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 10 to 16.
No educational medium better serves as a means of spatial communication than the atlas. Atlases deal with such invaluable information as population distribution and density. One of the best, Pennycooke’s World Atlas, has been widely accepted as a standard owning to the quality of its maps and photographs, which not only show various settlements but also portray them in a variety of scales. In fact , the very first map in the atlas is a cleverly designed population cartogram that projects the size of each country if geographical size were proportional to population. Following the proportional layout , a sequence of smaller maps shows the world’s population density, each country’s birth and death rates, population increase and decrease , industrialization, urbanization , gross national product in terms of per capita income, the quality of medical care, literacy, and language. To give readers a perspective on how their own country fits in with the global view, additional projections despite the world’s patterns in nutrition, calorie and protein consumption, health care, number of physicians per unit of population, and life expectancy by region. Population density maps on a subcontinental scale, as well as political maps, convey the diverse demographic phenomena of the world in a broad array of scales.
In the passage, the word “invaluable” is closest in meaning to
A. invalid
B.priceless   
C.shapeless 
D.incremental

Mark the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to the following question. If you are not Japanese,so what                       are you?
A. nationalized    
B.nationality
C.nation  
D.national

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in the following question. Diana would rather that her husband doesn’t work so hard.
A.her husband    
B.doesn’t work   
C.Diana
D.would rather

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 question. I didn’t arrive in time. I was not able to see her off.
A. I arrived very late to say goodbye to her.
B.She had left because I was not on time.
C.I was not early enough to see her off.
D.I didn’t go there , so I could not see her off.

Select the synonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence in the unit: 
At that time scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures was set in motion, they could give the feeling of moment.
A.detected 
B.founded
C.knew  
D.saw

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group: 

A.developed
B.used                      
C.played
D.enjoyed

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 44 to 48.
            If women choose to pursue a career once they have children, they often miss out on a close relationship with children. Helen Jamieson is a mother of three who has given up work to look after her children (44) _____. She strongly believes that women are pressurized to do too much, (45) _____ themselves to the absolute limit. In her own case, after six years of paid employment, Helen finally decided to call it a day. She says she initially found it hard to be at home, though she never misses the job itself. She admits that if she had had a brilliant career to begin (46) _____, she might feel differently now. Financially, she is no worse off (47) _____ before, as the cost of childcare and commuting exceeded her actual income. (48) _____ the government starts to give other tax incentives to working parents, she says she will not return to the workplace until her children are grown up.
(45)
A.and driving        
B.and taking         
C.driving                   
D.taking

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
We would have agreed to the contract _____ for Tom’s opposition.
A.would it not have been                     
B.be it not
C.had it not been           
D.should it not have been

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.clothes       
B.houses            
C.increases                 
D.rises

Mark the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to the following question. In a modern family, the husband  is expected to join hands with his wife to            _ the household chores.
A.do    
B.make  
C.run  
D.take