthusiasm over and bitterhostility to his ideas and influence. But the exact means by which Freud became, despite this hostility,a master of intellectual life, on a par, already in the 1920s, with Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Marie Curieand Bertrand Russell, has not been sufficiently explored. Strikingly, Freud emerged as a twentieth-century icon without the endorsement and support of an institution or a profession (in contrast toEinstein, Curie and Russell). Where are we to look for the details of this story of an emergent - andnew - figure of immense cultural authority? One of the principal aims of this book is to show how thishappened in one local, parochial yet privileged, site - Cambridge, then as now a university townstranded in the English Fens with a relatively small fluctuating population.

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Options:1) Otherwise, Nor, Yet, Neverthless2) by, in, of, on3) whom, whose, which, that4) fluctuating, fluctuate, fluctuated, fluctuation(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #725)

49. Population Change (Prediction)Populations can change through three processes: fertility, mortality and migration. Fertility involves thenumber of children that women have and differs from fecundity (a woman's childbearing potential).Mortality is the study of the causes, consequences and measurement of processes affecting death ina population. Demographers most commonly study mortality using the Life Table, astatistical device which provides information about the mortality conditions (most notably the lifeexpectancy) in the population. Migration refers to the movement of persons from an origin place to adestination place across some pre-defined political boundary. Migration researchers do not designatemovements as migrations, unless they are somewhat permanent. Thus demographers do not considertourists and travelers to be migrating. While demographers who study migration typically do so throughcensus data on place of residence , indirect sources of data including tax forms and labor forcesurveys are also important. Demography is today widely taught in many universities across theworld, attracting students with initial training in social sciences, statistics or health studies.

Options:1) contributes, rotates, involves, encapsulates2) ingredient, room, factor, device3) but, though, unless, however4) commute, residence, life, health5) confusing, attracting, dividing, discriminating(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #724)

50. Progressive Enhancement (Prediction)Progressive enhancement is a design practice based on the idea that instead of designing for theleast capable browser, or mangling our code to make a site look the same in every browser, we shouldprovide a core set of functionality and information to all users, and then progressively enhance theappearance and behavior of the site for users of more capable browsers. It's very productivedevelopment practice. Instead of spending hours working out how to add drop shadows to the bordersof an element in every browser, we simply use the standards-based approach for browsers thatsupport it and don't even attempt to implement it in browsers that don't. After all, the users of olderand less capable browsers wont know what they are missing. The biggest challenge to progressiveenhancement is the belief among developers and clients that websites should look the same in everybrowser. As a developer, you can simplify your life and dedicate your time to more interestingchallenges if you let go of this outdated notion and embrace progressive enhancement.

Options:1) conflicting with, designing for, comparing with, confining within2) moderately emphasize, progressively enhance, gently implicate, gradually dilapidate3) In addition to taking, With respect to assuming, Instead of spending, Thanks to conserving4) biggest challenge, finest opportunity, easiest issue, barest risk(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #645)

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51. SpaceX (Prediction)SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday at 1845 GMT (1445 EDT),reaching orbit 9 minutes later. The rocket lofted an uncrewed mockup of SpaceX's Dragon capsule,which is designed to one-day carry both crew and cargo to orbit. 'This has been a good day forSpaceX and a promising development for the US human space flight programme,' said RobynRinguette of SpaceX in a webcast of the launch. In a teleconference with the media on Thursday,SpaceX's CEO, Paypal co-founder Elon Musk, said he would consider the flight 100 percent successfulif it reached orbit . ' Even if we prove out just that the first stage functions correctly, I'd still say that'sa good day for a test,' he said. ' It's a great day if both stages work correctly.' SpaceX hopes to win aNASA contract to launch astronauts to the International Space Station using the Falcon 9. USgovernment space shuttles, which currently make these trips, are scheduled to retire for safetyreasons at the end of 2010.

Options:1) setup, mockup, setting, base2) promising, hopefully, rapid, encouraging3) track, orbit, path, trajectory4) trust, contract, support, arrangement5) accelerate, launch, resign, retire(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #713)

52. Effective Leader (Prediction)In search of lessons to apply in our own careers, we often try to emulate what effective leaders do.Roger Martin says this focus is misplaced, because moves that work in one context may make littlesense in another. A more productive, though more difficult, approach is to look at how suchleaders think . After extensive interviews with more than 50 of them, the author discovered that mostare integrative thinkers -that is, they can hold in their heads two opposing ideas at once and thencome up with a new idea that contains elements of each but is superior to both.

Options:1) solicit, request, apply, appeal2) emulate, ferret, purge, conspire3) think, behave, launch, act4) reliable, responsible, integrative, indispensable5) which, each, every, all(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #709)

53. Sleep Patterns (Prediction)Children have sound sleep patterns. They can successfully sleep for 8-9 hours and get up at a fixedtime. But teenagers don't. Their need of an early start to schools or other schedulescan influence their sleep patterns. Despite these factors , they actually need longer sleep. So, parentsshould try and speak to their children, who are suitable to help them understand that a night of soundsleep is always helpful.

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Options:1) sound, loud, erratic, poor2) periodically, successfully, hardly, barely3) effect, influence, gained, diverge4) Regardless, Despite, As, Unless5) probabilities, factors, particles, forms6) reinforced, suitable, lucky, linking(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #699)

54. Australian Women Novelists (Prediction)In the literary world, it was an accepted assumption that the 1970s was a time of unprecedentedgrowth in homegrown Australian fiction. And everybody was reading and talking about books by youngAustralian women. But it was not until recently that a researcher was able to measure just how manynovels were published in that decade, and she found that there had been a decline in novels byAustralian writers overall, but confirmed an increase in women' s novels. It is this sort of research -testing ideas about literary history - that is becoming possible with the spread of 'Digital Humanities.'The intersection of Humanities and digital technologies is opening up opportunities in the fields ofliterature, linguistics, history and language that were not possible without computational methods anddigitized resources to bring information together in an accessible way. Transcription software is beingdeveloped for turning scans of books and documents into text, as the field of digital humanities reallytakes off .

Options:1) not until, until, impossible, till2) should become, must become, is becoming, will become3) is opened to, is opening up, is opened up, is opening to4) were not possible, was not possible, could be possible, can be possible5) squeeze, bring, muddle, stow6) in, off, on, over(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #698)

55. Investment Choice (Prediction)Men and women are making different choices about their retirement savings, which could lead to verydifferent investment outcomes, according to Dr Claire Matthews, Director of Financial Planning atMassey University's Centre for Banking Studies. Speaking at the 2012 New Zealand FinanceColloquium, held at Massey University's Albany campus last week, Dr Matthews said demographiccharacteristics had a substantial impact on the choices people made about KiwiSaver funds andretirement savings more generally. When it came to fund selection, she found there were significantdifferences based on gender. Men are more likely to invest in aggressive and growth funds, whilewomen are more likely to choose conservative funds. "Males are risk takers, whether it's in theirchoice of car or their investment fund," she says. "But when it comes to long-term savings, risk takingcan actually be an advantage." Dr Matthews also found that men are more likely than women to haveprior savings when joining KiwiSaver. Just over half of male respondents said they had savings already,while only 38% of women did. "These figures reflect and confirm, quite disappointingly, the differencebetween males and females and the level of interest they take in financial planning," Dr Matthewssays. "It's important for all New Zealanders to be better educated about their personal finances, butthis is particularly so for women." Other demographic factors, including age, ethnicity, education, andincome, can also influence the choices being made about retirement savings. Dr Matthews found that

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those with bachelor and higher degrees, and those in households with a pre-tax income of $100,000or more, were more likely to choose aggressive and growth funds. On the other hand , both theyoungest and oldest age groups were more likely to be invested in conservative funds. While this mightbe appropriate for the life-cycle stage of older investors, it might not be so appropriate for younger,longer-term investors.

Options:1) Apart from, In spite of, As far as, When it came to2) if, only, unless, whether3) being, had, have, were4) retrogressive, steady, challenging, growth5) To be honest, Last but not least, For example, On the other hand6) constructive, compensative, consecutive, conservative(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #691)

56. Parasitic Plants (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About the relation between parasitic plants and host plants. ... Flowers are pollinated well andtheir seeds are (dispersed) ... they are (co-evolved) to ... the results will be (upsetting) for bothspecies.(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #684)

57. Foreign Policy (Prediction)The foreign policy of a state, it is often argued, begins and ends with the border. No doubt anexaggeration, this aphorism nevertheless has an element of truth. A state's relation with its neighbors,at least in the formative years, are greatly influenced by its frontier policy, especially when there areno settled borders. Empire builders in the past sought to extend imperial frontiers for a variety ofreasons; subjugation of kings and princes to gain their allegiance (as well as handsome tributes or thecoffers of the state), and, security of the core of the empire from external attacks by establishing astring of buffer states in areas adjoining the frontiers. The history of British empire in India was nodifferent. It is important to note in this connection that the concept of international boundaries(between two sovereign states), demarcated and delineated , was yet to emerge in India under Mughalrule.

Options:1) element, exertion, evidence, explanation2) cultivating, early, formative, established3) disputed, irregular, nether, settled4) fame, credit, allegiance, prestige5) adjoining, joining, jointing, adjourning6) delineated, divided, circled, deposited(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #682)

58. Dictatorship (Prediction)Dictatorship is not a modern concept. Two thousand years ago, during the period of the RomanRepublic, exceptional powers were sometimes given by the Senate to individual dictators such as Sullaand Julius Caesar. The intention was that the dictatorship would be temporary and that it would makeit possible to take swift and effective action to deal with an emergency. There issome disagreement as how the term should be applied today. Should it be used in its original form todescribe the temporary exercise of emergency powers? Or can it now be applied in a much broader

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sense as common usage suggests?

Options:1) exclusive, individual, inclusive, special2) significance, intention, effort, meaning3) patient, urgent, immediate, possible4) agreement, treatment, treaty, disagreement5) applied, corresponded, avoided, responded(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #669)

59. Emerald (Prediction)Emerald is defined by its green color. To be an emerald, a specimen must have a distinctly green colorthat falls in the range from bluish green to green to slightly yellowish green. To be an emerald, thespecimen must also have a rich color. Stones with weak saturation or light tone should be called"green beryl." If the beryl's color is greenish blue then it is an "aquamarine." If it is greenish yellow it is"heliodor." This color definition is a source of confusion. Which hue, tone, and saturation combinationsare the dividing lines between "green beryl" and "emerald"? Professionals in the gem and jewelry tradecan disagree on where the lines should be drawn . Some believe that the name "emerald" should beused when chromium is the cause of the green color, and that stones colored by vanadium should becalled "green beryl." Calling a gem an "emerald" instead of a "green beryl" can have asignificant impact upon its price and marketability. This "color confusion " exists within the UnitedStates. In some other countries, any beryl with a green color - no matter how faint - is called an"emerald."

Options:1) usually, succinctly, distinctly, undoubtedly2) Since, That, Although, If3) exemplification, connotation, meaning, definition4) kept, let, drawn, taken5) result, error, impact, change6) expression, fusion, condition, confusion(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #667)

60. Zika (Prediction)Zika is more pernicious than public health officials anticipated. At present, it is circulating in more than50 countries. And as of mid-May, seven countries or territories have reported cases of microcephalyor other serious birth defects linked to the virus, which is transmitted by mosquito bite, bloodtransfusion or sexual contact with an infected human. It can also be passed from mother to fetusduring pregnancy. Despite Zika's vast range over almost 70 years, there is little genetic differenceamong the various strains, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Texas MedicalBranch at Galveston. For example, the strain currently in the Americas and another previouslydetected in French Polynesia are practically indistinguishable from each other (group in white box). Ifthe virus has changed so little over time, why is it rearing its ugly head now? Scientists are not sureyet, but new experimental work in mosquitoes suggests that the virus was capableof causing detrimental health effects and outbreaks all along. Therefore, it is unlikely mutationsenabled new abilities. Instead, public health officials probably did not understand Zika's potentialbecause the virus circulated mostly in remote locations until recently.

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Options:1) infected, behold, confined, transmitted2) range, extent, series, volume3) identical, indistinguishable, odd, different4) shaping, presshing, causing, doing5) is circulated, circulate, are circulated, circulated(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #666)

61. Ironbridge Gorge (Prediction)The Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage property covers an area of 5.5 km² (550ha) and is located inTelford, Shropshire, approximately 50km north-west of Birmingham. The Industrial Revolution had its18th century roots in the Ironbridge Gorge before spreading across the world, bringing with it some ofthe most far-reaching changes in human history. The site incorporates a 5km length of the steep-sided, mineral-rich Severn Valley from a point immediately west of Ironbridge downstream to Coalport,together with two smaller river valleys extending northwards to Coalbrookdale and Madeley. TheIronbridge Gorge offers a powerful insight into the origins of the Industrial Revolution and also containsextensive remains of that period when the area was the focus of international attention from artists,engineers, and writers. The site contains substantial remains of mines, foundries, factories, workshops,warehouses, ironmasters' and workers' housing, public buildings, infrastructure, and transport systems,together with traditional landscape and forests of the Severn Gorge. In addition, there alsoremain extensive collections of artifacts and archives relating to the individuals, processes, andproducts that made the area so important.

Options:1) overturned the fascinating image, have its modern impression, had its 18th century roots, cameto an abrupt halt2) fuses a 5km width of, incorporates a 5km length of, expands a lot of, adds a finishing touch to3) gives a useful understanding, afford some information, allows a good understanding, offers apowerful insight4) conventional woods and stuff, outdated roadside scenery, traditional landscape and forests,old-fashioned countryside5) big crowds, large communities, extensive collections, customized groups(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #665)

62. DNA (Prediction)DNA is a molecule that does two things. First, it acts as the hereditary material, which is passed downfrom generation to generation. Second, it directs, to a considerable extent, the construction of ourbodies, telling our cells what kinds of molecules to make and guiding our development from a single-celled zygote to a fully formed adult. These two things are of course connected . The DNA sequencesthat construct the best bodies are more likely to get passed down to the next generation becausewell-constructed bodies are more likely to survive and thus to reproduce. This is Darwin's theory ofnatural selection stated in the language of DNA.

Options:1) functional, hereditary, nutritional, metabolic2) establishing, guiding, pushing, determining3) supplanted, connected, paralleled, dismissed4) thus, yet, so, nevertheless(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #662)

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63. Romans (Prediction)Over many centuries and across many territories the Romans were able to win an astonishing numberof military victories and their success was due to several important factors. Italy was a peninsula noteasily attacked. There was a huge pool of fighting men to draw upon, a disciplined and innovativearmy, a centralized command and line of supply, expert engineers, effective diplomacy through anetwork of allies, and an inclusive approach to conquer people，which allowed for strengthening andbroadening of the Roman power and logistical bases. Further , her allies not only supplied, equippedand paid for additional men but they also supplied vital materials such as grain and ships. On top ofall this Rome was more or less in a continuous state of war or readiness for it and believed absolutelyin the necessity of defending and imposing on others what she firmly believed was her culturalsuperiority.

Options:1) There has, There was, There is, Here has2) through, despite, about, above3) Further, Recent, Because, So4) According to, Instead of, On top of all, At the thought of(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #648)

64. Tutankhamun (Prediction)The last tourists may have been leaving the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank in Luxor but thearea in front of the tomb of Tutankhamun remained far from deserted. Instead of the tranquillity thatusually descends on the area in the evening it was a hive of activity. TV crews trailed masses ofequipment, journalists milled and photographers held their cameras at the ready. The reason? For thefirst time since Howard Carter discovered the tomb in 1922 the mummy of Tutankhamun was beingprepared for public display. Inside the subterranean burial chamber Egypt's archaeology supremo ZahiHawass, accompanied by four Egyptologists, two restorers and three workmen, were slowly lifting themummy from the golden sarcophagus where it has been rested -- mostly undisturbed -- for morethan 3,000 years. The body was then placed on a wooden stretcher and transported to its new home,a high- tech, climate-controlled plexi-glass showcase located in the outer chamber of the tombwhere, covered in linen, with only the face and feet exposed, it now greets visitors.

Options:1) equality, peace, equivalence, tranquillity2) showed, founded, discovered, invented3) accomplished, complimented, accompanied, affected4) commuted, moved, transported, convey(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #639)

65. Hairstyles (Prediction)With their punk hairstyles and bright colors, marmosets and tamarins are among the most attractiveprimates on earth. These fast-moving, lightweight animals live in the rainforests of South America.Their small size makes it easy for them to dart about the trees, catching insects and small animalssuch as lizards, frogs, and snails. Marmosets have another unusual food source - they use theirchisel-like incisor teeth to dig into tree bark and lap up the gummy sap that seeps out, leaving telltale,oval-shaped holes in the branches when they have finished. But as vast tracts of rainforest arecleared for plantations and cattle ranches marmosets and tamarins are in serious danger ofextinction.

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Options:1) brings, makes, takes, claims2) originality, provenience, source, origin3) jaw, skin, bark, wrinkle4) swell, ramp, holes, bump5) grasses, branches, trees, roots6) fatal, endangered, safe, danger(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #630)

66. Questions (Prediction)You have about 30 minutes to answer each question. You must take account of how many marksare available for each part when you answer it. Even if you think you can write more, don't spend 15minutes answering a part worth only 5 marks. Leave space at the end of your answer and come backto it if you have time to spare later. And if you can't think of an answer to some part, leave a spaceand move on to the next part. Don't write about something else if you don't know the correct answer— this is just a waste of your valuable time (and the examiner's).

Options:1) reasonable, rational, possible, available2) scoring, marking, answering, ignoring3) life, space, time, mind4) available, valuable, useful, beneficial(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #628)

67. EE and AVG (Prediction)Currently, there is concern about the increasing amount of time children spend in sedentary activities,the number of children who fail to achieve minimum daily physical activity guidelines (i.e. 60 min ofmoderate-to vigorous intensity activities every day), and the apparent increase in obesity prevalenceas a result of such sedentary behavior . Screen-based activities, including television viewing andplaying computer games are among the most frequently observed sedentary activities that childrenpartake with children spending 2.5–4 h per day participating in such activities. The introduction of“active video games” (AVGs) into the gaming market presents an opportunity to convert traditional,sedentary screen-time in to active screen-time and thus increase total daily energy expenditure (EE).Modern AVGs utilize cameras and motion sensors to allow the gamer to physically perform a variety ofactions, dependent on the console, such as swinging a tennis racquet or running. The mostdemanding AVGs provided similar responses to walking and, based on international standards, shouldbe classified as low-intensity activities. Whilst AVGs may provide children with a better alternative tosedentary gaming, they are not a sufficient replacement for normal physical activity, e.g. sports andoutdoor play.

Options:1) maximum, mini, minimum, enough2) connectivity, position, behavior, stuff3) agreed, remaining, dependent, shaped4) consumption, employment, replacement, engagement(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #613)

68. Anesthetics (Prediction)Before effective anaesthetics, surgery was very crude and very painful. Before 1800, alcohol and

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opium had little success in easing pain during operations. Laughing gas was used in 1844 in dentistryin the USA, but failed to ease all pain and patients remained conscious. Ether (used from 1846) madepatients totally unconscious and lasted a long time. However, it could make patients cough duringoperations and sick afterwards. It was highly flammable and was transported in heavy glass bottles.Chloroform (used from 1847) was very effective with few side effects. However, it was difficult to getthe dose right and could kill some people because of the effect on their heart. An inhaler helped toregulate the dosage.

Options:1) little, title, much, great2) contained, retained, remained, released3) has transported, was transported, transported, have transported4) rather than, because of, but, due(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #612)

69. Canadian Arctic (Prediction)This summer, 41 UBC alumni and friends participated in expeditions to the Canadian Arctic and thelegendary Northwest Passage. Presentations, conversations and learning accompanied theirexploration of the great outdoors aboard the Russian-flagged Akademik Ioffe, designed and built inFinland as a scientific research vessel in 1989. Her bridge was open to passengers virtually 24 hours aday. Experts on board presented on topics including climate change, wildlife, Inuit culture and history,and early European explorers. UBC professor Michael Byers presented on the issue of Arcticsovereignty, a growing cause of debate as ice melts, new shipping routes open, and naturalresources become accessible. Recommended pre-trip reading was late UBC alumnus Pierre Bertonsbook, The Arctic Grail.

Options:1) outdoors, view, outside, scenery2) board, broad, list, aboard3) slight, growing, disappearing, tiny4) cease, turn, become, come(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #611)

70. Shakespeare (Prediction)For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards topersonal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, andvarious legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there aremany gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man.

Options:1) curious, serious, ridiculous, mysterious2) types, resources, sources, forms3) college, university, private, church4) grabs, achievements, gaps, merits(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #604)

71. Essay (Prediction)Essays are used as an assessment tool to evaluate your ability to research a topic and constructan argument , as well as your understanding of subject content. This does not mean that essays are a

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'regurgitation' of everything your lecturer has said throughout the course. Essays are your opportunityto explore in greater depth aspects of the course - theories, issues, texts, etc. and in some casesrelate these aspects to a particular context. It is your opportunity to articulate your ideas, but ina certain way: using formal academic style.

Options:1) equal, escalate, estimate, evaluate2) assignment, essay, argument, idea3) throughout, all, whole, through4) deep, depth, width, wide5) assigned, special, interesting, particular6) same, good, usually, certain(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #593)

72. Complementary Therapies (Prediction)Complementary therapies—such as those practiced by naturopaths, chiropractors and acupuncturists—have become increasingly popular in Australia over the last few decades . Interest initially coincidedwith enthusiasm for alternative lifestyles, while immigration and increased contact and trade with Chinahave also had an influence . The status of complementary therapies is being re-visited in a number ofareas: legal regulation; the stances of doctors' associations; their inclusion in medical education; andscientific research into their efficacy .

Options:1) practiced, conducted, expected, recommended2) hours, decades, moments, records3) enthusiasm, confidence, interest, occupation4) earning, idea, indication, influence5) efficacy, practice, efficiency, experiment(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #587)

73. Wine and Ale (Prediction)By the Bronze Age drinking vessels were being made of sheet metal, primarily bronze or gold.However, the peak of feasting – and in particular, of the “political” type of feast came in the lateHallstatt period (about 600 – 450 BC), soon after the foundation of the Greek colony of Massalia(Marseille) at the mouth of the Rhine. From that date on, the blood of the grape began to make itsway north and east along major river systems together with imported metal and ceramic drinkingvessels from the Greek world. Wine was thus added to the list of mood- altering beverages – such asand ale available to establish social networks in Iron Age Europe. Attic pottery fragments found athillforts such as Heuneburg in Germany and luxury goods such as the monumental 5th century Greekbronze krater found at Vix in Burgundy supply archaeological evidence of this interaction.Organic containers such as leather or wooden wine barrels may also have travelled north into Europebut have not survived. It is unknown what goods were traded in return, but they may have includedsalted meat, hides, timber, amber and slaves.

Options:1) vehicles, boats, vessels, ships2) group, jungle, colony, place3) food, market, places, containers4) exchanged, bought, made, traded

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74. Good Schools (Prediction)A big rise in state schools rated among the best institutions in the country is revealed in the latestedition of the Good Schools Guide. Middle-class parents facing financial pressures in the downturn areincreasingly looking beyond the private sector to educate their children. The 23 year-old Good SchoolsGuide — a popular reference book for fee-paying families set on the best private school — hasincreased the number of state schools in this year's edition to 251, pushing the figure to more than aquarter of its 1 ,000 entries for the first time. Explaining why the guide has more than doubled thenumber of schools it features outside the private sector in only five years, Sue Fieldman, regionaleditor, told the Financial Times: "The parents we speak to want more information on thestate sector and the best it has to offer. "

Options:1) period, upturn, downtown, downturn2) diverse, ubiquitous, complete, popular3) Demonstrating, Asking, Complaining, Explaining4) part, branch, division, sector(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #578)

75. Teen Writing (Prediction)Teens write for a variety of reasons—as part of a school assignment, to get a good grade, to stay intouch with friends, to share their artistic creations with others or simply to put their thoughts to paper(whether virtual or otherwise). In our focus groups, teens said they are motivated to write when theycan select topics that are relevant to their lives and interests, and report greater enjoyment of schoolwriting when they have the opportunity to write creatively. Having teachers or other adults whochallenge them, present them with interesting curricula and give them detailed feedback also servesas a motivator for teens. Teens also report writing for an audience motivates them to write and writewell.

Options:1) get, skip, maintain, avoid2) debate, communicate, use, select3) meet, educate, present, blame4) regard, learn, report, provide(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #576)

76. Medalists (Prediction)In an often-cited study about counterfactuals, Medvec, Madey, and Gilovich (1995) found that bronzemedalists appeared happier than silver medalists in television coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics.Medvec et al. argued that bronze medalists compared themselves to 4th placefinishers, whereas silver medalists compared themselves to gold medalists. These counterfactualswere the most salient because they were either qualitatively different (gold vs. silver) or categoricallydifferent (medal vs. no medal) from what actually occurred. Drawing on archival data and experimentalstudies, we show that Olympic athletes (among others) are more likely to make counterfactualcomparisons based on their prior expectations, consistent with decision affect theory. Silver medalistsare more likely to be disappointed because their personal expectations are higher than those of bronzemedalists.

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Options:1) argued, questioned, persuaded, flighted2) whereabouts, wherever, whatsoever, whereas3) advantaged, outperformed, salient, worried4) playfully, finally, actually, totally5) after, last, before, prior6) that, these, those, this(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #573)

77. Egg-eating Snakes (Prediction)Egg-eating snakes are a small group of snakes whose diet consists only of eggs. Some eat only smalleggs, which they have to swallow whole , as the snake has no teeth. Instead, some other snakes eatbigger eggs, but it requires special treatment . These snakes have spines that stick out from thebackbone. The spines crack the egg open as it passes through the throat.

Options:1) food, consists, dietitian, diet2) slow, fast, whole, all3) thinking, treatment, food, supplement4) about, on, by, out5) down, up, close, open(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #570)

78. Non-indigenous Plants (Prediction)The invasion of non-indigenous plants is considered a primary threat to integrity and function ofecosystems. However, there is little quantitative or experimental evidence for ecosystem impacts ofinvasive species. Justifications for control are often based on potential, but not presently realized,recognized or quantified, negative impacts. Should lack of scientific certainty about impacts of non-indigenous species result in postponing measures to prevent degradation? Recently, management ofpurple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), has been criticized for lack of evidence demonstrating negativeimpacts of L. salicaria, and management using biocontrol for lack of evidence documenting the failureof conventional control methods. Although little quantitative evidence on negative impacts on nativewetland biota and wetland function was available at the onset of the control program in 1985, recentwork has demonstrated that the invasion of purple loosestrife into North American freshwater wetlandsalters decomposition rates and nutrient cycling, leads to reductions in wetland plant diversity, reducespollination and seed output of the native Lythrum alatum, and reduces habitat suitability for specializedwetland bird species such as black terns, least bitterns, pied-billed grebes, and marsh wrens.Conventional methods (physical, mechanical or chemical), have continuously failed to curb the spreadof purple loosestrife or to provide satisfactory control. Although a number of generalist insect and birdspecies utilize purple loosestrife, wetland habitat specialists are excluded by encroachment of L.salicaria. We conclude that negative ecosystem impacts of purple loosestrife in North America justifycontrol of the species and that detrimental effects of purple loosestrife on wetland systems and biotaand the potential benefits of control outweigh potential risks associated with the introduction ofbiocontrol agents. Long term experiments and monitoring programs that are in place will evaluate theimpact of these insects on purple loosestrife, on wetland plant succession and other wetland biota.

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Options:1) experiencing, experience, experimental, experiments2) decomposing, composition, composing, decomposition3) fixability, stability, friability, suitability4) engage, curb, monopolize, reduce5) encroachment, engagement, enlightenment, enrollment6) beneficial, positive, detrimental, neutral(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #563)

79. Kimbell (Prediction)The first section of the book covers new modes of assessment. In Chapter 1, Kimbell (GoldsmithCollege, London) responds to criticisms of design programs as formalistic and conventional, statingthat a focus on risk-taking rather than hard work in design innovation is equally problematic. Hisresearch contains three parts that include preliminary exploration of design innovation qualities,investigation of resulting classroom practices, and development of evidence-based assessment. Theassessment he describes is presented in the form of a structured worksheet, which includes acollaborative element and digital photographs, in story format. Such a device encourages stimulatingideas, but does not recognize students as design innovators .The assessment sheet includes holisticimpressions as well as details about “having, growing, and proving” ideas. Colloquial judgments areevident in terms such as “wow” and “yawn” and reward the quality and quantity of ideas with theterm, “sparkiness”, which fittingly is a pun as the model project was to design light bulb packaging. Inaddition, the assessment focuses on the process of optimizing or complexity control as well as provingideas with thoughtful criticism and not just generation of novel ideas. The definitions for qualities suchas “technical” and “aesthetic” pertaining to users, are too narrow and ill-defined. The authorprovides examples of the project, its features and structures, students’ notes and judgments, andtheir sketches and photographs of finished light bulb packages, in the Appendix.

Options:1) results, criticisms, praise, compliments2) element, figure, factor, line3) students, makers, leaders, innovators4) Colloquial, Subjective, Formal, Traditional5) examples, results, ideas, themes(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #556)

80. Ocean Floor (Prediction)The ocean floor is home to many unique communities of plants and animals. Most of these marineecosystems are near the water surface, such as the Great Barrier Reef, a 2,000-km longcoral formation off the northeastern coast of Australia. Coral reefs, like nearly all complex livingcommunities, depend on solar energy for growth (photosynthesis). The sun's energy, however,penetrates at most only about 300 m below the surface of the water. The relatively shallowpenetration of solar energy and the sinking of cold, subpolar water combine to make most of the deepocean floor a frigid environment with few life forms. In 1977, scientists discovered hot springs at adepth of 2.5 km, on the Galapagos Rift (spreading ridge) off the coast of Ecuador. This excitingdiscovery was not really a surprise .Since the early 1970s, scientists had predicted that hot springs(geothermal vents) should be found at the active spreading centers along the mid-oceanic ridges,where magma, at temperatures over 1,000° Presumably was being erupted to form new oceanic crust.More exciting, because it was totally unexpected ,was the discovery of abundant and unusual sea life

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- giant tube worms, huge clams, and mussels - that thrived around the hot springs.

Options:1) system, reality, structure, formation2) versatile, frigid, warm, perfect3) surprise, discovery, shock, climax4) perfect, undermined, unexpected, predictable5) struggling, died, thrived, exists(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #552)

81. Edison (Prediction)Thomas Alva Edison was both a scientist and an inventor. Born in 1847, Edison wouldsee tremendous changes take place in his lifetime. He was also to be responsible for making many ofthose changes occur. When Edison was born, society still thought of electricity as a novelty , a fad. Bythe time he died, entire cities were lit by electricity. Much of the credit for that progress goes toEdison. In his lifetime, Edison patented 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname “The Wizard ofMenlo Park.” The most famous of his inventions was the incandescent light bulb. Besides the lightbulb, Edison developed the phonograph and the “kinetoscope,” a small box for viewing moving films.Thomas Edison is also the first person in the US to make his own filmstrips. He also improved uponthe original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. Hebelieved in hard work, sometimes working twenty hours a day. Edison was quoted as saying, “Genius isone percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” In tribute to this important American, electriclights in the United States were dimmed for one minute on October 21, 1931, a few days after hisdeath.

Options:1) experimental, moderate, tremendous, trenchant2) news, miracle, tradition, novelty3) looked, imposed, depended, improved4) order, tribute, addition, regard(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #546)

82. Push and Pull (Prediction)People move to a new region for many different reasons. The motivation for moving can come from acombination of what researchers sometimes call 'push and pull factors ' — those that encouragepeople to leave a region, and those that attract people to a region. Some of the them that motivatepeople to move include seeking a better climate, finding more affordable housing, looking for work orretiring from work, leaving the congestion of city living, wanting a more pleasant environment, andwanting to be near to family and friends. In reality, many complex factors and personal reasonsmay interact to motivate a person or family to move.

Options:1) accommodation, combination, abbreviation, motivation2) factors, generators, margins, settings3) include, as, enclose, about4) congestion, confluence, concoction, conjunction5) factors, reasons, features, messages6) interlock, able, interact, attract(APEUni Website / App FIBRW #5)

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D. ListeningSummarize Spoken TextRepeat Rate: 80%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Ensure correct spelling & grammar (APEUni AI Score)Audio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. Childhood Death (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:I wrote a letter last week talking about the work of the foundation, sharing some of the problems. AndWarren Buffet had recommended I do that -- being honest about what was going well, what wasn't,and making it kind of an annual thing. A goal I had there was to draw more people in to work on thoseproblems, because I think there are some very important problems that don't get worked on naturally.That is, the market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the governments todo the right things. And only by paying attention to these things and having brilliant people who careand draw other people in can we make as much progress as we need to. So this morning I'm going toshare two of these problems and talk about where they stand. But before I dive into those I want toadmit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. And part of the reason I feelthat way is looking at the past. Over the past century, average lifespan has more than doubled.Another statistic, perhaps my favorite, is to look at childhood deaths. As recently as 1960, 110 millionchildren were born, and 20 million of those died before the age of five. Five years ago, 135 millionchildren were born -- so, more -- and less than 10 million of them died before the age of five. Sothat's a factor of two reduction of the childhood death rate. It's a phenomenal thing. Each one ofthose lives matters a lot.(APEUni Website / App SST #301)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

2. Service (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Service is the component of the … and all kinds of … to know more ...(APEUni Website / App SST #299)

3. Speech Therapy (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About speech-language therapy. A professor is introducing the speech-language course. Theyare trying a different approach in clinical therapy. The best part of this course is that you can studythe message behind the speech-language. People can tell a speaker's background and where hecomes from based on his speech, as well as handwriting. This course has created contacts betweenspeech-language and professionals.(APEUni Website / App SST #298)

4. Population Growth (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Population growth has become a big challenge. Today the world population has grown to 7billion. The biggest challenge we are faced with is of the limited recourse, such as the water crisis,climate change and the food crisis. The resources are also not equally distributed. It is predicted that

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there will be more than 2 billion people living in cities.(APEUni Website / App SST #267)

5. Drug Safety (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Well I think the drugs we use are not taken seriously into account. Parents leave their drugs all overthe place at home but their children may accidentally take these drugs before they know It. And soonmany children are victim to accidents. Now, this must be avoided at all cost. One way preventingaccidents is to put drugs in closed boxes. Also, parents can firmly close the lid really well. I am surekids would not be able to reach it. Another problem we find in mismanagement of drugs is how thesemedicines can be allergic to many people. We have to remember different drugs have differentresistance and duration. That is extremely dangerous if someone takes a wrong drug. So what are theways we can stop this from happening? Well, I suggest we introduce the course, which will primarilyimprove the misuse of drugs and greatly improve our Iives.(APEUni Website / App SST #297)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

6. Australian Culture (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The lecture focuses on the cultural diversity in Australia, which is a multicultural country. Itmentions that Australia has the oldest culture of residents and a quarter of the people in Australiawere born overseas. Additionally, it highlights that migrants make an enormous contribution toAustralian’s economy by increasing productivity, providing workforce, fiscal benefits and culturalinnovation. Overall, this cultural diversity is one of the Australian greatest strengths, although it has anegative effect/side, which we do not emphasize in detail.(APEUni Website / App SST #129)

7. Importance of Tea (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:About the importance of tea, one of the three most favorite drinks in England in which the others arechocolate and coffee. Drinking tea in England was a symbol of social freedom, was very expensive andcould only be ordered by men in public. Men had tea in coffee houses, making trades and chattingbusiness, while women could only drink tea in private places or wait for their husbands to bring teaback home.(APEUni Website / App SST #293)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

8. Internet and Journalism (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About the popularity of the Internet. It has a great impact on journalism about its productionand consumption It took steps for people to enthusiastically feel the change in journalism. The internetnot only speeds up news spreading, but also helps people gain information in various ways. Nowadays,even a small piece of ordinary video can be of a new type of journalism.(APEUni Website / App SST #292)

9. Absolutism (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Absolutism is referred to as the claim that there is a universally valid moral system. Such a system

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applies to everyone, whether they realize it or not. Also, it contains rules, guidelines, and principles,which are all universal. It acts as a road map guiding individual and social behaviors. Some principlesof absolutism cannot be violated or betrayed, and they have wide acceptance with no assumptions orexceptions. There is a boundary line that tells what is right and what is wrong. The idea of absolutismis that nothing is dependent on situations.(APEUni Website / App SST #115)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

10. Generalist (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The human brain is the most valuable organ. The brain has become smaller, and humans havebecome specialists from generalists. Humans don't ponder on things and are able to do everything.Key words: generalist (heard twice), evolution(APEUni Website / App SST #289)

11. Clone (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The word 'clone' originated (or derived) from a Greek word, which means a branch of a tree.Just like grafting, you attach the branch on to the root of another tree and the mother tree providesnutrients to it. Grafting uses the method (process) of clone, and can copy a lot of new trees.(APEUni Website / App SST #287)

12. Hook Sentence (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:An essay is a chance to identify your read and learned. As a writer, you first need to collect manymaterials, then write an essay in four or five paragraphs, structures and quotes. If someone issearching for a book or article to read, he or she will decide from the very beginning whether this workis worth attention. If you want to wow your teacher, polish the introduction, especially the first coupleof sentences. Add an essay hook–something interesting, funny, shocking, or intriguing to win thereader’s attention. Build an emotional connection with your reader right from the start. A hook in theessay is a catchy sentence or paragraph in the impressive introduction which serves as an attentionelement and an important part. An excellent hook sentence is engaging and interesting; it is a perfectmethod to start an argumentative or persuasive essay. The hook for your essay often appears in thefirst sentence. The opening paragraph includes a thesis sentence. Some popular hook choices caninclude using an interesting quote, a little-known fact, famous last words, or a statistic.(APEUni Website / App SST #284)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

13. Energy of Internet (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The internet, the most powerful tool in terms of engineering and complex engineering made byhumans, has the most complicated structure. The internet can be connected via a modem, or anADSL switch, to a local landline telephone exchange network. It can connect us from Sydney toMelbourne and then to the U.S.. However, it takes energy to transmit information. For example, thelonger email you write, the more energy is consumed. Key words: longer usage(APEUni Website / App SST #215)

14. Approach and Avoidance (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:

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Approach and avoidance motivation is composed of three conceptually distinct components. Approachindicates a propensity to move toward (or maintain contact with) a desired stimulus, such asvocational plans. Avoidance indicates a propensity to move away from (or maintain distance from) anundesired stimulus in order to reduce anxiety. Motivation is defined as the energization and directionof behavior. The valence of stimuli is at the core of the distinction between approach and avoidance,with positively valenced stimuli typically leading to approach and negatively valenced stimuli typicallyleading to avoidance. Stimuli can be external or internal, implicit or explicit, conscious or non-conscious.(APEUni Website / App SST #283)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

15. Green Tea (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About green tea's history. Green tea originated in East Asia, where Chinese and Japanese likedrinking tea. And, Europeans like drinking wine and coffee. Then Chinese began to have tea exportedto the U.S.. Americans like tea so much that British tea party appeared. They believed tea would havea bigger market, so they turned to India, from where they imported a lot of British tea. India is foundas a good market and now green tea is a popular drink. Key words: continent, water(APEUni Website / App SST #142)

16. Boys and Girls (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:The research shows that girls have a higher level of English results than boys in the same class,because boys and girls are different in learning styles, and their brain functions are different inmechanisms. Male students were detected to be significantly more aware of the developments in thefield of physics than female students. According to the content analysis results concerning this finding,unlike female students male students were more interested in technological developments. This findingis not surprising when the passive social role of females and the general social structure in which theytend to more sociable fields are considered. This finding may have occurred due to the fact thatmales are generally more interested in technology than females. Previous studies support this finding.Boys are more simplified, and teachers' teaching style normally suits girls better than boys. Teachersshould find different teaching approaches respectively for boys and girls.(APEUni Website / App SST #282)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

17. Credit Card (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About a study by a banker on using a credit card, talking about messages and how it is crucial.The speaker gave an example of bank customers who have a credit card and never used it. On asurvey conducted, customers asked what is benefit they have in using a credit card. There are twoletters to costumers: one about the benefits of using credit cards and the other about what if they aremissing. Key words: potential, gain, being beneficial(APEUni Website / App SST #280)

18. Definition of Literature (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About how to define literature. There are a lot of questions: what causes literature, whataffects literature, what is an author, and what is the reader? 'introduced topic' is mentioned. Then thespeaker explains ... ideas... The literature is caused by language, by human psyche, by historic and

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economic forces in some sense.(APEUni Website / App SST #279)

19. DNA Pieces (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Now I'm going to talk about biology, especially applications used in biological systems. The biologicalsystem does not always stay the same, but it evolves. Biology engineering is the next level ofengineering. Nowadays, scientists rewrite DNAs by cutting the pieces, and can create new organisms,so they can engineer and design nature. While scientists could only cut and paste DNA from oneorganism to another 40 years ago, they can now write and synthesize DNA to create new organismswith new techniques. If these organisms have a bacterium, when they go to the lab tomorrow, they willsee millions of bacteria. Besides, scientists are building a cellular factory and cultivating millions ofbacteria based on one bacterium. People also want to see a natural world in the future.(APEUni Website / App SST #278)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

20. Sugar (B) (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Both fruits and milk contain sugar, and this sugar is healthy sugar. Many people have heard that sugaris bad, and think that this must also therefore apply to fruits. Unhealthy sugar is normally found indesserts, ice cream etc. It's much easier to consume excess sugar from foods and drinks that contain'free sugars'. Free sugars include these same sugars, but in this case they have been removed fromtheir naturally occurring source, rather than being eaten as natural parts of fruits, dairy products, andsome vegetables and grains. This includes sugar that is added to food and drinks by food companies,cooks or consumers. Many people drink juices, and this is a healthy approach. But directly eating fruitsis better, because the human body can process it easily. It is better to eat a small piece of fruit, whichour bodies can digest better rather than drink smoothies or more than half a cup of fruit juice becauseit is the same as drinking soft drinks.(APEUni Website / App SST #277)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

21. Needs (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: In English language, the term ‘need’ has different meanings. When you say, ‘I need avacation’, it is an expression of a strong desire but not a basic need. When you say, ‘the plant needswater,’ it is an objective statement because it is essential, as much as sunlight to plants. Meanwhile,there is a psychological use of ‘need’ when someone lacks something. ‘Natural need' is alsomentioned.(APEUni Website / App SST #273)

22. Global Marketing (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About global marketing. Companies should lay stress on renovation, research and developmentof products. Examples include Apple's iPhone and iPad, Microsoft, .... Individuals should improvepersonal skills to meet the requirements of global markets. Key word: internal technology, students'achievements, ability to recognize challenges, competitive advantages, outcomes, being better thancompetitors, producing products and brands, critical parts of marking processes.(APEUni Website / App SST #268)

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23. Nuts (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Nuts are good and bad for health. Good, because nuts have vitamins, minerals and proteins.Bad, because nuts are high in energy and calories. The energy density of a handful of nuts is equal totwo chocolate bars. Ten to twelve nuts at a time is good. Too many (handful and handful), bad. Keywords: healthy food, healthy fat, measuring energy in food, micro joules, carbohydrates(APEUni Website / App SST #266)

24. Newspaper Industry (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Because of the economic model, the newspaper industry has been shrinking dramatically from the last50 years of the 20th century in some states of America. Also as the economic model changed,newspapers increased the cash flow. However, there are still some newspaper industries losing moneybecause of a decrease in advertising and buyers. They can't find buyers. Only a few newspapers havepositive cash flow. Over 100 newspapers with cash flow in red had no money to publish the newspapereveryday. Some of them published three days per week. Small-sized newspapers only published oncea week and had to go online. Some newspapers even disappeared. The staff working in newspaperindustry decreased by 30-60% or more.(APEUni Website / App SST #264)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

25. Competence (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: People fear persons who are competent and feel diminished when faced with those persons.But when competent persons make mistakes, people like them more. For example, some public figuresbecame more popular after they suffered a failure. Key words: incompetent, competent,supercompetent, making mistake, failure, push/pull factors.(APEUni Website / App SST #262)

26. Children's Lost Life (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Children lost their childhood in the 19th century in different situations. There was muchchildren employment, which brought lots of risks to working children in society, such as sexualharassments and criminal events. They also suffered exploitation and high demand for the workload.Besides, children may be threatened on the street for destroying objects. Finally, society withcommercials features and gender bias exposed children's personal lives to these negative factors.(APEUni Website / App SST #261)

27. Automatic Driving (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: To make our road safer, we should make a full use of technology of automation, which is amore fuel efficient technology used on vehicles. Level three is conditional automation, which meansdrivers must be ready to intervene in some specific circumstances. Level four is of complete controlby the vehicle even in specific circumstances, which means humans can be removed from driving andthe lecturer suspects. The speaker thinks that level three would be more acceptable based on theabove concerns.(APEUni Website / App SST #190)

28. Memory (B) (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:There are two main categories of memory. Implicit memory, which is also called procedural memory,

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cannot be consciously recalled. It is an experimental or functional form of memory, informed bycultural and social background. With implicit memory, behaviors are automatic. We recall implicitmemories naturally, so we are not aware when we are using them. Examples of implicit memoryinclude using languages naturally, driving automatically, reading and writing. When people try toconsciously describe how to drive, they may misrepresent how they actually drive. What we oftendescribe as ‘bad memory’ is an explicit memory. Explicit memory is also known as episodic memory,which is totally different from implicit memory. It’s more about time and space and is often related topersonal life experiences. Some examples of explicit memory include remembering birthdays frommany years ago or answering multiple-choice questions in a test.(APEUni Website / App SST #249)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

29. Literature in Poem (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Today, poems remain an important part of art and culture. We often talk about the knowledge aboutthe literature in poem. Poetry is probably the oldest form of literature, and probably predates the originof writing itself. The oldest written manuscripts we have are poems, mostly epic poems telling thestories of ancient mythology. The English language in poems and poetries is difficult to understand,often giving readers a feeling of frustration and making it hard for readers to enjoy poetry. This isbecause poems use literary expressions. Poetry was once written according to fairly strict rules ofmeter and rhyme, and each culture had its own rules. Some poems incorporate rhyme schemes, withtwo or more lines that end in like-sounding words. We should learn to simply enjoy it, and to knowmore about literature knowledge.(APEUni Website / App SST #246)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

30. History of English (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:English, as you have already read, is not a pure language. I don't think there really are any purelanguages in the world. But English is definitely not a pure language. English, in fact, has borrowedfrom over 350 languages in its history. So it's a variety of many languages. Some people say it’s like adog, a mongrel dog, a dog that has been made up of many different dogs. The English language is likethat. By looking at the history of the English language we learn about the history of the English people.The two things are closely connected. So, in fact, today we are not only learning about language butwe are learning about history. The fact that English has borrowed words from over 350 languages hasbeen viewed differently throughout history. So for example in Shakespeare's time people were veryangry about words which were not, they thought, original English words – words which came fromother languages, they didn’t like them.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about the English language's history. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes Englishis definitely not a pure language, which has borrowed from many languages. Also, she mentions we arenot only learning about language but we are learning about history, which are closely connected.Lastly, the speaker believes borrowed words have been viewed differently throughout history. Inconclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #223)

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31. Genetic Impact (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Since the discovery of DNA structure, people have believed that genes have an impact only onpeople’s physical structure. However, the study of mapping of genes in 2001 found that there is agenetic responsibility to human’s physical and psychological behaviors, which has changed the way weunderstand our behaviors. Findings from behavioural genetic research have broadly impacted modernunderstanding of the role of genetic and environmental influences on behaviour. The research ongenes has provided integrating information, and the findings can benefit biologists, psychologists andneuroscientists. Qualitative research has fostered arguments that behavioural genetics is anungovernable field without scientific norms or consensus, which fosters controversy.(APEUni Website / App SST #222)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

32. HTML (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Well, the 90s came around and finally it clicked that normal people could get online, which hadn'treally clicked before. And the little trick that finally put it together was Tim Berners Lee HTML, sothank you to the UK for providing the fellow who finally put the missing link in place. And then whathappened in the 90s was this extraordinary outpouring of creativity and constructiveness from millionsand millions of people. There were millions of people making Web pages, creating content online,creating social experiments, creating lessons—all sorts of things. And the first decade of the web tookplace without much of a profit motive, without any particular charismatic figures driving it, without fear,without a desire for an afterlife or any other religious gambits, without advertising, without any of thetraditional motivational schemes. It simply happened because people enjoyed it and it was a good idea.(APEUni Website / App SST #220)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

33. Housing Price in Australia (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Well, it’s like, why is Australian housing is so expensive? Essentially, it’s showing of how well theAustralian economy has been doing over the last 15 years. We have had 15 years more or less of anuninterrupted economic growth during which average earning has been raised by close to 90 percent.While over the course of that period, the standard variable mortgage rate has roughly halved. Thatmeant that the amount which a typical home buying household can afford to borrow under rules whicharen’t strictly applied as they used to be had more than doubled. Over the same period, risingimmigration in falling average household size has meant that the number of households looking foraccommodation has risen by about one and a half million. That’s around 200 thousand more than thenumber of dwellings has increased by. So you have had a substantial increase in the purchasing powerof households. No net increase in the supply of housing enhance all that addition purchasing powerhas gone into pushing up the price of housing.

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that an uninterrupted economic growth is a main reason. Also, he mentions that the standard variablemortgage rate has roughly halved. Lastly, the speaker believes that rising immigration in falling averagehousehold leads to a substantial increase in the purchasing power of households. In conclusion, thislecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #219)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

34. Misuse of Drugs (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:“But what are the dangers of keeping these drugs at home?” “There are a number of dangers.Parents should know that leftover drugs are dangerous because they may be accidentally ingested bychildren. Either adults don’t keep the bottles properly closed and stored or because even many kidscan sometimes open childproof lids. Patients may use the drugs after their expiration date. Theleftover drugs may be taken for the wrong reasons. For example, someone may have a viral infectionand self-prescribed to left over into microbial that was prescribed for a bacterial infection. But thatdrug will have no effect as the viral infections. Drugs that are left over might be given to or taken bysomeone else who may have a serious allergy to the medicine and who for that reason would not beprescribed to medicine under the supervision of a physician. Finally, inappropriate use of drugspromotes drug resistance if the drug is taken for the wrong indication, the wrong duration, or in thewrong dosage. “Todd, what can people do about this how can the situation be improved?” “I thinkphysicians, patients and parents of patients can take steps to improve the situation. First of all,physicians should prescribe the drug only when appropriate, only in the correct amount and only forthe correct duration. Also, the physician must stress to the patient that the full course of the drugmust be taken. This is recommended even if symptoms resolved before the end of the prescriptionand parents of children on antibiotics need to ensure they complete their course as well.”

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about inappropriate use of drugs. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that thereare a number of dangers of keeping drugs at home, like being accidentally ingested by children andtaken after expiration. Also, he mentions that leftover drugs may be taken for the wrong reasons.Lastly, the speaker believes that inappropriate use of drugs promotes drug resistance. In conclusion,this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #218)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

35. Decline of Bees (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:So various conclusions. Yes, bees are in decline. These declines are well-documented. They are realand supported by good, strong scientific evidence, which is the only of these counts. The drivers ofdecline on many varied depending on species. The effects of pollinator loss could be absolutely huge.So is it a catastrophe? Not yet. But it could be. On the positive side, we are aware of the problem.Awareness is being raised all the time and people are taking actions. Before fixing is missing, you canrecognize the problem. At least it's been done.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about bees in decline. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that these declines arewell-documented, supported by good, strong scientific evidence. Also, he mentions that the effects of

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pollinator loss could be absolutely huge. Lastly, the speaker believes that awareness is being raised allthe time and people are taking actions. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #217)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

36. Einstein (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:For thousands of years, philosophers and astronomers and thinkers of all sorts have imagined that theuniverse, the space around us was rather like this floor in front of us. It was fixed and unchangeableand things happen on it, just as people walk around. So the stars, the comets, and the planets, andthe other heavenly bodies moved around and traced down their parts on this completely unchangingstage of space. In the 20th century, as the result of Einstein’s work, that view of the universe wascompletely transformed. We began to understand that there was no absolutely fixed stage of space atall on which all celestial notions were played out. But in some sense on the larger scale in theuniverse, the space itself was in this state of a continuous dynamic change. That was a predictionmade by Einstein, but wasn't Einstein held the honor of making the discovery that the universe wasreally like that.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about the transformation of the universe view. Firstly, the speaker emphasizesthat for thousands of years the universe and space has been thought to be fixed and unchangeable.Also, he mentions that in the twentieth century there was no fixed stage of space as Einstein's theory.Lastly, the space was in a dynamic change on the larger scale. In conclusion, this lecture is veryinformative.(APEUni Website / App SST #214)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

37. Brand Image (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Consumers are the core section of any business. In fact, the whole concept of any business issurrounded by the behavior of consumers. And the values of consumer is a crucial factor. Now, wehave to understand a consumer is not to be taken lightly. He knows what product he wants.Consumers are extremely smart. They could make decisions about price and value of products inminutes or sometimes in few seconds. So, a business therefore needs to uplift its brand image.Consumers are willing to pay 15 more for quality products. However, the conflict starts whenmanufacturers failed to meet the expectations. This lies in the basic fundamental of engineering indesigning a product. Consumers want products to be softest. But at the same time, they also wantproduct like toilet papers to be light and strong, something which can be easily be torn. The brandTide is really good example. There was a problem of shaking the washing powder before being put intothe machine as it causes the damage of the material of the clothes. Tide had to made up to a lot ofexpectations for consumers.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about consumers. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that consumers are thecore section of any business. Also, he mentions that we have to understand a consumer is not to betaken lightly. Lastly, the speaker believes that a business needs to uplift its brand image and theconflict starts when manufacturers failed to meet the expectations. In conclusion, this lecture is very

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38. Wildlife as Food (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:In my view, it's impossible not to talk about wildlife, and not think about its role in livelihood. And Iguess part of that is my own view, part of the research that I do in Africa. In most Eastern WestAfrica, I look at the role. All the humans rely on wildlife as the source of food, and also the source ofincome. And we talk about our wildlife, if we talking about fish, we are talking about what is probablythe single most important source of protein for human that across the globe. And, so, billions of, ormore than a billion of people rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein, and most of thesepeople living in poverty. So the management of fish resource of wildlife in that sense causing incrediblyimportant to livelihoods and health. And also, wildlife tourism is the multiple billion dollars' industry, andin many places, such as Africa, South America, it can be the No.1 source of income. It can be theNo.1 source of foreign income for economies.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about wildlife as food. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that in most of Africa,all the humans rely on wildlife as the source of food. Also, he mentions that more than a billion ofpeople rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein. Lastly, the speaker believes that wildlifetourism is the multiple billion dollars' industry. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #179)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

39. Ugly Building (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:It seems to me that architecture is very much something that causes us both pleasure and trouble. Ilive in the part of western London where I think many of the streets are, where I live are really reallyugly, and this distresses me every time I walk to a supermarket or walk to a tube. I think why did theybuilt that and with terribly without architecture. It last so long, and if you write a bad book or do a badplay, you know, I will be shocked when it be showed and then no one would suffer. A bad building hasa serious impact for, could be hundreds of years on the people around it. And suppose the book arosea little bit from the frustration, almost anger than there is so much bad architecture around. And then Irealize if you talk about architecture, you will say why building are not more beautiful. Then you will sayI can use such word as "beauty", that's a really arrogant word. And no one knows what beautiful is. It'sall in the eye of beholder. I couldn't help but think that actually. Well, you know that we all attempt toagree that Rome is nice than Milkykings, and San Francisco has the edge of Frankfurt, so we canmake that sort of generalization, surely they are something we can say about why a building work orwhy it doesn't. So the book's really attempt to suggest why architecture works when it does and whatmight be going to be wrong when it doesn't work.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about architecture's emotional impacts. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that abad building has a serious impact for hundreds of years on the people around it. Also, he mentionsthat no one knows what 'beautiful' is. Lastly, the speaker believes that the architecture works when itdoes and might be going to be wrong when it doesn't work. In conclusion, this lecture is very

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40. Industrial Revolution (B) (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Through the 1950s and into the 1960s, the idea of the Industrial Revolution was that it was the work ofsome genius inventors who created machines used primarily in the textile industry but also in miningthat eliminated blocks to assembly line production. Then everybody was crowded into factories and thenew brave world opened up. In fact, one of the most interesting books and great classics that is still inprint was written by an economic historian at Harvard who's still alive called David Landes. It's a goodbook called The Unbound Prometheus, which was basically that. Some of the inventions that I brieflydescribe in your reading, the spinning Jenny, etc, refer to that. Well, and that kind of analysis led oneto concentrate on England where the Industrial Revolution began, and to view industrialization asbeginning a situation of winners and losers by not going as fast. Now, that analysis has been reallyrejected greatly over the past years, because Industrial Revolution is measured by more than simplylarge factories with industrial workers and the number of machines. This is the point of the beginningof this. The more that we look at the Industrial Revolution, the more that we see that the IndustrialRevolution was first and foremost an intensification of forms of production, of kinds of production thatwere already there. And thus, we spend more time looking at, you know, the intensification of artisanalproduction, craft production, of domestic industry, which we've already mentioned, that is peoplemostly women but also men and children, too, working in the countryside. The rapid rise of industrialproduction was very much tied to traditional forms of production.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about the Industrial Revolution. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes it was thework of some genius inventors who created machines used primarily in the textile industry. Also, hementions that that analysis has been really rejected greatly over the past years. Lastly, the speakerbelieves that the rise of industrial production was very much tied to traditional forms of production. Inconclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #175)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

41. Internet (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Internet was invented by people who were good at programming, and people keep optimizing it fordifferent purposes. So Internet has been growing organically. Internet can achieve many things but hasadvantages and disadvantages. The email system was designed by graduate students and researcherswho know and trust each other. Using email needs trust between the senders and the receivers as theauthentication process was not originally built in this system. Email authentication is a technicalsolution to proving that an email is not forged. In other words, it provides a way to verify that an emailcomes from who it claims to be from. Email authentication is most often used to block harmful orfraudulent uses of email such as phishing and spam. In practice, we use the term “emailauthentication” to refer to technical standards that make this verification possible.Initially, the emailsystem didn't consider security because there was no suspicion between them at that time, and therewas no authentication process built into this system.

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42. Architecture Design (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Design of buildings is important according to architectural textbooks. At its roots, architecture exists tocreate the physical environment in which people live, but architecture is more than just the builtenvironment, it’s also a part of our culture. It stands as a representation of how we see ourselves, aswell as how we see the world. There are poorly designed buildings, but also some great building works.In the Victoria Era, architects designed buildings based on bricks and other materials. The design offlaws was based on lighting as it would not only affect appearance but also health conditions. Thematerials that buildings are made of also matter. For example, the design of ground floors must ensurethat the building is able to withstand the weight of the higher levels. In the 20th century, many oldbuildings with design flaws were demolished or modified through a natural selection process, whichmeans they are an altered state rather than an original state. This is an application of Darwin's theoryof natural selection to modification of old buildings, which means buildings should adapt to the newworld to survive, or be pulled down. So, it's argued to be unfair to criticize the demolition, althoughsome people believe that whether to be remained should be decided based on their nature andfunctions. As the world became more and more connected, the styles evolved, but even in modernconstruction, there is still an importance in honoring the cultural nuances in the built environment.(APEUni Website / App SST #172)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

43. IT Development (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:The history of software is of course very very new. And the whole IT industry is really only 67 years oldwhich is extraordinary and to be so close to the birth of a major new technology, a major newdiscipline is quite remarkable given where we got to in those 67 years. And the progression has beennot so much a progression as a stampede because Moore's Law, the rapid expansion in the power ofcomputing and the rapid fall of the cost of computing and storage and communications has made itfeasible for information technology to move into all sorts of areas of life that were never originallyenvisaged. What has happened is that there has been as I said a stampede for people to pick thelow-hanging fruit. And that is what's guided the development of software and information technologyover the past decades and continues to do so with a number of consequences that we will explore.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about the development of IT industry. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that itis really only 67 years old. Also, he mentions the rapid expansion in the power of computing and therapid fall of the cost of computing. Lastly, the speaker believes that that is what has guided thedevelopment of software and information technology over the past decades. In conclusion, this lectureis very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #171)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Original:Why should we read the Republic? I image lots of students asked this question to me when they'regiven it as a set book at the beginning of their university course, but in fact there are many goodreasons to read the Republic. And first one I would pick on is just that it is immensely readable. It's notPlato did not write philosophy like a dry text book. He wrote it like a living conversation. The whole ofthe Republic which is fairly fat book is a living conversation written in short almost soundbite typeanswers, but nevertheless, developing some very important ideas so my first answer then we shouldread the Republic just because it is readable. It is readable it was written by a genius and it's worthreading. It's easy to read. It's not difficult. But then there's also obviously the thoughts, the content ofthe book and he's asking this absolutely fundamental question why should we bother to be good,what's in it for us effectively. It seems when we look at the world, it looks as though injustice pays. Itlooks as though crime pays or as the good people get trodden down. So, Plato addresses thisabsolutely fundamental question why should we be good. I'm not going to tell you his answer. Read thebook.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about the Republic. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that in fact there aremany good reasons to read the Republic. Also, he mentions that there are also obviously the thoughts,the content of the book. Lastly, the speaker believes that Plato addresses this absolutely fundamentalquestion why we should be good. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #169)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

45. Definition of Risk (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:What's the literal definition of "risk"? Business schools use risk analysis. So, what do you mean by"risk", and we need a dictionary. When you look at dictionary, this is literal, literal definition of risk.What it says is, the definition for example, the possibility of injury, a dangerous element or factor,chance of, degree or possibility of such loss, and so on. So, risk has two parts, as you look at theliteral definition of risk. One part is the consequence of some kind of particular danger, hazard loss.And the other is about the probability, of it: chance and consequence, OK? And then at least just asEnglish language concerns, when you look up the word of safe and safety, which you'll earn as, it's alittle bit of a loop, a little circular argument that free from harm or risks, secure from danger, harm orloss, the condition of being safe and so on for all. And why we take out of it? At least when we talkabout safe at least in English language, we are talking absolute something is safe, or it sounds safe.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about the literal definition of risk. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes risk has twoparts, the consequence of particular danger and the probability. Also, he mentions it is a little bit of aloop and a little circular argument that are free from harm or risks. Lastly, the speaker believes whentalking about 'safe', we mean something safe, or sounding safe. In conclusion, this lecture is veryinformative.(APEUni Website / App SST #166)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

46. Telescope (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:

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The aperture of a telescope is several times larger than the aperture of human eye so that theobjects that can not be normally seen by unaided eye can be seen. Light-gathering power of atelescope is proportional to the area of its aperture and hence depends on the square of the radius ofthe mirror. Therefore, a 20 cm diameter telescope collects four times more photons than a 10 cmdiameter telescope. A telescope can be equipped to record light over a long period of time, by usingphotographic film or electronic detectors such as photometers or CCD detectors while the eye has nocapability to store light. A long-exposure photograph taken through a telescope reveals objects toofaint to be seen with the eye, even by looking through the same telescope. A third major advantage oflarge telescopes is that they have superior resolution, the ability to discern fine detail. Small resolutionis good. The resolution is directly proportional to the wavelength being observed and inverselyproportional to the diameter of the telescope.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about telescope. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that the aperture of atelescope is several times larger than the aperture of human. Also, he mentions that a telescope canbe equipped to record light over a long period of time. Lastly, the speaker believes that largetelescopes have superior resolutions, the ability to discern fine detail. In conclusion, this lecture is veryinformative.(APEUni Website / App SST #164)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

47. Traveling & Transport in Paris (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:There are a number of possible purposes for a social network. You now have a good understanding ofhow to analyze the basic characteristics of your social network or that of another individual. Network isa social relationship which helps transfer information such as travelling from one place to another. Italso helps people get to different destinations more quickly if they need to travel in a long distance ortwo destinations. It is suitable for old cities with high-density population like Paris. There arethousands of trips and too many travelers everyday in Paris. The transportation network in Parisprovides thousands of public services and links them together. A good network can help people withlong-distance or multi-destination trips. In cities with high-density population such as Paris, peoplewould better carefully plan their journeys by looking at the routes of the network in advance, to reducethe density of commuters at the same time.(APEUni Website / App SST #159)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

48. Youth Communities (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:A research in the UK on a wide range of young students and children is about how they participate intheir communities, how they form values with character education and what influence them most. Theoutcomes involve parents, friends, schools and siblings, and researchers figure out which factors areessential and more important than others. Successful schools depend on the resources and support oftheir communities and schools at the centre of their communities are often the most successfulschools. In turn, schools are vital to the social health of their local communities. Also, families are thefirst social unit in which children learn and develop. Good parenting can take different forms and beshaped by various social and cultural forces, but it invariably involves providing children with the

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support, care, love, guidance and protection that set the conditions for healthy physical, mental andsocial development. The research has also attracted attention and interest from many national policymakers and contacted me.(APEUni Website / App SST #155)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

49. Human Rights (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:The Human Rights Act can be seen as far-reaching, some would argue controversial in the UK’shistory of rights. At the same time, it can be described as a somewhat cautious document thatprovides the starting point for a wider application of law to rights. In many ways, the freedomprotections contained in the Human Rights Act were not new to people in the UK. The Act puts intoUK law most of the clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights. The convention itself wasdevised following the end of the Second World War by the Council of Europe. UK law has played asignificant role in the drafting of the Convention and the UK was among the first governments to ratifythe convention in 1951. Rights are sometimes described as being of a positive or a negative nature.That’s to say some can be expressed as a right to and others as freedom from. The 1998 act putsinto place 15 specific rights and freedoms which include rights to liberty and security, a free trial, freeexpression, free elections and the right to marry and found a family. There are also freedoms fromtorture, from slavery or forced labor and from discrimination on grounds such as race, sex, religion,political opinion or social origin. The Human Rights Act has been described as the start of a process.The act itself does not expand on the provisions made by the European Convention which some wouldconsider is following a baseline or a minimum standard for human rights.

Answer:The Human Rights Act in the UK is far-reaching, controversial, and somehow a cautious document.UK signed the European Convention to protect human rights in 1951. Afterwards, the Human RightsAct 1998 sets out the fundamental rights and freedoms that everyone in the UK is entitled to. Lastly,the speaker believes the European Convention is following a baseline or a minimum standard forhuman rights. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #119)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

50. Globalization (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Globalization is an overused and often misunderstood concept. We hear it all the time on newsbroadcasts and in any type of public discussion. But the starting point for understanding globalizationis that it is industries and markets that globalize, not countries. That's why it's helpful to think ofglobalization as 'the integration of economic activities across borders'. But why does globalizationmatter? I would argue globalization matters because it means the rise of interconnectedness betweencountries and markets across the world. For example, one of the reasons why the financial crash of2007/2008 was so serious was because the financial and banking systems of countries around theworld have become so closely interconnected with the globalization of markets.

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and markets that globalize, not countries. Lastly, the speaker believes that it means the rise ofinterconnectedness between countries and markets across the world. In conclusion, this lecture is veryinformative.(APEUni Website / App SST #149)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

51. Vitamin D (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:I'm going to start with Vitamin D today, and I think probably most of you know that vitamin D is calledthe "sunshine vitamin". And it's called that because there is absolutely no dietary need for vitamin D ifyou get adequate sunshine. And I think the real important words there is "if" because it turns out thatin certain climates which aren't near the equator, there's a big question as to whether or not you doget adequate sunshine. So vitamin D really isn't actually a vitamin. It's a pro-hormone. When humanbeings evolve, we evolved in tropical climates and ran around naked with plenty of skin exposure tosunlight and so there was no dietary need for vitamin D at all. As humans migrated away fromequatorial regions, they actually created a need for vitamin D in food because the sunlight wasn'tadequate, I mean certainly, particularly during the winter months, it wasn't adequate at all.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes thereis no dietary need for vitamin D if you get adequate sunshine. Also, she mentions that vitamin D reallyisn't the vitamin and it's a pro-hormone. Lastly, the speaker believes that humans created a need forvitamin D in food. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #148)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

52. Good Ideas (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:To be a successful entrepreneur, you should have good ideas, but the definition of a good idea variesdepending on whom you ask. A great idea should have several features. Firstly, the great idea shouldbe various and novel. Secondly, the great idea should be unique, which means no one has thoughtabout it. Thirdly, it is essential for great ideas to be transformative and productive. All ideas areessentially a combination of other smaller ideas, but this doesn’t mean they can’t be unique. Merelycopying doesn’t make anything idiosyncratic, it’s the individuality that one puts in which makes aconcept stand out. Constant innovation leaves no room for stagnation and thus, adds on to the basicidea, effectively making it unique. Unique ideas are inspired by basic things, they are simply extensionsof pre-existing notions. And, an idea or a concept is unique only when it transcends its predecessorand serves its purpose in a better and more precise way.(APEUni Website / App SST #144)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

53. Power Devolution (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Well, that’s one aspect of what’s called, reducing government and modifying government, to be moreprecise. Another aspect of it is what’s called “devolution”, reducing and moving governmental power

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from the Federal to the State level. And that has a kind of a rationale which you hear all over the timeand place. Like, for example, there was an op-ed couple of weeks ago in the New York Times by JohnCogan, Hoover Institute at Stanford, who has pointed out what he called a philosophical issue thatdivides the Democrats from the Republicans. The philosophical issue is that the Democrats believe inbig government and entitlements, and the Republicans believe in getting the power down closer to thepeople, you know, to the States - cause they’re kind of populist types. Well, it takes about maybethree seconds’ thought to realize that moving power down to the States, in funding and so on, is justmoving it away from the people, for a perfectly elementary reason: there’s a hidden part of thesystem, of the power system, that you’re not supposed to know about, or think about, and that’sprivate power.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about reducing and modifying government. Firstly, the speaker emphasizesthat another aspect was called the devolution, reducing and moving governmental power from federalto the state level. Also, he mentions that the Republicans believe in getting the power down closer tothe people. Lastly, the speaker believes that a hidden part of the system is private power. Inconclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #140)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

54. Big Bang (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:One of the most amazing things that have happened even in my lifetime is the prediction ofcosmology. When I started out forty-odd years ago, we thought we knew that the universe began abig bang, some people doubted even then. We thought the universe was about ten or twenty billionyears old. But now for really very sound scientific reasons, we can say that the universe did start in aBig bang and it’s 13.8 billion years old. So it’s not 14, it's not 13 because a decimal point in there andthat’s a stunning achievement to know that. And we also know that the laws of physics that apply totiny particles inside atoms also explains what happened in the big bang, you can’t have one withoutthe other. A very neat example of this is that when you apply nuclear physics, that kind of physics tounderstand how stars work, you find out that the oldest star in the universe is about 13 billion yearsold. So their universe is just a little bit older than the stars. Fantastic, if we done it and counted in theother way around and said that the stars were older than the universe, we would say science was indeep trouble. But it’s not, everything fits together and we know how the universe began, we got toknow how the way it is. The future that it ‘ll suspects we don’t know quite well what’s going, but wegot some ideas, which are as good as those ideas we had 40 years ago about how big banghappened.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about the prediction of cosmology. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that theuniverse did start in a big bang. Also, he mentions that the laws of physics that apply to tiny particlesalso explain the big bang. Lastly, the speaker believes we got some ideas as good as those ideas wehad 40 years ago about how big bang happened. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #138)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Original:Why do we need to recycle water? Because we don’t generate much new water. Chemically theprocess of generating water, which is basically taking hydrogen and oxygen and burning them toproduce water, is not a process that happens a lot anymore. So in terms of our total volume of waterin the world, yes it is changing, but it’s not changing significantly relative to the rate at which we areusing or demand fresh new water. Now there are a lot of different areas of technology involved inwater recycling, and we are later in the interview going to get to industrial use and the reclamation ofsewerage. What about in the home at the moment; what sort of technology is being utilized in thehome when we talk about water recycling? Well very little on average. Typically in a modern home, weturn on the tap, we take a glass of water, we probably in turning on that tap flush ten glasses of waterdown the sink. We take a shower, we use fresh water, we do a whole range of things, and there isnominally very little recycling of that. It goes down the drain and it goes off to a wastewater treatmentplant. There is actually very, very little recycling at a local level. People don’t actually say well I’m nowgoing to take the water I just used, put it through a sophisticated process and reuse it and have aclosed loop. It’s not a closed loop in the home.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about water recycling. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that chemically theprocess of generating water is not a process that happens a lot anymore. Also, he mentions that thereare a lot of different areas of technology involved in water recycling. Lastly, the speaker believes thatthere is nominally very little recycling of water used at home. In conclusion, this lecture is veryinformative.(APEUni Website / App SST #136)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

56. Dropping from School (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About dropping out of school. Low achievers are more likely to drop out of school. Boys areusually pushed into an employment pool and they may have lots of opportunities of jobs, with mainlytwo destinations, shipping and traineeship. So dropping from school is not absolutely bad for boys.Girls are less likely to leave school because fewer jobs are available for them. So, for girls droppingfrom school is completely bad, and if they do so, they can either get part-time jobs or just stayunemployed.(APEUni Website / App SST #135)

57. Language Levels (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Well a historical linguist compares languages at several levels. You start out looking for basicvocabulary. All languages of the world, natural languages at least, have words for eye and head andnose and ear and for sky and earth and for water, sand and for sibling, mother and father. They maynot have words for uncle and aunt. It becomes much vaguer because in one culture an aunt isdifferent when it comes from your father's side than from your mother's side. You don't include snow.Most people know what snow is but in the tropics you don't have it. So you look for notions that aretotally comparable and that occur everywhere in the world. You take the hundred or two hundred mostuniversal notions in a human life, those which you call the basic vocabulary. So you take basicvocabularies and languages that you think are related. You look for words that sound the same andbasically you're not fooled by a hundred per cent identical words but you are really looking for wordsthat sound the same.

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Answer:This lecture mainly talks about basic vocabulary. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that there are onehundred or two hundred most universal notions in a human life, those that you call the basicvocabulary. Also, he mentions that basically people are not fooled by identical words. Lastly, thespeaker believes that it is the regularity of the correspondences between sounds that are reallyimportant. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #134)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

58. Food Production (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:It is projected that people are going to suffer from a serious food crisis for the next 30 years until2030. Unless immediate action is taken, it is increasingly clear that there is an impending global foodemergency that could have long-term impacts on hundreds of millions of children and adults. We mustdouble the yield of our production by increasing 100% to feed a growing global population and to caterfor the future demand of food. This is an urgent matter and is quite frightening. About 50 millionpeople risk falling into extreme poverty this year. People should elevate food production now.Scientists have predicted an increase in food production of 30% to 50% for developing countries inthe next three years. There will be an increase of the cost of the production. There is also anopportunity for developing countries to improve food systems alongside reducing poverty andincreasing global resilience to shocks.(APEUni Website / App SST #126)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

59. Negative Emotions (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: The utility of negative emotions…… The negative things such as fears promote evolutions andhelp people to survive. The positive things we are frequently to experience but it is limiting. However,the negative, emotions are less frequently but very intensive.(APEUni Website / App SST #123)

60. Time Machine (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Seemly about telescope, but not heard in the lecture. Some device can measure speed andsee things from far away. But there are some bad things regarding universe (like, too far to see itclearly) . But we don't have time machine. You will see the universe unfolding. Key words: finite speed,look back, universe history, look for fossil, can observe fossil evidence, 8-dimensions, long distanceobjects, fast speed, get away from the past, look into(?) universe, in folding.(APEUni Website / App SST #121)

61. Roman Building (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:But you can see from the relatively crooked and narrow streets of the city of Rome as they look fromabove today. You can see that again, the city grew in a fairly ad hoc way, as I mentioned. It wasn’tplanned all at once. It just grew up over time, beginning in the eighth century B.C.. Now this isinteresting because what we know about the Romans is when they were left to own devices and theycould build the city from scratch, they didn't let it grow in an ad hoc way. They structure it in a, in avery care, very methodical way. That was basically based on military strategy, military planning. The

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Romans they couldn’t have conquered the world without obviously having a masterful militaryenterprise and everywhere they went on their various campaigns, their various military campaigns.They would build, build camps and those camps were always laid out in a very geometric plan along agrid, usually square or rectangular. So, when we begin to see the Romans building their ideal Romancity, then turn to that so call castrum or military camp design.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about Rome. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that the streets of the city ofRome were not planned all at once. Also, she mentions that the Romans structured it in a methodicalway, based on military strategy. Lastly, the speaker believes that they would build camps, always laidout in a very geometric plan along a grid square or rectangular. In conclusion, this lecture is veryinformative.(APEUni Website / App SST #110)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

62. Climate and Crops (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Now we spend a lot of time thinking about how climate will affect crops. But crops affect climatethemselves and they do this in two ways. First of all, about one-quarter of the land surface is used forgrowing crops. Another 10-15 % are used for pasture. So a substantial amount of the land surface isused in crop and agricultural production. And how we used that land affects our climate? If we were,for example, to deforest a substantial area and replace it with the annual crop such as soybean. Thenwe would alter the characteristics of the land surface, alter the way that water and heat flows fromthe land surface to the atmosphere and back, and ultimately change the regional climate if that is notenough to change the land surface. So this is an absolutely fascinating topic and one that’s reallyquite difficult to understand because of the complexity. It’s difficult because it needs us as cropsscientists to work even more closely with our climate scientist, colleagues. And it’s difficult becausewe have to join our models together.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about climate and crops. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes crops affect climatethemselves and they do this in two ways. Also, he mentions this is an absolutely fascinating topic andone that's really quite difficult to understand because of the complexity. Lastly, the speaker believes itneeds us as crops scientists to work even more closely with our climate scientist. In conclusion, thislecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #109)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

63. Globalization and Detraditionalization (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:So, I think you all know what I mean by globalization, don’t you? This is the idea that we all live in aglobal village. With instant communications, we can share ideas, and consume cultural artifacts fromcountries all over the world, just by going into the Internet and all dream up, basically. The world isshrinking. In terms of speeds, it is accelerating, but in terms of distance, it’s shrinking. What do I meanby detraditionalization? I mean the disappearance or the erosion, for the better word to use, theerosion of traditional cultures, of conventional ways of doing things, of conventional moralities. Moreand more young people around the world are rejecting the culture they grow up in, and it’s probably a

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little bit cruel. But some imitating a Hollywood model of society, rather than the one which they inheritfrom their local tradition background. OK?

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about globalization. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that we all live in a globalvillage with instant communications, by which we can share ideas. Also, he mentions that the world isshrinking in terms of distance. Lastly, the speaker believes that detraditionalization means the erosionof traditional cultures, conventional ways of doing things, and conventional moralities. In conclusion,this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #108)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

64. Earthquake and Fault (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:So, faults are breaks in the earth's crust. We can identify them because of the discontinuity in thestructure within the earth crust across faults. And earthquakes occur on these faults, so variedprocesses by which these faults move to a large extent is due to earthquakes. So, we have a faultplane and the earthquake is so focused on this fault plane. And the earthquake starts at the particularpoint on the fault plane and we call that the focus of the earthquake. The rupture propagates outfrom that point on the rupture plane to cover the entire fault plane. The rupture is in that particularearthquake. We talked about the epicenter of the earthquake a lot. The epicenter is just the surfaceprojection of the focus of the earthquake. So, if you wanted to look at map view where the earthquakewas located, we would be able to look that into the earth. We would see the focus down some depthin the earth or the epicenter just a point vertically above that focus at the surface of the earth. So,this is the relationship between the faults and the earthquakes.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about faults in the earth crust. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that thesefaults move to a large extent are due to earthquakes. Also, he mentions that the epicenter is just thesurface projection of the focus of the earthquake. Lastly, the speaker believes that we would see thefocus down some depth in the earth. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #107)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

65. Talent War（B） (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:I think there is an intense competition at the moment to hire the most talented and most intellectuallyable people. There is a time when I think companies have many of the adventures in the world. Thatinvolves the companies' world. It was the bosses' world. Now I think it reverses the case. We have ashortage in talent base within countries and between countries, have an intense battle betweencompanies to hire the most talented workers and also between countries, which are looking to recruittalented young people, talented young immigrants. We have this sense of immigrants being things thatcountries are battled to keep out, and immigrants want to get in, climb of the walls. I think theopposite isn't that the case. And the topic is that countries are trying to lure bright young people toget them to go to universities and get them to become immigrants. So, on many levels, talent is apremium. There is a shortage of talent, and so countries, companies, all sorts of organizations, ofcourse, volunteer organizations as well as, are competing to hire the best and the brightest. You know

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we have a baby-boom population which is aging. We have an economy which is becoming moresophisticated. And so, for all those sorts of reasons, talent is a premium.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about an intense competition. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that we have ashortage in talent base within countries and between countries. Also, she mentions that on manylevels, for all those sorts of reasons, talent is a premium. Lastly, the speaker believes that we have aneconomy which is becoming more sophisticated. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #104)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

66. Canned Food (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:One of the things that was going on during the Great Depression was the beginning of this sort ofmodern food technology that rules, you know, the way Americans eat today. That is there are a lot ofcanned foods were being - coming onto the market at the time. And also, refrigerators were reallybecoming very, very popular during the Great Depression, both in cities and in rural parts of thecountry. Thanks to electrification, the Rural Electrification Administration, people could buy appliances.You know, farmers could buy appliances. And that meant frozen foods were becoming big. And, youknow, at that time, few people could afford to buy them during the early years of the GreatDepression. But, you know, gradually, these things picked up. And so this was, like, the sort ofbeginning of the era when people were starting to think about supermarkets with rows and rows offreezer cases and rows and rows of canned foods.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about canned food. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes one of the things goingon during the Great Depression was the beginning of this sort of modern food technology ruling theway Americans eat today. Also, he mentions refrigerators were becoming popular. Lastly, the speakerbelieves few people could afford to buy them during the early years of the Great Depression. Inconclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #120)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

67. Fight or Flight (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:To understand the Fight or Flight response it helps to think about the role of emotions in our lives.Many of us would prefer to focus on our logical, thinking nature and ignore our sometimestroublesome emotions, but emotions have a purpose. Our most basic emotions like fear, anger ordisgust are vital messengers: they evolved as signals to help us meet our basic needs for self-preservation and safety. It would be dangerous to be indecisive about a threat to our survival so thebrain runs information from our senses through the most primitive, reactive parts of our brain first.These areas of the brain control instinctive responses and they don't do too much thinking. This moreprimitive part of our brain communicates with the rest of our brain and our body to create signals wecan't ignore easily: powerful emotions and symptoms.

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the role of emotions. Also, he mentions our most basic emotions like fear, anger or disgust are vitalmessengers. Lastly, the speaker believes this more primitive part of our brain communicates with therest of our brain and body to create signals we can't ignore easily. In conclusion, this lecture is veryinformative.(APEUni Website / App SST #103)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

68. Indian Peasant Debt（2） (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:The debt today is so high, it’s two hundred thousand rupees, three hundred thousand rupees ofpeasant who have no capital. They who know within a year or two, when they accumulate that kind ofdebt. Where is the debt coming from? It's coming from a seed that is costing a hundred thousand totwo hundred thousand rupees per kilogram, depending on what you got. Seeds that used to be free,used to be theirs. Pesticides each time, the more they use, the more they have to use, 12 sprays, 15sprays, 20 sprays. Pesticides used in just the last five years in the land areas of India has shown up by2000 percent. That’s why the free market and globalization have brought and since we are talkingabout peasants, who have no money, who have no capital, they can only buy expensive seeds andexpensive pesticides by borrowing. And who lend that money? The seed companies that sell thepesticides, which are the same companies that sell the seeds, as you know, are now also the majorcreditors.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about Indian peasant debt. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that it is threehundred thousand rupees of peasants who have no capital. Also, she mentions that It is coming from aseed that is costing a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand rupees per kilogram. Lastly, thespeaker believes the seed companies that sell the pesticides are the major creditors. In conclusion,this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #101)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

69. University Competition (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Today a university like the LSE certainly has to acknowledge that it is in competition for the beststudents, all of whom have choices they can exercise, and many of them choices which run acrossnational and continental borders. We are in competition, too, for staff. The academic job market isone of the most global 25 there is. And in the 21st century English is the new Latin, so universities inEnglish speaking countries are exposed to more intensive competition than those elsewhere. We are incompetition for government funding, through the assessment of research quality. We are incompetition for research contracts, from public and private sector sources, and indeed we are incompetition for the philanthropic pound. Many of our own donors were at more than one university,and indeed think of the LSEs requests alongside those of other charities to which they are committed.That is a competitive environment which is particularly visible to a vice-Chancellor.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about university competition. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that universitiesare in competition for the best students and staff. Also, he mentions that universities in Englishspeaking countries are exposed to more intensive competition than those elsewhere. Lastly, the

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speaker believes that we are in competition for research contracts, from public and private sectors. Inconclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #96)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

70. Smile of Mother (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Ever try to get a baby to smile? It can seem close to impossible—and then suddenly there it is: thatelusive, seemingly joyous grin. Well it turns out those smiles aren’t spontaneous—they’re strategic.Researchers have found that when babies smile, it's for a reason. They want whoever they’reinteracting with—typically a parent—to smile back. And they time it just so, a smile here and a smilethere. The researchers call it sophisticated timing. The study is in the journal PLoS ONE. Theresearchers enlisted real mothers and infants and quantified their interactions, which fell into fourcategories. One: babies wanted to maximize the amount of time smiling at their mothers. Two: theywanted to maximize the time the mothers smiled at them. Three: they wanted to experiencesimultaneous smiling, and four: no smiling at all. By studying when smiles happened and what thesubsequent effect was, the investigators were able to figure out that for mothers the goal 70 percentof the time was to be smiling simultaneously—while for babies 80 percent of the time they just wantedtheir mother smiling at them. So, mothers want the interaction, while babies just want to be smiled at.So your baby may not be able to feed itself, talk or even turn over yet. But when it comes to smiles,babies seem to know exactly what they're up to.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about babies' smiles. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes those smiles aren’tspontaneous but strategic. Also, he mentions that when babies smile, they hope whoever they’reinteracting with to smile back, called sophisticated timing. Lastly, the speaker believes babies just wanttheir mother smiling at them. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #89)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

71. Children Literature (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:And I am the professor of children’s literature at Newcastle University and I want to write a very shortintroduction to children’s literature because although here in Britain one of the longest and mostdistinguished traditions of creating books for children, perhaps the longest and most distinguished inthe world. We often take them for granted and we don’t pay enough attention to what a remarkablecultural resource they are for adults and kind of cultural work they do for children and the way thatthey have served writers and illustrators as a cultural space for creativity subversion and opportunitiesto experiment with new ideas. So what kind of cultural work the children’s books do? Well, at the levelof individual child, this is one of the places where children learn the vocabularies, get the vicariousexperiences, and see the images of the world that help them think about how the world works andwhere they fit into it, because children’s books are first places that children encounter these thingsthey are often very direct, as a source of information about what a particular period thinks includingwhat it thinks a child is, what a child needs to know, what childhood looks like, sometimes when we arelooking at children’s books from the past, it is very important to notice these kinds of children whoaren’t there, for instance. So that is one of the things that we have in children’s books.

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(APEUni Website / App SST #41)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

72. Global Warming (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:There can now be no reasonable, science-based, doubt about the reality of global climate changeeffects brought on by the cumulative and rapidly growing emission of so-called "greenhouse gases" -primarily carbon dioxide - into the atmosphere. As these effects become increasingly more obviousworldwide, so commercial interests, groups of concerned individuals and national governments havebeen gripped by amounts of mass panic and what to do about it. To many, Paul Ehrlich’s Malthusian"Population Bomb" of 1968 appears about to explode in the world’s face in an indirect version of hismillenarian vision of population growth which outpaces agricultural production capacity - withpredictably catastrophic results for humanity. And his three-part crisis scenario does indeed seem nowto be present: a rapid rate of change, a limit of some sort, and delays in perceiving that limit. Ehrlich’swork was roundly criticized at the time, and later, from many quarters, and much of what he predicteddid not come about. Nevertheless, can the world afford to take the risk that the climate scientistshave got it wrong? Is it not in everyone’s interest to apply the Precautionary Principle in attempting toavoid the worst of their predictions - now, rather than at some future time? As the Chairman of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Mr. Rajendra Pachauri, has recently pointed out, elevenof the warmest years since instrumental records began have occurred in the past twelve years, whilemajor precipitation changes are taking place on a global scale.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about global climate change effects. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes thatpopulation growth outpaces agricultural production capacity, with predictably catastrophic results forhumanity. Also, she mentions that the three-part crisis scenario seems to be present. Lastly, thespeaker believes that eleven of the warmest years since instrumental records began have occurred inthe past twelve years. In conclusion, this lecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #40)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

73. Monster (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:So, we were founded just over ten years ago, when I was in the Royal Academy, a Museum in thecentre of London, with my three children, at the Aztec exhibition. I don’t know if any of you saw it. Ihad an older child and two younger children, twins, strapped in a pushchair, and one of my children,three years old, shouted and I've never denied he shouted. He shouted, 'Monster, monster！’ at thisstatue which looked just like a monster, had snakes for hair, a big beak for a nose. And, I thought, thisis fantastic I've got a three year old that's appreciating art how good can it get? So, I bent down and Isaid, 'Yes, it looks just like a monster’ And, at that moment, a room warden came over, a galleryassistant came over and said we were being too noisy, and threw us out. Wrong family. I was, at thattime, a journalist with The Guardian newspaper, and two days later wrote a big piece in The Guardianabout being thrown out of the Royal Academy. What was really interesting was, by the end of that day,we had had, at the paper, over 500 emails from other families saying, Museums aren’t working for us.Let’s try and make it work. So, that’s what we did. In The Guardian, we set up a campaign. We calledit the Kids in Museums campaign, but it didn’t really exist. It was just a few pages. We ran loads of

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stories on it; I began touring the country talking about how to make your museum family friendly.

Answer:This lecture mainly talks about the Royal Academy. Firstly, the speaker emphasizes that they werethrown out of the museum for her child's shouting. Also, she mentions in The Guardian, they set up acampaign, called the Kids in Museums campaign, but it didn’t really exist. Lastly, the speaker believesshe began touring the country talking about how to make museums family friendly. In conclusion, thislecture is very informative.(APEUni Website / App SST #78)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

74. Language Death (Prediction) (Explanation) (Audio Available)Original:Language death is not mainstream theatre. It is not mainstream anything. Can you imagine Hollywoodtaking it on? It is so far outside the mindsets of most people that they have difficulty appreciating whatthe crisis is all about, because they are not used to thinking more about language as an issue in itself.Somehow we need to change these mindsets. We need to get people thinking about language moreexplicitly, more intimately, more enthusiastically. Interest in language is certainly there, in the generalpopulation – most people are fascinated by such topics as where words come from, or what the originof their town’s name is, or whether their baby’s name means anything; they are certainly prepared toplay Scrabble and a host of other language games ad infinitum; and language games are often foundon radio and television, too – but a willingness to focus that interest on general issues, apreparedness to take on board the emotion and drama inherent in the situation of languageendangerment, is not something that happens much.(APEUni Website / App SST #76)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Multiple Choice (Multiple)Repeat Rate: 5%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Unimportant question, has only a few marksAudio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. Complaints (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Two students complain about their classes. A boy asks a girl how about her classes. She saysshe does not major in science but she also suffer pressures with a lot of reading and essays to do.Options: Two students in science complain about too much school work; A student says she has manyoptions but still has a lot of school work to do.(APEUni Website / App LMCM #78)

2. Nano-gold (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About nano-gold and micron-gold. Question: What is the difference... Options: If the practicalsize changes, the matter's property changes.(APEUni Website / App LMCM #81)

3. Sharks (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 要点：视频题，⼀个⻘年（奥克兰的鲨⻥博⼠）介绍⾃⼰为什么要研究鲨⻥和学习相关知识。鲨⻥的种类实在是太多了，你看这⽚⽔域就有XXX，那⽚⽔域有XXX，这些都对⽣物链有重要的影响。 sharks atrisk。提到fierce。问题：这⼈刚开始研究鲨⻥时，觉得鲨⻥如何？选项：amazing； at risk。(APEUni Website / App LMCM #69)

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1. Lost Dog (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Your neighbor's dog is missing and you help him by finding and returning it to him. He is verygrateful and treat you with cakes as rewards. Such things happen many times, and every time he isgrateful. But once, you send his lost dog back to him as usual, but he expresses no thanks, offers noreward, and give no explanation. You are unhappy. Next time such a thing happens, will you help him?Wasn't a right thing you help him for the first time? Question: What's the main purpose of thespeaker? Options: analyze behavior; predict result; criticize action; question motivate ( correctanswer).(APEUni Website / App LMCS #87)

2. Children Genders (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: Nowadays marketers will muddle up the concept of children's genders. Question: The speakerthinks marketers______ Options: distrusted; fearful (correct answer); (commendatory term 1);(APEUni Website / App LMCS #86)

3. Timetable (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: A conversation between a boy and a girl. The boy complains that he has classes throughoutthe five week days and has to go to lectures on Mondays. The girl says that's common. Options: Fulltimetable (correct answer ).(APEUni Website / App LMCS #85)

4. Wright Brothers (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 要点：关于发明⻜机的莱特兄弟 Wright Brothers。发明airplane从bicycle获得了⼀些灵感。⽂中多次提到了bicycle和balance。选项：不同的东⻄也可以跨界相互参考借鉴，有个inter-的词（答案）(APEUni Website / App LMCS #75)

5. Bibliography and Reference (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: About the difference between bibliography and reference. Options: The scopes are different(correct answer).(APEUni Website / App LMCS #64)

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Highlight Correct SummaryRepeat Rate: 5%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Unimportant question, has only a few marksAudio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. Ambassador (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 要点：男声的说他是英国驻⽇本的ambassador，在⽇本很多年。选项：politician; (答案)businessman；（⼲扰项） teacher（⼲扰项）(APEUni Website / App HCS #66)

2. Ugly Building (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:It seems to me that architecture is pretty much something that causes us both pleasure and trouble. Ilive in the part of western London where I think many of the streets are really really ugly, and thisdistresses me everytime when I walk to a supermarket or walk to the tube. I do not understand whythey built those buildings without architecture. A bad building has a serious impact on the peoplearound it, which could be hundreds of years. It lasted so long, and if you write a bad book or a badplay, I will be shocked when it was shown. Suppose the book arose a little bit from the frustration, andthen I realize if you talk about architecture, you will say why building are not more beautiful. Then youwill say I can use such work as "beauty", which is a really arrogant word. And no one knows whatbeautiful is. It's all in the eye of the beholder. I couldn't help but think about that actually. Well, youknow that we all attempt to agree that Rome is nice than Milkykings, and San Francisco has the edgeof Frankfurt, so we can make that sort of generalization. Surely they are something we can say aboutwhy a building works or why it doesn't. So the books really attempt to suggest why architecture workswhen it does and what might go wrong when it doesn't work.

Options:A) Whether buildings are beautiful or not does not have any influence on people' lives. Beauty is aclear definition which everyone knows.B) London is a modern city, where there is no ugly buildings. All the supermarkets and streets arevery beautiful, because everyone who lives there knows what 'beautiful' is.C) Ugly buildings can impact people who live around them, even for hundreds of year. Beautiful isa very hard thing to define, as no one really knows what beautiful is.

Answer:C(APEUni Website / App HCS #61)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

3. Pancake Ice (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:Pancake ice is an intermediate step between an open-water configuration and a totally frozen body ofwater. We know that a combination of very cold temperatures and waves is necessary to make thepancakes form in the first place. After these waves make it form, there's an entire spectrum - so a

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wide collection of frequency waves that they would encounter, whether they be from wind shear orthey'd be from you know that the ocean long slow waves. The easiest way to study it is to look ateach individual range of frequencies one after another. Sort of gain a wider perspective on how thepancake ice interacts with waves. The ultimate aim of our research is to better inform themeteorological modelers of the world who are looking at Antarctica as well as the Arctic and some ofthe other cold regions of the world. We're conducting work in the Sea-Ice-Wind-Wave-lnteractionfacility here at UniMeIb. It was designed by the head of our department Jason Monty. He had theforesight to use a modular design, which means there are individual sections that are stackedtogether, so since we're built to the space that we have in this lab right now. When we moved toFishermans Bend we can extend our model and a few more sections to make it much longer. And thatwill enable us to have longer runtimes, have more developed waves as well as add some otherpossibilities of study.

Options:A) Pancake ice is formed under deep sea, which only requires extremely cold temperature itself.The aim of the research is mere scientific experiments, and does not have serve practicalpurposes.B) Pancake ice exists in a warm river, which requires warm water, rain or snow. The aim of theresearch is to forecast weather in those river regions.C) Pancake ice is formed by extremely cold temperature and waves, which needs a wide collectionof frequency. The aim of the research is to give the meteorological modelers a betterunderstanding of this phenomenon through a special lab.

Answer:C(APEUni Website / App HCS #60)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Select Missing WordRepeat Rate: 5%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Unimportant question, has only a few marksAudio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. ageing population (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 回忆：ageing population 结束前应该说的是⼯作相关所以我选了with the labor force 介词忘了但是和⼯作有关的选项(APEUni Website / App SMW #82)

2. Eclipse (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: 关于⼈们⽤什么⽅法来观赏eclipse，最后⼀句话的倒数第⼆个单词是lunar（beep）。选项：eclipse；night；moon。(APEUni Website / App SMW #66)

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1. Facial Expression (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available)Is that person really glad to see me? Or are they just being polite? Some people struggle to distinguisha fake grin from a truly happy smile. And computers have found this task even more difficult, that is,until researchers develop a program to detect when a smile is genuine. Visual computing researchersat the University of Bradford in the U.K. started with software for simulating a changing facialexpression. This program can examine a video clip of a human head and identifyspecific details around the eyes, cheeks and mouth. Then the program tracks the details movingrelative to each other as the face smiles. Next, the scientists had their program analyzing two sets ofvideo clips. In one, subjects performed posed smiles. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #128)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

2. Cars in America (Prediction) (Audio Available)There are some 250 million cars in America, 250 million cars in the country with just over 300 millionpeople. And most of those vehicles, of course, are gas powered . This poses a huge challenge giventhe limited supplies of oil and the growing urgency of the global warming crisis. But there is goodnews, according to our guests today. And that is we have the know-how and the technology tobuild sleek , fast automobiles that don't use gasoline. These vehicles of tomorrow are poweredby hydrogen , electricity, bio-fuels, and digital technology. And they already exist. So what's stoppingus from putting them on the roads? Our guests today will help answer that. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #125)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

3. Kimbell (Prediction) (Audio Available)The first section of the book covers new modes of assessment. In Chapter 1, Kimbell (GoldsmithCollege, London) responds to criticisms of design programs as formalistic and conventional, statingthat a focus on risk-taking rather than hard work in design innovation is equally problematic. Hisresearch contains three parts that include preliminary exploration of design innovation qualities,investigation of resulting classroom practices, and development of evidence-based assessment. Theassessment he describes is presented in the form of a structured worksheet, which includes acollaborative element and digital photographs, in story format. Such a device encourages stimulatingideas, but does not recognize students as design innovators . The assessment sheet includes holisticimpressions as well as details about 'having, growing, and proving' ideas. Colloquial judgments areevident in terms such as 'wow' and 'yawn' and reward the quality and quantity of ideas with the term,'sparkiness', which fittingly is a pun as the model project was to design light bulb packaging. Inaddition, the assessment focuses on the process of optimizing or complexity control as well as provingideas with thoughtful criticism and not just generation of novel ideas. The definitions for qualities suchas 'technical' and 'aesthetic' pertaining to users, are too narrow and ill-defined. The author

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provides examples of the project, its features and structures, students' notes and judgments, and theirsketches and photographs of finished light bulb packages, in the Appendix. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #124)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

4. The 400th Anniversary (Prediction) (Incomplete)Points: It was about 400th anniversary of something and people crossed something like that. Blanks:Permanent, later, ... , Atlantic, uncover(APEUni Website / App FIBL #123)

5. Social Harm (Prediction) (Audio Available)Social harm originates out of a series of debates within criminology about the narrowness of thedefinition of crime, that essentially, focuses on individual acts of harm, things like inter-personalviolence, theft, so on and so forth. So the idea of social harm originally was to expand that notion ofharm to encompass the harms that organisations and nation states cause. But latterly the idea ofsocial harm really now transcends criminology so there are a group of writers who think that—and Iwould include myself there—that actually there's something to social harm that could be very useful interms of trying to understand the harms that occur within society, to produce an objective and well-rounded analyses of harm. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #121)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

6. Candace Galen (Prediction) (Audio Available)Candace Galen is based at the University of Missouri, in Columbia. And, being a biologist, she thought,why not use this astronomical phenomenon to study a biological one? Specifically: as theskies darken would daytime pollinators, like bumblebees and honeybees, call it quits ? "What betteractivity during an eclipse than to go out with a recorder and record the bees?" "So Galen asked 400citizen scientists—including young students—to place audio recorders in 16 flower patches along thepath of totality, in Oregon, Idaho and Missouri. When they analyzed the audio, they found thatduring partial eclipse, bee buzzing continued. But when totality hit, the bees went silent and only theconversational buzz of human observers could be heard. Then, as the moon passed and the sun againlit up the sky, the bees regained their buzz. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #120)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

7. Green Chemistry (Prediction) (Audio Available)Green Chemistry is a concept designed to develop technologies which allow chemistry to be practicedwith minimal damage to the environment, or in an environmentally compatible way, and it's meant tocover both chemical processes and chemical products . The center was set up about seven or eightyears ago. And the idea was to provide a hub of activities that covered fundamental research work,international collaboration, but also educational development on public understanding of the project aswell, and also networking so we network out to well over 1000 people around the globe. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #119)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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8. Weather Change (Prediction) (Audio Available)What I'm trying to understand, and what other colleagues of mine are trying to understand, is how wemoved from that cold climate condition to the warm climate condition that we enjoy today. We knowfrom ice core research that the transition from these cold conditions to warm conditions wasn'tsmooth, as you might predict from the slow increase in solar radiation. And we know this from icecores, because if you drill down into ice, you find annual bands of ice, and you can see this in theiceberg. You can see those blue-white layers. Gases are trapped in the ice cores, so we can measureCO2 that's why we know CO2 was lower in the past and the chemistry of the ice also tells usabout temperature in the polar regions. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #118)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

9. Radio Telescope (Prediction) (Audio Available)Perhaps you've seen pictures of the large array of, you know, those radio telescopes in New Mexico,scanning the skies for intelligent life in the movie contact Well radiant astronomers have causedto celebrate the first phase of a giant new Radio Telescope Array went operational in NorthernCalifornia, it's going to help astronomers study things like black holes and dark galaxies . All the whilescanning the stars for, who knows, radio signals coming from somewhere else in the universe. MaybeET is phoning home. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #115)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

10. Nanotechnology (Prediction) (Audio Available)What is nanotechnology? Well, a report that was put together by a combination of the Royal Societyand the Royal Academy of Engineering that came out last summer, identifies two topics. Nano-science is the study of phenomena and the manipulation of materials at atomic, molecularand macromolecular scales, where properties differ significantly from those as a larger scale.Nanotechnologies are the design characterization, production and application of structures , devicesand systems by controlling shape and size at the nanometer scale. So I'll talk a little bit more in amoment about what a nanometer is, but loosely speaking people think of nanotechnologies as being asort of a hundred nanometers or less. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #99)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

11. Oceanographer (Prediction) (Audio Available)For many years the favorite horror story about abrupt climate change was that a shift in oceancurrents could radically cool Europe's climate. These currents, called the overturning circulation bringwarm water and warm temperatures north from the equator to Europe. Susan Loosier,an oceanographer at Duke University, says scientists have long worried that this ocean circulationcould be disrupted. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #95)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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In animals, a movement is coordinated by a cluster of neurons in the spinal cord called the centralcontract pattern generator (CPG). This produces signals that drive muscles to contract rhythmically ina way that produces running or walking, depending on the pattern of pulse. A simple signal from thebrain instructs the CPG to switch between modes such as going from a standstill to walking. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #92)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

13. Shakespeare (Prediction) (Audio Available)For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards topersonal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, andvarious legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there aremany gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #86)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

14. Public Views (Prediction) (Audio Available)The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, bypassing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern thetrue interests of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice itto temporary or partial considerations. Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the publicvoice pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public goodthan if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose." (APEUni Website / App FIBL #82)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

15. Japanese Researchers (Prediction) (Audio Available)For the first time, Japanese researchers have conducted a real-life experiment that shows how sometraffic jams appear for no apparent reason. They placed the 22 vehicles on a single track, and askedthe drivers to cruise around at a constant speed of 30 kilometers an hour. At first, traffic movessmoothly, but soon, the distance between cars started to vary and vehicles clumped together at onepoint on the track, but the jams spread backward around the track, like a shockwave at a rate ofabout 20 kilometers an hour. Real-life jams move backward at about the same speed. (APEUni Website / App FIBL #71)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Highlight Incorrect WordsRepeat Rate: 2%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Practice with 1.2 speed until 100% correctAudio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. Article (Prediction) (Audio Available)Original:What's an article? I was asking myself this very question in the post office yesterday, standing in linewaiting to sign for, as it so happens, an article. A postal article. Not the postal article. Now before weget ahead of ourselves, an article in English is a verb (Answer: word) that precedes a noun, and simplyindicates specificity. This sounds quite complicated, and to be honest, it's quite complicated to saywithout spraying everyone within 15 feet, but the concept's quite simple. The definite article in Englishis the word "the", and indicates a specific thing or type; for example, the train is an hour late.By comparison (Answer: contrast) , the indefinite article in English is any of the words "a", "an" or"some", and the indefinite article indicates a non-specific thing; for example, would you please passme an apple. We always recede (Answer: precede) a word with "a" if it doesn't start with a vowelsound. For example, take a hike; I'm spending a Weekend at Burnie's; or there's a Knight in ShiningArmour. Similarly, we precede words with the indefinite article "an" if they do start with a vowel sound,for example, an ostrich, an normal (Answer: enormous) mess or an Occupational Health and SafetyPolicy.(APEUni Website / App HIW #16)There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number at APEUni Website /App to listen.

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Write From DictationRepeat Rate: 90%Exam Strategy: Usage Guide: If time allowed, complete the Monthly Prediction list, which has higherrepeat rate. The Weekly Prediction has slightly lower repeat rate, but less questions. Suggestion:Understanding the meaning of the sentence will help you memorise more words.Audio Available: There're audio records available for this question. Search by the question number atAPEUni Website / App to listen.

1. The company has procedures to ensure quality and service. #341 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 2. Discipline and motivation are essential for achieving your goals. #337 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 3. All the student union students can register their names to get that service. #321 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 4. Points: Visual art provides ... in society. #291 (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete) 5. Points: Many student do not know how to write an essay because .... #283 (New) (Prediction) (Incomplete) 6. The development has a great negative impact on the environment. #272 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 7. Weather forecasting is becoming more accurate than before. #270 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 8. Effective presenters make eye contact with the audience. #252 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 9. Services are rapidly growing in parts of the global economy. #235 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 10. Practical experience is a vital part of legal training. #217 (New) (Prediction) (Audio Available) 11. Theory of course contributes to the community. #159 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 12. Put the knife and fork next to the spoon near the edge of the table. #139 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 13. There will be no tutorials until next week. #133 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 14. The electric buses have an impact on air pollution. #131 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 15. This course mainly introduces statistics and data analysis. #130 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 16. Weather forecasts will have a big change in the next century. #73 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 17. There are still some tickets available for the concert next Wednesday. #72 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 18. Often, people do not listen to understand; they listen to respond. #71 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 19. Poverty exists everywhere but the situation is improved. #65 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 20. The department will continue to offer three new scholarships next year. #10 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 21. Our undergraduate courses are designed with employment ability in mind. #53 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 22. The research results will be shared with the internal and external stakeholders. #45 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 23. Employers accept applications from all academic graduated backgrounds. #23 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 24. The ability to act on your own is called autonomy. #683 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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25. Roads should be clear so that traffic can move smoothly. #568 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 26. The theme of the course is to encourage students to develop their creativity. #556 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 27. The car accident happened on Saturday outside the school gate. #550 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 28. Scientists have found all parts of science. #549 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 29. It is important for scientists to publish their research. #524 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 30. Social media has grown enormously in recent years. #469 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 31. An adviser can help manufacturers to ensure that products are safe. #450 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 32. The company is established in London by two former colleagues. #225 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 33. The financial market reacts wildly to political uncertainty. #191 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 34. Global warming is a threat to economic growth. #226 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 35. Feedback can be given in a variety of ways. #202 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 36. Most homebuyers receive a loan from the bank. #180 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 37. Technology has changed the media we both used and studied. #48 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 38. You must change your password every month. #41 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 39. The posters are on display at the larger lecture theater. #36 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 40. There is a widely believed perception that engineering is for boys. #1523 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 41. The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived. #15 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 42. The typical part of this course involves the study of society. #142 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 43. The untapped potential use of sun rays is phenomenal. #1485 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 44. New materials and techniques are changing the style of architecture. #1484 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 45. Lecture outlines are available on the faculty board and the internal website. #1481 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 46. People have been dependent on using phones in their everyday life. #1478 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 47. Archaeologists discover tools and fossils from ancient times. #1477 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 48. Scientists were unsure when the early man first left Africa. #1463 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 49. Advanced technology will grow the economy. #1459 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 50. Global connections thrive in academic communities, thanks to social media. #1378 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 51. The study of anthropology can help us to learn society today. #134 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 52. Many food crops require a large amount of water and fertilizer. #1449 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 53. You do not need to have specialist knowledge to enjoy this book. #1447 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 54. You will study two courses and three optional modules. #1445 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 55. Information technology has changed the way people study today. #1444 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 56. A world-renowned expert of financial management will give a guest lecture. #1442 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 57. Statistically speaking, the likelihood of this result is extremely low. #795 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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58. Students are advised that all the lectures today have been canceled. #1438 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 59. Advanced technology will create growth in the economy. #1433 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 60. Practical experiments are an essential part of the chemistry course. #1425 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 61. Some vocational courses in institutions are funded by private enterprises. #1421 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 62. There is an accounting assignment for finance students. #1417 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 63. Foods containing overabundant calories supply little or no nutritional value. #1411 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 64. Essays and assignments spread out across the academic year. #1400 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 65. New credit cards will soon use fingerprint technology. #1399 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 66. Calculators may not be used in the examination. #1398 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 67. All industries consist of systems as inputs, processes, outputs and feedback. #1359 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 68. The untapped potential of using the sun's rays is phenomenal. #1347 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 69. Scientists were unsure when the early man left Africa. #1329 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 70. New media journalism is an exciting area of study. #1323 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 71. All new medical school students must attend the talk about optional courses. #1310 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 72. Industry experts will discuss job opportunities in an automated workforce. #1280 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 73. The key witnesses to the event have conflicting recollections. #1278 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 74. He wrote poetry and plays as well as scientific papers. #1238 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 75. Cells are the basic building blocks of all animals and plants. #1234 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 76. The economic predictions turned out to be incorrect. #1231 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 77. Rising inflation means increasing goods prices and decreasing demand for products. #1183 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 78. It is an integrated course with three different elements. #1158 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 79. The effect of advertising is open to much debate. #1130 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 80. These three separate resources are not enough for this assessment. #1091 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 81. The universities provide excellent leisure facilities for students and staff. #1079 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 82. It takes a long time to walk to the university. #1073 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 83. Measures must be taken to prevent unemployment rate from increasing. #1072 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 84. There is no fixed career path for a qualified journalist. #1068 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 85. Philosophy uses logic and reasons to analyze human experience. #1059 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 86. That means they have so many struggling overlaps. #1051 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 87. You will be tested via continuous assessment and examinations. #1045 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 88. A good abstract highlights the key points of your paper. #1041 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 89. Students must attend the safety course before entering the engineering workshop. #1035

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(Prediction) (Audio Available) 90. The digital camera has some advantages over traditional film. #1032 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 91. The history course is assessed via three written assignments. #1028 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 92. Relying on natural ability will not get you far on science. #1025 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 93. The project is divided into four main sections. #1024 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 94. Classical mechanics is considered as a branch of mathematical physics. #936 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 95. Air pollution is a serious problem all over the world. #866 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 96. The toughest part of postgraduate education is funding. #844 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 97. This book can be borrowed for a maximum of one week. #755 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 98. We can all meet in the office after the lecture. #729 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 99. It is necessary to dress formally for the graduation ceremony. #728 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 100. Physics is a key subject to understand the world and the universe. #725 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 101. Social media is criticized for causing Internet addiction. #1013 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 102. Momentum is defined as the combination of mass and velocity. #1004 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 103. The north campus car park could be closed on Sunday. #1000 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 104. The printers automatically print two sides of each page. #977 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 105. Archeologists discovered tools and artifacts in ancient tombs. #974 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 106. Speak to your tutor if you need further assistance. #963 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 107. Much of the research is carried out in the laboratory. #957 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 108. Many graduates studying journalism get jobs in communications field. #914 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 109. Resources and materials are on hold at the library reference desk. #721 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 110. Sports teams practice on weekdays and play games on weekends. #718 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 111. Graduates of journalism can get a job in the communications field. #705 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 112. Everyone must evacuate the premises during the fire drill. #700 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 113. Many vocational courses in the institution are funded by private enterprises. #701 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 114. Despite their differences, all forms of lives share the same characteristics. #698 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 115. This course puts great emphasis on critical thinking skills. #669 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 116. You don't need to have specialist knowledge to be able to read the book. #668 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 117. There are more opportunities to receive the grants in most artistic fields. #663 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 118. Time and distance are used to calculate speed. #660 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 119. The cooperator operates a continuous assessment. #644 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 120. Our laboratory equipment is provided free of charge. #626 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 121. More research is needed before any definitive conclusion is drawn. #621 (Prediction)

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(Audio Available) 122. Manufacturing now brings more people in than agriculture and fishing combined. #619 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 123. It would be extremely beneficial to work together. #615 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 124. As student union members, we can influence the change of university. #604 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 125. Every student has a regular meeting with his or her personal tutor. #605 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 126. Continuing students will be sent necessary application forms. #600 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 127. Enrolling in a second major will increase your career options. #596 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 128. Your lowest quiz grade has been omitted from the calculations. #592 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 129. You need to hand in the essay next semester. #584 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 130. You have to learn how to use the library to save your time. #581 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 131. Banks charged interest from whom they lent money to. #417 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 132. Good nutrition is crucial to the general health and vitality. #240 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 133. His appointment as Minister of Culture was seen as a demotion. #186 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 134. A lack of sleep can increase the chance of some illnesses. #135 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 135. A good research assistant is not afraid to ask questions. #113 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 136. When workers ask for higher wages, companies often raise their prices. #567 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 137. Understanding how to use the library will save your time. #548 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 138. Travelling by boat on the river is not possible in winter. #540 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 139. Traffic is the main cause of air pollution in many cities. #539 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 140. Those who are considering a career in marketing should attend the talk. #531 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 141. This course is integrated because it has several parts. #521 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 142. The university theatre group will be performing in the concert hall. #490 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 143. The toughest part of research for postgraduate students is funding. #483 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 144. The theatre courses are encouraging students to access creativity. #477 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 145. The sociology department is highly regarded worldwide. #464 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 146. The school's summer programs help students to accelerate their studies. #459 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 147. The massive accumulation of data was converted into a communicable argument. #420 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 148. The island is located at the south end of the bay. #411 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 149. The extent of advertising for children is open to much debate. #397 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 150. The economy is now on its first signs of recovery. #387 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 151. The early works were more philosophical rather than experimental. #384 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 152. The city's founders created a set of rules that became laws. #361 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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153. The chemistry building is located near the entrance of the campus. #360 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 154. The cafeteria features sandwiches, salads, soup, fish and chicken. #356 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 155. The bar chart provides useful means of data comparison. #351 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 156. The author's early works are less philosophical and more experimental. #350 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 157. The artists tied with the conservative politicians earned the roles of critics. #346 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 158. The article presents a number of very interesting experiments. #340 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 159. Supply and demand is one of the most fundamental concepts in economics. #320 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 160. Students who are successful have a good strategy for learning. #314 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 161. Sea levels are expected to rise during the next century. #280 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 162. Scientists are always asking the government for more money. #277 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 163. Safety glasses should be worn while doing experiments in the lab. #273 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 164. Review all resources before drawing your conclusions. #269 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 165. Remember, the prestigious section has strict eligibility criteria. #267 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 166. Remember to sign the attendance register before leaving the lecture hall. #265 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 167. Novelists write things about things they know about. #212 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 168. Most of these features were part of the previous system. #200 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 169. Most of the students have not considered this issue before. #198 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 170. Making mistakes is fine, as long as you learn from it. #188 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 171. It was hard to anticipate how all the different characters would react. #175 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 172. It is important to make clear notes while you are reading. #169 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 173. It is absolutely vital that you acknowledge all your sources. #164 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 174. Geography is generally divided into two branches: human and physical. #128 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 175. Final year business students have to write a five-thousand-word essay on market trends. #123 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 176. Experts are now able to forecast weather over much longer periods. #118 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 177. Economic problems caused a big rise in unemployment. #104 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 178. Daily practice can build confidence and improve skills. #97 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 179. Climate change is now an acceptable phenomenon among a group of reputable scientists. #85 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 180. Please click the logo above to enter the site. #83 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 181. Before attending the lecture, you must register online or by post. #67 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 182. Although sustainable development is not easy, it is an unavoidable responsibility. #51 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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183. All of the assignments must be submitted in person to the faculty office. #43 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 184. All lectures and learning materials can be found on the internet. #42 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 185. A massive accumulation of data was converted to a communicable argument. #26 (Prediction) (Audio Available) 186. The artists and conservative politicians earn their rules of politics. #1 (Prediction) (Audio Available)

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