Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one ( 2.5 points )
Everyone heard about the accident before I did.
A.I was the last person to hear for the accident.
B.I was the last person to know about the accident.
C.I was the last person to hear about the accident.
D.Both B and C

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.
Why did Danny decide to enter the marathon? Danny’s totally unfit.
A.Why did Danny, whose total unfit, decide to enter the marathon?
B.Why did Danny decide to enter the marathon, who’s totally unfit?
C.Why did Danny, who’s totally unfit, decide to enter the marathon?
D.Why did Danny decide to enter the marathon who’s totally unfit?

I fell..................on the way home from school and hurt my knee.
A.down
B.up
C.on
D.in

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 14 to 27.
_________ Japanese manage to ask direct questions in order not to embarrass _________ person who they are speaking with.
A.The - the   
B.A - a         
C.The - a         
D.A - the

He is now living with the Brown family on a...............outside Columbus, Ohio.
A.river
B.farm
C.field
D.site

If he _____now , he_____ the rush hour.
A.leaves----misses
B.leaves----will miss
C.leaves----would miss
D.will leave-----will miss

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.
Accidents do not occur at random. People eighty-five years of age and older are twenty-two times likely to die accidentally than are children five to nine years old. The risk for native Americans is four times that for Asian-Americans and twice that for white Americans or African-Americans. Males suffer accidents at more than twice the rate of females, in part because they are more prone to risky behavior. Alaskans are more than three times as likely as Rhode Islanders to die in an accident. Texans are twenty-one times more likely than New Jerseyites to die in a natural disaster. Among the one hundred most populous counties, Kern County, California (Bakersfield), has an accident fatality rate three times greater than Summit County, Ohio (Akron).
Accidents happens more often to poor people. Those living in poverty receive inferior medical care, are more apt to reside in houses with faulty heating and electrical systems, drive older cars with fewer safety features, and are less likely to use safety belts. People in rural areas have more accidents than city or suburban dwellers because farming is much riskier than working in a factory or office and because emergency medical services are less readily available. These two factors – low income and rural residence – may explain why the south has a higher accident rate than the north.
(Source: Proficiency Reading)
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Children aged five to nine face the greatest accident risk.
B.All people face an equal risk of having an accident.
C.One in every 22 people aged 85 and over will die in an accident.
D.The risk of having an accident is greater among certain groups of people.

IV. Choose the word or phrase - A, B, C or D – that needs correcting.
One characteristic of the poems of Emily Dickinson is the sharp of her images.
A.characteristic
B.poems
C.sharp
D.images

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
We were quite impressed by the ______ students who came up with the answer to our question almost instantly.
A.absent-minded
B.big-headed    
C.quick-witted  
D.bad-tempered

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 51 to 60. 
The ability to conduct electricity is one of the key properties of a metal. Other solid materials such as silicon can conduct electricity but only effectively at certain temperatures. Also, some substances such as salt (sodium chloride) can conduct when molten or when dissolved in water. The ability of metals to conduct electricity is due to how their atoms bond together. In order to bond together the metal atoms lose at least one of their outermost electrons. This leaves the metal atoms with a positive charge and they are now strictly ions. The lost electrons are free to move in what is known as a sea of electrons. Since the electrons are negatively charged they attract the ions and this is what keeps the structure together.
An electric current is a flow of charge and since the electrons in the sea of electrons are free to move they can be made to flow in one direction when a source of electrical energy such as a battery is connected to the metal. Hence we have an electric current flowing through the wire, and this is what makes metals such good conductors of electricity. The only other common solid conducting material that pencil users are likely to encounter is graphite (what the ‘lead’ of a pencil is made from). Graphite is a form of carbon and again the carbon atoms bond in such a way that there is a sea of electrons that can be made to flow as an electric current. Likewise, if we have an ionic substance like salt we can make the electrically charged ions flow to create a current but only when those ions are free to move, either when the substance is a liquid or dissolved in water. In its solid state an ionic substance like salt cannot conduct electricity as its charged ions cannot flow.
Electrical insulators are substances that cannot conduct electricity well either, because they contain no charged particles or any charged particles they might contain do not flow easily. Water itself is a poor conductor of electricity as it does not contain a significant amount of fully charged particles (the ends of a water molecule are partly charged but overall the molecule is neutral). However, most water we encounter does contain dissolved charged particles, so it will be more conductive than pure water. Many of the problems that occur when touching electrical devices with wet hands result from the ever-present salt that is left on our skin through perspiration and it dissolves in the water to make it more conductive
The word “outermost” in paragraph 1 mostly means ______. 
A.furthest from the inside                   
B.nearest to the inside
C.the heaviest                                       
D.the lightest