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(Q1)The passage was about (a) the ear of the tiger.
(b) the year of the tiger.
(c) the Hanshin Tigers.
(d) Tiger Woods.
(Q2)Oriental zodiac calendar system includes (a) 3 animals.
(b) 6 animals.
(c) 10 animals.
(d) 12 animals.
(Q3) The number of Japanese men and women born in the year of the Tiger are (a) a little more than 10 million.
(b) less than 10 million.
(c) well over 10 million.
(d) far below 10 million.
(Q4)Of the figure, (a) children are more than adults.
(b) students are more than workers.
(c) women are more than men.
(d) men are more than women.
(Q5)They make up for (a) approximately 8 percent of the whole population.
(b) only as small as 8 percent of the whole population.
(c) as so much as 8 percent of the whole population.
(d) about half of the whole population.
(Q6)Those who were born in 1950 (a) will become 90 years old this year.
(b) are still children now.
(c) are already dead without any doubt.
(d) are in their middle ages now.
(Q7)The 1950ers are the .............. tiger-year people in Japan (a) smallest.
(b) best.
(c) oldest.
(d) biggest.
(Q8)Tiger Woods was born (a) in the year of the tiger.
(b) with a golf club.
(c) with Oriental backgrounds.
(d) in the den of a tiger.
(Q9)The probability of the Hanshin Tigers' winning a championship in the next tiger year is (a) next to zero.
(b) very low.
(c) very high.
(d) fifty-fifty.
(Q10)The Hanshin Tigers is (a) a losing team most of the season.
(b) almost invincible.
(c) everyone's favorite.
(d) always a winner in the year of the Tiger.

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