Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
            It’s nature of athletic records that they are broken and their place is taken by others. Yet in many sports (61)________there is a mark which isn’t (62)________in itself, but which becomes as legend as athletes try to break it. The most famous of these is the attempt to run the mile in less than four minutes.
            In 1945, the mile record was (63)_______to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student (64)_______Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been (65)________for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the previous year.
            Two other runners set the pace for him and (66)________250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote afterwards: “my body had exhausted all its energy, but it (67)________on running just the same….. Those (68)________few second seemed never-ending. I could see the line of the finishing tape…I jumped like a man making a desperate attempt to save him from danger…” Bannister’s time was 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. (69)________this record had been broken on many (70)________since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.

A.happenings
B.events
C.games
D.matches

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
Fifty minutes are the maximum length of time allotted for the exam.
A.are
B.length                   
C.maximum                 
D.allotted

Choose the best answer to complete the following questions
Tina is only two, so I was amazed................ the picture she drew.
A.in
B.with
C.at
D.on

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that has the same meaning as the original one.
Just after the play started there was a power failure.
A.Hardly had the play started when there was a power failure.
B.No earlier had the play started than there was a power failure.
C.Hardly did the play start then there was a power failure.
D.No sooner did the play start before there was a power failure.

Which of the following was NOT one of the names given to the western grasses?  
A.Mesquite grass        
B.Bluejoint grass  
C.Buffalo grass   
D. Grama grass

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Many parents tend to make their children study hard in the belief that good education will enable them to ______ in the future.
A.turn up         
B.get on        
C.get out    
D.turn away

I failed to buy that nice dress, for I had forgotten to bring my_______
A.gloves
B.purse
C.bonnet
D.trousers

The word “fortuitous” in the 1st paragraph is closest in meaning to _________.
A.important        
B. immediate   
C.early  
D.lucky

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.
Married (A) customs differ (B) greatly (C) from society to society (D).
A.Married 
B.differ 
C.greatly 
D.society

Read the following passage and Choose the best option A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
      Bees, classified into over 10,000 species, are insects found in almost every part of the world except the northernmost and southernmost regions. One commonly known species is the honeybee, the only bee that produces honey and wax. Humans use the wax in making candles, lipsticks, and other products, and they use the honey as a food. While gathering the nectar and pollen with which they make honey, bees are simultaneously helping to fertilize the flowers on which they land. Many fruits and vegetables would not survive if bees did not carry the pollen from blossom to blossom. Bees live in a structured environment and social structure within a hive, which is a nest with storage space for the honey. The different types of bees each perform a unique function. The worker bee carries nectar to the hive in a special stomach called a honey stomach, other workers make beeswax and shape it into a honeycomb, which is a waterproof mass of six-sided compartments, or cells. The queen lays eggs in completed cells. As the workers build more cells, the queen lays more eggs.
       All workers, like the queen, are female, but the workers are smaller than the queen. The male honeybees are called drones; they do no work and cannot sting. They are developed from unfertilized eggs, and their only job is to impregnate a queen. The queen must be fertilized in order to lay worker eggs. During the season, when less honey is available and the drones is of no further use, the workers block the drones from eating the honey so that they will starve to death.
The author implies that_________.
A.drones are never females        
B.bees are unnecessary in the food chain
C.drones are completely dispensable     
D.the queen can be a worker