Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
A.farming
B.instead
C.decided
D.enclose

Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence or subtitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
The recent heavy rains have helped to ease the water .................
A.supply
B.poverty
C.plenty
D.shortage

Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence or subtitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the ............
A.village
B.community
C.town
D.country

Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence or subtitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
They tried to find a way of bettering their lives.
A.moving
B.changing
C.achieving
D.improving

Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence or subtitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
I don't like quizzes because my general ...............is so poor.
A.appearance
B.memory
C.knowledge
D.thinking

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.
Educated in the UK (A), his qualifications are (B) widely recognized (C) in the world of professionals.(D)
A.the UK
B.his qualifications are
C.recognized
D.world of professionals

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.
Mike graduated with a good degree. However, he joined the ranks of the unemployed.
A.Mike joined the ranks of the unemployed because he graduated with a good degree.
B.If Mike graduated with a good degree, he would join the ranks of the unemployed.
C.Although Mike graduated with a good degree, he joined the ranks of the unemployed.
D.That Mike graduated with a good degree helped him join the ranks of the unemployed.

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 36 to 42.
Writing is arguably the most important invention in human history. The opportunity for human knowledge to build on other knowledge is severely limited without the medium of writing. Not only does writing allow a permanence to human thought but also a complexity and scope to human expression that seem barely possible without it.
The earliest known artifacts that could be considered writing by the loosest definition are the famous and extraordinarily beautiful 20,000-year-old "cave paintings" in southern France and northern Spain. The pictures, mostly of animals but with some human figures, possibly tell some sort of story or may merely be pictures with expressive, magical, or religious purpose. Other assorted pictures have been found antedating the rise of the great civilizations of the Near East, but the earliest artifacts that are clearly writing date from about only 5,500 years ago inMesopotamia.
The earliest system of writing is usually attributed to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia during the end of the fourth millennium b.c. There, officials of such Sumerian city-states as Uruk had developed a system of recording numerals, pictographs, and ideographs on specially prepared clay surfaces.
Although the clay blanks used by the Uruk scribes are universally referred to as tablets, a word with the connotation of flatness, they are actually convex. Individual characters were inscribed in the clay by means of a stylus made of wood, bone, or ivory, with one end blunt and the other pointed. The characters were basically of two kinds. Numerical signs were impressed into the clay; all other signs, pictographs, and ideographs alike, were incised with the pointed end of the stylus. The repertory of characters used by the Uruk scribes was large; it is estimated at no fewer than 1,500 separate signs.
According to the passage, how were pictographs recorded?
A.They were cut into the clay.
B.They were painted onto the surface.
C.They were pressed into the clay.
D.They were brushed onto the surface.

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.
The sooner we solve this problem, the better it will be for all concerned.
A.If we could solve this problem soon, it would be better for all concerned.
B.It would be better for all concerned if we can solve this problem soon.
C.If all concerned are better, we can solve this problem soon.
D.If we can solve this problem soon, it will be better for all concerned.

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 36 to 42.
Writing is arguably the most important invention in human history. The opportunity for human knowledge to build on other knowledge is severely limited without the medium of writing. Not only does writing allow a permanence to human thought but also a complexity and scope to human expression that seem barely possible without it.
The earliest known artifacts that could be considered writing by the loosest definition are the famous and extraordinarily beautiful 20,000-year-old "cave paintings" in southern France and northern Spain. The pictures, mostly of animals but with some human figures, possibly tell some sort of story or may merely be pictures with expressive, magical, or religious purpose. Other assorted pictures have been found antedating the rise of the great civilizations of the Near East, but the earliest artifacts that are clearly writing date from about only 5,500 years ago inMesopotamia.
The earliest system of writing is usually attributed to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia during the end of the fourth millennium b.c. There, officials of such Sumerian city-states as Uruk had developed a system of recording numerals, pictographs, and ideographs on specially prepared clay surfaces.
Although the clay blanks used by the Uruk scribes are universally referred to as tablets, a word with the connotation of flatness, they are actually convex. Individual characters were inscribed in the clay by means of a stylus made of wood, bone, or ivory, with one end blunt and the other pointed. The characters were basically of two kinds. Numerical signs were impressed into the clay; all other signs, pictographs, and ideographs alike, were incised with the pointed end of the stylus. The repertory of characters used by the Uruk scribes was large; it is estimated at no fewer than 1,500 separate signs.
Which of the following terms does NOT refer to something on which early writing was inscribed?
A.Clay surfaces
B.Characters
C.Clay blanks
D.Tablets