Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
We almost gave up hope. At that time, the rescue party arrived.
They finished one project. They started working on the next.
Jenifer missed her chance to be promoted. What a shame!
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Stars have been significant features in the design of many United States coins and their number has varied from one to forty-eight stars. Most of the coins issued from about 1799 to the early years of the twentieth century bore thirteen stars representing the thirteen original colonies.
Curiously enough, the first American silver coins, issued in 1794, had fifteen stars because by that time Vermont and Kentucky have joined the Union. At that time it was apparently the intention of mint officials to add a star for each new state. Following the admission of Tennessee in 1796, for example, some varieties of half dimes, dimes, and half dollars were produced with sixteen stars.
As more states were admitted to the Union, however, it quickly became apparent that this scheme would not prove practical and the coins from 1798 were issued with only thirteen Stars - one for each of the original colonies. Due to an error at the mint, one variety of the 1828 half-cent was issued with only twelve stars. There is also a variety of the large cent with only 12 stars, but this is the result of a die break and is not a true error.
What is the main topic of the passage?
The expression "Curiously enough" is used because the author finds it strange that _____.
Why was a coin produced in 1828 with only twelve stars?
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as the denomination of an American coin?
The word "their" in line 1 refers to _________.
Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the three in pronunciation: black, fare, calcium, match
Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the three in pronunciation: called, passed, watched, talked
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.
The nominating committee always meet behind closed doors, lest its deliberations become known prematurely.
Organized research may discourage novel approaches and inhibit creativity, so seminal discoveries are still likely to be made by inventors in the classic individualistic tradition.
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.
As far as I'm concerned, it was the year 2007 that Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization.
Since vitamins are contained in a wide variety of foods, people seldom lack of most of them.
Some of the agricultural practices used today is responsible for fostering desertification.
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
It is much more difficult to speak English than to speak French.
I really believe my letter comes as a great surprise to John.
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.
In the last third of the nineteenth century, a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant considered New York's first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt's inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to young married couples and bachelors.
The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870's and early 1880's was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep – a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses. So while the city's newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints.
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.
The new housing form discussed in the passage refers to ______.
It can be inferred that a New York apartment building in the 1870's and 1880's had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT ______
The author mentions the Dakota and the Ansonia in paragraph 3 because ______.
Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1880's?
The word "sumptuous" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
The word "they" in the passage refers to ______.
Why was the Stuyvesant a limited success?
It can be inferred that the majority of people who lived in New York's first apartments were _____.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Many children who get into trouble in their early teens go on to become ______ offenders.
If I lived by the sea, I ______ a lot of swimming.
I have no patience with gossips. What I told Bill was a secret. He ______ it to you.
I don't think you have been watering the plants near the gate. The soil is ______.
If the work-force respected you, you wouldn't need to ______ your authority so often.
I suggest ______ some more mathematics puzzles.
The school is half empty as a serious epidemic of COVID-19 has broken ______.
I meant to sound confident at the interview but I'm afraid I ______ as dogmatic.
We live at ______ third house from the church.
The film ______ by the time we _______ to the cinema.
Many young people want to work for a humanitarian organization, ______?
Jack asked his sister ______.
Almost 90 per cent of the world's students are now affected by nationwide school closures ______ the spread of coronavirus disease.
COVID-19 is a ______ illness and is largely spread via droplet in the air.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes the following exchanges.
Peter and Bob are talking about the plan for tonight.
- Peter: “____________” - Bob: “I'd love to. Thank you.”
Mike in Joe are talking about transport in the future.
- Mike: "Do you think there will be pilotless planes?" - Joe: “______________”
Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress: enjoy, danger, invite, enact
Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress: competent, computer, commute, compliance
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each of the following questions.
You never really know where you are with her as she just blows hot and cold.
His new yacht is certainly an ostentatious display of his wealth.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each other numbered blanks.
With job vacancies available all year round offering high salaries, Vietnam has been ranked the second best place in the world to teach English by TEFL Exchange, a community for teachers of English (46) _____ a foreign language. The site (47) _____ that a foreign English teacher can earn between 1,200-2,200 USD a month in Vietnam, where the average annual income in 2016 was just 2,200 USD. They can (48) _____ a job any time of year and the best places to do so are the country's three largest cities: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang. Candidates only need to hold a bachelor's (49) _____ and a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate. English is an obligatory subject from sixth grade across Vietnam, but in large cities, many primary schools demand high (50) _____. Foreign language centers have been thriving here, with students as young as three years old.
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