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LISTENING COMPREHENSION TEST FOR 9^TH GRADE STUDENTS

In this section you are going to perform two tasks. The first program speaks about hurricanes, the second task presents an interview about Thanksgiving. You will listen to each task twice. Each task has 10 multiple-choice questions.

LISTENING 1

1.  Distinctive features of hurricanes are

2. The hurricane releases as much energy as five hundred thousand small atomic bombs.

3. Hurricanes are usually formed in

4. Tropical depression is clouds formed from

A upper-level winds and amorphous winds

B  upper-level winds and surface winds

C upper-level winds and disturbance winds

5. Tropical storm develops at the speed of 15 miles per hour.

6. The eye is a calm area of the hurricane.

7. All fully formed hurricanes are as big as the state of Texas.

8.  The height of the hurricane eye may reach

9. The most costly natural disaster in the USA was

10. Sensors dropped by hurricane hunters measure

A speed, temperature, wind pressure

B wind speed, temperature, air pressure

C speed, temperature, wind thresher

LISTENING 2

11. What  does  the  presenter  say in  the introduction  to  the programme?

A  The  programme  is  broadcast once  a  fortnight.

B  Thanksgiving  has  been  a rare  choice in  the  survey.

C  lndependence  Day  is  less  popular  than Thanksgiving.

D  Not  many people  took  part  in  the  survey.

12. Alex was the first to be interviewed.

13. Alex  chose  Thanksgiving  mainly  because

A  it  is  more  fun than the other  holidays.

B  it  is  more important than Independence  Day.

C it  is  a  religious  holiday.

D  it  is  not common  in  other  parts of  the world.

14. Thanksgiving has religious origin as well as cultural.

15. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the same day in both northern American countries.

16. Which of these  sentences  is  true  according to the text?

A  There is some  disagreement as to the origins  of  the holiday.

B  Abraham  Lincoln declared  the first national Thanksgiving Day.

C  The  pilgrims wanted to thank  God  for ending the floods.

D  The  November  date was  not  chosen  until  1789.

17.  What  has  remained the  same  about Thanksgiving over the centuries?

A  The  atmosphere  of  the  holiday.

B  The type of food eaten.

C  The holiday's  religious  nature.

D  The duration of the holiday.

18. For many Americans Thanksgiving is still a religious holiday.

19.  The  programme  is  mainly  about

A  the  personal  view  on  Thanksgiving.

B the results of the  survey.

C the popularity of Thanksgiving.

D  the most important American holidays.

20. The number of dishes served on the holiday day has remained the same over years.

READING COMPREHENSION TEST FOR 9^TH GRADE STUDENTS

READING PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 30 minutes on Questions 1–15, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

Questions 1–5

Reading Passage 1 contains excerpts from a conversation, consisting of five reporter’s questions (A-F) and five responses. Choose the correct place 1-5 for each question. There is one question you do not need to use.

Write the correct letter A-F, in boxes 1–5 on your answer sheet.

A. So how come that some people stop their mindset growth?

B. How did you find out there were people misunderstanding it?

C. What did you see that you felt growth mindset would help improve?

D. Could you elaborate on false growth mindset?

E. When did you first realize there is growth and false mindset?

F. Why do you think this idea struck such a chord?

GROWTH MINDSET MISUNDERSTOOD

Carol Dweck, now a psychologist at Stanford University, is the researcher who identified two core mindsets, or beliefs, about one’s own traits that shape how people approach challenges: fixed mindset and growth mindset.

But recently Ms Dweck noticed a trend: a widespread embrace of what she refers to as “false growth mindset”—a misunderstanding of the idea’s core message.

Christine Gross-Loh, a reporter for The Atlantic, recently spoke with Dweck about how she wants her ideas to be applied.

Christine Gross-Loh: Could you tell me about the development of the idea of growth mindset? What was it intended to correct? 1. _____

Carol Dweck: I’ve always been interested, since graduate school, in why some children wilt and shrink back from challenges and give up in the face of obstacles, while others avidly seek challenges and become even more invested in the face of obstacles. So this has been my primary question for over 40 years. At some point, I realized that a student’s mindset was at the foundation of whether he or she loved challenges and persisted in the face of failure.

When students had more of a fixed mindset—the idea that abilities are carved in stone, that you have a certain amount and that’s that—they saw challenges as risky. They could fail, and their basic abilities would be called into question. When they hit obstacles, setbacks, or criticism, this was just more proof that they didn’t have the abilities that they cherished.

In contrast, when students had more of a growth mindset, they held the view that talents and abilities could be developed and that challenges were the way to do it. Learning something new, something hard, sticking to things—that’s how you get smarter. Setbacks and feedback weren’t about your abilities, they were information you could use to help yourself learn. With a growth mindset, kids don’t necessarily think that there’s no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but they believe everyone can develop their abilities through hard work, strategies, and lots of help and mentoring from others.

Gross-Loh: When I first interviewed you about growth mindset a few years ago, I remember that it was a relatively unknown idea. But growth mindset is now so popular that I’ll hear people who aren’t experts in educational theory say, “Praise the effort, not the child (or the outcome).” 2.________

Dweck: Many educators were dissatisfied with drilling for high-stakes tests. They understood that student motivation had been a neglected area, especially of late. So many educators, as well as many parents, were excited to implement something that might re-energize kids to focus on learning again, not just memorization and test taking, but on deeper, more joyful learning.

Gross-Loh: 3. _______

A colleague of mine, Susan Mackie, was doing workshops in Australia and observed that a lot of participants were saying they got growth mindset and were running with it, but did not understand it deeply. She told me, “I’m seeing a lot of false growth mindset.” I just did not get it initially—growth mindset is a very straightforward concept, and besides, why would people settle for a false growth mindset if they could have a real one? But I started keeping a list of all the ways people were misunderstanding growth mindset. When the list got long enough, I started speaking and writing about it.

Gross-Loh: 4. __________

Dweck: False growth mindset is saying you have growth mindset when you don't really have it or you don’t really understand what it is. It’s also false in the sense that nobody has a growth mindset in everything all the time. Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait. Something really challenging and outside your comfort zone can trigger it, or, if you encounter someone who is much better than you at something you pride yourself on, you can think “Oh, that person has ability, not me.” So I think we all, students and adults, have to look for our fixed-mindset triggers and understand when we are falling into that mindset.

Gross-Loh: 5.__________________ 

Dweck: I think that instead of understanding their triggers and over time being able to stay in a growth mindset more and more, some people just said, “Oh yeah, I have a growth mindset” because either they know it’s the right mindset to have or they understood it in a way that made it seem easy.  

Questions 6–15

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Write the correct letter in boxes 6–15 on your answer sheet.

6.  Carol Dweck’s idea of fixed and growth mindset

 A. is based on several decades of observations

B. is based on other researchers’ ideas

C. was developed when she was at graduate school

7.   Carol Dweck has always been interested

A. in people’s inborn qualities

B. in people’s reaction to difficulties

C. in people’s reaction to success

8.  Carol Dweck’s theory is popular

A. with people in different professions

B. with psychologists and sociologists

C. with school and university teachers

9.   Fixed mindset views abilities as

A. something unstable

B. something dangerous

C. something “carved in stone”

10.  People with growth mindset believe that

A. they will never have setbacks

B. setbacks and success are the same

C. setbacks can help you learn

11.  People with growth mindset believe that

A. everyone has got the same abilities

B. everyone can develop their abilities through hard work

C. abilities are of no importance at all

12.  Susan Mackie noticed that some workshop participants

A. mixed up concepts of growth and fixed mindset

B. rejected the concepts of growth  and fixed mindsets

C. had a very superficial understanding of growth mindset

13.  False growth mindset is

A. claiming that you’ve got growth mindset when in fact you don’t have it and don’t realize it

B. when your real mindset is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets, and you realize it

C. when your real mindset is fixed, and you realize it and are ready to admit

14.  The triggers that can set a person into a fixed mindset are

A. quite unique for each personality

B. are quite limited and can easily be dealt with

C. have never been discussed

15.   Fixed-mindset triggers are likely to affect

A. young people only

B. mature adults

C. people of any age

READING PASSAGE 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 16–30, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below.

JAVAN RHINOS ARE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER HOME

Conservationists have warned that the entire species of the critically endangered Javan rhino could be wiped out if a tsunami strikes again.

The Javan rhinos are the most threatened of the five rhino species in the world. They were once found in northeast India and across South East Asia but their population was quickly depleted as a result of poaching, habitat destruction through agriculture, among other factors. Today only 67 Javan rhinos exist in the Ujung Kulon National Park, which was hit by tsunami in 2018.

"As there are no Javan rhinos in captivity anywhere in the world, should we lose this population, we've essentially lost the entire species," said Nicola Loweth, a WWF officer in a statement about the rhinos in Indonesia.

Anak Krakatau volcano began showing increased signs of volcanic activity since June 2018. But it was in December that volcanic activity from Anak Krakatau is believed to have set off undersea landslides, triggering a tsunami that has killed at least 430 people so far.

Authorities say Anak Krakatau is still active, and is in fact becoming increasingly active.

"We understand that we cannot let the Javan rhinos live only in Ujung Kulon," Widodo Ramono, chairman of the Rhino Foundation of Indonesian, told BBC News. Mr Ramono added that there were plans in place to move a smaller group of rhinos to a secondary location, though there was a lot to be taken into consideration. The rhinos which would be moved would have to be in good health, have close ties to each other and able to reproduce.

But moving the rhinos to another location is easier said than done. The new location would have to have more than 200 species of plants - food sources for the Javan rhino. It would also need to have a plentiful water supply, an ideal soil type, land condition and a place with a year-round wet climate.

"It's difficult to find the perfect location... we need at least five thousand hectares in one location. It has to provide the rhinos with suitable food, water. We need to know what diseases exist there, if there are predators, how supportive the local community is," the head of TNUK, Mamat Rahmat told BBC News.

Government officials have been looking for years to find a suitable second location for the Javan rhinos. They were supposed to have found one in 2017 - but this never materialised.

"Sometimes the plan does not work out," said Mr Mamat. "There are many obstacles, technical factors, internal constraints and external factors to take into consideration." Mr Mamat adds that the government has surveyed 10 possible locations, of which one has arisen as a suitable candidate - the Cikepuh Wildlife Reserve in West Java.

However, this was not without its problems. "There is an agreement with the army about the use of land for combat drills. We need to do further studies on how the sound of guns and cannons could impact the rhinos," Mr Mamat explained.

The plan to move to the Cikepuh Wildlife Reserve appears to have stalled, but after the recent tsunami officials are once again moving with urgency.

"We will take more steps quickly in preparing a second habitat for the rhinos," said Mr Mamat. "If one day Ujung Kulon is hit by an eruption, then we would hope there would still be reserves of Javan rhinos in a new place."

Questions 16–25

In boxes 16-25 on your answer sheet, write T for TRUE if the statement agrees with the information, F for FALSE if the statement contradicts the information, NG for

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

16. The whole population of Javan rhinos is less than one hundred animals.

17. Ujung Kulon National Park employees were lucky to escape the deadly waves of he tsunami

18. Javan rhinos can be seen in the best and richest animal parks all around the world.  

19. Anak Kakatau volcano was considered inactive till December 2018.

20. It was Anak Kakatau eruption in 2018 made people start looking for a new home for Javan rhinos.

21. When selecting a new place for rhinos, local fauna should be considered.

22. State authorities are looking for a new place for the rhinos.

23. When looking for a new place for rhinos, it is important to take into account the attitude of people, living near the animals’ prospective habitat.

24. Cikepuh Wildlife Reserve in West Java looks perfect for rhinos in all respects.

25. The volcano is likely to erupt in spring 2019.

Questions 26-30

Look at the following expert opinions (Questions 26–30) and the experts in the box below. Match each opinion with the correct expert, A–C. Write the correct letter, A–C, in boxes 26–30 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any letter more than once.

26 If we lose this population, Javan rhino will go extinct.

27. We are aware that it is a bad idea to have the Javan rhinos in one place only.

28.  A new habitat for Javan rhinos should be at least five thousand hectares in one location

29. Further studies are necessary to understand how sharp loud sound affects the rhinos.

30. More actions will be undertaken to prepare a new home for the rhinos.

WRITING FOR 9^TH GRADE STUDENTS

Choose one of the topics given below and write a 130-150 word essay.

1. "I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them," said Joyce Meyer. What is more exciting for you to get presents or to give presents? Why? What is the most valuable gift you have ever got? Why is it so important for you?

2. "Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest," said James Lovelock. Do you think that it is responsibility of every single person living on our planet to do something every day to save it from ruining? Why? Why not? What can a teenager do to go green?

3. "It is better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things," said Marty Rubin. How do your interests and hobbies represent you as a personality? Can we judge about other people's values on their hobbies and interests? Why? Why not?