Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that  differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.(two – syllable words)

A.confident   
B.popular
C.paralyzed
D.disabled

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence. 
Jane had a problem with her finances, so we talked _____and no wit's fine.
A.over   
B.it over
C.over it 
D.over and over

Read the following passage and mark letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
Until recently, hunting for treasure from shipwrecks was mostly fantasy; with recent technological advances, however, the search for sunken treasure has become more popular as a legitimate endeavor. This has caused a debate between those wanting to salvage the wrecks and those wanting to preserve them.
Treasure hunters are spurred on by the thought of finding caches of gold coins or other valuable objects on a sunken ship. One team of salvagers, for instance, searched the wreck of the RMS Republic, which sank outside the Boston harbor in 1900. The search party, using side-scan sonar, a device that projects sound waves across the ocean bottom and produces a profile of the sea floor, located the wreck in just two and a half days. Before the use of this new technology, such searches could take months or years. The team of divers searched the wreck for two months, finding silver tea services, crystal dinnerware, and thousands of bottles of wine, but they did not find the five and a half tons of American Gold Eagle coins they were searching for.
Preservationists focus on the historic value of a ship. They say that even if a shipwreck's treasure does not have a high monetary value, it can be an invaluable source of historic artifacts that are preserved in nearly mint condition. But once a salvage team has scoured a site, much of the archaeological value is lost. Maritime archaeologists who are preservationists worry that the success of salvagers will attract more treasure-hunting expeditions and thus threaten remaining undiscovered wrecks. Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict underwater searches and unregulated salvages. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold and million-dollar treasures, the wrecks and their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all.
The author uses the word “services” to refer to which of the following?
A.cups      
B.sets         
C.containers      
D.decorations

The word “deliberate” is closest in meaning to ________.
A. careful        
B.decisive       
C.unusual        
D. natural

Choose A, B, C, or D that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
She said she _______.
A.was very tired last night     
B.was very tired the night before
C.had been very tired last night    
D.had been very tired the night before

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question.
 
 Silence _____ the theatre as the audience awaited the opening curtain with expectation and excitement.
A.fell in with                   
B.came between             
C.hung over             
D.dropped out of

IX. 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 35 to 42.
Biological diversity has become widely recognized as a critical conservation issue only in the past two decades. The rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which are the ecosystems with the highest known species diversity on Earth, has awakened people to the importance and fragility of biological diversity. The high rate of species extinctions in these environments is jolting, but it is important to recognize the significance of biological diversity in all ecosystems. As the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of Earth's ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems and in fringe marine eco common problem is habitat destruction. In most situations, the result is irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the course of evolution.
Certainly, there have been periods in Earth's history when mass extinctions have occurred. The extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by some physical event, either climatic or cosmic. There have also been less dramatic extinctions, as when natural competition between species reached an extreme conclusion. Only 0.01 percent of the species that have lived on Earth have survived to the present, and it was largely chance that determined which species survived and which died out.
            However, nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world and demolishing the environment. In fact, there is wide agreement that it is the rate of change humans are inflicting, even more than the changes themselves that will lead to biological devastation. Life on Earth has continually been in flux as slow physical and chemical changes have occurred on Earth, but life needs time to adapt-time for migration and genetic adaptation within existing species and time for the proliferation of new genetic material and new species that may be able to survive in new environments.
The author mentions all of the following as examples of the effect of humans on the world's ecosystems EXEPT ______ .
A.the introduction of new varieties of plant species        
B.the habitat destruction in wetlands  
C. the extensive damage to marine ecosystems       
D.the destruction of the tropical rain forests

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I feel ________ I did yesterday.
A.many more tired than     
B.as many tired as
C.as more tired as         
D.much more tired than

Choose the correct answer:
As we walked down the street, Helen............. pity on the beggar and gave him some money.
A.gave
B.got
C.offered
D.took

Fill in the blank with the right word or phrase.
I met him the other day but couldn’t speak with him as he ……...... somewhere.
A.hungry
B.am in a hungry
C.hurried
D.had been in a hungry