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Tornados occur when the conditions that cause thunderstorms are unusually violent. Winds blow in opposite directions around a strong updraft start a narrow, violent whirl. Centrifugal force effectively throws the air away from the center, leaving a core of very low pressure. This is much like stirring water in a cup, thus forming a vortex-like dip in the surface.

This low-pressure core acts as a partial vacuum, sometimes helping to lift the roofs off houses. Most of the damage, though, result from the force of the wind itself. Around the edges of the whirls, wind prefer may reach 300 miles(480 kilometers) per hour. At first, the tornado's funnel is whitish gray because it is composed of minute water droplets formed as the air in the funnel expands and cools. After touching down, the funnel becomes dark because of all the debris it has picked up. This debris can include soil, tree limbs, and parts of buildings, tornados have been known to pick up automobiles, hoeses, and whole trees.
A tornados usually moves toward the east (or often northeast in the northern hemisphere and southeast in the southern hemisphere) at 25 to 40 miles (40 to 65 killmoeters) per hour. Fortunately, most tornados are less than half a mile (800 meters) wide the edge of one may destroy all of the houses on one side of a street while leaving those on the other side completely undamaged.
Deaths from tornados in the united states averaged roughly 100 per year over the last century. However, they have dropped somewhat in recent decades as better forecasting and warning systems have been implemented.

1. Why is tornado's funnel dark as soon as it touches the ground? Because....
   
   A. It contains water drolets
   B. the temperature is changed
   C. it contains bulding materials
   D. it whirls in high speed
   E. it has picked up debris
2. What are impact of tornado?
   A.Water dropping
   B. heavy disasters
   C. whirls of winds
   D. wind blowing
   E. gray and dark sky
3. “While leaving those on the other side completelly undamaged “ (paragraf3)
   The underline word has similar meaning with...
   A. damaged
   B. vanish
   C. wounded
   D. safe
   E. gone

Internet has been the mosat outstanding innovation in the history of mankind. As with every single innovation, the internet has its own advantages and disadvantages.

The target of the internet has always been the communication. By the beginning of computer's internet, our earth has reduced and has attained the form of a global village. Now, we can communicate in a fraction of second with a person who is sitting in the other parts of the world. Today, for better communication, we can avail the facilities of e-mail and we can chat for hours with our loved ones. There are plenty messenger services in offering. With the help of such services, it has become very easy to establish a king of global friendship.
However, the internet also has disadvantages. One of them is the wife spread of unsuitable contents for kids. It is a very serious issue and related to children's healthy mental life. There are thousand of such inappropriate contents on the internet which can be easily found. Though, the internet can also create havoc, destration and its misuse can be very fatal, the advantagei of it out-weigh its disadvantages.

4. What is one of the advantages of internet ?
   A. to create the misuse of time
   B.to easily find inappropriate person
   C.to chat with love ones only
   D.to connect people in the other parts of the world
   E.to spread issues related to children's healthy mental life
5. What is the main idea of paragraph 2 ?
   A. the internet could create havoc and destruction
   B. the internet could facilitate communication
   C. the internet has more advantages than disadvantages
   D. many modern devices can be connect to the intrrnet
   E. the internet has bcome the most noticeable innivation.
6. All in all, the writer believes that the internet is....
   A. very harmful
   B. inappropriate
   C. very useful
   D. destructive
   E. cheap

Once upon a time there lived a wise man named Mamad. He never lied. All the people knew about him. The king heard about Mamad and ordered his guards to bring him to the palace. He looked at the wise man and asked, "Mamad, is it true that you have never lied?" Mamad answered, "it's true." The king asked him another question, "and you will never lie in your life?" Mamad replied, "i'll do my best not to tell a lie." The king advised him, "OK. Tell the truth, but be careful! To lie is cunning and it gets on you tongue easily"
Several day passed and the king called Mamad again. There was a big crowd. The king was about to go hunting. The king held his horse by the mane, his left foot was already in the stirrup. He ordered Mamad, "go to my summer palace and tell the queen i will be with her for lunch. Tell her to prepare a big feast. You will have lunch with me". Mamad bowed and went to the queen. Then, the king laughed and said to the crowd, " we won't go hunting and now Mamad will lie to the queen. Tomorrow we will laugh on his behalf".
The wise Mamad went to the palace and said "maybe you should prepare a big feast for lunch tomorrow and maybe you shouldn't. Maybe the king will come by noon and maybe he won't" the queen asked, " tell of will he come, or won't he ?" "i don't know whether he put his right foot in the stirrup, or he put his left foot on the ground after i left, " Mamad replied wisely
Everybody waited for the king. He came the next day and said to the queen, " the wise Mamad, who never lies, lied to your yesterday" but the qween told him about the words of Mamad and the king realized that the wise man did not lie. He told the queen what he say with his own eyes.

7. The purpose of the text is....
   A. to entertain the readers
   B.to describe a wise person
   C.to tell a king's hunting experience
   D.to inform the readers about wisdom
   E.to analyze the chreaters of a story
8. What was the king like?
   A. wise
   B. genereous
   C. stubborn
   D. foolish
   E. tricky
9. After Mamad had left the king.....
   A. the king ordered the crowd to gather
   B. the king rode the horse and went hunting
   C. the king met the qween and had lunch with her
   D. the king laughed and said he would not go hunting
   E.the king took the horse and put a foot in the stirrup
10. What did Mamad tell the qween?
    A. he told a lie
    B. he told what he sew
    C. he told what he thought true
    D he told that the king urdered him
    E. he told that the king won't come by noon