II. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions from 13 to 14.

A.grade
B.crack
C.tasty
D.safe

I used a calculator so it's impossible I made a mistake with the bill. I ___________a mistake with the bill because I used a calculator
A.couldn’t  make
B.shouldn’t have made   
C.mightn’t make     
D.can't have made

Read the following passage and then choose the best answer for each question by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D from 36 to 40.
The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared in January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today’s Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst’s rival New York paper, the Morning Journal.
Both were immensely popular and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the “Yellow Kid”, the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The “Yellow Kid” was in many ways a pioneer.  Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech balloon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters’ heads.
The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks’s “Katzenjammer Kids”, based on Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The “Kids” strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of earlier comics.
Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. The first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 blackand-white comic strips had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country.
According to the passage, the “Yellow Kid” was the first comic strip to do all of the following EXCEPT
A.feature the same character in each episode  
B.appear in a Chicago newspaper
C.include dialogue inside a balloon   
D.characterize city life in a humorous way

A.amuses
B.purses
C.blouses
D.pleases

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.
She was the first woman in the Philippines. She was elected as the president of the country.
A.She was the first woman being elected as the president of the Philippines.
B.She was the first woman who is elected as the president of the Philippines.
C.She was the first woman to be elected as the president of the Philippines.
D.She was the first woman elected as the president of the Philippines.

IV. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting.
The raise in prices has caused many customers to reconsider unnecessary purchases.
A.raise
B.prices
C.many
D.consider

WRITING : Choose the best answer for the following sentences from questions 35 to 40:
I first started to play the guitar when I was sixteen.
A.I have played the guitar when I was sixteen.     
B.I have started the guitar when I was sixteen.
C.I have started the guitar since I was sixteen.   
D.I have been playing the guitar since I was sixteen.

Education can often to be considered to be the most important element to develop a country.
A.can
B.most important
C.to be considered 
D.to develop

Find out the word that has different stress pattern from the others.

A.embarrass       
B.personality
C.volunteer  
D.anniversary

VII. 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 25 to 29.
To better understand the effects of crying in humans, it is also important to consider the animal counterparts to human crying (in the domain of communication), as well as other animal behaviors that might serve stress-reducing functions. In all mammals and most birds, offspring react with (25)_______ calls or distress calls to being removed from the parents. There can be little doubt that this is the phylogenetic basis of the acoustical crying of human infants. This very basic form of crying is meant to undo the separation from the parents and it is not likely to have any direct soothing function. Rather, this behavior seems to be associated with a state of increased arousal and result in soothing because of the comfort and support it elicited, that is, because it has (26)_______ its inter-individual function. In animals, distress calls are mainly (27)_____ by young offspring, and they are never accompanied by the production of tears. (28)______ , candidates for the mechanisms that might contribute to reduction of distress in non-human animals (and in humans as well) can be found in displacement behaviors and stereotypes, (29)______ are proposed to serve communicative functions as well.
(28) 
A.In addition 
B.On the other hand  
C.As a consequence 
D.What is more