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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs
from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question1: A. hurry B. under C.pressure D. rush
Question 2: A. sacrificed B. laughed C. helped D. supposed

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in
the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question3: A. example B. consider C. several D. attention
Question4:A. situation B. appropriate C. informality D. entertainment

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in
each of the following questions.
Question5: Higher education is very importance to national economies, and it is also a source of
A B
trained and educated personnel for the whole country. (important)
C D
Question6: Electricity is the most critical energy for the future of many countries and cheap, plentiful
A B
electricity is associated for high employment and productivity. (with)
C D
Question7: An university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic
A B C
degrees; including Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees and doctorates in a variety of subjects. (A)
D
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
Question8: John is _______ only child in his family so his parents love him a lot.
A. a B. an C. the D. no article
Question9: According to the boss, John is the most _______ for the position of executive secretary.
A. supportive B. caring C. suitable D. comfortable
Question10: She got up late and rushed to the bus stop.
A. came into B. went leisurely C. went quickly D. dropped by

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Question11: Billy, come and give me a hand with cooking.
A. help B. prepared C. be busy D. attempt
Question12: Whenever problems come up, we discuss them frankly and find solutions quickly.
A .happen B. encounter C. arrive D. clean
Question13: What are the _______ of that country? - I think it is some kinds of cheese and sauces.
A. drinks B. beverages C. grains D. special dishes
Question14: Peter tried his best and passed the driving test at the first _______.
A. try B. attempt C. doing D. aim
Question15: Where is Jimmy? - He is ____ work. He is busy ____ his monthly report.
A. on / for B. in / about C. to / through D. at / with
Question16: With greatly increased workloads, everyone is _______ pressure now.
A. under B. above C. upon D. out of
Question17: We are not allowed _______ jeans at school.
A. wear B. to wear C. wearing D. worn
Question18: Sometimes I do not feel like _______ to my sibling about my troubles.
A. talk B. to talk C. talking D. talked
Question19: The worker was _______ his boss expected, so he was offered a raise.
A. more hard-working B. as hard-working than
C. more hard-working than D. more hard-working as
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to
complete each of the following exchanges.
Question20 - You look great in this new dress.
- ________.
A. With pleasure B. Not at all
C. I am glad you like it D. Do not say anything about it
Question21:- How well you are playing!
- ________.
A. Say it again. I like to hear your words B. I think so. I am proud of myself
C. Thank you too much D. Many thanks. That is a nice compliment
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

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Question22: In the future many large corporations will be wiped out and millions of jobs will be lost.
A. companies B. services C. supermarkets D. farms
Question23:The medical community continues to make progress in the fight against cancer.
A. speed B. expectation C. improvement D. treatment
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question24. These students are not only intelligent but also very polite.
A. good B. well-behaved C. enthusiastic D. rude
Question25. It is difficult to speak English fluently without practising it day by day.
A. easy B. curious C. tiny D. comfortable
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in
meaning to each of the following questions.
Question26: lthough my parents are busy at work, they try to find time for their children.
A. My parents are so busy at work that they cannot find time for their children.
B. Busy at work as my parents are, they try to find time for their children.
C. My parents are too busy at work to find time for their children.
D. My friends rarely have time for their children because they are busy at work.
Question27: His eel soup is better than any other soups I have ever eaten.
A. Of all the soups I have ever eaten, his eel soup is the best.
B. I have ever eaten many soups that are better than his eel soup.
C. His eel soup is the worst of all soups I have eaten.
D. His eel soup is good but I have ever eaten many others better.
Question28: She gets up early to prepare breakfast so that her children can come to school on time.
A. Despite her getting up early to prepare breakfast, her children cannot come to school on time. .
B. Because she wanted her children to come to school on time, she gets up early to prepare
breakfast.
C. If she does not get up early to prepare breakfast, her children will not come to school on time.
D. Unless she gets up early to prepare breakfast, her children will not come to school on.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair
of sentences in the following questions.

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Question 28: My mother is definitely a traditional stay-at-home woman. She offers us great love and a
strict upbringing.
A. My mother is definitely a traditional stay-at-home woman, offers us great love and a strict
upbringing.
B. My mother is definitely a traditional stay-at-home woman, who offers us great love and a
strict upbringing.
C. Because my mother is definitely a traditional stay-at-home woman so she offers us great love and
a strict upbringing.
D. As definitely is my mother a traditional stay-at-home woman, but she offers us great love and a
strict upbringing.
Question29: Mary was very disappointed, but she tried to keep calm.
A. Mary was too disappointed to keep calm.
B. Disappointed as she was, Mary tried to keep calm.
C. Mary lost her temper because of her disappointment.
D. Feeling disappointed, Mary tried to keep calm, but she failed.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
Jean was the warmest, kindest lady (31) _____ always volunteered her time, her effort and her love.
(32) _____ a warm smile, a kind word or a listening ear, she was destined to make her mark in the hearts
of her (33) _____ family and friends. They were her greatest (34) _____ throughout her eleven-year
struggle with cancer, which gave her the (35) _____ to never give up. When it came to her leisure time,
Jean enjoyed doing some shopping and having lunch with her two children. She also liked to shop at the
supermarket, particularly to buy clothes for her sons and grandchildren. For Jean, having a happy family
meant having heaven in her heart and angels in her life. She truly cherished everyone in her life! what
gave Jean the greatest joy was sharing herself with her family and friends, offering them the most
precious thing she possessed her time. It is a gift none of them will ever forget.
Question 31: A. which B. that C. whom D. whose
Question 32: A. On B. In C. For D. With
Question 33: A. cherish B. cherishable C. cherished D. cherishingly
Question 34: A. support B. admire C. desire D. arm
Question 35: A. courage B. courageous C. courageously D. encourage
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
Most people can remember a phone number for up to thirty seconds. When this short amount of
time elapses, however, the numbers are erased from the memory. How did the information get there in
the first place? Information that makes its way to the short term memory (STM) does so via the sensory

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storage area. The brain has a filter which only allows stimuli that is of immediate interest to pass on to
the STM, also known as the working memory.
There is much debate about the capacity and duration of the short term memory. The most
accepted theory comes from George A. Miller, a cognitive psychologist who suggested that humans can
remember approximately seven chunks of information. A chunk is defined as a meaningful unit of
information, such as a word or name rather than just a letter or number. Modern theorists suggest that
one can increase the capacity of the short term memory by chunking, or classifying similar information
together. By organizing information, one can optimize the STM, and improve the chances of a memory
being passed on to long term storage.
When making a conscious effort to memorize something, such as information for an exam, many
people engage in rote rehearsal. By repeating something over and over again, one is able to keep a
memory alive. Unfortunately, this type of memory maintenance only succeeds if there are no
interruptions. As soon as a person stops rehearsing the information, it has the tendency to disappear.
When a pen and paper are not handy, people often attempt to remember a phone number by repeating it
aloud. If the doorbell rings or the dog barks to come in before a person has the opportunity to make a
phone call, he will likely forget the number instantly. Therefore, rote rehearsal is not an efficient way to
pass information from the short term to long term memory. A better way is to practice elaborate
rehearsal. This involves assigning semantic meaning to a piece of information so that it can be filed
along with other pre-existing long term memories.
Encoding information semantically also makes it more retrievable. Retrieving information can be
done by recognition or recall. Humans can easily recall memories that are stored in the long term
memory and used often; however, if a memory seems to be forgotten, it may eventually be retrieved by
prompting. The more cues a person is given (such as pictures), the more likely a memory can be
retrieved. This is why multiple choice tests are often used for subjects that require a lot of memorization.
Question 36: According to the passage, how do memories get transferred to the STM?
A. They revert from the long term memory.
B. They are filtered from the sensory storage area.
C. They get chunked when they enter the brain.
D. They enter via the nervous system.
Question 37: The word elapsesin paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. passes B. adds up C. appears D. continues
Question 38: All of the following are mentioned as places in which memories are stored EXCEPT the
_________.
A. STM B. long term memory C. sensory storage area D. maintenance area
Question 39: Why does the author mention a dogs bark?
A. To give an example of a type of memory
B. To provide a type of interruption
C. To prove that dogs have better memories than humans
D. To compare another sound that is loud like a doorbell
Question 40: How do theorists believe a person can remember more information in a short time?
A. By organizing it B. By repeating it C. By giving it a name D. By drawing it
Question 41: The author believes that rote rotation is ________.
A. the best way to remember something C. ineffective in the long run

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B. more efficient than chunking D. an unnecessary interruption
Question 42: The word it in the last paragraph refers to _______.
A. encodingB. STMC. semanticsD. information
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.
Geographers say that what defines a place are four properties: soil, climate, altitude, and aspect, or
attitude to the Sun. Floridas ancient scrub demonstrates this principle. Its soil is pure silica, so barren it
supports only lichens as ground cover. (It does, however, sustain a sand-swimming lizard that cannot
live where there is moisture or plant matter the soil.) Its climate, despite more than 50 inches of annual
rainfall, is blistering desert plant life it can sustain is only the xerophytic, the quintessentially dry. Its
altitude is a mere couple of hundred feet, but it is high ground on a peninsula elsewhere close to sea
level, and its drainage is so critical that a difference of inches in elevation can bring major changes in its
plant communities. Its aspect is flat, direct, brutal and subtropical. Floridas surrounding lushness
cannot impinge on its desert scrubbiness.
This does not sound like an attractive place. It does not look much like one either; Shrubby little
oaks, clumps of scraggly bushes, prickly pear, thorns, and tangles. It appear Said one early naturalist,
to desire to display the result of the misery through which it has Passed and is passing. By our narrow
standards, scrub is not beautiful; neither does it meet our selfish utilitarian needs. Even the name is an
epithet, a synonym for the stunted, the scruffy, the insignificant, what is beautiful about such a place?
The most important remaining patches of scrub lie along the Lake Wales Ridge, a chain of
paleoislands running for a hundred miles down the center of Florida, in most places less than ten miles
wide. It is relict seashore, tossed up millions of years ago when ocean levels were higher and the rest of
the peninsula was submerged. That ancient emergence is precisely what makes Lake Wales Ridge so
precious: it has remained unsubmerged, its ecosystems essentially undisturbed, since the Miocene era.
As a result, it has gathered to itself one of the largest collections of rare organisms in the world. Only
about 75 plant species survive there, but at least 30 of these are found nowhere else on Earth.
Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. How geographers define a place
B. The characteristics of Floridas ancient scrub
C. An early naturalists opinion of Florida
D. The history of the Lake Wales Ridge
Question 44: The author mentions all of the following as factors that define a place EXCEPT ___.
A. aspect B. altitude C. soil D. life-forms
Question 45: It can be inferred from the passage that soil composed of silica _________.
A. does not hold moisture C. nourishes many kinds of ground cover
B. is found only in Florida D. provides food for many kinds of lizards
Question 46: The word sustain in line 5 is closets in meaning to _______.
A. select B. strain C. support D. store
Question 47: The author mentions the prickly pear (line 11) as an example of ______.
A. valuable fruit-bearing plants of the scrub area
B. unattractive plant life of the scrub area
C. a pant discovered by an early naturalist
D. plant life that is extremely are

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Question 48: The author suggests that human standards of beauty are _______.
A. tolerant B. idealistic C. defensible D. limited
Question 49: The word insignificant in line 14 is closest in meaning to A
A. unimportant B. undisturbed C. immature D. inappropriate
Question 50: According to the passage, why is the Lake Wales Ridge valuable?
A. It was originally submerged in the ocean.
B. It is less than ten miles wide.
C. It is located near the seashore.
D. It has ecosystems that have long remained unchanged.

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