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 56 to 65.
Centuries ago, man discovered that removing moisture from food helped to preserve it, and that the easiest way to do this was to expose the food to sun and wind. In this way the North American Indians produced pemmican (dried meat ground into powder and made into cakes), the Scandinavians made stock fish and the Arabs dried dates and apricots.
All foods contain water - cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 93% water, potatoes and other root vegetables 80%, lean meat 75% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is. If this water is removed, the activity of the bacteria which cause food to go bad is checked.
Fruit is sun-dried in Asia Minor, Greece, Spain and other Mediterranean countries, and also in California, South Africa and Australia. The methods used vary, but in general the fruit is spread out on trays in drying yards in the hot sun. In order to prevent darkening, pears, peaches and apricots are exposed to the fumes of burning sulphur before drying. Plums for making prunes, and certain varieties of grapes for making raisins and currants, are dipped in an alkaline solution in order to crack the skins of the fruit slightly and remove their wax coating, so increasing the rate of drying.
Nowadays most foods are dried mechanically; the conventional method of such dehydration is to put food in chambers through which hot air is blown at temperatures of about 110°C at entry to about 45°C at exit. This is the usual method for drying such things as vegetables, minced meat, and fish.
Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal steel cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes. In the first case, the dried material is scraped off the roller as a thin film which is then broken up into small, though still relatively coarse flakes. In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder. Where recognizable pieces of meat and vegetables are required, as in soup, the ingredients are dried separately and then mixed.
Dried foods take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans or frozen, and they do not need to be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers
in battle, who have little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little time to cook them.
In the process of drying certain kinds of fruits, sulphur fumes help ______.




A.remove their wax coating
B.kill off bacteria
C.maintain their color
D.crack their skin

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
The early failure of the Spanish squad in the 2014 World Cup deeply disappointed their fans.




A.That their squad left the 2014 World Cup so early was very disappointing for the Spanish sportsmen.
B.To the disappointment of their fans, the Spanish squad had to leave the 2014 World Cup too early.
C.Living up to their fans’ expectation, the Spanish squad left the 2014 World Cup so early.
D.The Spanish squad was terribly disappointed that their fans had to leave the 2014 World Cup so early.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 41 to 50.
Postsecondary institutions and private schools are corporations under U.S. law. They are approved to operate as non-profit, for-profit, or public corporations (41)______ education and training. Increasingly, state authorities are requiring approved educational providers to apply (42)______ and receive accreditation as a condition of final and continued approval.
As corporate entities, U.S. institutions are internally self-governing and are (43)______ to make property, facilities, equipment, and utilities transactions; make their own personnel decisions; decide whom to admit to study and to graduate; (44)______ their own funds from outside sources; enter into contracts and compete for grants; and do most of the other things that corporations do. Institutions compete (45)______ one another for students, research funding, faculty, and other benefits. Public institutions may compete within the same state or territory for budget appropriations. It is the corporate nature of institutions and the competition within the system that (46)_____ Americans to refer to the concept of the educational or academic marketplace - an important distinctive element of the way U.S. education is organized.
Some institutions are governed (47)______ under multi-campus arrangements. These include most local public schools (governed by school districts) and many state community college and university systems. Whether single- or multi-campus, institutional corporations (48)______ by boards of citizens, both alumni and non-alumni, who are ultimately responsible for all operations. They appoint senior (49)______, such as principals, headmasters, presidents, and deans; and approve the actions taken (50)______ their name.




A.on
B.in
C.above
D.at

___ book I read recently about the housemaid who posed for___

Famous painting try vermeer was informative as well as entertaining.




A.A- any
B.Any – Φ
C.Φ – a
D.The – a

The crisis will never be solved until ___ sides sit down and talk ____




A.every – one another
B.each – some others
C.both- each other
D.either – the others

“Please bring me some fish soup,” he said to the waitress




A.He asked the waitress to bring him some fish soup
B.He asked the waitress bring him some fish soup
C.He asked the waitress bringing him some fish soup
D.He asked the waitress bring her some fish soup

The teacher said to class, “We shall discuss this subject tomorrow.”




A.The teacher told the class they would discuss that subject the next day
B.The teacher told the class they will discuss that subject the next day
C.The teacher said the class they would discuss that subject the next day.
D.The teacher told the class they discussed that subject the next day.

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.
After a few rounds of talks, both sides regarded the territory dispute as settled.




A.discussion
B.discomfort
C.disapproval
D.disadvantage

A.agreement
B.elephant
C.mineral
D.violent

____United States of America ___ nowadays____country to live in: ___pollution is at its summit there.




A.Φ – are – the worse – the
B.The – is – worst – a
C.The – is – the worst – Φ
D.The – are – worse – the