Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Despite the traffic hold-ups, we were able to arrive at the airport just in the nick of time before the check-in counter closed.
A.with all our luggage                     
B.in a terrible condition
C.at the very last moment      
D.with much time to spare

There was hardly _______ food left in the fridge.
A.more    
B.any
C.no 
D.some

Ba is more intelligent than his brother. -> Ba’s brother is not ____________ .
A.
B.
C.
D.

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.

A.mood                                  
B.flood                       
C.spoon                      
D.moon

Choose the word or phrase  that best completes the sentences.
She plays tennis ______ recreation only.
A.in    
B.to 
C.on  
D.for

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
NEW HUNT FOR LIFE IN SPACE
British space scientists are planning to join the American in the race to find evidence of life on other planets. Alan Penny and his team at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have (51) …… a telescope that is 40 times more powerful than Hubble. (52) …… as 'Darwin', this telescope could tell if planets 50 light years away have any kind of life on them. Two days (53) …… NASA scientists had shown proof that one of Jupiter's moons could support life, Penny (54) …… that his telescope may be included in a European Space Agency mission. The Darwin project, with a (55) …… of 500 million, is on a shortlist of two proposals. If approved, it will probably be (56) …… around 2010, its destination somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. The blueprint is actually for five telescopes positioned 50 meters (57) …… in space, slowly circling a central processing station. The combined data from these telescopes would build up a full picture of a planet, picking out faint images that have never been seen before. Darwin would not be able to take detailed photographs of the planets it (58) ……, but Penny believes a second-generation telescope could be sent up to do this. He claims it is worthwhile mapping the universe around our (59) …… galaxy, even though these planets lie (60) …… our reach for the moment. The European Space Agency will make its decision on Darwin within three years.
(52)
A.Known
B.Called
C.Considered
D.Named

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
One recipe for success is to stay focused and ________ yourself to whatever you do.
A.apply                     
B.attach                      
C.assign                    
D.adhere

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