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With the technological advancements created in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, multi media forms of biography became much popular than literary forms of personality. The popularity of these forms of biography culminated in the creation of such cable and satellite television networks as A&E The Biography Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film biographies, Hollywood produced numerous commercial films based on the lives of famous people. Also, new web 2.0 application such as annoknipsi.com enable users all over the world to compile their own biography and illustrate it with other people’s photos.

More recently, CD-ROM and online biographies are appearing. Unlike books and films, they often do not tell a chronological story instead, they are archives of many discrete media elements related to an individual person, including video clips, photographs, and text articles. Media scholar Lev Manovich says that such archives exemplify the data-base form allowing users to navigate the materials in many ways.

Question:

1. The primary subject of the passage is....

• (A) Cable and satellite television networks

• (B) Biographies in multimedia forms

• (C) Technological advancements

• (D) Documentary film biographies

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With the technological advancements created in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, multi media forms of biography became much popular than literary forms of personality. The popularity of these forms of biography culminated in the creation of such cable and satellite television networks as A&E The Biography Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film biographies, Hollywood produced numerous commercial films based on the lives of famous people. Also, new web 2.0 application such as annoknipsi.com enable users all over the world to compile their own biography and illustrate it with other people’s photos.

More recently, CD-ROM and online biographies are appearing. Unlike books and films, they often do not tell a chronological story instead, they are archives of many discrete media elements related to an individual person, including video clips, photographs, and text articles. Media scholar Lev Manovich says that such archives exemplify the data-base form allowing users to navigate the materials in many ways.

Question:

2. The word exemplify in last line, in paragraphs 2 could best be replaced with?

• (A) Meander

• (B) Identify

• (C) Illuminate

• (D) Characterize

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With the technological advancements created in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, multi media forms of biography became much popular than literary forms of personality. The popularity of these forms of biography culminated in the creation of such cable and satellite television networks as A&E The Biography Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film biographies, Hollywood produced numerous commercial films based on the lives of famous people. Also, new web 2.0 application such as annoknipsi.com enable users all over the world to compile their own biography and illustrate it with other people’s photos.

More recently, CD-ROM and online biographies are appearing. Unlike books and films, they often do not tell a chronological story instead, they are archives of many discrete media elements related to an individual person, including video clips, photographs, and text articles. Media scholar Lev Manovich says that such archives exemplify the data-base form allowing users to navigate the materials in many ways.

Question:

3. How did multimedia biography get popularity?

• (A) Along with documentary film biographies

• (B) Though commercial films

• (C) With the technological development

• (D) In the forms of cable and satellite television networks

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With the technological advancements created in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, multi media forms of biography became much popular than literary forms of personality. The popularity of these forms of biography culminated in the creation of such cable and satellite television networks as A&E The Biography Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film biographies, Hollywood produced numerous commercial films based on the lives of famous people. Also, new web 2.0 application such as annoknipsi.com enable users all over the world to compile their own biography and illustrate it with other people’s photos.

More recently, CD-ROM and online biographies are appearing. Unlike books and films, they often do not tell a chronological story instead, they are archives of many discrete media elements related to an individual person, including video clips, photographs, and text articles. Media scholar Lev Manovich says that such archives exemplify the data-base form allowing users to navigate the materials in many ways.

Question:

4. According to the passage Hollywood....

• (A) Has created television networks

• (B) Has created application on the web

• (C) Has promoted the popularity of multimedia biographies

• (D) Has produced commercial films

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With the technological advancements created in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, multi media forms of biography became much popular than literary forms of personality. The popularity of these forms of biography culminated in the creation of such cable and satellite television networks as A&E The Biography Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film Channel, the History Channel and History International. Along with documentary film biographies, Hollywood produced numerous commercial films based on the lives of famous people. Also, new web 2.0 application such as annoknipsi.com enable users all over the world to compile their own biography and illustrate it with other people’s photos.

More recently, CD-ROM and online biographies are appearing. Unlike books and films, they often do not tell a chronological story instead, they are archives of many discrete media elements related to an individual person, including video clips, photographs, and text articles. Media scholar Lev Manovich says that such archives exemplify the data-base form allowing users to navigate the materials in many ways.

Question:

5. What does the word “they” in sentence “they are archive many discrete” in paragraph 2 refer to....

• (A) People photos

• (B) Archieves

• (C) Books and films

• (D) CD-ROM and Online Biographies

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What effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of temperaments lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality traits of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

The study shows that those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be empathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings comort with what you would expect from evolutionary theory those who are extroverted enough to make friends and help other are those who are going to be able to gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

Interestingly, however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study in wheter participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had to relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. However, the news paper suggest that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

Question:

6.The passage mainly discuss about....

• (A) How personality relate to longevity

• (B) Empathy and how cooperativeness among women

• (C) Characteristics of longevity

• (D) A study of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

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What effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of temperaments lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality traits of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

The study shows that those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be empathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings comfort with what you would expect from evolutionary theory those who are extroverted enough to make friends and help other are those who are going to be able to gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

Interestingly, however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study in wheter participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had to relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. However, the news paper suggest that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

Question:

7. According to the passage, long living women....

• (A) Are more disciplined

• (B) Have always wanted to live longer

• (C) Succeeded in chaning their personality

• (D) Are likely to be extroverted

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What effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of temperaments lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality traits of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

The study shows that those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be empathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings comfort with what you would expect from evolutionary theory those who are extroverted enough to make friends and help other are those who are going to be able to gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

Interestingly, however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study in wheter participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had to relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. However, the news paper suggest that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

Question:

8. The word outgoing in last sentence (paragraphs 2), could best be replaced with....

• (A) Amiable

• (B) Returned

• (C) Leaving

• (D) Pious

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What effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of temperaments lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality traits of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

The study shows that those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be empathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings comfort with what you would expect from evolutionary theory those who are extroverted enough to make friends and help other are those who are going to be able to gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

Interestingly, however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study in wheter participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had to relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. However, the news paper suggest that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

Question:

9. What would you expect from evolutionary theory?

• (A) Being outgoing more active, and less neurotic are the characteristics needed to live longer

• (B) It supports the study of longevity

• (C) Dynamic people survive during difficult periods

• (D) Long-living women are likely more to be emphatic

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What effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of temperaments lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality traits of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

The study shows that those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be empathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings comfort with what you would expect from evolutionary theory those who are extroverted enough to make friends and help other are those who are going to be able to gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

Interestingly, however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study in wheter participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had to relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. However, the news paper suggest that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

Question:

10. The word cantankerous in last sentence (paragraph 3) could have the same meaning with .....

• (A) Ridiculous

• (B) Friendly

• (C) Bad Tempered

• (D) Concerned

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