Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
The trouble with Frank is that he never turns up on time for a meeting.
A.gets                         
B.switches                  
C.arrives                     
D.goes

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 3 to 7.
Polar bears are in danger of dying out. Unlike some other endangered animals, it's not hunters that are the problem, it's climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic Circle where the polar bears has reduced in size (3)_________ about 30 per cent. The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been rising and this is (4)_________  the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears' home. The polar bears' main sources of food are the different types of seals found in the Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes seals have made in the ice. (5)_________  the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in water. This means that the bears really do rely on the ice to hunt.
Polar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can cover a huge territory and often swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been (6)_________  to swim up to 100 km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further and this can (7)_________  fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drown in the last few years and scientists believe that it is because they were not able to reach more ice before they became too tired and couldn't swim any further.
(4)_______
A.making          
B.turning   
C.causing   
D.resulting

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 43 to 50.
Tropical rainforests are being destroyed and badly degraded at an unsustainable rate. Some scientists estimate that in the early 1990s tropical forests were being destroyed at a rate of approximately 28 hectares a minute, or about 14 million hectares each year – an area about the size of the state of Wisconsin. This figure marked a decrease since the 1980s, when approximately 16 million hectares were destroyed each year, largely due to a reported decline of deforestation in the Amazon River Basin in the early 1990s. However, satellite images indicate that rates may have rebounded in the late 1990s as burning in the Amazon increased again. Over the past three decades alone, about 5 million square kilometers – or 20 percent of the world's tropical forests – have been cleared. During this time, deforestation in tropical Asia reached almost 30 percent. High rates of deforestation are inevitably followed by alarming rates of plant and animal extinction because many rainforest species cannot survive outside their pristine rainforest habitat. Some scientists estimate that dozens of rainforest species are becoming extinct every day.
Causes of deforestation vary from location to location, but certain patterns tend to be consistent across all forests. Logging companies in search of valuable rainforest hardwoods, or, less often, oil companies in search of petroleum, are often the first to enter a remote area of rainforest. Some logged forests, if left alone, can regenerate in a few decades. But typically, they are not left alone – the roads built by logging companies often provide access for landless farmers to enter a new area, as well as a means to transport agricultural crops to market. For every 1 kilometer of new roads built through a forested area, 4 to 24 square kilometers are deforested and colonized.
Once the loggers leave the land, a typical cycle of destruction ensues. When the landless farmers arrive, they clear the land for planting. Poor rainforest soils produce a low crop yield, especially after a couple of years. At that point, the farmers often sell their lands to cattle ranchers or large plantation owners. After nutrients have been exhausted and soils compacted by cattle, lands are then abandoned and often laid to waste. Rainforest does not readily regenerate on these lands without human intervention. Meanwhile, the colonist farmers and cattle ranchers move to a new piece of land made accessible by logging roads, where the cycle of deforestation begins again.
(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)
The word "regenerate" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to         .
A.renew     
B.refine     
C.repeat    
D.recover

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_____ you play the piano? – Of course, yes.
A.Can                         
B.Must                       
C.Should                    
D.Need

Part 6: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
They always kept on good __________ with their next-door neighbors for the children's sake.
A.terms                      
B.will                                     
C.relations                  
D.relationship

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs corrections in each of the following questions.
The product that you bought at the lower price is the more inferior to the one that we sell at a slightly higher price.
A.that you bought    
B.at a slightly
C.the one
D.the more inferior

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
When Jenny was a child, reading ____ was her hobby.
A.picture books  
B.picture of books 
C.books of pictures 
D.books’ pictures

All his companies had been successful and he was known to be ________ rich.
A.excessively                        
B.completely                          
C.extremely                           
D.thoroughly

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrases that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
It was a Monday morning in the office and, as usual, everyone was busy sorting through their mail before starting work. The other staff had (12)____ that Nicky , one of the computer operators, had been (13)____ rather miserable recently and they wondered what might have been happened to make her so (14)____. Suddenly Nicky accidentally knocked over a cup of coffee. As she was clearing up the mess, the girl sitting next to her happened to glance at Nicky's right hand. There was a large swelling at the wrist. "What on earth have you (15) ____ to yourself? Does it hurt?" asked the girl. " Yes, it does. I think I've injured it using the computer", replied Nicky. " I think you'd better go and let the doctor (16) ____ it", said the girl. " Let's hope there's no permanent damage to your hand".
(15)  
A.made                                   
B.done                        
C.happened
D.brought

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I assume that you are acquainted ________ this subject since you are responsible _______ writing the accompanying materials.
A.with/with   
B.with/for     
C.to/to     
D.to/for