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.respond            
B.threaten                  
C.translate                  
D.assist

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The                     high levels of pollution in the coastal areas are a matter of great concern to the government.
A.redundantly              
B.intensively               
C.marginally               
D.excessively

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
You should visit Bath. It’s __________ place.
A.an interesting historical   
B.a historicial interesting 
C.a historicial and interesting        
D.an interesting and historicial

“I have an idea. Let’s go on a picnic on Saturday." "_______"
A.You’re kidding
B.Okay.
C.I‘m sure
D.I know.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Today, some students tend to _______ the importance of soft skills as they solely focus on academic subjects at school.
A.overlook
B.urge
C.emphasize
D.implement

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 following questions
One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the schools. In the 1920's, but especially in the Depression conditions of the 1930's, the United States experienced a declining birth rate – every thousand women aged fifteen to forty-four gave birth to about 118 live children in 1920, 89.2 in 1930, 75.8 in 1936, and 80 in 1940. With the growing prosperity brought on by the Second WorldWar and the economic boom that followed it, young people married and established households earlier and began to raise larger families than had their predecessors during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. Although economics was probably the most important determinant, it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed on the idea of the family also helps to explain this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming into the first grade by the mid-1940's and became a flood by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself “overtaxed”. While the number of schoolchildren rose because of wartime and postwar conditions, these same conditions made the schools even less prepared to cope with the flood. The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945. Moreover, during the war and in the boom times that followed large numbers of teachers left their profession for better-paying jobs elsewhere in the economy.
Therefore, in the 1950's and 1960's, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the "custodial rhetoric" of the 1930's and early 1940's no longer made sense; that is, keeping youths aged sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high priority for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children aged five to sixteen. With the baby boom, the focus of educators and of laymen interested in education inevitably turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and discipline. The system no longer had much interest in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.
The word "inevitably" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to____.
A.unavoidably 
B.impartially    
C.irrationally 
D.unwillingly

Choose the sentence that best rewrites the one given.
They say that warm sea surface temperatures help intensify tropical storms.
A.It was said that warm sea surface temperatures help intensify tropical storms.
B.It is said to help intensify tropical storms by warm sea surface temperatures.
C. Warm sea surface temperatures are said to help intensify tropical storms.
D.Warm sea surface temperatures is said to have helped intensify tropical storms.

Exercise 2. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 6 to 10.
Since the time of Nostradamus, meteorologists have been trying to decipher the mystery of climatic changes. Their objective has been to be able to precisely (6)______ the weather for the days to come. In the past, meteorologists looked skywards to find hints in the clouds. At present, their eyes are directed at the spots (7)______the most intriguing climatic transformations come about, namely, the ultimate depths of the oceans where swirls, whirlpools and waves generate the patterns for the future weather.
The most efficient way of (8)_____ hold of the ever changing map of the swirling currents circulating their heat around the planet is from space. Weather satellites equipped (9)_____complicated instruments examine the surface and the bottom of the oceans and determine the exact height of water. The impressive advantage offered by satellite scanning is that measurements can be (10)_____even in the most inaccessible parts of the oceans and can provide daily pictures of the water surface together with the calculated wave height and wind speed.
(10) 
A.done                                   
B.formed                    
C.fulfilled                   
D.taken

________(79) 
A.order
B.pattern 
C. arrangement 
D.line

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Fishing in the reservoir is ______ prohibited.
A.sorely                      
B.strictly                     
C.largely                    
D.highly