Read the passage below and choose the correct answer for each question. Write your answers A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. (5 pts)
Petroleum products, such as gasoline, kerosine, home heating oil, residual fuel oil, and lubricating oils, come from one source-crude oil found below the earth's surface, as well as under large bodies of water, from a few hundred feet below the surface to as deep as 25,000 feet into the earth's interior. Sometimes crude oil is secured by drilling a hole through the earth, but more dry holes are drilled than those producing oil. Pressure at the source or pumping forces crude oil to the surface.
Crude oil wells flow at varying rates, from ten to thousands of barrels per hour. Petroleum products are always measured in forty-two-gallon barrels.
Petroleum products vary greatly in physical appearance: thin, thick, transparent or opaque, but regardless, their chemical composition is made up of only two elements: carbon and hydrogen, which form compounds called hydrocarbons. Other chemical elements found in union with the hydrocarbons are few and are classified as impurities. Trace elements are also found, but these are of such minute quantities that they are disregarded. The combination of carbon and hydrogen forms many thousands of compounds which are possible because of the various positions and joinings of these two atoms in the hydrocarbon molecule.
The various petroleum products are refined from the crude oil by heating and condensing the vapors. These products are the so-called light oils, such as gasoline, kerosine, and distillate oil. The residue remaining after the light oils are distilled is known as heavy or residual fuel oil and is used mostly for burning under boilers. Additional complicated refining processes rearrange the chemical structure of the hydrocarbons to produce other products, some of which are used to upgrade and increase the octane rating of various types of gasolines.
The word "minute" in line 10 is closest in meaning to           .
A.instant
B.huge
C.insignificant
D.timely

Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
The little boy had a lot of trouble (convince)   everyone that he (see) a mermaid
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Fill each blank in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb particle. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
Charles has good taste music but he’s got no talent     figures.
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Fill each blank in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb particle. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
Damage           the building resulted    an unusually high wind
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Fill each blank in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb particle. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
Don’t be surprised if you get   trouble for talking back           the teacher.
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Fill each blank in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb particle. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
I don’t think we’re ever going to see eye         eye       this issue.
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He___________________ for the money since last Friday.
A.was waiting
B.has been waiting
C.waited
D.is waiting

Fill each blank in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb particle. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
You were a bit hard     him      crashing your car - give him a second chance.
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Fill each blank in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb particle. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
The intercity highway is not     use now. It’s    major repair.
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Fill each blank in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb particle. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
He gave me some money         payment           all my service.
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