Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following  questions.
After having used the new technique, the factory produced ____ cars in 2014 as the year before.
A.as twice many
B.as many twice
C.twice many as 
D.twice as many

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following  questions.
There were two small rooms in the beach house, _____ served as a kitchen.
A.the smaller of which
B.the smaller of them
C.the smallest of which
D.smallest of that

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following  questions.
If I _____ you, I would give Mary a lift.
A.would be
B.am
C.had been
D.were

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following  questions.
I said that I had met her ______.
A.yesterday
B.the day 
C.the before day
D.the previous day

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following  questions.
You can _____ the meaning of the new words in the dictionary.
A.look after
B.look at  
C.look up                         
D.look for

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following  questions.
My uncle ______ a very beautiful house in town last year.
A.buy
B.bought  
C.will buy   
D.is building

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following  questions.
The girls and flowers __________ he painted were vivid.
A.that
B.who 
C.which  
D.whose

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following  questions.
__________he missed the first bus, he came ten minutes late.
     
A.Although  
B.Because  
C.However      
D.Therefore

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.
          An air pollutant is defined as a compound added directly or indirectly by humans to the atmosphere in such quantities as to affect humans, animals, vegetation, or materials adversely. Air pollution requires a very flexible definition that permits continuous change. When the first air pollution laws were established in England in the fourteenth century, air pollutants were limited to compounds that could be seen or smelled - a far cry from the extensive list of harmful substances known today. As technology has developed and knowledge of the health aspects of various chemicals has increased, the list of air pollutants has lengthened. In the future, even water vapor might be considered an air pollutant under certain conditions.
          Many of the more important air pollutants, such as sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, are found in nature. As the Earth developed, the concentration of these pollutants was altered by various chemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical cycles. These serve as an air purification scheme by allowing the compounds to move from the air to the water or soil. On a global basis, nature's output of these compounds dwarfs that resulting from human activities.
          However, human production usually occurs in a localized area, such as a city. In such a region, human output may be dominant and may temporarily overload the natural purification scheme of the cycles. The result is an increased concentration of noxious chemicals in the air. The concentrations at which the adverse effects appear will be greater than the concentrations that the pollutants would have in the absence of human activities. The actual concentration need not be large for a substance to be a pollutant; in fact, the numerical value tells us little until we know how much of an increase this represents over the concentration that would occur naturally in the area. For example, sulfur dioxide has detectable health effects at 0.08 parts per million (ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon monoxide, however, has a natural level of 0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant until its level reaches about 15 ppm.
The word "localized" in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to _________.
A.specified 
B.surrounded    
C.encircled  
D.circled.

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.
          An air pollutant is defined as a compound added directly or indirectly by humans to the atmosphere in such quantities as to affect humans, animals, vegetation, or materials adversely. Air pollution requires a very flexible definition that permits continuous change. When the first air pollution laws were established in England in the fourteenth century, air pollutants were limited to compounds that could be seen or smelled - a far cry from the extensive list of harmful substances known today. As technology has developed and knowledge of the health aspects of various chemicals has increased, the list of air pollutants has lengthened. In the future, even water vapor might be considered an air pollutant under certain conditions.
          Many of the more important air pollutants, such as sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, are found in nature. As the Earth developed, the concentration of these pollutants was altered by various chemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical cycles. These serve as an air purification scheme by allowing the compounds to move from the air to the water or soil. On a global basis, nature's output of these compounds dwarfs that resulting from human activities.
          However, human production usually occurs in a localized area, such as a city. In such a region, human output may be dominant and may temporarily overload the natural purification scheme of the cycles. The result is an increased concentration of noxious chemicals in the air. The concentrations at which the adverse effects appear will be greater than the concentrations that the pollutants would have in the absence of human activities. The actual concentration need not be large for a substance to be a pollutant; in fact, the numerical value tells us little until we know how much of an increase this represents over the concentration that would occur naturally in the area. For example, sulfur dioxide has detectable health effects at 0.08 parts per million (ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon monoxide, however, has a natural level of 0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant until its level reaches about 15 ppm.
According to the passage, the numerical value of the concentration level of a substance is only useful if _______.
        
A.it is in a localized area  
B.the other substances in the area are known
C.it can be calculated quickly 
D.the natural level is also known