Yet, the inflationary trend prevailing throughout Europe and the great demand for steel produce
A.inflationary
B.demand
C.for
D.produce

______(55)
A.announced     
B.found                    
C.introduced                       
D.started

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.
Just two months after the flight of Apollo 10, the Apollo 11 astronauts made their historic landing on the surface of the Moon. This momentous trip for humanity also provided scientists with an abundance of material for study; from rock and soil samples brought back from the Moon, scientists have been able to determine much about the composition of the Moon (as well as to draw) inferences about the development of the Moon from its composition.
The Moon soil that came back on Apollo 11 contains small bits of rock and glass which were probably ground from larger rocks when meteors impacted with the surface of the Moon. The bits of glass are spherical in shape and constitute approximately half of the Moon soil. Scientists found no trace of animal or plant life in this soil.
In addition to the Moon soil, astronauts gathered two basic types of rocks from the surface of the Moon: Basalt and breccia. Basalt is a cooled and hardened volcanic lava common to the Earth. Since basalt is formed under extremely high temperatures, the presence of this type of rock is an indication that the temperature of the Moon was once extremely hot. Breccia, the other kind of rock brought back by the astronauts, was formed during the impact of falling objects on the surface of the Moon. It consists of small pieces of rock compressed together by the force of impact. Gases such as hydrogen and helium were found in some of the rocks, and scientists believe that these gases were carried to the Moon by the solar wind, the streams of gases that are constantly emitted by the Sun.
The author's purpose in this passage is to
A.demonstrate the difference between basalt and breccia
B.explain some of the things learned from space flights
C.describe some rock and soil samples
D.propose a new theory about the creation of the Moon

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Everyone will tell you that becoming a parent is challenging, but you never really know what that means until you learn about it the _______ way.
A.long                   
B.direct             
C.full                     
D.hard

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.
            William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym of O. Henry, was born in North Carolina. His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Lina’s school until the age of fifteen, where he developed his lifelong love of books. By 1881 he was a licensed pharmacist. However, within a year, on the recommendation of a medical colleague of his Father’s, Porter moved to La Salle County in Texas for two years herding sheep. During this time, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary was his constant companion, and Porter gained a knowledge of ranch life that he later incorporated into many of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for three years, and during this time the first recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, allegedly derived from his habit of calling “Oh, Henry” to a family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a bank teller for the First National Bank.
            In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly, the “Rolling Stone”, a venture that failed within a year, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank was examined, and the subsequent indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had embezzled funds. Porter then fled to New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He returned in 1897 because of his wife’s continued ill-health, however she died six months later. Then, in 1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of thirty five, he entered prison as a defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally his freedom. He emerged from prison three years later, reborn as O. Henry, the pseudonym he now used to hide his true identity. He wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after re-gaining his freedom, went to New York City, where he published more than 300 stories and gained fame as America’s favorite short Story writer. Porter married again in 1907, but after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henry’s stories have been translated all over the world.
The word “pseudonym” in the passage refers to _____.
A.William Sydney Porter      
B.O. Henry                             
C.Athol Estes         
D.the Aunt Lina

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase. 
The natural environment consists ______ all natural resources.
A.in                           
B.of                           
C.to                            
D.on

The consequences of the typhoon were disastrous due to the lack of precautionary measures.
 
 
A.severe        
B.physical  
C.damaging  
D.beneficial

Before electricity, what was sometimes passed through pipes to heat rooms? 
A. gas
B.petrol
C. steam
D.hot wind

We decided to go to the library as soon as we...................... .
A.finish what we did
B.would finish what we did
C.finished what we did   
D.finished what we were doing

According to the passage, winter orographic clouds are formed
A.during intense snow storms       
B.when air currents rise over mountains               
C.over large bodies of water 
D.on relatively warm winter days