Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question.
Fifty-five delegates representing all thirteen states except Rhode Island attended the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia from May to September 1787. The delegates had been instructed by the Continental Congress to revise the old Articles of Confederation, but most believed that a stronger central government was needed. There were differences, however, about what structure the government should take and how much influence large states should have.
Virginia was by far the most populous state, with twice as many as people as New York, four times as many as New Jersey, and ten times as many as Delaware. The leader of the Virginia delegation, James Madison, had already drawn up a plan for government, which became known as the Large State Plan. Its essence was that congressional representation would be based on population. It provided for two or more national executives. The smaller states feared that under this plan, a few large states would lord over the rest. New Jersey countered with the Small State Plan. It provided for equal representation for all states in a national legislature and for a single national executive. Angry debate, heightened by a stifling heat wave, led to deadlock.
A cooling of tempers seemed to come with lower temperatures. The delegates hammered out an agreement known as the Great Compromise- actually a bundle of shrewd compromises. They decided that Congress would consist of two houses. The larger states were granted representation based on population in the lower house, the House of Representatives. The smaller states were given equal representation in the upper house, the Senate, in which each state would have two senators regardless of population. It was also agreed that there would be a single executive, the president. This critical compromise broke the logjam, and from then on, success seemed within reach.
 
           
According to the passage, how many states were represented at the Constitutional Convention?
A.12
B.13
C.14
D.15

If I_______________free, I’ll come to see you.
A.am  
B.was  
C.will be 
D.have

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Mike became a father. He felt a strong sense of responsibility towards his parents. 
A.Were Mike to become a father himself, he would feel a strong sense of responsibility towards his parents.
B.Only after Mike had become a father himself did he feel a strong sense of responsibility towards his parents.
C.Had Mike become a father himself, he would have felt a strong sense of responsibility towards his parents.
D.Not until he felt a strong sense of responsibility towards his parents did Mike become a father himself.

A.purchase 
B.project  
C.protect     
D.produce

A.In addition      
B.In practice  
C.In order  
D.In contrast

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions from 23 to 24.
The second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended abruptly on Thursday, with a working lunch and a scheduled signing ceremony being called off.
A.unexpectedly          
B.gradually                 
C.suddenly                             
D.courteously

The author mentions all of the following as concerns of telecommuting, EXCEPT________.
A.the lack of interaction with a group                    
B.the work place is in the home
C.the opportunities for advancement      
D.the different system of supervision

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 12-19.
Scientists have identified two ways in which species disappear. The first is through ordinary or ‘background’ extinctions, where species that fail to adapt are slowly replaced by more adaptable life forms. The second is when large numbers of species go to the wall in relatively short periods of biological time. There have been five such extinctions, each provoked by cataclysmic evolutionary events caused by some geological eruption, climate shift, or space junk slamming into the Earth. Scientists now believe that another mass extinction of species is currently under way – and this time human fingerprints are on the trigger.
How are we are doing it? Simply by demanding more and more space for ourselves. In our assault on the ecosystems around us we have used a number of tools, from spear and gun to bulldozer and chainsaw. Certain especially rich ecosystems have proved the most vulnerable. In Hawaii more than half of the native birds are now gone – some 50 species. Such carnage has taken place all across the island communities of the Pacific and Indian oceans. While many species were hunted to extinction, others simply succumbed to the ‘introduced predators’ that humans brought with them: the cat, the dog, the pig, and the rat.
Today the tempo of extinction is picking up speed. Hunting is no longer the major culprit, although rare birds and animals continue to be butchered for their skin, feathers, tusks, and internal organs, or taken as savage pets. Today the main threat comes from the destruction of the habitat of wild plants, animals, and insects need to survive. The draining and damming of wetland and river courses threatens the aquatic food chain and our own seafood industry. Overfishing and the destruction of fragile coral reefs destroy ocean biodiversity. Deforestation is taking a staggering toll, particularly in the tropics where the most global biodiversity is at risk. The shrinking rainforest cover of the Congo and Amazon river basins and such place as Borneo and Madagascar have a wealth of species per hectare existing nowhere else. As those precious hectares are drowned or turned into arid pasture and cropland, such species disappear forever.
Source: Final Countdown Practice Tests by D.F Piniaris, Heinle Cengage Learning, 2010
It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A.the current mass extinction is different from the other five in that it is caused by humans
B.hunting is the major contributing factor that speeds up the extinction of species
C.habitat destruction makes a minor contribution to the current mass extinction of species
D.it’s impossible for scientists to identify the causes of mass extinctions of species

A.innovate 
B.incentive 
C.inevitable 
D.insecticide

IV. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer in each of the following blanks.
                            PARENTS AND FRIENDS
We can choose our friends, (10) ______ we can't choose our relations. That doesn't mean, though, that members of our family can't also be our friends. Many children have such a good relationship with their parents that they see them (11) ________ friends. Of course, when you're a teenager, you'll have (12) _______ with your parents. There will be times when you don't get on very well with them. That's only natural. There will be times times when you want to be (13) ______ and solve your problems by yourself. You'll also let your parents down sometimes. After all, nobody's perfect and we all make mistakes. But your parents understand that.
(13)
A.divorced
B.grateful
C.independent
D.single