Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or the phrase that is CLOSET in meaning to the underlined in each of the following questions.
His performance on the stage was not very good but ordinary.




A.medium
B.mediocre
C.moderate
D.meditate

Choose the best answer.
Have you ever read ________ "Oliver Twist", ________ interesting novel written by Charles Dickens?




A.the / the
B.Ø / an
C.Ø / Ø
D.an / the

The Red Cross is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to reducing the sufferings of wounded soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war.




A.happiness
B.worry and sadness
C.pain and sorrow
D.loss

A.reserved
B.locked
C.forced
D.touched

The role of women in society has been greatly _______in the last few years.




A.overlooked
B.overtaken
C.overcome
D.overcast

Concern for the environment is now at the_________of many governments' policies.




A.core
B.aim
C.target
D.purpose

What does the passage mainly discuss?




A.The role of leaders in social groups
B.How social groups determine who will lead them
C.How leadership differs in small and large groups
D.The problems faced by leaders

_________(66)




A.made-decision
B.decision-making
C.making decision
D.decision-made

In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth-century “great women” EXCEPT …




A.activists for women’s rights
B.politicians
C.authors
D.reformers

In the second paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?




A.They put too much emphasis on daily activities
B.They left out discussion of the influence of money on politics.
C.The sources of the information they were based on were not necessarily accurate.
D.They were printed on poor-quality paper.