III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
Some training courses can provide people ____ practical skills.




A.from
B.on
C.for
D.with

IX. 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 questions.
He spent all his money. He even borrowed some from me.




A.Not only did he spend all his money but he borrowed some from me.
B.Not only did he spend all his money but also borrowed some from me.
C.As soon as he borrowed some money from me, he spent it all.
D.Hardly had he borrowed some money from me, he spent it all.

VIII. Mark the letter A, B, Cor 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.likes
B.writes
C.serves
D.hopes

VII. Mark the letter A, B, Cor Don your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions.
The weather was so terrible that we spent the whole day indoors.




A.The weather was too terrible for us to spend the whole day indoors.
B.The weather wasn't terrible enough for us to spend the whole day indoors.
C.It was such terrible weather that we spent the whole day indoors.
D.The weather was too terrible that we spent the whole day indoors.

V. Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Most of the fastening devices used in clothing today, like the shoelace, the button, and the safely pin. have existed in some form in various cultures for thousands of years. But the zipper was the brainchild of one American inventor, namely Whitcomb Judson of Chicago. At the end of the 19th century. Judson was already a successful inventor, with a dozen patents to his credit for mechanical items such as improvements to motors and railroad braking system.
He then turned his mind to create a replacement for the lengthy shoelaces which were then used in both men’s and women's boots. On August 29th 1893, he won another patent, for what he called the case “locker”. Though the model was somewhat clumsy, and frequently jammed, it did work: in fact, Judson and his business associate Lewis Walker had sewn the device into their own boots. Although Judson displayed his clasp-locker at the World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893, the public largely ignored it. The company founded by Judson and Walker, Universal Fastener, despite further refinements, never really succeeded in marketing the device.
The earliest zip fasteners were being used in the clothing industry by 1905, but it was only in 1913, after a Swedish-American engineer, Gideon Sundbach, had remodeled Judson's fastener into a more streamlined and reliable form, that the zipper was a success. The US Army applied zippers to the clothing and equipment of the troops of World War I. By the late 1920s, zippers could be found in all kinds of clothing, footwear, and carrying cases; by the mid-1930s, zippers had even been embraced by the fashion industry.
The term “zipper" was coined as onomatopoeia (resembling the sound it makes) by B.F. Goodrich whose company started marketing rubber shoes featuring the fastener in 1923. Regrettably. Whitcomb Judson died in 1909, and never heard the term, or saw the success by which his invention would become popular.
(Adapted from https://lemelson.mit.edu)
According to the passage, zippers did not really become a success until _____.




A.they were used in the apparel industry after 1905
B.the Army used them in World War I
C.in 1913 after being remodeled
D.be the late 1920s

III. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheel to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It's silly of him to spend a lot of money buying _______ .




A.a thick wooden old table
B.a thick old wooden table
C.an old wooden thick table
D.a wooden thick old table

The judge asked the suspect to explain reason why he was present at the place of the crime .




A.the suspect
B.reason
C.present
D.the place of the crime

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
A large number of entries has updated in the latest edition of the encyclopedia recently.




A.large
B.has updated
C.of
D.recently

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 did you do last night?” the policeman asked the woman.




A.The policeman asked the woman what did she do the night before.
B.The policeman asked the woman what she had done the night before.
C.The policeman asked the woman what had she done the night before.
D.The policeman asked the woman what she did the night before.

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 12-19.
Scientists have identified two ways in which species disappear. The first is through ordinary or ‘background’ extinctions, where species that fail to adapt are slowly replaced by more adaptable life forms. The second is when large numbers of species go to the wall in relatively short periods of biological time. There have been five such extinctions, each provoked by cataclysmic evolutionary events caused by some geological eruption, climate shift, or space junk slamming into the Earth. Scientists now believe that another mass extinction of species is currently under way – and this time human fingerprints are on the trigger.
How are we are doing it? Simply by demanding more and more space for ourselves. In our assault on the ecosystems around us we have used a number of tools, from spear and gun to bulldozer and chainsaw. Certain especially rich ecosystems have proved the most vulnerable. In Hawaii more than half of the native birds are now gone – some 50 species. Such carnage has taken place all across the island communities of the Pacific and Indian oceans. While many species were hunted to extinction, others simply succumbed to the ‘introduced predators’ that humans brought with them: the cat, the dog, the pig, and the rat.
Today the tempo of extinction is picking up speed. Hunting is no longer the major culprit, although rare birds and animals continue to be butchered for their skin, feathers, tusks, and internal organs, or taken as savage pets. Today the main threat comes from the destruction of the habitat of wild plants, animals, and insects need to survive. The draining and damming of wetland and river courses threatens the aquatic food chain and our own seafood industry. Overfishing and the destruction of fragile coral reefs destroy ocean biodiversity. Deforestation is taking a staggering toll, particularly in the tropics where the most global biodiversity is at risk. The shrinking rainforest cover of the Congo and Amazon river basins and such place as Borneo and Madagascar have a wealth of species per hectare existing nowhere else. As those precious hectares are drowned or turned into arid pasture and cropland, such species disappear forever.
Source: Final Countdown Practice Tests by D.F Piniaris, Heinle Cengage Learning, 2010
What was the main threat to biodiversity in Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans until recently?




A.tools used by human beings
B.human assault on ecosystems
C.vulnerable rich ecosystems
D.hunters and introduced predators