Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) or phrase(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
He was asked to account for his presence at the scene of crime.
A.arrange
B.exchange 
C.complain   
D.explain

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Over the last few months garages _________ the price of petrol three times.
A.have gone up 
B.have put up   
C.raised 
D.have risen

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She is attending the seminar with a view to.......more qualifications.
A.acquire  
B.acquiring 
C.have acquired
D.having acquired

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Last year she earned _______ her brother.
A.twice as much as
B.twice as many as 
C.twice as more as
D.twice more than

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
If it……….their encouragement, he could have given it up.
A.hadn’t been for
B.wouldn’t have been for
C.had been for  
D.hadn’t been

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.takes   
B. laughs   
C.volumes   
D. develops

The wedding took place last Friday. Only members of the family were invited.
A.The wedding, where only members of the family were invited to, took place last Friday.
B.The wedding took place last Friday, when only members of the family were invited to.
C.The wedding, which only members of the family were invited to, took place last Friday.
D.Only members of the family are invited to the wedding which took place last Friday.

Choose the word whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others.

A.geothermal      
B.environment      
C.alternative        
D.pollutant

Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in each sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
While southern California is densely populated, ______ live in the northern part of the state.
A.a number people  
B.many people 
C.few people     
D.a few of people

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 39 to 45.
Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies' responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies' emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
The word “diverse” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______.
A.surrounding     
B.divided              
C.different          
D.stimulating