III. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
If the score is tied at the end of regulation play, two _______ periods of three minutes each are played.
A.half
B.halftime
C.quarter
D.overtime

III. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
Most referees often wears _______ black.
A.in
B.for
C.with
D.on

III. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
In water polo game, only the goalie can hold the ball _______ two hands.
A.at
B.in
C.with
D.from

III. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
I _______ think that scuba diving is more of danger than adventure.
A.person
B.personal
C.personally
D.personalize

III. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
The main task of a defender in a sport game is to _______ the opponents from scoring.
A.prevent
B.preventing
C.prevention
D.preventable

II. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.
A.overtime
B.decision
C.period
D.penalize

II. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.
A.water
B.football
C.begin
D.meter

I. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
A.style
B.penalty
C.pretty
D.typical

I. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
A.swimming
B.post
C.decision
D.score

Exercise 10. Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks from 46 to 50.
University researchers have taken samples from a preserved dodo specimen in an (46) _____ to uncover the extinct bird’s family tree. They worked with the British Natural History Museum to collect and study genetic material from large number of specimens: a preserved dodo, the extinct solitaire bird, and 35 kind of living pigeons and doves. Their analysis (47) _____ the doo and the solitaire to be close relatives with the Nicobar pigeon, their nearest living relative. The dodo lived on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It was a flightless bird, bigger than a turkey. By 1681, all dodos had been (48) _____ by hungry sailors. The solitaire, which looked a bit like a dodo, had gone the same way by 1800. By extracting short pieces of the dodo’s DNA and (49) _____ these with the DNA of living birds, the scientists were able to deduce when the dodo evolved away from its relatives into a separate entity. The scientists can now (50) _____ assume that the dodo developed its distinctive appearance and features as a result of its geographical isolation. They are now convinced that it separated from the solitaire about 25 million years ago, long before Mauritius became an island.
(49)
A.studying
B.comparing
C.researching
D.combining