"What did the authorities say about the frequent accidents of public transport?” A. Because of the improper maintenance and control. It is maintenance and control which are improper. C. That is because the maintenance and control are improper. D. Caused by the improper maintenance and control, E. That it was due to the improper maintenance and control (1) ... (2) However, most of us only ride our bikes for fun or sport. (3) If you don't ride for more practical purposes, you are missing some of the best benefits of biking, (4) For example, biking to work helps you save money on gas. (5) A tank of gas for your car can cost $50.00 a week, and more if you drive a long way to work. (6) Biking also helps you keep the environment clean, (7) Your car chokes the air with terrible chemicals but your bike will not. (8) Use your bike more often and help other as well as yourself. (9) Do simple errands such as going to a nearby post office or convenience store on your bicycle. (10) You can buy different kinds of stuff at a convenience store. (11) Leave your car at home when you can. (12) You'll save money on gas and help the environment, too. With which of the following that biking sentences should the paragraph begin? A. Most people realize that biking is excellent exercise, offering several benefits. B, Most people know that riding a bike is getting more popular. C. People can save money if they do not drive their cars to their office very often. D. If people want to keep their environment clean, they should stop driving their cars. E, Most people ride their bikes to their office to save and to keep our air clean Problems 3 - 10 are based on the following passage. Choose one option that best completes the blank spaces in the passages! One of the major achievements of modern science is the determination of the approxi age of the Earth, now reckoned at 4.6 years. This makes the Earth far older than was (3) agined. Indeed, one eighteenth-century religious and scientific authority circulated the widely (4) ... view that the planet was only some four thousand years old. To modem Scientists, (5) ... geologic time begins with the formations of the Earth's solid crust sometime earlier than the age of the oldest known rock. Geologists divide this vast expanse of time into four eras - the Precambrian, the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic, and the Cenozoic, which takes us to the present. Thus, the almost five billion years of planetary history and the 100,000 or so years ‘of human (6) ... are encapsulated in a mere four categories. (7) ..., to aid in the discussion of such vast periods of time, further division and (8)... becomes necessary. Accordingly, the last three eras are further (9)... into 12 periods and more than 40 epochs, each division being (10) ... by characteristic types of rock and plant and animal fossils. 3. — A. comfortably —D._ formerly B. cautiously & quietly separately10. gne> mONP> poe> ne> moOOe> mOOR> mone> constructed accepted formulated circulated protected otherwise moreover therefore besides however existence existed existing existent exist finally literally obviously approvingly completely specifics specification specifically specificity specify staged planned determined divided multiplied determiner determinate determination D. determinant Problems 11 ~ 13 are based on the following passage. Choose one option that best completes the blank spaces in the passages! The present study sought to document the word reading and comprehension levels attained by children who were implanted by 5 year of age. It was hypothesized that the improved speech perception abilities acquired with cochlear implantation would promote Phonological coding skills. (11) ... Three subtests from diagnostic reading assessment batteries standardized on hearing children were administered to 181 children between 8 years 0 month and 9 years 11 months of age who had 4 to 6 years of implant experience. (12) it included a lexical decision task, a thyme task and the digit span subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. Over half of the children scored within the average range for their age compared with the normative data for hearing children. (13) ... they were higher nonverbal intelligence, higher family socio- economic status, female gender and later onset of deafness (between birth and 36 months). (Adapted from journal of ear and hearing) 11. Which option best completes (11)? A. The finding showed that the hypothesis was accepted, B. The implantation was eventually shown to be successful. C The following paragraph would discuss the findings of the study. D. The objective of the study was to see the subjects reading skills. E._ Itwould also facilitate the acquisition of beginning reading skills. 12, Which option best completes (12)? A. Likewise, the children were obliged to take a reading test. B. In addition a battery of processing measures was administered. C. However, standard measurement was applied to test the subjects.D. Consequently, the assessment was used to evaluate the reading skills. E, Instead, an interview consisting of many different tasks was conducted. 13. ich option best completes (13)? A. The results were categorized based on the subject's status. B. Data were collected on the basis of several different items. C. Reading competence was associated with three aspects. D. Thesubjects consisted of different age children, Findings showed various levels of reading skills. Problems 14 - 17 are based on the following passage. Choose one option that best completes the blank spaces in the passages! Indigenous plants and animals are few in Easter Island. At the time of European arrival, the toromiro tree was only wild tree and the Carolina wolfberry the only wild shrub, the vegetation being (14) ... herbaceous. The toromiro tree was overexploited by the island wood carvers, and the last local specimen died in 1950s. (15) ., the species was saved from extinction. The Norwegian Archaelogical Expedition collected seeds and planted them in the Gothenburg Botanical Garden, and saplings from the garden were reintroduced to Easter Island in 1988. Today only 31 wild flowering plants, 14 ferns, and 14 mosses are reported. Grass and small ferns dominate the barren landscape, (16) . the boggy crater lakes are thickly covered by two imported American species, the totora reed and Polygonum acuminatum. A number of cultivated species of plants were also introduced partly from America and partly from Polynesia before the arrival of European; of these the (17) species was the sweet potato, which was cultivated in extensive plantations and formed the staple diet. Bottle gourds, sugarcane, bananas, taro, yams, and two tress (ie. the Asiatic paper mulberry the American Triumfetta semitriloba) were of aboriginal importation, as also probably were the husk-tomato, a small variety of pineapple, and the coconut. 14. predominant predominated predominating . predominance predominantly mone> 15. however moreover in contrast for example consequently goer 16. so yet while hence unlike mON@> 7. principal principle secondary mandatory inconspicuous goer Problems 18 — 22 are based on the following passage. Choose one option that best completes the blank spaces in the passages! Photosynthesis is a process by which light energy (18) ... into chemical energy. Understanding energy conversions (19) . Not trivial, and this Bio-Coach activity is designed to enhance your understanding and retention of the content by illustrating and animating the fundamental processes (20) ... in photosynthesis. This activity (21) ... Of brief overview of photosynthesis using nine interactive animations and a 25-question multiple-choice quiz. You should work through the animations in sequence, but may accessthem in random order for review purposes. The animations review the important characteristics of light energy, quiz your recall of leaf and plant cell anatomy, demonstrate the general process of photosynthesis, and examine the molecular events that (22) ... place in the chloroplast. 18. A. are converted B. converts C._isconverted D._isconverting E, converted 19. A. has B. been were D. isbeing Eis 20. 21. 22. involving involves involved isinvolved are involving has consisted consisting consisted consists had cor is taking take took was taken takes