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 39 to 45.
Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies' responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies' emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
The word “They” in paragraph 2 refers to _______.
A.mothers               
B.investigators          
C.babies        
D.words

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Dad, I’m afraid to __________ the matter again, but I really need to have a computer of my own that I’m preparing for my final exam.
A.come down
B.bring up
C.take out
D.get through

Part 3: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She      on her computer for more than two hours when she decided to stop for a rest.
A.has worked      
B.has been working 
C.was working    
D.had been working

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underline part is pronounced differently from that of the others.

A.primary
B.childhood
C.kindergarten
D.light

I've fallen..........  with my work, so I'm doing some extra hours.
A.up
B.behind
C.for
D.to

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Forty percent of the students _______ in favor of changing the policy.
A.is
B.are                           
C.has been          
D.was

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer in each of the following questions.
Connecticut was the fifth of the original thirteen states ______ the Constitution of the United States.
A.to ratify
B.ratify
C.ratified
D.have ratified

Bill Gates is probably the best known and most successful_______in computer software.  
A.pioneer              
B.navigator                 
C.generator                
D.volunteer

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
Reading, as you know, is a continuous and never ending process. If you do very little reading, or if you read only material that offers no challenge to your comprehension, your reading will be of very little use. Once we reach a certain age, or once our formal schooling is completed, many of us become so restricted in our choice of .reading that we rarely read any new type of reading experience. We tend to read only books in our professional or business field, or only inspirational books, or only our favorite newspapers every morning, or only one magazine for which we have developed a preference. And the trouble starts here. You should neither read only for entertainment nor only for information but you should also read for intellectual growth, for mental stimulation, for enriching your background of knowledge, for wisdom, and for broader outlook and mature understanding. What kind of books should you read to continue your intellectual growth, to gain a background for opinion and for judgment? The answer is simple one: Read books in fields you have little or no acquaintance with, books that will open for you new horizons of learning, books that will help you explore new areas of knowledge and experience, books that will make the world and people more understandable to you. Sadly, more and more people today are giving up the printed word in favor of being entertained and informed by watching TV, a popular entertainment ,device present at almost homes. More and more children are being subjected to TV programming, perhaps as a babysitter. More than two hours of TV time per day are now a part of children development, generating physiological and mental problems that are of growing concern among experts.
The writer ________.
A.does not approve of reading process         
B.advises us to read as little as possible
C.prefers watching TV to reading
D.appreciates reading

According to the passage, the positions and colors of the figures in high-tech animation are determined by _________.
A.drawing several versions                                     
B.enlarging one frame at a lime
C.analyzing the sequence from different angles    
D.using computer calculations