Read the text and answer the questions according to it.
Golf has been played for about hundreds of years. But no one is sure who invented it. Most
people believe that it was started in Scotland in the 12th century. Back then, shepherds who
looked after sheep often became bored. So they invented a game. They pushed stones into rabbit
holes with sticks. This game soon became popular throughout the country. Even the King of
Scotland started playing it. In the 17th century, golf was introduced to other countries such as
France, Germany and England. Nowadays, there are a lot of golf courses all around the world.
And 56 million people enjoy playing it. Golfers could enjoy natural beauty and fresh air. That
was very relaxing for people who lived in crowded cities. Besides, swinging made a golfer’s body
strong and healthy. In 2006, a Russian astronaut Michail Tiurin was
the first person to take a
golf ball into space.
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READING COMPREHENSION. Part I
57. What is the passage mainly about?
A) About how golf was introduced.
B) About a short history of shepherds.
C) About a shepherd who enjoyed golf.
D) About golf lovers around the world.
58. According to the passage, why does the
writer mention the King of Scotland?
A) To explain that golf was a game for the rich
B) To give an example of a famous astronaut
C) To show how golf became popular
D) To show how golf was introduced in
France
59. All of the following statements are FALSE
about golf in the past, E X C E P T ... .
A) stones and sticks were used to play it
B) it was
played only in Germany and
England
C) it was a way of hunting rabbits
D) golf never made people healthy and
strong
60. According to the passage, what was taken
into space in 2006?
A) a stone
B) a stick
C) a ball
D) a rabbit
Read the text and answer the questions according to it.
You probably think zero is just a regular number. But it was not like all other numbers.
First of all, it was invented much later. The numbers from 1 to 9
were invented thousands of
years ago. People used stones to count numbers in the past. But the number zero was only
created in the year 200 A.D. The idea of zero was difficult to understand. Before zero, people
used a space when they wrote one thousand six, like nothing between “ 1 _ _ 6”. Thanks to
zero, we can write one thousand six as “ 1,006” and can write large numbers clearly. It used to
be “ 1 _ 6” now it is “ 106”. That’s why, zero is a very important number now.
61. According to the text, which of the
following is true?
A) Zero was used with numbers after 200
A.D.
B) People couldn’t
count anything before
zero.
C) The idea of zero was easy to
understand.
D) Stones weren’t related to numbers in the
past.
62. According to the passage, in what way does
zero differ from other numbers?
A) Zero and other numbers were introduced
at the same time.
B) Zero was similar to numbers from one to
nine.
C) Zero was introduced later than other
numbers.
D) Zero was created before numbers from
one to nine.
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