__________that increasing numbers of compact-disc players will be bought by consumers in the years to come.
 
A.They are anticipated 
B.In anticipation
C.Anticipating       
D.It is anticipated

This bookshop is rather small in _______with the ones we have just visited. (compare)
A.comparative
B.comparision
C.comparatist
D.comparator

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 “They” in paragraph 2 refers to _______.
A.mothers               
B.investigators          
C.babies        
D.words

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Dad, I’m afraid to __________ the matter again, but I really need to have a computer of my own that I’m preparing for my final exam.
A.come down
B.bring up
C.take out
D.get through

Part 3: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She      on her computer for more than two hours when she decided to stop for a rest.
A.has worked      
B.has been working 
C.was working    
D.had been working

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underline part is pronounced differently from that of the others.

A.primary
B.childhood
C.kindergarten
D.light

I've fallen..........  with my work, so I'm doing some extra hours.
A.up
B.behind
C.for
D.to

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Forty percent of the students _______ in favor of changing the policy.
A.is
B.are                           
C.has been          
D.was

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer in each of the following questions.
Connecticut was the fifth of the original thirteen states ______ the Constitution of the United States.
A.to ratify
B.ratify
C.ratified
D.have ratified

Bill Gates is probably the best known and most successful_______in computer software.  
A.pioneer              
B.navigator                 
C.generator                
D.volunteer