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
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of  desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated.
Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes.  So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground,  emerging to hunt only by night. The surface  of  the  sun-baked  desert  averages  around  150  degrees,  but  18  inches  down  the temperature is only 60 degrees.
According to the passage, creatures in the desert 
A.are smaller and fleeter than forest animals
B.are more active during the day than those in the tangled forest
C.live in an accommodating environment
D.are not as healthy as those anywhere else in the world

______(71)
A.strong          
B.strength                    
C.strengthen              
D.strengthened

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I hope to pass all of my courses this term. So far my grades ______ pretty good.
A.had been  
B. will have been 
C.have been
D.were

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.
They believe that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of air pollution.
A.It is believed that burning fossil fuels is held responsible for air pollution.
B.Burning fossil fuels is believed to result from air pollution.
C.Burning fossil fuels is believed to have caused high levels of air pollution.
D.It is believed that air pollution is mainly to blame for burning fossil fuels.

If I/ be/ him / I / choose/ English / learn.
A.If I were him, I would choose English to learn.
B.If I was him, I would choose English to learn.
C.If I am him, I will choose English to learn.
D.If I had been him, I would have chosen English to learn.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
A lot of different conservation efforts have been made to save _______ species.
A.endangered
B.available
C.plant-eating
D.contaminated

 
According to the passage, what is true about the origin of tea drinking?
 
A.It began during the Shen Nung dynasty   
B.It may have begun some time around 1650
C.It is unknown when tea first became popular.   
D.It was originally produced from Camillia plants in Europe.

What is the passage mainly about?
A.The growth of cities in the United States in the early 1900's
B.The development of the Southern California oil fields
C. Factors contributing to the growth of Los Angeles
D. Industry and city planning in Los Angeles

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is best made up from the prompts.
Darwin/ who/ be/ famous/ English/ scientist/ develop/theory/ evolution/ .
A.Darwin who is a famous English scientist developed a theory of evolution.
B.Darwin who was the famous English scientist develops the theory for evolution.
C.Darwin, who is a famous English scientist, has developed a theory on evolution.
D.Darwin, who was a famous English scientist, developed the theory of evolution.

Task 2. Mark the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

A.endangered             
B.survival                  
C.commercial            
D.industry