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 following questions
Two-lane highways, like the railways before them, seemed capable of making or breaking a community in the 1920s. The automobile was every American’s idea of freedom, and the construction of hard-surface roads was one of the largest items of government expenditure, often at great cost to every thing else, including education.
American car registrations rose from one million in 1913 to ten million in 1923. Automobile sales in the state of Michigan outnumbered those in Great Britain and Ireland combined. By 1927, Americans were driving some twenty-six million automobiles, one car for every five people in the country.
The 1920 U.S. Census revealed that for the first time in history more people lived in cities than on farms, and they were leaving the farm and reaching the city by automobile. The growth of roads and the automobile industry made cars the lifeblood of the petroleum industry and a major customer of the steel factories. Cars also caused expansions in outdoor recreation and tourism and related industries-service stations, roadside restaurants, and motels. After World War two, the automobile industry reached new heights, and new roads led out of the city to the suburbs, where two-car families transported children to shopping malls and segregated schools.
In 1956 Congress passed the Interstate Highway Act, the peak of a half-century of frenzied road building at government expense and the largest public works program in history. The result was the Interstate Highway System, a network of federally subsidized highways connecting major urban centers. Two-hour commutes, traffic jams, polluted cities, and Disneyland became standard features of American life. Like almost everything else in the 1950s, the construction of interstate highways was justified as a national defense measure.
The predominance of private transportation was guaranteed by the federal government. Between 1945 and 1980, 75 percent of federal funds of transportation were spent on highways, while a scant one percent went to buses, trains, or subways. Even before the Interstate Highway System was built, the American bias was clear – which is why the United States has the world’s best road system and nearly its worst public transit system.
According to the passage, the growth in the number of automobiles influenced all of the following EXCEPT




A.tourism
B.the petroleum industry
C.subway fares
D.suburban shopping malls

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions
What he did came as no surprise to me.




A.His behavior surprised me.
B.I was not surprised by his actions.
C.He told me that he was not surprise.
D.He was surprised when I came.

Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for each space.
Reference books are not designed to be read from the first page to the last but rather to be consulted to answer the questions and provide both general and specific pieces of information. One of the most (35)_____ -used reference books is a dictionary, which provides information about words. It lists meanings and spellings, (36)____­­­­­­­­ how a word is pronounced, gives (37)____ of how it is used, may reveal its origins and also lists synonyms and antonyms. To help you find the words faster, there are guide words at the top of each page showing the first and last words on that page - and of course it helps to know the alphabet! There may be numerous special sections at the back with (38)____ about famous people and places, lists of dates and scientific names, etc. There is usually a section at the front (39) ____ how to use the dictionary, which includes the special abbreviations or signs.
(39) ____




A.explaining
B.interpreting
C.suggesting
D.presenting

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
More than half of all stars is in binary or multiple-star systems.




A.More than
B.of all
C.is
D.or

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
Doctors are supposed to ____ responsibility for human life.




A.do
B.rush
C.join
D.take

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
I need _______ time to think about _______ offer you made me.




A.X/ an
B.X/ the
C.a/ the
D.the/ the

Read the following passage and Choose the best option A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Bees, classified into over 10,000 species, are insects found in almost every part of the world except the northernmost and southernmost regions. One commonly known species is the honeybee, the only bee that produces honey and wax. Humans use the wax in making candles, lipsticks, and other products, and they use the honey as a food. While gathering the nectar and pollen with which they make honey, bees are simultaneously helping to fertilize the flowers on which they land. Many fruits and vegetables would not survive if bees did not carry the pollen from blossom to blossom. Bees live in a structured environment and social structure within a hive, which is a nest with storage space for the honey. The different types of bees each perform a unique function. The worker bee carries nectar to the hive in a special stomach called a honey stomach, other workers make beeswax and shape it into a honeycomb, which is a waterproof mass of six-sided compartments, or cells. The queen lays eggs in completed cells. As the workers build more cells, the queen lays more eggs.
All workers, like the queen, are female, but the workers are smaller than the queen. The male honeybees are called drones; they do no work and cannot sting. They are developed from unfertilized eggs, and their only job is to impregnate a queen. The queen must be fertilized in order to lay worker eggs. During the season, when less honey is available and the drones is of no further use, the workers block the drones from eating the honey so that they will starve to death.
It is stated in paragraph 2 that “a hive” is_________.




A.a nest
B.a storage space
C.a type of bee
D.a type of honey

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 o f the numbered blanks.
Many American customs will surprise you; the same thing happens to us when we (33)_______ another country. People from various cultures handle many small daily things differently. What a dull world it (34)_______ be if this were not true! Some differences are minor, and people soon become accustomed to them. At (35)_______ , for example, some foreign women may be startled at the idea of (36)_______ their hair cut or styled by men. Visitors maybe amazed to see men wearing wigs. People may find the transitory quality of much American life odd, for example, one (37)_______ rent art by the week or the entire furnishings of an apartment, from sofa and bed to the last spoon, on less than eight hours’ notice. “Package” living is part of today’s American scene.
(36)______




A.showing
B.giving
C.taking
D.having

Choose the best option A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Hung doesn’t take good care________ himself.




A.in
B.of
C.about
D.for

Choose the best option A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions.
Computers and telecommunication are bound to have a huge influence on various aspects of our life.




A.equivalent
B.diverse
C.like
D.similar