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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.

Question 1: A. overlooks B. beliefs C. towards D. rights

Question 2: A. sympathy B. lethal C. throne D. breathe

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 3: A. courtesy B. locality C. ingredient D. behaviour

Question 4: A. atmosphere B. indelible C. versatile D. skyscraper

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: There should be mutually trust and understanding between parents and children.
A B C D

Question 6: Although assemblage has been a part of art for centuries, its appearance in the West as a
A B C
serious art form is quite fairly recent.
D

Question 7: If she can’t meet payments, she risks to lose her home, as thousands of families
A B C
have done.
D

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: Many young people in the West are expected to leave ______ could be life’s most
important decision - marriage - almost entirely up to luck.
A. what B. that C. which D. who

Question 9: ______ to caring for the poor, Mother Teresa is greatly respected throughout the world.
A. Devoting B. To be devoted C. Having devoted D. Devoted

Question 10: Since drinking water is a ______ resource, we should let children know how precious it is,
and teach them to conserve it.
A. limitless B. limited C. limiting D. limitation

Question 11: When disaster ______, organisations such as Oxfam quickly provide help.
A. comes B. approaches C. arrives D. strikes
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Question 12: Most citizens in this city are _______ about local issues.
A. well-informed B. well-informing C. good-informed D. good-informing

Question 13: Salt is manufactured in quantities that exceed those of most, ______, other commercial
chemicals.
A. of not all B. not if at all C. are not all D. if not all

Question 14: _______ true friendship that people all want to build up in their lives.
A. There is B. There was C. It is D. It was

Question 15: The accident is said _______ the driver’s careless driving and the thick fog.
A. to have been resulted in B. to result from
C. having resulted in D. to have resulted from

Question 16: I can’t do whatever I want because I am still financially ______ on my parents.
A. determined B. dependable C. reliant D. subject

Question 17: Their efforts were much _______ when they won 2 gold medals in bodybuilding and
billiards.
A. considered B. expended C. appreciated D. required

Question 18: Jazz and Blues are part of the cultural _______ of the southern United States.
A. inherit B. heritage C. asset D. legacy

Question 19: Rosie was _______ furious that I’d borrowed her car without asking.
A. competitively B. brilliantly C. absolutely D. sincerely

Question 20: Wait a minute! I’ve lost my _______ of thought. I must recover it.
A. ship B. train C. bus D. tube

Question 21: Helena feared that the new comer would take her _______ as manageress.
A. place B. location C. destination D. address

Question 22: Although most staff were discussing the issue seriously, the boss thought it was just a
_______ in a teacup.
A. rain B. snow C. flood D. storm

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 23: Peter and Kyle are talking about Peter's mother.
Peter: -“My mother’s much better now.”
Kyle: -“_______”.
A. Oh, I’m pleased to hear it B. I quite agree
C. Oh, really? The doctor must be very good D. Good news for you

Question 24: Tom and Mary are talking about the party given by Mary.
Tom: -“Can I bring a friend to your party?”
Mary: -“_______”.
A. The more the merrier B. That’s right
C. Beggars can’t be choosers D. Straight away

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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Question 25: I wanted to prove to my family that I could create extraordinary things.
A. normal B. polite C. unusual D. hopeful

Question 26: The students have to sift through all the books in the library to find the information their
professor want them to find.
A. examine B. discard C. leave D. modify

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 27: In just four short years, his company has made phenomenal progress in delivering great
market success.
A. useful B. little C. impressive D. real

Question 28: Because we know nothing, in this view, we should treat all things with indifference and
make no judgments.
A. reconciling ourself to something B. becoming annoyed very easily
C. feeling totally different from other people D. showing interest in something

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 29: Due to the fact that the demand for tea was very high in the 19th century, its price was
astronomical.
A. It was not until the 19th century that the demand for tea started to increase.
B. It was its astronomical price which decreased the demand for tea in the 19th century.
C. In the 19th century the price for tea didn’t increase despite the demand.
D. The demand for tea was so high in the 19th century that its price was very high.

Question 30: “You should have finished the report by now”, Tom told his reporter.
A. Tom reproached his reporter for not having finished the report.
B. Tom said that his reporter had not finished the report.
C. Tom reminded his reporter to finish the report on time.
D. Tom advised his reporter to finish the report by then.

Question 31: He is an authority on primitive religion.

A. He has a lot of knowledge about primitive religion.
B. He has authority over the people who practise primitive religion.
C. He has a great influence on the people who practise primitive religion.
D. He has official permission to practice primitive religion.

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 32: Her living conditions were not good. However, she studied very well.
A. Living in difficult conditions forced she to study very well.
B. She studied very well just because she lived in difficult conditions.
C. Difficult as her living conditions were, she studied very well.
D. Living in difficult conditions, she had no choice but to study well.

Question 33: His wife phoned him early in the morning. She didn’t want him to forget to bring along
the document.
A. His wife phoned him early in the morning lest he would forget to bring along the document.
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B. His wife phoned him early in the morning so that she wanted him to bring along the document.
C. His wife phoned him early in the morning when she didn’t want him to bring along the document.
D. His wife phoned him early in the morning though she didn’t want him to forget to bring along the
document.

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.

The growth of population has its problems as we shall see. As there are more and more mouths
(34) _______, there comes a great strain (35) _______ the resources of a country; this is real in the case
of developing countries with the result they are unable to push ahead economically. As food is not
sufficient there is chronic malnutrition in these countries especially in women and children resulting in
weaker population (36) _______ would only economically be a drain on the country as their productive
years will be short. As health and education are the State's (37) _______, they affect the country's
finances. So, in developing countries health and illiteracy continue to be the problem. The unwieldy
growth of population leads to the problem of housing and sanitation. In many countries the slums are a
(38) _______ to the eyes. Slums grow round big cities and are found with all the drawbacks. These are
the areas of disease, filth and crime.

Question 34: A. to be fed B. feeding C. for feeding D. fed

Question 35: A. to B. for C. down D. on

Question 36: A. which B. what C. who D. those

Question 37: A. problem B. job C. affair D. work

Question 38: A. pain B. sore C. hurt D. wound

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.

Widespread evidence links global warming to a series of environmental effects. Starving polar
bears are eating one another in the Arctic. Flowers are blooming too soon and die. The ice caps are
melting so fast that rising water levels will threaten coastal towns along Florida within several decades.
These are just a few examples of the terrible consequences of climate change discovered by a new
research in Nature that paints a dark portrait of what a warming world will look like in the years to
come.

The researchers analyzed 829 abnormal phenomena - including melting glaciers - along with
nearly 30,000 changes in plants and animals and found that about 90% of them are in sync with
scientists’ predictions about how global warming will change the planet.

The unnatural warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases brings trouble for entire
ecosystems. In North America alone, scientists have identified 89 species of plants, such as the
American holly, which have flowered earlier in the spring. In Spain, apple trees bloom 35 days ahead of
schedule in response to the higher temperatures. Other wildlife, like the insects that use certain plants for
food and the birds that feed on the insects, must then move forward their seasonal stirrings and mating
patterns to survive.

To try to follow this time shift, some birds such as robins, the classic symbol of winter’s thaw, are
returning to Colorado from their migrations some two weeks earlier than in years past. All these changes
can throw a food chain in disorder. Some bird species that arrive before the insects reappear may starve
to death.
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“Around the world, plants and animals are waking up to an earlier alarm clock than they used to,”
says Terry Root, a biologist from Stanford University.

Question 39: Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Man Is to Blame for Global Warming B. Humans Are Causing the World to Heat Up
C. The Terrible Consequences of Climate Change D. Global Warming Is Changing Nature’s Clock

Question 40: The analysis of abnormal phenomena on earth in paragraph 2 shows that _______.
A. scientists made wrong predictions about the future of earth
B. most changes agree with scientists’ previous predictions
C. melting glaciers have caused the worst side effects
D. global warming has changed all the plants and animals

Question 41: Why must some birds move about earlier than usual?
A. Because they need to follow some insects for food.
B. Because certain trees bloom a month ahead of time.
C. Because the warm weather wakes them up earlier.
D. Because the plants they use to hunt food bloom late.

Question 42: According to the fourth paragraph, as a result of climate change _____.
A. the warm weather wakes animals up earlier B. certain trees bloom a season ahead of time
C. the birds need to change patterns of living D. the American holly will flower in late spring

Question 43: What do we know about robins?

A. Farmers depend on them to tell the time B. They used to come back when spring came
C. They used to predict the change of weather D. They usually migrate when seasons change

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 43.

One of the most difficult questions to answer is how much a job is worth. We naturally expect that
a doctor’s salary will be higher than a bus conductor’s wage. But the question becomes much more
difficult to answer when we compare, say, a miner with an engineer, or an unskilled man working on an
oil-rig in the North Sea with a teacher in a secondary school. What the doctor, the engineer and teacher
have is many years of training in order to obtain the necessary qualifications for their professions. We
feel instinctively that these skills and these years, when they were studying instead of earning money,
should be rewarded. At the same time we recognize that the work of the miner and the oil-rig laborer is
both hard and dangerous, and that they must be highly paid for the risks they take.

Another factor we must take into consideration is how socially useful a man’s work is, regardless
of the talents he may bring to it. Most people would agree that looking after the sick or teaching children
is more important than, say, selling secondhand cars or improving the taste of toothpaste by adding a red
stripe to it. Yet it is almost certain that the used car salesman earns more than the nurse, and that
research chemist earns more than the school teacher.

Indeed, this whole question of just rewards can be turned on its head. You can argue that a man
who does a job which brings him personal satisfaction is already receiving part of his reward in the form
of a so-called “psychic wage”, and that it is the man with the boring, repetitive job who needs more
money to make up for the soul-destroying monotony of his work. It is significant that that those jobs
which are traditionally regarded as “vocations” - nursing, teaching and the Church, for example -
continue to be poorly paid, while others, such as those in the world of sport or entertainment, carry
financial rewards out of all proportion to their social worth.
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Although the amount of money that people earn is in reality largely determined by market forces,
this should not prevent us from seeking some way to decide what is the right pay for the job. A starting
point for such an investigation would be to try to decide the ratio which ought to exist between the
highest and the lowest paid. The picture is made more complicate by two factors: firstly by the “social
wage”, i.e. the welfare benefits which every citizen receives; and secondly, by the taxation system,
which is often used as an instrument of social justice by taxing high incomes at a very high rate indeed.
Allowing for these two things, most countries now regard a ratio of 7:1 as socially acceptable. If it is
less, the highly-qualified people carrying heavy responsibilities become disillusioned, and might even
end up by emigration (the so-called “brain-drain” is an evidence that this can happen). If it is more, the
gap between rich and poor will be so great that it will lead social tensions and ultimately to violence.

Question 44: According to the passage, the professional man, such as the doctor, should be well paid
because ______.
A. he has spent several years learning how to do his job
B. he knows more than other people about his subject
C. he has to work much harder than most other people
D. his work involves much great intelligence than, say, a bus conductor’s

Question 45: As far as rewarding people for their work is concerned, the writer believes that ______.
A. we should pay for socially-useful work, regardless of the person’s talent
B. we should pay people according to their talents
C. qualified people should be the highest paid
D. market forces should determine how much a person is paid

Question 46: The argument of the “psychic wage” is used to explain why ______.
A. people who do socially important work are not always well paid
B. people who do monotonous jobs are highly paid
C. you should not try to compare the pay of different professions
D. some professional people are paid more than others

Question 47: In Paragraph 2 and 3, the author indicates that __________.

A. the talented should do more important work
B. unskilled jobs have less social responsibility
C. those with more socially useful jobs earn less
D. people want to pay more to important services

Question 48: It can be inferred from the passage that a man who does a boring, repetitive job
__________.
A. receives less money than he deserves
B. should receive more money as a compensation for the drudgery of his work
C. can only expect more money if his job is a highly-skilled one
D. has no interest in his work apart from the money he receives for doing it

Question 49: The author mentions “brain-drain” as an evidence to show that ______.
A. well-educated people are prepared to emigrate whenever they can get a better paid job
B. people with jobs or responsibility expect to be highly paid
C. high taxation is a useful and effective instrument of social justice
D. the poor are generally more patriotic than the rich

Question 50: Which of the following statements would the author agree?
A. It’s difficult to define the social value of a job.
B. The market will decide what the right pay is for a job.
C. People should find a proper ratio between high and low pay.
D. Those receiving high salary should carry heavy responsibilities.