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 35 to 42.
Tropical rainforests are being destroyed and badly degraded at an unsustainable rate. Some scientists estimate that in the early 1990s tropical forests were being destroyed at a rate of approximately 28 hectares a minute, or about 14 million hectares each year – an area about the size of the state of Wisconsin. This figure marked a decrease since the 1980s, when approximately 16 million hectares were destroyed each year, largely due to a reported decline of deforestation in the Amazon River Basin in the early 1990s. However, satellite images indicate that rates may have rebounded in the late 1990s as burning in the Amazon increased again. Over the past three decades alone, about 5 million square kilometers – or 20 percent of the world's tropical forests – have been cleared. During this time, deforestation in tropical Asia reached almost 30 percent. High rates of deforestation are inevitably followed by alarming rates of plant and animal extinction because many rainforest species cannot survive outside their pristine rainforest habitat. Some scientists estimate that dozens of rainforest species are becoming extinct every day.
Causes of deforestation vary from location to location, but certain patterns tend to be consistent across all forests. Logging companies in search of valuable rainforest hardwoods, or, less often, oil companies in search of petroleum, are often the first to enter a remote area of rainforest. Some logged forests, if left alone, can regenerate in a few decades. But typically, they are not left alone – the roads built by logging companies often provide access for landless farmers to enter a new area, as well as a means to transport agricultural crops to market. For every 1 kilometer of new roads built through a forested area, 4 to 24 square kilometers are deforested and colonized.
Once the loggers leave the land, a typical cycle of destruction ensues. When the landless farmers arrive, they clear the land for planting. Poor rainforest soils produce a low crop yield, especially after a couple of years. At that point, the farmers often sell their lands to cattle ranchers or large plantation owners. After nutrients have been exhausted and soils compacted by cattle, lands are then abandoned and often laid to waste. Rainforest does not readily regenerate on these lands without human intervention. Meanwhile, the colonist farmers and cattle ranchers move to a new piece of land made accessible by logging roads, where the cycle of deforestation begins again.
(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)
The word "rebounded" in paragraph 1 could be best replaced by                                      .
A.fallen again 
B.remained unchanged  
C.risen again  
D.gone up and down

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. 
"Get out of my car or I'll call the police!" Jane shouted to the strange man. 
A.Jane threatened to call the police if the man didn’t leave her car.
B.Jane plainly said that she would call the police.
C.Jane politely told the man she would call the police if he didn’t leave her car.
D.Jane informed the strange man that she would call the police.

Despite his seeming control over nature, there are still some points where man remains helpless against her.  
A.Man is defenceless against nature, because he cannot have any influence on her.
B.Although man has an apparent control over nature, he hasn't fully conquered her yet.
C.Man believes he has complete control over nature, but in many respects, this isn't so.
D.Even though man can affect her, in many areas nature still does things better.

Getting married, raising children, and finding and keeping a job are mentioned in paragraph 2 as examples of ______.
A.the changes to which people have to orient themselves
B.the situations in which people cannot teach themselves
C.the areas of learning which affect people’s lives
D.the ways people’s lives are influenced by education

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
There were two rooms in the beach house, ________ served as a kitchen. 
A.the smaller of which
B.the smallest of which
C.the smaller of them
D.smallest of that

________(7)
A.From
B.Once    
C.Got    
D.Yet

Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others.

A.weather          
B.treasure
C.great  
D.jealous

Exercise 3. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that bestfits each ofthe numbered blanks from 11 to 15.
Left-handers are the odd ones out. Sure, lefties (11) ______up about 10 percent of the population - but, frankly, it seems like society has forgotten about them. Just consider all of the right-handed gadgets, awkwardly designed desks, and cooking tools that fit comfortably only in your right hand. What (12) ______someone to become a lefthand? Scientists aren’t exactly sure, but research points to a complex (13) ______between genes and environment. While no exact set of “leftie genes” have been discovered, people who dominantly use their left hands do have more left-handed family members. And researchers have found different brain wirings in righties vs. lefties. But no matter (14) ______it is that drives someone to use their antipodal paw, science has also uncovered a particular set of personality traits that left-handed people tend to have. So for all of you lefties, leftie-loving righties, and ambidextrous folks out there - it’s time to brush up on your left-handed knowledge and help (15) ______an end to leftie discrimination once and for all.
(13) 
A.collaborate             
B.collaboration           
C.collaborating           
D.collaborated

A.1,000-year-old   
B.1,000-years-old   
C.1,000 year old       
D.1,000 years

Choose the one word or phrase  that best completes the sentence.
Rick left the party early because he .............. a headache
A.had 
B.has
C.used to have
D.was having