PRACTICE TEST 70 FOR GIFTED STUDENTS GRADE 9-2022

MISTAKES CORRECTION
Part 1:
CREATURE SLEEPS
The first experiments in recording scientific history on the effects of people not getting enough
sleep took place in the late 1800s. According to records, three volunteers were deprived of
sleep for a total of 90 hours. Later on, in 1920 more experiments in sleep deprivation were
conducted by scientists which several people were deprived of sleep for a period of 60 hours.
The results of many sleep deprivation experiments have recorded and conducted by American
‘sleep scientist’ Nathaniel Kleitman. Often referred to as ‘the father of modern sleep research’,
Kleitman’s work has formed the founding for many areas of current sleep research. In one
experiment, Kleitman examined thirty five volunteers who had been awake about 60 hours and
also conducted an experiment in himself, remaining awake for a total of 100 hours. It has
revealed that people who are sleep-deprived for periods of more than 60 hours try to fall asleep
in any environment and show- signals of mental disturbances, visions and hallucinations. As the
length of sleep deprivation increases, so too does the mental reduction in an individual. Having
studied a group of 3 sleep deprived people, sleep researcher Dr. Tim Oswald, concluded that
chronic sleep deprivation often leads to drastical consequences. Oswald’s experiments
reinstated the necessity of sleep for proper human functioning.
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Part 2:
THE SEARCH FOR FRESH WATER

The assert that water has always been the essence of life is nothing new. Water comes from
many forms: spring water, sea and river water, rainwater, and fog and dew water. Thus water is
becoming scarce and this scarcity is becoming a very real worry for governments all around the
world. The reality is that one of the main obstacle to the economic development of a particular
country is its shortage of an adequate supply of fresh water. Current figures show that an
inhabitant of a wealthy, modern town consumes 100-400 litres of water daily. In some
developed countries the amount of water consumed does not exceed 20-30 litres per day. Rich
or poor, annual water consumption has continued to grow, increases fourfold over the last 50
years. The world’s fresh water supplies are drawn out a number of sources. The largest cache
of the estimated 35 million km3 fresh water reserve is located between glaciers and snow. The
amount contained in these ‘storehouses’ has been estimated to be around 24 million km3.
Ground water is also a big contribution to the world’s fresh water supplies amounting to an
estimated 10.5 million km3.
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LISTENING: TED talk, school of life

Part 1:
One of the most (1) remarkable aspect____________of the human brain is its ability to recognize
patterns and describe them. Among the hardest patterns we've tried to understand is the concept of
turbulent flow in fluid (2) _____dynamics____. As difficult as turbulence is to understand (3)
_____mathematicly____, we can use art to depict the way it looks. In June 1889, Vincent van Gogh
painted the view just before sunrise from the window of his room at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he'd admitted himself after (4) ______his own ear in a (5) ____sicotick
episode_____. In "The Starry Night," his circular brushstrokes create a night sky filled with swirling
clouds and eddies of stars. Van Gogh and other Impressionists represented light in a different way than
their (6) ________, seeming to capture its motion, for instance, across sun-dappled waters, or here in
star light that (7) _______twinkle and melt___through milky waves of blue night sky. The effect is
caused by luminance, the intensity of the light in the colors on the canvas. The more primitive part of our
visual cortex, which sees light (8) __contrast and motion_______, but not color, will blend two (9)
__difference color__________areas together if they have the same luminance. But our brains' primate
(10) __________ will see the contrasting colors without blending. With these two interpretations
happening at once, the light in many Impressionist works seems to pulse, flicker and radiate
oddly. That's how this and other Impressionist works use quickly executed (11)
__prominan_______brushstrokes to capture something (12) ___stranking___real about how light
moves.

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Part 2:
While searching for a kidney donor, a Boston woman named Karen Keegan (1) _stumble_upon_____a
mystery. When her three adult sons (2) _________ to determine whether they were a match for (3)
______kitnidonation____, the test showed that two of them weren’t actually her sons.
Keegan knew she was her sons’ mother— she had conceived and given birth to them. Figuring there
must have been (4) __era_____, her doctors pursued further testing, only to (5)
____uncover___something even more confusing: she was her children’s (6) ____byalogical aunt___. It
turned out that Keegan had a second genome in some tissues and organs. In other words, some of her
cells had a completely different (7) ___set of jean____from the others. This second set of genes
belonged to her twin sister— who had never been born.
This condition, where an individual has two genomes present in (8) ___tissue____of their body, is called
chimerism. The name comes from Greek (9) ______, where chimera is an amalgam of three different
animals. Individuals with chimerism might have two-toned skin or hair, or two different colored eyes, but
most are believed to have no (10) ___visiblesign___of the condition. Chimerism can come from a twin in
utero, from a tissue or (11) __organtranspan_____, or happen between a fetus and a (12) ___pregnat
woman______. 

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