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Text 1: <<From>> Lost World: Found in Indonesian Jungle, Reuters, 9 February, 2006
Scientists said on Tuesday that they found a “Lost World” in an Indonesian mountain jungle, home to dozens of exotic new species of birds, butterflies, frogs, and plants. “It’s as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth,” said Bruce Beehler, co-leader of the U.S., Indonesian, and Australian expedition to part of the cloud-shrouded Foja mountains in the west of New Guinea. Native people living near the Foja range, which rises to 2,200 meters, said they did not venture into the trackless area of 3,000 sq. km-roughly the size of Luxembourg or the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The team of 25 scientists rode helicopters to boggy clearings in the pristine zone. “We just scratched the surface,” Beehler told Reuters. “Anyone who goes there will come back with a mystery.”
The expedition found a new type of hney-eating bird with a bright orange patch on its face, known only to local people and the first new bird species documented on the island in more than 60 years. It also found more than 20 new species of frog, four new species of butterfly and palnts including five new palms. It found a rare tree kangaroo, previously unsighted in Indonesia. Animals there were afraid of humans. “I suspect there are some areas like this in Africa, and am sure that there similar places in South America,” Beehler said. He added that the Indonesian government was doing the right thing by keeping the area off limits to most visitors – including loggers and mineral prospectors.
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Statements 1 through 10 (on your answer sheet mark + if the statement is true, - if it is false)
1. Luxembourg is involved in the exploration of the “Lost World.”
2. Scientists have found more than twenty new species of frog.
3. Scientists have discovered five species of butterflies.
4. The last new bird species to be recorded on the island was less than 60 years ago.
5. Only the native people knew about the honey-eating bird.
6. The text indicates that the bird only eats honey and oranges.
7. A synonym for the word “pristine” is “untouched.”
8. The animals there were not scared of humans.
9. The Indonesian government is banning loggers from exploring the area.
10. The Indonesian government is doing nothing to protect the area.
Text 2: <<From>> Economics in Our Times
In 1983, Howard Schultz was visiting Italy. In Italy he noticed people sitting at coffee bars, sipping their coffee and talking. He wondered whether Americans, too, would like to sit in relaxing coffee bars, sipping good coffee and talking with their friends. Schultz returned to the United States and tried to convince his bosses to turn Starbucks, which was at that time accompany that sold whole coffee beans, into a chain of coffee bars. They did not like the idea. Schultz then began to approach potential investors. Within a year, he had raised $1.7 million, and by April 1986, he had opened his first coffee bar. A year later, Schultz offered to buy Starbucks from his old bosses. They ended up selling him the company for about $4 million.
Schultz’s success in the coffee business has been quite remarkable. Sales are projected to reach $1 billion by the end of the decade and Starbucks expects to have 2,000 outlets. But the road to success was not an easy one for Schultz. The new Starbucks company lost money in each of the first three years of operation. Schultz said that he “cried a lot. But we had tremendous conviction that this was the way to build a company and the losses were going to end.”
It is interesting to note that Howard Schultz attributes some of his success as an entrepreneur to a book called Jacob’s Journey, by Noah ben Shea. Here is a quote from that work: “Strength is not the absence of weakness but how we wrestle with our weakness.”
Questions 11 through 15 (on your answer sheet mark the correct letter A, B, C, or D)
11. Howard Schultz tried to apply an idea in the United States from which continent?
A. Africa
B. Asia
C. South America
D. Europe
12. Before Starbucks became a chain of coffee bars, it…
A. sold coffee that was not yet ground.
B. sold coffee with special flavors.
C. sold canned coffee in supermarkets.
D. exported coffee to other countries.
13. Why did Schultz say he “cried a lot”?
A. he was very happy with his new business.
B. he wanted to sell his business.
C. he lost money the first three years in business.
D. He did not know what to name his company.
14. A year after opening his own coffee bar, Schultz bought his old bosses’ business. This meant he…
A. was making an investment to build his business.
B. was not losing any money.
C. wanted revenge on his bosses.
D. spent too much money on his bosses’ business.
15. Howard Schultz was motivated by the idea that successful business men…
A. believe in their strength.
B. hide their weaknesses from others.
C. work in spite of their weaknesses.
D. Ccannot admit their weaknesses.