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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.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other threeinthepositionofprimarystressineachofthefollowingquestions.

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: In spite of the heavy rain, all we enjoyed the excursion.

     A. In spite of                   B. heavy                         C. all we                         D. excursion

Question 6: A dolphin can communicate with other by making distinctive sounds.

     A. communicate              B. other                          C. making                       D. sounds

Question 7: Opened the letter from her boyfriend, she felt extremely excited.

     A. Opened                       B. from                           C. felt                             D. excited

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: She was ______ angry that she could not say a word.

     A. so                              B. too much                    C. so many                      D. such

Question 9: Susan, remember to apply this sun cream ______ two hours.

     A. some                          B. several                        C. every                          D. each

Question 10: Neither Tom nor his brothers ______ willing to help their mother with the housework.

     A. are                             B. was                            C. has been                     D. is

Question 11: Spain has won the championship, ______ is not surprising.

     A. that                            B. how                           C. which                         D. what

Question 12: I’d rather you ______ to the English-speaking club with me this Sunday.

     A. will come                    B. came                          C. come                          D. to come

Question 13: Instead of staying around the house all day, you should be out there looking ______ a job.

     A. for                             B. after                           C. into                            D. at

Question 14: How long ago ______ to learn French?

     A. have you started          B. were you starting         C. would you start           D. did you start

Question 15: No sooner ______ my car than the alarm went off.

     A. the thief had touched    B. had the thief touched    C. touched the thief            D. the thief touched

Question 16: She passed the National High School Graduation Exam with ______ colours.

     A. bright                         B. flying                          C. red                             D. true

Question 17: This carpet really needs ______. Can you do it for me, son?

     A. being cleaned              B. cleaned                       C. clean                          D. cleaning

Question 18: I hope you will ______ notice of what I am going to tell you.

     A. gain                            B. keep                           C. get                             D. take

Question 19: He gave ______ his job in order to go back to university.

     A. up                              B. in                               C. away                          D. out

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: Jack: “What’s wrong with you?”                 Jill: “______.”

     A. Thank you very much  B. I’m having a slight headache

     C. No, I don’t care                                                D. Yes, I was tired yesterday

Question 21: Sarah: “Oh my God, I’ve missed my bus.”               Christ: “______. Another will come here in ten minutes.”

     A. I hope so                    B. Don’t mention it          C. Don’t worry                D. Thank you

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSESTin
meaning to theunderlinedword(s) in each ofthefollowingquestions.

Question 22: A special exhibition of Indian art will be opened at the National Museum next month.

     A. painting                      B. programme                 C. music                         D. show

Question 23: Traffic began to flow normally again after the accident.

     A. with the same speed                                           B. in the usual or ordinary way

     C. strangely and irregularly                                     D. repeatedly in different modes

Mark the letter A, B, C, orD on youranswersheetto indicate the word(s) OPPOSITEin
meaningto theunderlinedword(s) in each ofthefollowingquestions.

Question 24: That afternoon at the railway station I was surprised and made happy by the unexpected arrival of Miss Margaret and her mother, from Oakland.

     A. presumed                    B. supposed                    C. informed                     D. anticipated

Question 25: Population growth rates vary among regions and even among countries within the same region.

     A. restrain                       B. stay unchanged            C. remain unstable            D. fluctuate

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: “May I see your passport, Mrs Scott?” said the customs officer.

     A. The customs officer asked to see Mrs Scott’s passport.                               

     B. The customs officer suggested seeing Mrs Scott’s passport.

     C. The customs officer asked Mrs Scott to see his passport.

     D. The customs officer promised to show Mrs Scott his passport.

Question 27: My friend finds driving on the left difficult.

     A. My friend didn’t use to drive on the left.              B. My friend used to drive on the left.

     C. My friend isn’t used to driving on the left.            D. My friend didn’t get used to driving on the left.

Question 28: I think it is more enjoyable to play a sport than to watch it on TV.

     A. In my view, playing a sport is as enjoyable as watching it on TV.

     B. As far as I know, more people watch a sport on TV than they play it.

     C. In my opinion, to play a sport is more enjoyable than to watch it on TV.

     D. I think watching a sport on TV is more enjoyable than playing it.

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: We can get a wonderful meal at a restaurant. I know it.

     A. We can get a wonderful meal which I know at a restaurant.

     B. I know a restaurant at where we can get a wonderful meal.

     C. The restaurant which I know is where we get a wonderful meal.

     D. I know a restaurant where we can get a wonderful meal.

Question 30: He had just entered the house. The police arrested him at once.

     A. Hardly that he had entered the house when the police arrested him.

     B. No sooner had he entered the house than the police arrested him.

     C. Immediately had he entered the house when the police arrested him.

     D. The police immediately arrested him as soon as he’s just entered the house.e

Read the following passage andmark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correctwordorphrase thatbestfits each ofthenumberedblanks from 31 to 35.

Rural America is diverse in many ways. As we have seen, no one industry dominates the rural economy, no single pattern of population decline or (31)________ exists for all rural areas, and no statement about improvements and gaps in well-being holds true for all rural people.

Many of these differences are regional in nature. That is, rural areas within a particular geographic region of the country often tend to be similar (32)_______ each other and different from areas in another region. Some industries, for example, are (33)_______ with different regions – logging and sawmills in the Pacific Northwest and New England, manufacturing in the Southeast and Midwest, and farming in the Great Plains. Persistent poverty also has a regional pattern, concentrated primarily in the Southeast. Other differences follow no regional pattern. Areas that rely heavily on the services industry are located throughout rural America, as are rural areas that have little access to advanced telecommunications services. Many of these differences, regional and non-regional, are the result of a (34)______ of factors including the availability of natural resources; distance from and access to major metropolitan areas and the information and services found there; transportation and shipping facilities; political history and structure; and the racial, ethnic, and (35)______ makeup of the population.

Adapted from “Understanding Rural America”, InfoUSA

Read the following passage andmark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correctanswerto each ofthe questions from 36to 42.

In my experience, freshmen today are different from those I knew when I started as a counselor and professor 25 years ago. College has always been demanding both academically and socially. But students now are less mature and often not ready for the responsibility of being in college.

It is really too easy to point the finger at parents who protect their children from life’s obstacles. Parents, who handle every difficulty and every other responsibility for their children from writing admission essays to picking college courses, certainly may contribute to their children’s lack of coping strategies. But we can look even more broadly to the social trends of today.

How many people do you know who are on medication to prevent anxiety or depression? The number of students who arrive at college already medicated for unwanted emotions has increased dramatically in the past 10 years. We, as a society, don’t want to “feel” anything unpleasant and we certainly don’t want our children to “suffer”.

The resulting problem is that by not experiencing negative emotions, one does not learn the necessary skills to tolerate and negotiate adversity. As a psychologist, I am well aware of the fact that some individuals suffer from depression and anxiety and can benefit from treatment, but I question the growing number of medicated adolescents today.

Our world is more stressful in general because of the current economic and political realities, but I don’t believe that the college experience itself is more intense today than that of the past 10 years. What I do think is that many students are often not prepared to be young “adults” with all the responsibilities of life. What does this mean for college faculty and staff? We are required to assist in the basic parenting of these students - the student who complains that her professor didn’t remind her of the due date for an assignment that was clearly listed on the syllabus and the student who cheats on an assignment in spite of careful instructions about plagiarism.

As college professors, we have to explain what it means to be an independent college student before we can even begin to teach. As parents and teachers we should expect young people to meet challenges. To encourage them in this direction, we have to step back and let them fail and pick themselves up and move forward. This approach needs to begin at an early age so that college can actually be a passage to independent adulthood.

(Adapted from “Students are different now” by Linda Bips. New York Times, October 11, 2010

Question 36: According to the writer, students’ difficulties to cope with college life are partly due to ____.

     A. the lack of financial support                                B. the over-parenting from parents

     C. the absence of parents' protection                       D. the lack of parental support

Question 37: The phrase "on medication" in paragraph 3 is similar in meaning to

     A. receiving medical treatment                                B. suffering anxiety or depression

     C. doing medical research                                       D. studying medicine at college

Question 38: Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

     A. The college experience itself is more intense today than that of the past 10 years.

     B. Our world is more stressful because of the current economic and political situation.

     C. College faculty and staff are required to help in the parenting of problematic students.  D. Our society certainly doesn't want our children to experience unpleasant things.

Question 39: The word "them" in the last paragraph refers to __________.

     A. college professors        B. young people               C. teachers                      D. parents

Question 40: Students who are not well-prepared to be young “adults” with all the responsibilities of life will need ________.

     A. to be assigned more housework from adults         B. to be given more social responsibilities

     C. to be encouraged to meet challenges                    D. daily coaching from their teachers

Question 41: According to the writer, failure in life and less support from parents will ________.

     A. defeat students from the very beginning               B. help students to learn to stand on their own feet

     C. discourage students and let them down forever     D. allow students to learn the first lesson in their lives

Question 42: What is probably the writer's attitude in the passage?

     A. Indifferent                  B. Praising                      C. Critical                        D. Humorous

Read the following passage andmark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correctanswerto each ofthe questions from 43 to 50.

Most of us know a little about how babies learn to talk. From the time infants are born, they hear language because their parents talk to them all the time. Between the ages of seven and ten months, most infants begin to make sounds. They repeat the same sounds over and over again. This is called babbling. When babies babble, they are practicing their language.

What happens, though, to children who cannot hear? How do deaf children learn to communicate? Recently, doctors have learned that deaf babies babble with their hands. Laura Ann Petitto, a psychologist, observed three hearing infants with English-speaking parents and two deaf infants with deaf parents using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. Dr. Petitto studied the babies three times: at 10, 12, and 14 months. During this time, children really begin to develop their language skills.

After watching and videotaping the children for several hundred hours, the psychologist and her assistants made many important observations. For example, they saw that the hearing children made varied motions with their hands. However, there appeared to be no pattern to these motions. The deaf babies also made different movements with their hands, but these movements were more consistent and deliberate. The deaf babies seemed to make the same hand movements over and over again. During the four-month period, the deaf babies' hand motions started to resemble some basic hand-shapes used in ASL. The children also seemed to prefer certain hand-shapes.

Hearing infants start first with simple syllable babbling, then put more syllables together to sound like real sentences and questions. Apparently, deaf babies follow this same pattern, too. First, they repeat simple hand- shapes. Next, they form some simple hand signs and use these movements together to resemble ASL sentences.

Linguists believe that our ability for language is innate. In other words, humans are born with the capacity for language: It does not matter if we are physically able to speak or not. Language can be expressed in different ways - for instance, by speech or by sign. Dr. Petitto believes this theory and wants to prove it. She plans to study hearing children who have one deaf parent and one hearing parent. She wants to see what happens when babies have the opportunity to learn both sign language and speech. Does the human brain prefer speech? Some of these studies of hearing babies who have one deaf parent and one hearing parent show that the babies babble equally with their hands and their voices. They also produce their first words, both spoken and signed, at about the same time. More studies in the future may prove that the sign system of the deaf is the physical equivalent of speech.

Adapted from “Issues for Today” by Lorraine C. Smith and Nancy Nici Mare

Question 43: According to paragraph 1, babies begin to babble ___________.

     A. at their first moment after birth                          

     B. at their first experience of language

     C. when they are more than 6 months old               

     D. when they first hear their parents talk to them

Question 44: The phrase “the babies” in paragraph 2 refers to _________ in the study.

     A. the hearing infants                                             B. the deaf infants

     C. the hearing and deaf infants                                D. the disabled infants

Question 45: The writer mentions “American Sign Language (ASL)” in paragraph 2 as a language

     A. used by the deaf to communicate                        B. especially formed by infants

     C. used among psychologists                                  D. widely used by American children

Question 46: The word “resemble” in paragraph 3 refers to ___________.

     A. making initial movements                                   B. studying funny movements

     C. creating strange movements                               D. producing similar movements

Question 47: It is stated in paragraph 3 that both the deaf and the hearing children made movements with their hands, but _________.

     A. only the hearing children made different movements

     B. the deaf children made less consistent hand movements

     C. the hearing children only repeated the same hand motions

     D. only the deaf children repeated the same hand motions

Question 48: According to paragraph 4, hearing infants learn to talk first by ___________.

     A. hand-shapes                B. babbling                      C. hand motions               D. eye movements

Question 49: It is mentioned in the last paragraph that Dr. Petitto plans to study __________.

     A. what happens when babies have the opportunity to learn both speech and sign language           B. whether all children speak and make motions with their hands at the same time

     C. the assumption that the human brain prefers sign language to speech

     D. whether the sign system of the deaf is the physical equivalent of speech

Question 50: Which of the following could best serve as the title of the passage?

     A. Education for Deaf Children                               B. How do Children Master Language?

     C. Language: Is It Always Spoken?                         D. American Sign Language

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