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. established B. reserved C. designed D. organized
Question 2: A. danger B. educate C. strange D. applicant
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. moment B. event C. cancer D. offer
Question 4: A. participate B. psychology C. ability D. temporary
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 office furniture that was ordered last month have just arrived, but we’re not sure
whether the manager will like it.
A. was ordered B. have just arrived C. whether D. will like
Question 6: The first national known male singers of popular music appeared during the 1920s.
A. The B. national C. of D. appeared
Question 7: Dreaming, like all other mental processes, it is a product of the brain and its activity.
A. like all B. it is C. of the brain D. its activity
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: My supervisor is angry with me. I didn't do all the work I ______ last week.
A. should have done B. may have done C. need to have done D. must have done
Question 9: She is very absent-minded: she ______ her cell phone three times!
A. has lost B. loses C. was losing D. had lost
Question 10: Whenever he had an important decision to make, he ______ a cigar to calm his nerves.
A. would light B. would be lighting C. would have lit D. had lit
Question 11: He always ______ the crossword in the newspaper before breakfast.
A. writes B. makes C. works D. does
Question 12: Not until the end of the 19th-century ______ become a scientific discipline.
A. plant breeding has B. did plant breeding
C. plant breeding had D. has plant breeding
Question 13: "How can you live in this messy room? Go and ______ it up at once."
A. dust B. sweep C. tidy D. do
Question 14: This factory produced ______ motorbikes in 2008 as in the year 2006.
A. twice as many B. as twice as many C. as twice many D. as many as twice
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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 answer to each of the questions from 36 to 41.
The Ring of Fire is an enormous chain of volcanoes all around the Pacific Ocean. The ring goes from New
Zealand up to Asia and across the ocean to Alaska. From Alaska, the ring continues southward along the
coast of both North and South America. More than seventy-five percent of the world's volcanoes are located
in this ring. Scientists are interested in studying the Ring of Fire because they can observe plate tectonics
at work there. In 1912, a German scientist, Alfred Wegener, came up with the first theory of land movement.
Wegener said continents are made up of lighter rocks resting on heavier material. Similar to the way large
things move while floating on water, Wegener suggested that the positions of the continents were not fixed,
but that they moved slightly. Later, scientists discovered most of Wegener's ideas were right on the mark.
They then developed the theory called plate tectonics. According to plate tectonics, the surface of the Earth
consists of a number of enormous plates or sections of rock, each about eighty kilometers thick. The plates
float and slowly move at speeds between one to ten centimeters every year. That is about the rate your
fingernails grow! Within the Ring of Fire, new material for the Earth's plates is constantly being created as
hot liquid rock called magma flows from the center of the Earth up to the ocean floor. All the existing plates
on the Earth's surface have to move slightly to make room for the new material. As plates move both away
from and toward each other, they run into each other. When they hit each other, one plate might move under
another. This process is called subduction. Subduction frequently causes earthquakes. It may also result in
the bottom plate melting due to the extreme temperatures under the top plate. The magma created in this
process can rise to the Earth's surface and come out through volcanoes, as can be seen along the Ring of
Fire.
Question 36: What is the main focus of this reading?
A. The most active volcanoes found in the Ring of Fire
B. The location of the Ring of Fire
C. How the plates on the Earth’s surface move in different ways
D. How plate tectonics, volcanoes, and earthquakes are related
Question 37: The word “fixed” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______________.
A. not changing B. unstable C. moving D. floating
Question 38: According to the reading, which is true about the Ring of Fire?
A. All of the volcanoes along the ring are active.
B. Most of the volcanoes on Earth are part of the ring.
C. The ring gets bigger each year.
D. The ring was discovered in the 20th century.
Question 39: What does “subduction” mean in this reading?
A. Rocks moving under volcanoes B. Erupting liquid rock
C. The theory of moving plates D. Movement of a plate under another
Question 40: What is NOT a result of shifting tectonic plates?
A. Earthquakes B. Extreme temperatures inside the Earth
C. Volcanoes D. Subduction
Question 41: Which question is NOT answered in the reading?
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A. How fast do tectonic plates move? B. How thick are the plates in tectonic theory?
C. What is the most active volcano today? D. Where is the Ring of Fire?
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 42 to 50.
On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, sat on Anakena
beach and stared at the enormous human statues there – the moai. The statues are from four feet tall to 33
feet tall. Some weigh more than 80 tons. They were carved a long time ago, with stone tools, and then
they were moved up to 11 miles to the beach. Tuki stares at their faces and he feels a connection. ‘This is
something that was produced by my ancestors’, he says. ‘How did they do it?’
The first Polynesians arrived at Rapa Nui (Easter Island), probably by canoe, hundreds of years ago. The
island is 2,150 miles west of South America and 1,300 miles east of its nearest inhabited neighbour,
Pitcairn. Nowadays 12 flights arrive every week from Chile, Peru and Tahiti. In 2011, 50,000 tourists –
ten times the island’s population – flew to Easter Island. Almost all of the jobs on Easter Island depend on
tourism. And the tourists go there for only one thing: the moai. People around the world became curious
about the statues after the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl made Easter Island famous, and there
are different theories about how the statues were moved to the beach. Many researchers think the statues
were pulled along the ground using ropes and wood. Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond has suggested
that many people were needed to build and move the moai. As a result, the island’s trees were cut down
for wood and to create farming land. This open land was fragile and it was soon eroded by the strong
winds, so it was very difficult to grow food. The situation was an early example of an ecological disaster,
according to Diamond. On the other hand, archaeologists Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii and Carl
Lipo of California State
University Long Beach have a more positive view of the island’s history. They suggest that the
inhabitants actually pioneered a type of sustainable farming – they built thousands of circular stone walls,
called manavai, and grew food inside them. And their theory about how the moai were moved is that they
were ‘walked’ along using a system of only ropes and a few people.
As José Tuki contemplates these enormous statues, he doesn’t mind that there are no definite answers
about the history of his island. ‘I want to know the truth,’ he says, ‘but maybe knowing everything would
take its power away’.
Question 42: The Easter Island statues __________.
A. are new constructions to attract tourists.
B. aren’t completely understood by archaeologists
C. were destroyed by the islanders.
D. were made by José Antonio Tuki.
Question 43: On Easter Island today, the statues _________.
A. are very important for the island’s economy.
B. have lost their significance.
C. are abandoned.
D. are regarded as a problem.
Question 44: The people of Easter Island today _________.
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