During the starvation, we used to keep a _________ of dried food in the factory.
A.conserve
B.substitute
C.reserve
D.preserve

She was unable to warn her mother that she would be late because the telephone was _________ .
A.off duty
B.off work
C.out of work
D.out of order

Women have proved repeatedly that they are equal and often superior __________ men in almost every field.
A.to
B.than
C.with
D.over

For a decade, Barzilai has studied centenarians, looking for genes that contribute to longevity.
A.who are vegeetarians
B.who want to be fruitarians
C.who are extraordinary
D.who live to be 100 or older

_______ the government fall, the stock market will crash.
A.Had
B.Provided
C.In case
D.Should

A quick look would reveal that France has twice _______ computers.
A.as many televisions as
B.more televisions than
C.as many as televisions
D.many as televisions as

Read the passage and complete the sentences. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.
Once there were lots of pandas in the mountains of Western China. Today they are becoming extinct. The reason is they cannot find enough food. Pandas eat bamboo leaves. They do not like another food. The bamboo grows very slowly. It can take ten years for a bamboo to grow from a seed to a big plant. Some types of bamboo have seeds only once every 60 years. Pandas must wait many years for their food to grow. While the bamboo is growing, pandas do not have enough leaves to eat. Farmers are using more and more of the land on the mountain side to grow food for man. Therefore, the farmers cut down the bamboo. Bamboo leaves become less plentiful. Pandas cannot find enough food to eat. They starve and die. China and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are trying to save the pandas. In 1979 they began to set up special parks where pandas can live. One such park is the Wolong Reserve in Sichuan. The Wolong Reserve has the highest number of pandas in the world. Scientists come here to study the pandas’ eating and mating habits. By learning more about the pandas’ habits, scientists can save them from extinction.
What do scientists do to save pandas from extinction?
A.They study about pandas’ habits.
B.They only set up parks for them.
C.They plant bamboo trees and set up parks for them.
D.They put them in bamboo forest.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.
The society was set up to preserve endangered species from extinction.
A.found
B.established
C.distinguished
D.prevented

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that needs correction.
We haven’t seen Jim since he has returned the countryside.
A.since
B.the
C.haven’t seen
D.has returned

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that needs correction.
Were Mr Morgan still head teacher, he would not permit such bad behave.
A.behave
B.Were Mr Morgan
C.would
D.such