VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 56. 
A.provide
B.supply
C.add
D.give

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 55.
A.sweeteners
B.sweets
C.candy
D.substances

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 54.
A.detect
B.smell
C.taste
D.measure

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 53.
A.cited
B.extracted
C.drawn
D.made

VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (51) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (52) ____of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to the body, is (53) ____ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (54) ____ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial (55) ____ have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers (56) ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (57)  ____ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (58) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (59) ____ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (60) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Question 52.
A.origins
B.places
C.sources
D. roots

I’d love to come, but I am snowed under at the moment
A.am busy
B.have free time
C.have a bad cold 
D.am on the move

His physical conditions were no impediment to his career as a violinist.
A.help
B.impatience
C.hindrance
D.impossibility

In astronomy, a scale of magnitude from one to six denotes the brightness of a star.
A.predicts
B.signifies
C.contrasts
D.examines

The industrial Revolution effected a drastic change in the British Standard of living in the I8th century.
A.caused
B.eliminated
C.prevented
D.denied

The ____ north we go, the ____ we are to meet high temperatures
A.further/less alike
B.farther/less likely
C.farther/more likely 
D.further/more alike