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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 1: _______she was very hard working; she hardly earned enough to feed her family.
A. In spite of B. Because C. Because of D. Although
Question 2: Before the driver started the car, all passengers ______ their seat belts properly.
A. fasten B. had fastened C. will fasten D. has fastened
Question 3: She gave him a ________ wallet as a gift at his birthday party.
A. small brown leather B. small leather brown C. brown small leather D. leather small brown
Question 4: I’m afraid I’m not a very good advertisement for the diet ______!
A. in order that I had actually put on weight B. since I’ve actually put on weight
C. as soon as I will actually put on weight D. by the time I actually put on weight
Question 5: Trembling with fear, she ______ the money to the gunman.
A. ran up B. handed over C. screwed up D. fell over
Question 6: The doctor advised him to ______ a complete rest from football.
A. take B. lie C. lay D. hunt
Question 7: Children rarely show any ______ for what their parents do for them.
A. appreciate B. appreciative C. appreciation D. appreciatively
Question 8: The singer has ______ from humble origins to become one of the most successful
entertainers of all time.
A. lined B. arisen C. tied D. risen
Question 9: They can hear the music from his room sometimes, ______?
A. don’t they B. can’t they C. haven’t they D. couldn’t they
Question 10: Joe’s leg ______ while he was playing football.
A. broke B. was breaking C. was broken D. was being broken
Question 11: He called me a ______ because I wouldn’t swim in the river.
A. chicken B. goose C. duck D. bird
Question 12: ________ in the class, I thought about my dream of studying abroad.
A. Being studied B. Studied C. Had studied D. Studying
Question 13: I really don’t know what all the fuss is ______.
A. about B. at C. with D. on
Question 14: ______ experienced the technician is, the more satisfying the repair will be.
A. The most B. Most C. The more D. More
Question 15: The report assigned the ______ for the accident to inadequate safety regulations.
A. praise B. credit C. rap D. blame
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of
the following exchanges.
Question 16: Linda is talking to David about friends in the class.
Linda; “Do you think Anna is the best student in our class?” - David: “__________”
A. Do you think so? B. Yes, I don’t think so. C. You can’t say so. D. You can say that again.
Question 17: My father is suggesting eating out this evening.
My father: “Do you feel like eating out this evening?” - My mother: “__________”
A. I’m sorry for that. B. Why should we?
C. No, I think I can cook myself. D. No, I don’t know.
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.
Question 18: A. musical B. library C. organic D. applicant
Question 19: A. global B. compare C. native D. billion
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.
Question 20: A. cleaned B. caused C. decided D. studied
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Question 21: A. slope B. bomb C. whole D. home
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.
Question 22: The drugs she’s taking make her drowsy and confused, but there are times when she’s quite
lucid.
A. flavoured B. strained C. puzzled D. freckled
Question 23: Has she had any experience of managing large projects?
A. buttoning B. connecting C. infecting D. handling
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: Don’t get angry with such a thing. It’s only a storm in a teacup.
A. serious problem B. trivial thing
C. commercial tension D. financial issue
Question 25: He has an annoying habit of arriving just when we are having our meal.
A. disturbing B. boring C. enjoyable D. respectful
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 26: My father supported me much in my career. I did really well in my business.
A. So well did I do in my business that my father supported me much in my career.
B. Had it not been for my father’s support, I couldn’t have done so well in my business.
C. Hardly had I done so well in my business when my father supported me much in my career.
D. Only after I had done so well in my business did my father support me much in my career.
Question 27: You can use that new mobile. Make sure you protect it well.
A. You can’t use that new mobile in case you protect it well.
B. You can use that new mobile if you protect it well.
C. You can use that new mobile unless you protect it well.
D. You can’t use that new mobile provided you protect it well.
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 28: She complained that her husband never paid her any complements anymore.
A. complained B. never C. any complements D. anymore
Question 29: When they got home last night. They found that someone have broken into the house.
A. When B. that C. have broken D. house
Question 30: In that days it was considered not quite proper for young ladies to be seen talking to men in
public.
A. that B. considered C. ladies D. in
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 31: It’s necessary for you to go home early tonight.
A. You may go home early tonight. B. You mustn’t go home early tonight.
C. You shouldn’t go home early tonight. D. You need go home early tonight.
Question 32: “I received a phone call from your mother last weekend,” John said.
A. John said that I had received a phone call from your mother last weekend.
B. John said that he had received a phone call from your mother the week before.
C. John said that he received a phone call from your mother last weekend.
D. John said that I would receive a phone call from your mother the week before.
Question 33: They haven’t gone to see their children for 3 months.
A. They didn’t go to see their children 3 months ago.
B. They went to see their children for 3 months.
C. They last went to see their children 3 months ago.
D. They have gone to see their children for 3 months.
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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 34 to 38.
Children essentially learn how the sounds in a language go together to make meaning. (34) ______,
they learn that the sounds m-ah-m-ee refer to the “being” who cuddles and feeds them, their mommy.
This is a significant step because everything we say is really just a stream of sounds. To make (35)
______ of those sounds, a child must be able to recognize where one word ends and another one begins.
These are called “word boundaries.”
However, children are not learning words, exactly. They are actually learning morphemes, (36)
______ are the smallest, discrete chunks words can be broken into. A morpheme may be a word on its
own or may be combined with other morphemes to form a word. So in “mommy,” there are two
morphemes: “ma” and “mee.”
Help your child build their language skills by reading to them often. And of course, keep having
child-centric conversations with them as studies show that babies learn language best within a social
context. (37) ______ way to encourage their communication and social skills is to mimic their noises
(such as their babbling) and say them back to them. You can also mirror their facial (38) ______ and
describe their actions as well as narrate what is happening around them.
Question 34: A. Although B. For example C. Before D. Finally
Question 35: A. debt B. mall C. sense D. mode
Question 36: A. which B. whom C. that D. why
Question 37: A. Many B. Other C. Lots of D. Another
Question 38: A. instructions B. assignments C. expressions D. backgrounds
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 39 to 43.
The modern study of earth sciences looks at the planet as a large, complex network of physical,
chemical, and biological interactions. This is known as a systems approach to the study of Earth. The
systems approach treats Earth as a combination of several subsystems, each of which can be viewed
individually or in concert with the others. These subsystems are the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere,
and biosphere.
The geosphere is that part of the solid earth on which people live and from which are extracted the
materials that make up our world: minerals and rocks as well as the organic products of the soil. In the
latter area, the geosphere overlaps with the biosphere, the province of all living and recently living things;
in fact, once a formerly living organism has decomposed and become part of the soil, it is no longer part
of the biosphere and has become a component of the geosphere.
Overlap occurs between all spheres in one way or another. Thus, the hydrosphere includes all of the
planet’s waters, except for water that has entered the atmosphere in the form of evaporation. From the
time moisture is introduced to the blanket of gases that surrounds the planet until it returns to the solid
earth in the form of precipitation, water is a part of the atmosphere. This aspect of the planet’s water is
treated in the essay on Evapotranspiration and Precipitation.
Question 39: What is the passage mainly about?
A. Combination of several subsystems B. The systems approach to earth
C. Geosphere overlaps with the biosphere D. The form of evaporation
Question 40: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 1 as a subsystem of systems
approach to the study of Earth?
A. geosphere B. hydrosphere C. biosphere D. centrosphere
Question 41: The word it in paragraph 2 refers to ______.
A. soil B. geosphere C. living organism D. biosphere
Question 42: According to paragraph 2, when has a living organism become a component of the
geosphere?
A. when it live with other living things
B. when it has decomposed and become part of the soil
C. when water has entered the atmosphere
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 D. when moisture is introduced to the blanket of gases
Question 43: The word solid in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. hard B. clear C. true D. warm
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 44 to 50.
The scientists recruited dog owners worldwide via social media, then asked them to play fetch with
their dogs daily in their homes while repeating the name of the toy, a process that lasted three months.
Once a month, with a scientist present, the owners tested the dogs—the study participants included
both adults and puppies—by asking the canine to retrieve one of two toys by name. Dogs that succeeded
were then given a new toy and new name to learn.
Despite the intensive training, only Oliva learned to match a single word to a toy—in fact, she
learned 21 names in two months, though she died from health issues she’d suffered since a puppy before
she could be tested further.
“None of the breeds learned a thing. It was such a surprise,” Fugazza says. To verify the study design
worked, the scientists also tested six border collies that could already retrieve some toys by name; as
predicted, all six of those control dogs learned additional names.
It’s interesting that 18 of the 33 dogs that failed the test were also border collies, Fugazza points out,
showing that the breed isn’t always high performing. Because such individual variation in intelligence
also occurs in people, dogs could provide insight into what makes an animal gifted and talented, she says.
“A handful of talented people have changed the course of history,” she says. “Why are there so few
Mozarts and Einsteins? Is it genetics, the environment, or practice? We think dogs can be used as a model
to study the origin of talent.”
To explore that question, the scientists next plan to track the genetics and history of a variety of dog
breeds to try to identify the factors that produce such smart creatures. Many researchers believe that
border collies are likely so attuned to learning names because they were bred to herd sheep, which
requires paying close attention to herders’ whistles and verbal cues.
Question 44: Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. A variety of dog breeds B. What makes an animal gifted
C. Health issues of a puppy D. The origin of talent
Question 45: The word process in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. transition B. procedure C. vegetable D. confidence
Question 46: According to paragraph 2, the dogs retrieves one of two toys by name _____.
A. got a small gift from scientists B. were tested separately
C. got a new toy and name to learn D. were given more food to eat
Question 47: The word variation in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. quantity B. activity C. diversity D. ability
Question 48: The word they in paragraph 7 refers to ______.
A. border collies B. names C. creatures D. researchers
Question 49: Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Only Oliva couldn’t learn to match a single word to a toy.
B. All six of border collies learned additional names.
C. Dogs can be used to study the origin of talent.
D. Scientists will identify the factors that produce such smart creatures.
Question 50: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. It’s better for dogs when dog owners play fetch with their dogs daily in their homes.
B. Scientists have used many methods on dogs to identify the origin of talent.
C. It’s interesting that all of 33 dogs that failed the test were border collies.
D. Border collies can only be used to herd sheep.