Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in each sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
We should responsible for the ____ humans are doing to the environment.




A.destroy
B.destructive
C.destruction
D.destructibility

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
All applications to courses at tertiary institutions are made through UCAS, a central agency _______ UK universities and colleges of higher education.




A.standing for
B.instead of
C.on behalf of
D.representative of

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.
Did she get the better of you in the argument?




A.try to beat
B.gain a disadvantage over
C.gain an advantage over
D.try to be better than

Sometimes it isn't easy being a best friend.




A.isn't
B.being
C.a
D.no mistake

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Solar energy is not widely used _______ it is friendly to the environment




A.since
B.although
C.despite
D.because

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.
Drone racing is an exciting new sport, that has become popular faster than (1)______ other sport before it. Pilots steer small and lightweight, but high-powered drones along courses with obstacles. They fly through gates and around flags at speeds of over a hundred miles an hour.
They control the drones using VR-like headgear. Every drone has a camera (2)______ to it so that spectators can also view flights either on a big screen or with special headgear.
The races take place either outdoors - in big stadiums, or indoors in old warehouses and sports arenas. (3)______ are short because the battery time of drones is limited.
(4)______ drone racing started only a few years ago there are already international competitions that take place all over the world. In professional leagues, drone pilots compete for thousands of dollars. In March, the World Drone Prix was staged in Dubai. A 16-year old British teenager not only one the race but also received a prize money of 250 000 dollars.
Television and other media have become aware of drone racing. ESPN, an Amercian sports channel, will be broadcasting international drone races starting this August. Races are also recorded and uploaded to YouTube and other video platforms (5)______ they can be viewed over and over again.
(2)______




A.linked
B.attached
C.taken
D.connected

The children couldn’t agree________




A.when you drive a car.
B.working all the time.
C.about which game to play next.
D.shouting in the distance.

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.
They stayed for hours, which tired us.




A.We are tiring from their staying for hours.
B.That they stayed for hours made us tired.
C.Staying for hours with us made them feel tired.
D.We are tired so they stayed for hours.

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.
I’m sure it wasn’t Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway.




A.It couldn’t be Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway.
B.It can’t have been Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway.
C.It mustn’t have been Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway.
D.It mightn’t be Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway.

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 39 to 45.
Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies' responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies' emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
According to the author, why do babies listen to songs and stories, even though they cannot understand them?




A.They understand the rhythm.
B.They enjoy the sound.
C.They can remember them easily.
D.They focus on the meaning of their parents’ words.