Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
There’s a lot______violent crime in this area than there used to be.
A.fewer
B.least
C.less
D.fewest

_________(45)
A.grammar
B.word
C.vocabulary
D.structure

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
A.derived
B.required
C.blamed
D.coughed

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.stagnant
B.tableland
C.survive
D.swallow

________(41)
A.reason
B.tests
C.ways
D.rules

_______( 10)
A.that
B.and
C.so
D.together

_______(9)
A.make
B.create
C.bulit
D.bulding

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.
The first two decades of this century were dominated by the microbe hunters. These hunters had tracked down one after another of the microbes responsible for the most dreaded scourges of many centuries: tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria. But there remained some terrible diseases for which no microbe could be incriminated: scurvy, pellagra, rickets, beriberi. Then it was discovered that these diseases were caused by the lack of vitamins, a trace substance in the diet. The diseases could be prevented or cured by consuming foods that contained the vitamins. And so in the decades of the 1920's and 1930's, nutrition became a science and the vitamin hunters replaced the microbe hunters.
In the 1940's and 1950's, biochemists strived to learn why each of the vitamins was essential for health. They discovered that key enzymes in metabolism depend on one or another of the vitamins as coenzymes to perform the chemistry that provides cells with energy for growth and function. Now, these enzyme hunters occupied center stage.
You are aware that the enzyme hunters have been replaced by a new breed of hunters who are tracking genes - the blueprints for each of the enzymes - and are discovering the defective genes that cause inherited diseases - diabetes, cystic fibrosis. These gene hunters, or genetic engineers, use recombinant DNA technology to identify and clone genes and introduce them into bacterial cells and plants to create factories for the massive production of hormones and vaccines for medicine and for better crops for agriculture. Biotechnology has become a multibilliondollar industry.
In view of the inexorable progress in science, we can expect that the gene hunters will be replaced in the spotlight. When and by whom? Which kind of hunter will dominate the scene in the last decade of our waning century and in the early decades of the next? I wonder whether the hunters who will occupy the spotlight will be neurobiologists who apply the techniques of the enzyme and gene hunters to the funtions of the brain. What to call them? The head hunters. I will return to them later.
The author implies that the most important medical research topic of the future will be
A.the functions of the brain
B.inherited diseases
C.the operation of vitamins
D.the structure of genes

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence which has the same meaning as the original one.
We couldn’t have managed our business successfully without my father’s money.
A.Had it not been for my father’s money, we couldn’t have managed our business successfully.
B.We could have managed our business successfully with my father’s money.
C.If we could manage our business successfully, my father would give us his money.
D.If we couldn’t have managed our business successfully, we would have had my father’s money.

Mark the letter A, B, c or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence which best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
I owed Bill a favor. I agreed to help him.
A.lf I hadn’t owed Bill a favor, I would have agreed to help him.
B.It was only because I owed Bill a favor that I agreed to help him.
C.Although I owed Bill a favor, I agreed to help him.
D.I only agreed to help Bill because I owed him some money.