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.
Cambridge University is considering axing compulsory written exams, allowing students to use laptops or iPads instead, after tutors complained that students' handwriting is becoming illegible. Academics say the move, which would bring an end to over 800 years of tradition, has come about because students rely too heavily on laptops in lectures, and are losing the ability to write by hand.
Dr Sarah Pearsall, a senior lecturer at Cambridge University, said handwriting is becoming a ''lost art'' among the current generation of students. She added, ''It's increasingly hard for our examiners to read students' scripts.  Those with illegible writing are forced to come back to their college during the summer holidays to read their answers aloud in the presence of two university administrators. It's extraordinarily commendable that the University is considering reforms to its examination practices.''
Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, said it is inevitable that universities will move to computers as handwriting deteriorates  in the coming years.  ''We  have  to  accept  the  reality.  Handwriting  has  now  become  an  optional,  not  a necessary, part of education. There simply isn't the same time in the curriculum for learning elegant, beautiful handwriting. Life is so quick now. Everybody writes as if they were a doctor writing a prescription,'' he said. ''Handwriting is not necessary for great thought, great English, or great intelligence. Some of our finest wordsmiths today write using laptops, and we have to fight to preserve what is really important, such as the use of great English or great sentence structures.''
Others, however, were not very positive about the move. Tracey Trussell, a handwriting expert, urged Cambridge to ensure that students continue to write by hand. She said, ''It's vital that people continue to write by hand. Writing by hand improves memory and equates to a higher rate of comprehension and information retention.'' There is also concern that schools could follow Cambridge's example by moving away from handwriting. Dr Jane Medwell, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, is concerned that  scrapping  handwritten exams in universities could prompt ''downward curriculum pressure'' on primary and secondary schools to follow suit.
(Adapted from http://www. telegraph. co. uk)
According to paragraph 1, Cambridge University has a long-standing tradition of                  .
A.offering academic tutorials     
B.organising handwritten exams
C.relying heavily on technology     
D.training students in legible handwriting

The underlined word “fledgling” could best be replaced by which of the following?
A.winged   
B.newborn   
C.established  
D.flying

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase. 
..... saying was so important that I asked everyone to stop talking and listen.
A.What the woman was    
B.That the woman was
C.The woman was    
D.What was the woman

What will the book of the future look like?
A.We don’t know what it will look like.
B.It will look like a book you buy today.
C.it will look different from today’s books.
D.it will look like a computer.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

A.consist                    
B.carry                       
C.remove                   
D.protect

My advice to you is to go to the doctor’s.
A.If I were you, I would go to the doctor's
B.I think you to go to the dentist
C.If I had been you, I would have gone to the doctor's
D.Unless I had been you, I would have gone to the doctor's

_______(29)
A.extent     
B.degree       
C.size     
D.amount

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.
   Aspirin's origins go back at least as early as 1758. In that year, Englishman Edward Stone noticed a distinctive bitter flavor in the bark of the willow tree. To Stone, this particular bark seemed to have much in common with "Peruvian Bark", which had been used medicinally since the 1640s to bring down fevers and to treat malaria. Stone decided to test the effectiveness of the willow bark. He obtained some, pulverized it into tiny pieces, and conducted experiments on its properties. His tests demonstrated that this pulverized willow bark was effective both in reducing high temperatures and in relieving aches and pains. In 1763, Stone presented his findings to the British Royal Society.
       Several decades later, further studies on the medicinal value of the willow bark were being conducted by two Italian scientists. These chemists, Brugnatelli and Fontana, determined that the active chemical that was responsible for the medicinal characteristics in the willow bark was the chemical salicin, which is the active ingredient of today's aspirin.
       The name "aspirin" is the trade name of the drug based on the chemical salicin, properly known as acetylsalicylic acid. The trade name "aspirin" was invented for the drug in the 1890s by the Bayer Drug Company in Germany. The first bottles of aspirin actually went on sale to the public just prior to the turn of the century, in 1899.
The pronoun "it" in the first paragraph refers to
A.effectiveness   
B.willow bark
C.malaria        
D.the British Royal Society

The murderer was arrested and sentenced ______ life
A.in
B.for
C.to
D.of

According to the article, fog that occurs along the California coast is generally______.
 
A.frontal fog       
B.steam fog    
C.radiation fog  
D.advection fog