Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
More and more ________ are very excited at discovering as many interesting things in the deserts as possible.
A.explores
B.explorations
C.explorers
D.exploratory

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 agree that I am narrow-minded,” said the manager.
A.The manager denied being narrow-minded.
B.The manager admitted being narrow-minded.
C.The manager refused to be narrow-minded.
D.The manager promised to be narrow-minded.

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 43.
Today’s cars are smaller, safer, cleaner and more economical than their predecessors, but the car of the future will be far more pollution-free than those on the road today. Several new types of automobile engines have already been developed that run on alternative sources of power, such as electricity, compressed natural gas, methanol, steam, hydrogen, propane.
Electricity, however, is the only zero-emission option presently available. Although electric vehicles will not be truly practical until a powerful, compact battery or another dependable source of current is available, transportation expects foresee a new assortment of electric vehicles entering everyday life: shorter-range commuter electric cars, three-wheeled neighbourhood cars, electric deliver vans, bikes, and trolleys.
As automakers work to develop practical electric vehicles, urban planners and utility engineers are focusing on infrastructure systems to support and make the best use of the new cars. Public charging facilities will need to be as common as today’s gas stations. Public parking spots on the street or in commercial lots will need to be equipped with devices that allow drivers to charge their batteries while they stop, dine, or attend a concert. To encourage the use of electric vehicles, the most convenient parking in transportation centres might be reserved for electric cars.
Planners foresee electric shuttle buses, trains and neighbourhood vehicles all meeting at transit centres that would have facilities for charging and renting. Commuters will be able to rent a variety of electric cars to suit their needs: light trucks, one-person three wheelers, small cars, or electric/gasoline hybrid cars for longer trips, which is no doubt take place on automated freeways capable of handling five times number of vehicles that can be carried by a freeway today.
The author’s purpose in the passage is to........
 
A.narrate a story about alternative energy vehicles.
B. describe the possibilities for transportation in the future.
C.support the invention of electric cars.
D.criticize conventional vehicles.

By analyzing high pressure systems, fronts, and other influences, weather forecasters can determine the direction toward which ______ to travel.  
A.a storm is expected 
B. is expected a storm
C.is a storm expected            
D.an expected storm

Error Identification.
Desert is a (A) large area of land that (B) has very little water however (C) very few plants growing (D) on it.
A.a
B.that
C.however
D.growing

Why should not you give a potted plant to an Asian?
A.As this gift is often given at weddings in Asia.
B.Because the Asian prefer to be given flowers.
C.Since this gift is believed to symbolize an astriction and limitation in Asia.
D.Because Asian students like to give an apple or flowers to others.

He/ bear/ January 13th/1 876/ San Francisco/ California/
A.He was born in January 13th , 1876 in San Francisco, California
B.He was born on January 13th, 1876 in San Francisco, California
C.He was born at January 13th, 1876 in San Francisco, California
D.He was born by January 13, 1876 in San Francisco, California

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Be sure not to rely too ______ on your mother tongue when you are learning a foreign language.
A.abundantly           
B.severely
C.numerously        
D.heavily

The thief suddenly realized that the police were watching him. watched
A.The thief suddenly realized that he was being watched by the police.
B.The thief suddenly realized that he has being watched by the police.
C.The thief suddenly realized that he were being watched by the police.
D.The thief suddenly realized that he had being watched by the police.

My neighbor looks...... my cat when I'm away.
A.in
B.at
C.for
D.after