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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 1: A. jobs                             B. results                      C. cups                        D. coughs

Question 2: A. enthusiasm                  B. rumour                    C. student                    D. mutual

 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.

Question 3: A. compulsory                 B. education                C. economics               D. geographical

Question 4: A. phenomenon               B. pacific                     C. phonetic                  D. character

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.

Question 5: The British  national anthem,  calling “God Save the Queen”,  was a traditional  song in the 18th century. 

A. national                                           B. calling                     C. was a                       D. song 

Question 6. What I told her a few days ago were not the solution to most of her problems.

A. What I told her                                B. were                        C. to                             D. most of

Question 7: Linda was very surprised to find the door unlocked. She remembered to lock it before she left.

A. to lock                                             B. to find                     C. unlocked                 D. left

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Question 8: A number of young teachers nowadays _____ themselves to teaching disadvantaged children.

A. stick                                    B. offer                        C. devote                     D. give

Question 9: He was very lucky when he fell off the ladder. He _____ himself.

A. could have hurt                   B. must have hurt        C. should have hurt     D. would have hurt

Question 10: She is over eighty now, but _____.

A. cool as a cucumber            B. as fit as a fiddle       C. as old as the hills    D. under the weather

Question 11:  Bill Gates has made large donations to numerous ____ organizations.

A. charitably                            B. charitable                C. charity                     D. charities

Question 12: Women no longer have to do hard work nowadays as they used to, _____? 

A. do they                                B. are they                   C. aren’t they               D. don’t they

Question 13: Please help me with this math problem. I can’t _____ the answer.

A. face up to                            B. end up                     C. come up with          D. run into

Question 14: If you have any problem, please call Ann. She'll always _____ a sympathetic ear.

A. give                                     B. bring                        C. borrow                    D. lend

Question 15: _____, we couldn't make out the gist of the passage.

A. Though carefully explained by John                       B. Due to John's carefully explanations

C. Carefully as John explained                                    D. As John carefully explained

Question 16: A _____ is an official document that you receive when you have completed a course of study or training.

A. certificate                            B. grade                       C. subject                                 D. vocation

Question 17: You were the last person _____ the office. Did you see anyone _____ the building?

A. leaving / enter                     B. to leave / enter         C. to leave / to enter                 D. leaving / entering

Question 18: _____ as the representative at the conference, she felt extremely proud of herself.

A. On choosing                        B. Be chosen               C. Having been chosen            D. Having chosen

Question 19: People in every corner of the world can be infected with _____ most recently discovered coronavirus.

A. the                                       B. a                              C. an                                        D. Ø (no article)

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.

Question 20: Billy and Bobby are in a coffee shop. Billy is asking Bobby for his opinion about the coffee there.

- Billy: “How's the coffee here?”

- Bobby: “ _____ ”

A. It's a little bitter, to tell the truth.                              B. It's a little better now that I've got a car.

C. As a matter of fact, I'm not interested.                    D. No, I don't think so.

Question 21: Mike and Susan are talking about changes in the modern society. 

- Mike: “Our living standards have been improved greatly.”

- Susan: “ _____ ” 

A. No, it’s nice to say so.                                 B. Sure. I couldn’t agree more.

C. Thank you for saying so.                            D. Yes, it’s nice of you to say so.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSET in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Question 22: Many political radicals advocated that women should not be discriminated on the basic of their sex.                      

A. publicly supported              B. public supported                 C. publicly said                        D. openly criticized

Question 23: Al or Robots can easily adapt to each student's individual learning needs and can target instruction based on their strengths and weaknesses.

A. familiarize itself with          B. preserve itself for                C. come to terms without         D. stay unstable

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.

Question 24: Although robots certainly help us to eliminate tedious tasks, many people are concerned about a future filled with robots.

A. as dry as dust                      B. deadly-dull                          C. run-of-the-mill        D. exciting  

Question 25: You should put yourself on the back for having achieved such a high score in the graduation exam.

A. criticize yoursel                   B. wear a backpack                 C. praise yourself        D. check up your back

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.

Question 26: My friend told me, "If I were you, I would not smoke so much."

A. My friend warned me against smoking so much.                B. My friend prohibited me from smoking so much.

C. My friend advised me not to smoke so much.                     D. My friend suggested not smoking so much.

Question 27: No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t open the door.

A. I tried hard to open the door.                                              B. It was difficult for me to open the door.

C. Try as hard as I might, I couldn’t open the door.                 D. I could open the door easily.

Question 28. “You're always making terrible mistakes”, said the teacher.

A. The teacher made his students not always make terrible mistakes.

B. The teacher realized that his students always made terrible mistakes.

C. The teacher asked his students why they always made terrible mistakes.

D. The teacher complained about his students making terrible mistakes.

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.

Question 29: My father regrets taking up smoking. He can’t give it up now.

A. My father wishes he hadn’t taken up smoking since he can’t cut down on it now.

B. My father regrets taking up smoking because he’s not able to give it up now.

C. My father can’t give up smoking now and feels regret about it.

D. Regretful as my father is, there might be a chance for him to stop smoking.

Question 30: Hendry won a scholarship. We are excited about that fact.

A. We’re excited about Hendry’s having won a scholarship.

B. Hendry’s excited about a scholarship’s having won us.

C. The fact being excited us had won Hendry a scholarship.

D. We won Hendry’s excitement about the fact of a scholarship.

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 following blanks:

A POWERFUL INFLUENCE

            There can be no doubt at all that the Internet has made a huge difference to our lives. Parents are worried that children spend too much time playing on the Internet, hardly (31) _____ doing anything else in their spare time. Naturally, parents are curious to find out why the Internet is so attractive, and they want to know if it can be harmful for their children. Should parents worry if their children are spending that much time staring at their computers?  

            Obviously, if children are bent over their computers for hours, (32) ____ in some game, instead of doing their homework, then soothing is wrong. Parents and children could decide how much use the child should make of the Internet, and the child should give his or her (33) ____ that it won't interfere with homework. (34) _____ the child is not holding to this arrangement the parents can take more drastic steps. Dealing with a child's use of the Internet is not much different from negotiating any other sort of bargain about behavior.  

            Any parent (35) _____ is seriously alarmed about a child's behavior should make an appointment to discuss the matter with a teacher. Spending time in front of the screen does not necessarily affect a child's performance at school. Even if a child is absolutely crazy about using the Internet, he or she is probably just going through a phase, and in a few months there will be something else to worry about!  

Question 31. A. ever                           B. rarely                       C. never                       D. always  

Question 32. A. puzzled                      B. absorbed                 C. interested                 D. occupied  

Question 33. A. word             B. promise                   C. vow                         D. claim  

Question 34. A. Why             B. What                       C. If                             D. Although 

Question 35. A. which                        B. whom                      C. what                        D. who

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 following questions.

Improving girls’ educational levels has been demonstrated to have clear impacts on the health and economic future of young women, which in turn improves the prospects of their entire community. The infant mortality rate of babies whose mothers have received primary education is half that of children whose mothers are illiterate. In the poorest countries of the world, 50% of girls do not attend secondary school. Yet, research shows that every extra year of school for girls increases their lifetime income by 15%. Improving female education, and thus the earning potential of women, improves the standard of living for their own children, as women invest more of their income in their families than men do. Yet, many barriers to education for girls remain. In some African countries, such as Burkina Faso, girls are unlikely to attend school for such basic reasons as a lack of private latrine facilities for girls.

Higher attendance rates of high schools and university education among women, particularly in developing countries, have helped them make inroads into professional careers with better-paying salaries and wages. Education increases a woman's (and her partner and the family's) level of health and health awareness. Furthering women's levels of education and advanced training also tends to lead to later ages of initiation of sexual activity and first intercourse, later age at first marriage, and later age at first childbirth, as well as an increased likelihood to remain single, have no children, or have no formal marriage and alternatively, have increasing levels of long-term partnerships. It can lead to higher rates of barrier and chemical contraceptive use (and a lower level of sexually transmitted infections among women and their partners and children), and can increase the level of resources available to women who divorce or are in a situation of domestic violence. It has been shown, in addition, to increase women's communication with their partners and their employers, and to improve rates of civic participation such as voting or the holding of office.

(Source: Academic Reading Builder by Bin Walters and Will Link)

Question 36:  What can be the best title of the reading passage?

A. Female Education and Social Benefits                      B. Education and Women's Empowerment

C. Woman's Rights to Lifelong Education                     D. Education and Violence Against Women

Question 37:  It is stated in the first paragraph that _____.

A. women who have little schooling often have no idea of raising their children

B. women's education levels have influence on the prospect of their community

C. it is the children's schooling that helps their mothers increase their lifetime income

D. earning their own living, women take the responsibility of running the household

Question 38:  It is implied in the first paragraph that _____.

A. there are numerous reasons for women not to come to class worldwide

B. the children's standard of living largely depends on their mother's income

C. the mother in a family makes every effort to raise the children effectively

D. the husband in a family takes little responsibility in rearing the children

Question 39:  The word "barriers" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.

A. aids                                  B. fences                          C. limits                            D. difficulties

Question 40:  The phrase "make inroads into" in the second paragraph can be best replaced with _____.

A. celebrate achievement in         B. take the chance in               C. succeed in taking       D. make head or tail of

Question 41:  According to the passage, furthering women's levels of education and advanced training does NOT result in _____.

A. an increased level of health awareness for the husbands

B. higher rates of barrier and chemical contraceptive use

C. improved rates of civic participation among women

D. an increased likelihood to remain single among women

Question 42:  The word "It" in the passage refers to _____.

A. furthering women's levels of education and advanced training

B. a woman's level of health and health awareness

C. increasing levels of long-term partnership

D. higher attendance rates of high schools and university education

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 following questions.

More than 200 reindeer have died of starvation on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, with scientists blaming their deaths on climate change. The wild deer carcasses were found on the Arctic islands this summer by researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), which said it had never “logged” so many deaths at once in 40 years of monitoring the animals’ population level. “It’s scary to find so many dead animals,” project leader Ashild Onvik Pedersen told state broadcaster NRK. “This is an example of how climate change affects nature. It is just sad.”

Svalbard’s capital Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on earth, is thought to be warming quicker than any other settlement on the planet, climate scientists warned earlier this year. The milder temperatures in the region led to unusually heavy rainfall in December, leaving a thick layer of ice when the precipitation froze. This meant the reindeer could not dig through the hardened tundra to reach the vegetation they graze on in their usual pastures, the NPI said. Svalbard’s reindeer have been observed eating seaweed and kelp when food is “scarce”, but “these” are less nutritious and cause them stomach problems.

A relatively high number of calves born last year increased the death toll, as the youngest and weakest are often the first to die in harsh conditions. “Some of the mortality is natural because there were so many calves last year. But the large number we see now is due to heavy rain, which is due to global warming,” said Ms Onvik Pedersen.

A team of three scientists spent 10 weeks investigating population of the Svalbard reindeer earlier this year. Researchers warned the decline of reindeer would cause unwanted plant species, currently kept in check by the animals’ grazing, to spread across Arctic ecosystems in Europe, Asia and North America.

Arctic reindeer and caribou populations have declined 56 per cent in the last two decades, a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last year. The report said food security was partly to blame for falling herd numbers, while warmer summers could also put the animals at greater risk of diseases spread by flies and parasites. The average temperature in Longyearbyen has risen by 3.7⁰C since 1900, more than three times the global average increase of about 1⁰C. In 2016, the entrance to the town’s “Doomsday” seed vault – which stores specimens of almost all the world’s seeds – was flooded following heavy rainfall.

(Adapted from https://www.independent.co.uk/)

Question 43: Which could best serve as the title of the passage?

A. Global warming – What are the effects on nature?

B. Climate change – The main cause of the death of hundreds of reindeer.

C. Reindeer – The most vulnerable animals on the Arctic islands.

D. Climate change – What are the reasons?

Question 44: The word “logged” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____.

A. damaged                        B. cut down                   C. recorded                    D. discovered

Question 45: The following are true about capital Longyearbyen, EXCEPT _____.

A. It is the northernmost town on our planet.

B. It is believed to be the most quickly warming settlement on earth.

C. People in Longyearbyen suffered unusually heavy rain at the end of the year.

D. The reindeer here couldn’t stand the low temperature when the precipitation froze.

Question 46: The word “scarce” in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by _____.

A. insufficient                    B. inappropriate             C. abundant                   D. unlimited

Question 47: What does the word “these” in paragraph 2 refer to _____?

A. their usual pastures        B. Svalbard’s reindeer   C. seaweed and kelp      D. milder temperatures

Question 48. According to Ms. Onvik Pedersen, why is the death rate of reindeer so high this year?

A. Because of the high number of calves born.       B. Because of heavy rain.

C. Because of natural selection.                               D. Because of the shortage of vegetation.

Question 49: Which statement is TRUE according to the last paragraph?

A. Beside the scarcity of food, diseases are also the cause of reindeer’s mortality.

B. After over 2 months investigated, reindeer populations were reported to decrease because of the increase of unwanted plant species.

C. Nearly a half of reindeer populations have reduced in the last two decades.

D. The average temperature of the Earth has increased by 3.7⁰C since 1990.

Question 50: It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

A. The clearest effect of climate change is the limit of food chain in the nature.

B. Arctic reindeer play the most important role in the Arctic ecosystems.

C. The Arctic ecosystems are altering worse because of the global warming.

D. The harsh weather in Arctic islands only damages the new-born calves.

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