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 30 to 34.
In addition to providing energy, fats have several other functions in the body. The fat soluble vitamins, A, D, E and K, are dissolved in fats, as their name implies. Good sources of these vitamins have high oil or fat content, and the vitamins are stored in the body's fatty tissues. In the diet, fats cause food to remain longer in the stomach, this increasing the feeling of fullness for some time after a meal is eaten. Fats add variety, taste, and texture to foods, which accounts for the popularity of fried foods. Fatty deposits in the body have an insulating and protective value. The curves of the human female body are due mostly to strategically located fat deposits.
Whether a certain amount of fat in the diet is essential to human health is not definitely known. When rats are fed a fat-free diet, their growth eventually ceases, their skin becomes inflamed and scaly, and their reproductive systems are damaged. Two fatty acids, linoleic and arachidonic acids, prevent these abnormalities and hence are called essential fatty acids. They also are required by a number of other animals but their roles in human beings are debatable. Most nutritionists consider linoleic fatty acid an essential nutrient for humans.
Linoleic fatty acid is mentioned in the passage as
A.an essential nutrient for humans 
B.more useful than arachidonic acid
C.preventing weight gain in rats  
D.a nutrient found in most food

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.
It started to rain at 2 o’clock and it is still raining.
A.It has been raining at 2 o’clock.    
B.It has been raining since 2 o’clock.
C. It has been raining for 2 o’clock.  
D.It has been raining in 2 o’clock.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
                        I see Tom and Jerry, I always feel interested because the cartoon is so exciting. 
A.Whatever frequency
B.No matter what times
C.However many
D.No matter how many times

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