Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from that of the others.




A.intelligent
B.overwhelming
C.imaginable
D.intangible

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
Certainly no creature in the sea is odder than the common sea cucumber. All living creature, especially human beings, have their peculiarities, but everything about the little sea cucumber seems unusual. What else can be said about a bizarre animal that, among other eccentricities, eats mud, feeds almost continuously day and night but can live without eating for long periods, and can be poisonous but is considered supremely edible by gourmets?
For some fifty million years, despite all its eccentricities, the sea cucumber has subsisted on its diet of mud. It is adaptable enough to live attached to rocks by its tube feet, under rocks in shallow water, or on the surface of mud flats. Common in cool water on both Atlantic and Pacific shores, it has the ability to such up mud or sand and digest whatever nutrients are present.
Sea cucumbers come in a variety of colors, ranging from black to reddish-brown to sand-color and nearly white. One form even has vivid purple tentacle. Usually the creatures are cucumber-shaped-hence their name-and because they are typically rock inhabitants, this shape, combine with flexibility, enables them to squeeze into crevices where they are safe from predators and ocean currents.
Although they have voracious appetites, eating day and night, sea cucumbers have the capacity to become quiescent and live at a low metabolic rate-feeding sparingly or not at all for long periods, so that the marine organisms that provide their food have a chance to multiply. If it were not for this faculty, they would devour all the food available in a short time and would probably starve themselves out of existence.
But the most spectacular thing about the sea cucumber is the way it defends itself. Its major enemies are fish and crabs, when attacked, it squirts all its internal organs into the water. It also casts off attached structures such as tentacles. The sea cucumber will eviscerate and regenerate itself if it is attached or even touched; it will do the same if the surrounding water temperature is too high or if the water becomes too polluted.
The word “bizarre” is closest meaning to




A.rare
B.simple
C.marine
D.odd

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.
Pitchforks were once carved entirely from wood, but today the have steel tines and wooden handle.




A.in the meantime
B.in one area
C.formerly
D.sometimes

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.
It is believed (A) that in the near future (B) robots will be used to doing (C) things such as (D) cooking.




A.is believed
B.in the near future
C.be used to doing
D.such as

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.
A man is talking to Alex when he is on holiday in Paris,
The man: “You haven’t lived here long, have you?”
Alex: “__________.”




A.Yes, I have just moved here
B.No, only three months
C.Yes, just a few days
D.No, I live here for a long time

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
There ______ a number of reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire




A.are said being
B.are said to have been
C.said to be
D.was said being

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I suggest the room ______ before Christmas.




A.should decorate
B.is decorated
C.were decorated
D.be decorated

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.




A.critical
B.solution
C.perform
D.reaction

“Shall we leave now?”
“______ ’




A.OK, let’s not.
B.Have you got time?
C.Near the station.
D.I’d like to stay.

Choose the word / phrase that best fits each blank.
Bricks ________ from many different types of clay.




A.were making
B.can be made
C.are to make
D.can make