Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: skink, spine, knife, sigh
Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: affixes, complexion, unexpected, exquisite
Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress: dramatist, improvement, watercraft, alcohol
Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress: particular, community, apparatus, comparison
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
By the end of this week, we _____ on this project for more than 6 weeks.
He said he had not discussed the matter with her. _____, he had not even contacted her.
Thanks to the extensive promotion of the book, the _____ has received many orders throughout the country.
When a volcano _____, it throws out a lot of hot melted rock called lava, as well as ash and steam.
- “Will my son be all right soon, doctor?” - “Well, he_____ be, if he takes these tablets.”
The small, _____ farms of New England were not appropriate for the Midwest.
The social services are chiefly _____ with the poor, the old and the sick.
There weren't enough computers for everyone in the class to have one, so they had to _____ each other.
My cousin, who had been driving all day, suggested _____ at the next town.
If you often consult others, you will do everything successfully; if you _____ stubbornly _____ your own view, you will get into trouble everywhere.
Greater effort to increase agricultural production must be made if food shortage _____ avoided.
Similar elements in the prehistoric remains from both areas suggest that Indians and their neighbours had maintained distant but real connections _____ before 1500 BC.
Part of Jane Colden’s work involved collecting plant specimens, cataloging plants, and _____ with other botanists.
The job of a demographer is to investigate _____ in specific locations.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Australian aborigines are dark skinned people whose descendants came to the continent from Asia about 25,000 years ago.
Despite the fact that she is a nice person and has many good qualities, she still gets on my nerves and I find it hard to like her.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Being the second child of three, he tends to admire his elder brother and despise his younger sister.
There is ample rain and intense sunlight in tropical climates; consequently, plant life is luxuriant and varied.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.
- “What a great haircut, Lucy.” - “_____.”
- “Do you feel like going to the concert this weekend?” - “_____.”
You’re welcome
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the blanks from 25 to 29
Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia. Today Jakarta has much to offer, ranging from museums, art and (25) _____ markets, first class shopping to accommodations and a wide variety of cultural activities. Jakarta’s most famous (26) _____, the National Monument or Monas is a 137m obelisk topped with a flame sculpture coated with 35 kg of gold. Among other places one can mention the National museum that holds an extensive collection of ethnographic artifacts and relics, the Maritime Museum that (27) _____ Indonesia’s seafaring traditions, including models of sea going vessels.
Jakarta has a distinctly cosmopolitan flavor. Tantalize your taste buds with a gastronomic spree around the city’s many eateries. Like French gourmet dining, exotic Asian cuisine, American fast food, stylish cafes, restaurants all (28) _____ to find a way into your heart through your stomach. The taste of Indonesia’s many cultures can be found in (29) _____ any comer of the city: hot and spicy food from West Sumatra, sweet tastes of Dental Java, the tangy fish dishes of North Sulawesi.
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.
The popularity of organic foods can be traced to many people’s nostalgia for a simpler, more pioneer-like life style. And many people believe that organic foods are safer than foods produced on a large scale by traditional methods. Many people also believe that these organic foods contain more and better nutrients than conventional food.
In fact, plants absorb all their food directly from the soil in inorganic form, no matter where the nutrients may originally have come from. Experiments in Michigan and in England that went on for twenty-five years were unable to find any difference in plants raised organically and plants raised with chemical fertilizers. Things that do affect nutrient content are climate, time of harvest, and genetics - but no difference results when plants are grown organically.
Neither are organically grown plants free from chemicals such as pesticides. Some pesticides leave traces in the soil for years; these traces may be absorbed by the plant that is “organically” grown. Rainfall may wash pesticides from neighboring farms onto “organic” fields, and sprays or other applications of chemicals may drift and cause the same problem.
Furthermore, all foods - whether grown conventionally or organically - may contain toxic substances to some degree; the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains constant checks to ensure that these substances are kept at a harmless level. But aflatoxin, a mold that causes cancer, may grow on crops such as peanuts, or be present in milk. Lead and arsenic are sometimes present in bone meal or seafood. And many vegetables contain poisonous compounds such as oxalic acid and nitrite compounds. The point is, all these toxins may be present in a given food, no matter how the food was grown and cultivated. Toxic substances in food do not necessarily have to come from fertilizers or chemical sprays.
This passage is mainly about _____.
The popularity of organic foods can be traced to all of the following EXCEPT _____.
Which of the following can be concluded from the passage?
The underlined word “conventionally” in the passage probably means _____.
The writer’s tone in the passage is _____.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.
One of Aesop's fables describing a thirsty crow which was able to drink from a half-full pitcher after raising the water level by adding pebbles may have had a basis in real life.
Scientists have found that rooks - a member of the crow family - were able to figure out how to raise the water level in a laboratory container by dropping stones inside to retrieve a tasty worm floating on the surface.
The only other animal shown to be able to perform the same task is the orang-utan, which was able to grasp a floating peanut by spitting water into a tube. Scientists believe the demonstration shows that, in many respects, rooks and crows have comparable intelligence to primates when it comes to the use of tools.
"We have performed a large number of studies on both corvids (members of the crow family) and apes, and have found that the crow's performance is on a par or often superior to apes. However, it is not particularly useful to say that one species is more or less intelligent than another because often the playing fields aren't even," said Nathan Emery of Queen Mary, University of London, who carried out the work with Christopher Bird at Cambridge.
"This (study) suggests that they can not only think through complex problems requiring the use of tools, but imagine the consequences of their actions without trial-and-error learning, and create novel solutions to these problems that have never been encountered before," Dr Emery said.
"This has only ever been shown in the great apes and humans and is more surprising because the birds have brains the size of walnuts and these birds do not use tools in the wild."
"We believe that intelligence in rooks and other crows evolved primarily to solve social problems, as almost all crow species live in large social groups, but they also mainly form pair bonds, like human marriages, and some of their cognitive abilities appear to have evolved to help them predict what others are going to do next - so-called mind reading," Dr Emery said.
"This may have developed into understanding about the psychological properties of unseen forces that are important in using and making tools."
According to the passage, an ape is a kind of animal that _____.
The underlined phrase “figure out” in the passage probably means
To which are crows in the passage compared in the use of tools?
According to the passage, we learn that _____.
The underlined word “that” in the passage refers to _____.
It can be inferred from the passage that the intelligence in crows _____.
The underlined word “evolved” in the passage is closest in meaning to _____.
What’s the author’s purpose of writing this passage?
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
When Tony drove into Germany, the customs men searched for his car.
In artifacts from as early as the Stone Age, mathematics and art can be seen to have fused in the geometric patterns decorate pottery and carpentry.
All nations may have to make fundamental changes in their economic, political, and the technological institutions if they are to preserve the environment.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Having seen that film before, she wants to see a different one.
The teacher exclaimed that I had written such a beautiful piece of writing.
No matter how hard he tried to reach the apple on the tree, he didn’t succeed.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
She saw a dog run in front of her. She fell off her bike.
The United Nations was founded in 19. It aims to solve global issues such as climate change and civil war.
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