Read the following passage and mart the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 39.
Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours. There are two very different types of flatfish and they have evolved in very separate ways. The skates and rays, relatives of the sharks have become flat in what might be called the obvious way. Their bodies have grown out sideways to form great “wings” They look as though they have been flattened but have remained symmetrical and “the right way up”. Conversely fish such as plaice, sole, and halibut have become flat in a different way. There are bony fish which have a marked tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction; they are much “taller” than they are wide. They use their whole vertically flattened bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate through the water as they move. Therefore when their ancestors migrated to the seabed, they lay on one side than on their bellies. However, this raises the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless - In evolution this problem was solved by the lower eye “moving” around the other side. We see this process of moving around enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish. It starts life swimming near the surface, and is symmetrical and vertically flattened, but then the skull starts to grow in a strange asymmetrical twisted fashion, so that one eye for instance the left, moves over the top of the head upwards, an old Picasso - like vision. Incidentally, some species of 20 flatfish settle on the right side, others on the left, and others on either side.
The word “this” refer to _______.
A.the migration of the ancestors       
B.the difficulty of the only one eye being useful
C.the problem of the one eye looking downwards
D.the practice of lying on one side

After convincing myself that the result didn't matter, I felt oddly _______ when we lost.
A.encouraged             
B.stimulated               
C.disadvantaged         
D.disappointed

I would be very rich now ________ working long ago.
A.if I gave up
B.if I wouldn’t give up   
C.were I to give up           
D.had I not given up

_______(45)
A.refers
B.concerns
C.turns
D.comes

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D

A.high
B.home
C.hour
D.horn

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.
All of the courses I have taken, this one is the hardest but most interesting.
A.All of the courses I have taken are easier than and as interesting as this one.
B.All of the courses I have taken are tougher and more fascinating than this.
C.No other course I have taken was harder nor less fascinating than this.
D.No other course I have taken was as tough nor as fascinating as this one.

It is stated in paragraph 1 that a cultured person ____
A.has a job related to cultivation
B.takes care of the soil and what grows on it
C.has knowledge of arts. literature, and music
D.does a job relevant to education

_____(3)
A.Consequently
B.Comparatively
C.Alternatively
D.Alternatively

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group

A.places                 
B.houses
C.bosses   
D.offices

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
I left the office. There was a power cut just then.
A.I left the office after there was a power cut.
B.Hardly I had left the office when there was a power cut.
C.No sooner had I left the office than there was a power cut.
D.I left the office long before there was a power cut.