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.
Not until all their demands had been turned down did the workers decide to go on strike for more welfare.
A.rejected                   
B.sacked                     
C.reviewed                 
D.deleted

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Mai and Joey are talking about their favorite pastimes. - Joey: “What sort of things do you like doing in your free time?”      - Mai: “______________”
A.I love checking out the shops for new clothes.
B.None. Been starved since 9 yesterday.
C.I hate shopping.
D.Nothing special. Just some photos I took on the trip to Nepal.

I only recognized him when he came into the light.
A.Only when I recognized him, he came into the light.
B.Not until he came into the light I did recognize him
C.It wasn’t until he came into the light that I recognized him
D.I did not recognize him even when he came into the light

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I do not have _______ to make _______.
A.much potatoes/ a soup             
B.several potato/ soups
C.enough potatoes/ the soup        
D.a potatoes/ the soups

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ an imitation of life.
A.Art is often called   
B.Arts are often called                                   
C.An amount of arts are often called
D.As sum of art is often called

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
There are not _______ in that classroom.
A.any student  
B.a lot of student       
C.a great deal of students 
D.many students

The word “ access” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to __________ .
A. right 
B.method
C.opportunity
D.entrance

The word “expire” in the first paragraph is closest meaning to ________ .
A.become ill 
B.die
C.shrink 
D.dehydrate

Reading the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
The growth of cities, the construction of hundreds of new factories, and the spread of railroads in the United States before 1850 had increased the need for better illumination. But the lighting in American homes had improved very little over that of ancient times. Through the colonial period, homes were lit with tallow candles or with a lamp of the kind used in ancient Rome – a dish of fish oil or other animal or vegetable oil in which a twisted rag served as a wick. Some people used lard, but they had to heat charcoal underneath to keep it soft and burnable. The sperm whale provided superior burning oil, but this was expensive. In 1830 a new substance called “camphene” was patented, and it proved to be an excellent illuminant. But while camphene gave a bright light it too remained expensive, had an unpleasant odor, and also was dangerously explosive.
            Between 1830 and 1850, it seemed that the only hope for cheaper illumination in the United States was the wider use of gas. In the 1840s, American gas manufacturers adopted improved British techniques for producing illuminating gas from coal. But the expense of piping gas to the consumer remained so high that until the mid-nineteenth century gas lighting was feasible only in urban areas, and only for public buildings for the wealthy. In 1854, a Canadian doctor, Abraham Gesner, patented a process for distilling a pitch like mineral found in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia that produced illuminating gas and an oil that he called “kerosene” (from “keros”, the Greek word for wax, and “ene” because it resembled camphene). Kerosene, though cheaper than camphene, had an unpleasant odor, and Gesner never made his fortune from it. But Gesner had aroused a new hope for making illuminating oil from a product coming out of North American mines.
Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?
A.a description of events in chronological order
B.a comparison of two years
C.an analysis of scientific findings
D.the statement of a theory and possible explanations

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

A.control     
B.ecology                   
C.contour                               
D.combine