A.receptionist
B.establishment
C.application
D.encouragement

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 35 to 42.
Biological diversity has become widely recognized as a critical conservation issue only in the past two decades. The rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which are the ecosystems with the highest known species diversity on Earth, has awakened people to the importance and fragility of biological diversity. The high rate of species extinctions in these environments is jolting, but it is important to recognize the significance of biological diversity in all ecosystems. As the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of Earth’s ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems and in fringe marine ecosystems (such as wetlands), the most common problem is habitat destruction. In most situations, the result is irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the course of evolution.
Certainly, there have been periods in Earth’s history when mass extinctions have occurred. The extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by some physical event, either climatic or cosmic. There have also been less dramatic extinctions, as when natural competition between species reached an extreme conclusion. Only 0.01 percent of the species that have lived on Earth have survived to the present, and it was largely chance that determined which species survived and which died out.
However, nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world and demolishing the environment. In fact, there is wide agreement that it is the rate of change humans are inflicting, even more than the changes themselves, that will lead to biological devastation. Life on Earth has continually been in flux as slow physical and chemical changes have occurred on Earth, but life needs time to adapt-time for migration and genetic adaptation within existing species and time for the proliferation of new genetic material and new species that may be able to survive in new environments.
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The word "they" in paragraph 1 refers to _______ .




A.species
B.centuries
C.activities
D.humans

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.
Linda and Mary are talking about helping the disadvantaged people.
- Linda: "I think we should give care and comfort to the orphan."
- Mary: “__________”




A.OK. No problem.
B.The same to you.
C.Yes, that's a good idea.
D.Thank you.

Mark the letter A, B, C, er on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning te the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
My uncle, who is an accomplished guitarist, taught me how to play.




A.unskilled
B.ill-educated
C.unimpaired
D.unqualified

A.cities
B.countries
C.babies
D.flies

A.customer
B.truck
C.include
D.custard

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
As John _________ enjoyed doing research, he never could imagine himself pursuing other careers.




A.extremely
B.utterly
C.thoroughly
D.totally

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He looks for any excuse he can to blow off his _________ to do housework.




A.commitment
B.obligation
C.assignment
D.responsibility

The forest fire was so big. The local firemen could not stop it. (The forest fire was too )




A.The forest fire was too big to the local firemen to stop.
B.The forest fire was too big for the local firemen stopping.
C.The forest fire was too big for the local firemen to stop.
D.The forest fire was too big in the local firemen to stop.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
she got the salary last week, she has complained that she is out of money.




A.Unless
B.Even though
C.In case
D.As