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MODEL TEST ONE

Hobbies

In early times, most people were too busy making a living to have many hobbies. Today as machines have

reduced the amount of time they must spend on their jobs, people have more time than before for hobbies.

People take up hobbies because these activities offer enjoyment, friendship, knowledge, and relaxation. Sometimes they even yield financial profit. Hobbies help people relax after periods of hard work. They provide

a balance between work and play, especially for workers who do the same monotonous tasks all day long.

Hobbies also offer interesting activities for persons who have retired. Those who have developed hobbies never need to worry about what to do with their newly found leisure hours. Anyone can follow a satisfying hobby, regardless of his age, position, or income. A famous Canadian doctor expressed the value of hobbies by saying, "No man is really happy or safe without a hobby." (157 words)

MODEL TEST TWO

Wind and Sea Waves

If you've ever stood on the shore of the ocean, you've seen wave after wave move toward you. Each

comes up to the shore, breaks, and then falls back. Is there a giant machine far out at sea that creates this movement? Not at all but there is one factor which bas been hard at work. It is the wind which makes the movement we call waves. This movement continues until it runs into something, like the shore. The waves

that reach the shoreline may have travelled thousands of miles.

As a wave approaches the shore, it slows down. The water becomes more shallow. The sea bottom drags

on the wave. The tops of waves crowd together. When they are too close for the wave to form properly, the

wave breaks. The top of the wave spills over, and the water pushes forward onto the beach.

(150 words)

MODEL TEST THREE

Let Children Learn to Judge Their Own Work

A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the

same way, when children learn to do all the other things, such as walking, running, climbing, and riding a bi- cycle, they learn to do them without being taught. Rather, they compare those performances with those of

more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. (150 words)

MODEL TEST FOUR

A New Need for Traffic Lights

Space is getting crowded. That's the latest worry for many scientists. About ten thousand objects are or

biting our planet now. Some are satellites that have a job to do. Other items have finished their work. Parts of rockets may have been discarded during a flight and left behind in space.

This is becoming a real problem. More items in space lead to more danger. Some of the objects now float-