Read the following passage  and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each for  the question  from 61 to 70.
 
Sir Anthony Van Dyck, one of the world’s greatest masters of portraiture, was born in Antwerp and was the seventh of twelve children. His affluent father apprenticed him to a painter when he was just a little over ten. Having become a member of the Antwerp Guild of painters before he was nineteen, he worked in the studio of Peter Paul Rubens for several years. In Italy, Van Dyck studied the great Venetian masters and painted flattering portraits of gorgeous ladies and haughty nobles in gilded velvet robes with lace and pearls. While he was sought after by the aristocracy for his acclaimed loose brushwork, his engravings and etchings also evinced his outstanding talent. Upon his return to Antwerp in 1628, he was influenced by Rubens’s interpretation of the artistic form and produced numerous religious paintings while holding an appointment as the court painter. During his tenure, he proved that his use of color, his sensitive elegance, and his remarkable insight were unexcelled.
          His fame preceded him to England, where he was invited by King Charles I. After years of faithful service, he was knighted in recognition of his achievements in painting countless portraits of the king, the queen, the royal children, and the titled nobility of England.
          However, Van Dyck’s greatest piece is one of his religious works, a true masterpiece displayed in the Antwerp gallery. This group scene exhibits his artful polish in painting the folds of fabric, the delicacy of human skin, landscape, and other externals, and puts him above other accomplished contemporary masters. Although Charles paid Van Dyck a salary and granted him a pension, the painter’s extravagant life-style and penchant for luxuries led him into debt, and he died without means.
The author of the passage implies that Van Dyck’s fame had largely to do with his
A.artful portraits      
B.wealthy family
C.elegance in clothing
D.religious beliefs

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Jenny: "Congratulations on your winning the first prize at the talent contest."

Tom: “________________”
A.That's very kind of you.  
B.Not at all.        
C.You're welcome.       
D.Yes, certainly.

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 following questions from 35 to 42.
What unusual or unique biological train led to the remarkable diversification and unchallenged success of the ants for over 50 million years? The answer appears to be that they were the first group of predatory eusocial insects that both lived and foraged primarily in the soil and in rotting vegetation on the ground. Eusocial refers to a form of insect society characterized by specialization of tasks and cooperative care of the young; it is rare among insects. Richly organized colonies of the land made possible by eusociality enjoy several key advantages over solitary individuals.
Under most circumstances groups of workers are better able to forage for food and defend the nest, because they can switch from individual to group response and back again swiftly and according to need. When a food object or nest intruder is too large for one individual to handle, nestmates can be quickly assembled by alarm or recruitment signals. Equally important is the fact that the execution of multiple-step tasks is accomplished in a series-parallelsequence. That is, individual ants can specialize in particular steps, moving from one object (such as a larva to be fed) to another (a second larva to be fed). They do not need to carry each task to completion from start to finish - for example, to check the larva first, then collect the food, then feed the larva. Hence, if each link in the chain has many workers in attendance, a sense directed at any particular object is less likely to fail. Moreover, ants specializing in particular labor categories typically constitute a caste specialized by age or body form or both. There has been some documentation of the superiority in performance and net energetic yield of various castes for their modal tasks, although careful experimental studies are still relatively few.
What makes ants unusual in the company of eusocial insects is the fact that they are the only eusocial predators(predators are animals that capture and feed on other animals) occupying the soil and ground litter. The eusocial termites live in the same places as ants and also have wingless workers, but they feed almost exclusively on dead vegetation.
(Source: TOEFL Reading)
The word "they" in bold in the last paragraph refers to ______ .
A.termites
B.places
C.ants
D.predators

A species of plant or animal that is _________ no longer has any living members, either in the world or in a particular place.
A.rare    
B.survival  
C.extinct    
D.productive

What does the author mean by staring that, "At interpersonal levels, tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen" in lines 6- 7?
 
A.Feelings are more difficult to express than ideas.
B.A high tone of voice reflects an emotional communication. 
C.The tone of voice can carry information beyond the meaning of words.          
D.Feelings are expressed with different words than ideas are.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Ellie asked Stan                    to look at the new catalogue.
A.did he want         
B.do you want        
C.whether he wants  
D.if he wanted

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.
 
. - Janet: “Do you feel like going to the cinema this evening?” - Susan: “_____.”
A.I don't agree. I’m afraid.                                              
B. I feel very bored.
C. That would be great.                                                        
D. You’re welcome.

Read the following text then answer the questions that followed by circling its corresponding letter marked A, B, C or D from 33 to 37.
How can a person offend people just because they cross their legs? In Thailand, it is rude for a person to show other people the bottom of their feet. This is considered unclean, and Thais can (33) ………….. serious offense at it. Another thing people do in the West is to touch people on the head especially children. It is very normal to see an old woman walking up to a young boy and (34) …………… his hair tenderly while saying what a handsome young man he is.
      In Thailand, touching a person’s head is strictly taboo because that is the (35) …………… part of the body, and it is where the (36) ……………. is thought to reside in a person. Although very close family members might touch a child on the head, even this is considered rude after a child grows up.
      In the Middle East and some parts of Asia, the left hand is used to wash oneself after using a toilet. (37) ………….., the left hand can never offered to another person or used to eat with. Food must always be passed with the right hand, and it is considered polite to always use the right hand for social interactions.
(33) 
A.give                                    
B.commit                               
C.take                                    
D.cause

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
My head teacher has grave doubts as to whether I would pass my university entrance examination. I myself feel so worried.
A.personal                            
B.serious               
C.private                         
D.specific

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The world’s first computer ______ by the University of Pennsylvania in 1946.
A. was built   
B.is built     
C.has built   
D.were built