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CHILE: sixty-six agonizing days after their gold and copper mine collapsed above them, 33 miners were offered a way out Saturday as a dril broke to their underground purgatory, word of drill’s succes prompted cheers, tears and the ringing of bells by families in the tent out side the mine. Some who have kept a vigil since the Aug 5 disaster ran up a hill where 33 chilean flags were planted, chanting and shouting with joy as a siren rang throughout “camp hope”, confirming breakthrough.
“our neverousness is gone now.” Said juan sanchez, whose son Jimmy is stuck in the mine.”only now we begin to smile”
The “plan B” drill a three way race against two other drills to carve a hole wide enough for an escaped capsule to pull the miners out oone by one.
25. What is the text about?
A. A way out to save chile’s 33 miners
B. 33 miners were trapped in mine collapse
C. The success of drilling gold and copper mining
D. The agonizing days of the mine collapse
E. Mine collapse took 33 victims
26. How long the miners trapped under the ground?
A. Since Saturday
B. In August
C. 5 months
D. 66 days
E. 33 days
27. The following are the way of how the miners were saved, except...
A. Sending an escape capsule
B. Carving a hole wide enough
C. Drilling to reach the purgatory
D. Escaping the miners to safe place
E. Pulling the miners with the capsule
28. ... their underground purgatory
the bold typed has the meaning as a place ...
A. Where miners are working
B. Deep inside the ground
C. Around mining area
D. Of being helpless
E. Of suffering
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i live a Blk 123 #13-170 Bedok Road
on december 14, 2006 at about 10.30 p.m, i was returning home from work. I walked into the elevator, and two suspicious strangers followed me into the elevator. I pressed the button for the tent floor, while they were pressing the button for the fifth floor.
When the elevator was in motion, they prentended to look up to the ceiling. When the elevator door opened on the fifth floor, one of them pretended to fall down and banged hard on my left shoulder, which i used to carry my handbag. The second one suddenly grabbed my handbag, and they rushed out of the lift together. I just stood still then,. I did not do anything.
I lose my brown $500 Louis Vuitton handbag, an $800 pink Nokia cell phone, a $400 silver mini Canon camera, a $4,000 Rolex lady gold watch with diamond insets and about $10,000 in cash. One of the robbers was thin, about 1.7 m tall with long black hair and fair complexion, and wore a black T-shirt and grey jeans. The other one was rather fat with a mustache, about 1.6 m tall with bald head and tan complexion, and wore a light blue singlet and black shorts
29. The writer lose these properties, except...
A. Diamond ring
B. Rolex lady watch
C. Mini canon camera
D. Louis vuitton handbag
E. Nokia cell phone
30. The description about the strangers can be found in paragraph....
A. One
B. Two
C. Four
D. Three
E. One and three
31. We know from the text that...
A. The writer stays in a story building
B. Both of the robbers has the same height
C. The writer wore a black shorts at that time
D. The writer pressed button to floor nine
E. The writer did not report to a policeman
32. The second one suddenly grabbed my handbag. (paragraph 2)
The underlined word can be changed by...
A. Repaired
B. Saw at a glance
C. Wanted to rent
D. Asked for politely
E. Took suddenly or roughly
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