Which of the following is the author’s main point?
A.Noise may pose a serious threat to our physical and psychological health.
B.Loud noises signal danger.
C. Hearing loss is America’s number one nonfatal health problem.
D.The ear is not like the eye.

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.attitude                 
B.partnership         
C.romantic            
D.actually

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 43 to 50.
Tropical rainforests are being destroyed and badly degraded at an unsustainable rate. Some scientists estimate that in the early 1990s tropical forests were being destroyed at a rate of approximately 28 hectares a minute, or about 14 million hectares each year – an area about the size of the state of Wisconsin. This figure marked a decrease since the 1980s, when approximately 16 million hectares were destroyed each year, largely due to a reported decline of deforestation in the Amazon River Basin in the early 1990s. However, satellite images indicate that rates may have rebounded in the late 1990s as burning in the Amazon increased again. Over the past three decades alone, about 5 million square kilometers – or 20 percent of the world's tropical forests – have been cleared. During this time, deforestation in tropical Asia reached almost 30 percent. High rates of deforestation are inevitably followed by alarming rates of plant and animal extinction because many rainforest species cannot survive outside their pristine rainforest habitat. Some scientists estimate that dozens of rainforest species are becoming extinct every day.
Causes of deforestation vary from location to location, but certain patterns tend to be consistent across all forests. Logging companies in search of valuable rainforest hardwoods, or, less often, oil companies in search of petroleum, are often the first to enter a remote area of rainforest. Some logged forests, if left alone, can regenerate in a few decades. But typically, they are not left alone – the roads built by logging companies often provide access for landless farmers to enter a new area, as well as a means to transport agricultural crops to market. For every 1 kilometer of new roads built through a forested area, 4 to 24 square kilometers are deforested and colonized.
Once the loggers leave the land, a typical cycle of destruction ensues. When the landless farmers arrive, they clear the land for planting. Poor rainforest soils produce a low crop yield, especially after a couple of years. At that point, the farmers often sell their lands to cattle ranchers or large plantation owners. After nutrients have been exhausted and soils compacted by cattle, lands are then abandoned and often laid to waste. Rainforest does not readily regenerate on these   lands
without human intervention. Meanwhile, the colonist farmers and cattle ranchers move to a new piece of land made accessible by logging roads, where the cycle of deforestation begins again.
(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)
According to paragraph 1, which of the following about the rate of rainforest destruction is TRUE?
 
A.It was greater in the early 1990s than in the 1980s.
B.It was the same in the early 1990s as in the 1980s.
C.It was greater in the 1980s than in the early 1990s.
D.It kept increasing from the 1980s to the 1990s.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Universities send letters of __________ to successful candidates by post.
A.accept
B.acceptable
C.acceptably
D.acceptance

What is the main topic of this passage? 
A.The nature of radar.     
B.History of radar.        
C.Alternatives to radar.
D. Types of ranging.

Which of the following could NOT be inferred from the passage?
A.The Triangle Shirtwaist fire influenced public opinion. 
B.The Triangle Shirtwaist factory was rebuilt.
C.After the fire, new regulations improved working conditions in factories.
D.Disasters can lead to a demand for reform.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Choosing clothes can be difficult. Some people want to be fashionable, but they don't want to look exactly __(36)__ everybody else. Not all clothes are suitable for work or school, perhaps because they are not formal enough, or simply not comfortable. It is easy to buy the __(37)__ size, and find that your trousers are too tight, especially if you are a little bit overweight. Very __(38)__ clothes make you feel slim, but when they have __(39)__ in the washing machine, then you have the same problem! If you buy light cotton clothes, then they might not be __(40)__ enough for winter. If your shoes are not waterproof, and if you aren't dressed for the cold, you might look good, but feel terrible!
(36)
A.similar         
B.same                       
C.like                         
D.alike

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question.
(71) Certainly no creature in the sea is odder than the common sea cucumber. All living creature, especially human beings, have their peculiarities, but everything about the little sea cucumber seems unusual. What else can be said about a bizarre animal that, among other eccentricities, eats mud, feeds almost continuously day and night but can live without eating for long periods, and can be poisonous but is considered supremely edible by gourmets?
For some fifty million years, despite all its eccentricities, the sea cucumber has subsisted on its diet of mud. It is adaptable enough to live attached to rocks by its tube feet, under rocks in shallow water, or on the surface of mud flats. Common in cool water on both Atlantic and Pacific shores, it has the ability to suck up mud or sand and digest whatever nutrients are present.
Sea cucumbers come in a variety of colors, ranging from black to reddish – brown to sand – color and nearly white. One form even has vivid purple tentacles. Usually the creatures are cucumber – shaped – hence their name – and because they are typically rock inhabitants, this shape, combined with flexibility, enables them to squeeze into crevices where they are safe from predators and ocean currents.(73)
Although they have voracious appetites, eating day and night, sea cucumbers have the capacity to become quiescent and live at a low metabolic rate-feeding sparingly or not at all for long periods(74) so that the marine organisms that provide their food have a chance to multiply. If it were not for this faculty, they would devour all the food available in a short time and would probably starve themselves out of existence.
(77)But the most spectacular thing about the sea cucumber is the way it defends itself. It major enemies are fish and crabs, when attacked, it squirts all its internal organs into the water. It also casts off attached structures such as tentacles. The sea cucumber will eviscerate and regenerate itself if it is attacked or even touched; it will do the same if surrounding water temperature is too high or if the water becomes too polluted.(79)
(74) The words “this faculty” in line 14 refers to the sea cucumber’s ability to
A.squeeze into crevices
B.devour all available food in a short time
C.suck up mud or sand     
D.live at a low metabolic rate

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
“Have you seen Jack? He’s the man wearing a _____bow tie.”
A.woolen lovely red    
B.lovely red woolen  
C.lovely woolen red                 
D.red lovely woolen

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He ______ to the doctor after the accident, but he continued to play instead.
A.must have gone
B.should have gone
C.couldn’t go
D.didn’t have to go