Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: replace, eclipse, overweigh, danger
Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: eventually, depletion, competitive, regretful
Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress: frequent, ripen, mother, harness
Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress: gravitate, interest, important, vicious
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentences that best completes each of the following exchanges.
- “How often do you like to wear jeans?”- “_____________.”
Mike is having dinner at his girlfriend’s house
Mike: “This course is scrumptious. I’m really big on it!”
His girlfriend: “_______________”
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
If you’re a shopaholic like me, it’s a great excuse to exercise the old credit card.
Even the most social butterfly sometimes needs to flutter away from the public gaze.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
Mike made me _________ her next week.
She won’t get married until she _________ 25 years old.
If you had arrived at the sale early, you _________ a better selection.
_________ the solar system may seem big, it is a very small part of the universe.
__________, Phil was a gregarious individual who enjoyed the company of others enormously.
“Antidisestablishmentarianism” is one of ________ 14 longest words in English.
Her homework _________, Sally went to bed at midnight.
It took Martha three years to _________ “Clarissa”, or “The History of a Young Lady” by Samuel Richardson, as the book contain 1,536 pages.
________ life began billions of years ago in the water.
It is essential that every student _________ the exam before attending the course.
Mike’s high marks on the National High School Graduation Examination were ________ his hard work.
Total weight of all the ants in the world is much greater than _________.
The company’s total number of retired _________ is nineteen.
_________ is a fact many smokers choose to ignore.
Can you see these letters first, please? The others __________.
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 24 to 28.
RICE
Rice, or com, is the very bedrock of Vietnamese cuisine. In imperial Hue, rice with salt was served to distinguished guests by royal mandarins; these days locals eats at least one rice-based meal every day and offer a bowl of rice to departed ancestors.
If a Vietnamese says, ‘An com di’ (literally ‘let’s eat rice’), it’s an invitation to lunch or dinner. You can also get your fill of the stuff, accompanied by a variety of stir-fried meat, fish and vegetable dishes, at specialized, informal eateries called quan com binh dan.
Cooked to a soupy state with chicken, eel or duck, rice become chao (rice porridge); fried in a hot wok with egg, vegetables and other ingredients, it’s com rang; and ‘broken’ into short grains, steamed, topped with barbecued pork, an egg, and sliced cucumber, and accompanied by nuoc cham (a dipping sauce of sweetened fish sauce), it’s com tam. Tiny clams called hen are sautéed with peppery Vietnamese coriander and ladled over rice to make com hen.
Sticky or glutinous rice (white, red and black) is mixed with pulses or rehydrated dried corn, peanuts and sesame seeds for a filling breakfast treat called xoi (ngo in central Vietnam). It can also be mixed with sugar and coconut milk then moulded into sweet treats, or layered with pork and steamed in bamboo or banana leaves for banh chung, a Tet speciality. Soaked and ground into flour, rice becomes the base for everything from noodles and sweets to crackers and the dry, round, translucent ‘papers’ that Vietnamese moisten before using to wrap salad rolls and other specialities.
Which of the following best serves as the title for the passage?
The word “distinguished” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to.................
According to the third paragraph, which of the following is NOT true?
The word “it” in the fourth paragraph refers to..................
According to the passage, one of Vietnamese specialities _________.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences of the following questions.
Their feelings for each other deteriorate quickly after the incident. Eventually, they broke up.
Her desire to see her boyfriend was so strong. She chose to ignore all advices from her family members.
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
WHAT’S IN YOUR PHONE?
Armed with digital devices, young people are leading the way to a cashless future with 111% increase in consumer use of mobile person-to-person payment methods between 2014 and 2017, according to Boston-based research firm. Dylan Oesch-Emmel, a freshman at Tufts University, can count on one hand the times he has used cash recently: to convert currency for a trip to Montreal, and for cab fare when his smart phone died and he couldn’t use Uber.
“Quite frankly, I use zero cash,” said Oesch Emmel, 19, a Stoneham native. Like many in his age bracket, Oesch-Emmel does his banking online, rarely uses an ATM, and keeps a credit card for backup. Nearly all his purchases are made with payment apps on his iPhone 7 linked to his debit card: Venmo, which lets you make and share payments with friends, to split dinner and ride home with friends, for example, or goPuff to have the essentials of college life, such as shampoo, floss, and Cheetos, delivered to his dorm.
Yet while younger people such as Oesch-Emmel don’t have much use for cash, the United States actually lags other nations in moving toward a largely cashless financial system. Credit and debit cards have been in wide use here for much longer, and the nation’s large, complex banking system makes it difficult to adopt change quickly.
Shaun Ferrari, managing director of Currency Research, said electronic payment businesses are still at the stage here where they are competing against each other more so than cash. “It appears as though electronic forms of payment are cannibalizing each other rather than replacing cash,” Ferrari said. “Mobile has a long way to go to be a significant player in the payment landscape in the US.”
Boston-based research firm Aite Group in February reported a 111 percent increase in consumer use of mobile person-to-person payment methods between 2104 and 2017. A few of the big names are showing commanding gains: Zelle had a 59 percent rise in processing volume in 2018, to $119 billion. Venmo, for its part, processed $62 billion last year, up from $35 billion the year before One explanation for those increases, said Talie Baker of the Aite Group, is the ability of payment systems to be made in real time, instead of that lag people used to experience waiting for money to clear. This has made digital payments feel the same as getting cash, more or less instant and around the clock.
What does the passage primarily discuss?
What can NOT be inferred according to the first paragraph?
According to the second paragraph, Vemno and goPuff are the representatives of __________.
The word “lags” in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by..................
The word “they” in paragraph 4 refers to __________.
According to the passage, which of the following companies has the FASTEST budget growth?
The phrase “around the clock” in the final paragraph mostly means __________.
What can we learn from the last paragraph?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions
The police are keeping the suspects under round-the-clock surveillance.
Tina has an eclectic taste for music: he listens to various genres such as classical, hard rock and country music.
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.
Several people were injured, but there were no fatality.
Reducing saturated fat are the single most important dietary change you can make to cut down blood cholesterol.
The strange incident has occurred in 1947 and it is only now that the true facts are coming out.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) that best fits each of the numbered blanks
Cu Chi – A Legendary Land
If the tenacious spirit of the Vietnamese can be symbolized by a place, few sites are more
symbolic than Cu Chi. During the fierce times of war, local people and soldiers miraculously lived
and fought for national liberation from the intricate network of underground tunnels. At first glance
there is scant evidence today of the fighting and bombing that (44)________ Cu Chi during the war.
To see what went on, you have to dig deeper – underground.
The tunnel network of Cu Chi became (45) ________ during the 1960s for facilitating VC control
of a large rural area. The network, parts of (46) ________ were several storeys deep, included
countless trapdoors, constructed living areas, storage facilities, weapon factories, field hospitals,
command centres and kitchens.
The village of Cu Chi have been presented with numerous (47) ________ awards, decorations
and citations by the government since the end of the American War, and many have been declared
‘heroic villages’. Since 1975, new hamlets have been established and the population of the area has
exploded; however, chemical (48) ________ remain in the soil in water, and crop yields are still poor.
(44).....................
(45)......................
(46).......................
(47).....................
(48).....................
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.
Never before have they tasted such scrumptious apples.
Peter had very little money but managed to make ends meet.
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