They seemed to be_____ to the criticism and just carried on as before.
A.disinterested
B.sensitive
C.uncaring
D.indifferent

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.
I have never seen such beautiful pictures before.
A.They are the most beautiful pictures that I have ever seen.
B.This is the first time I saw beautiful pictures.
C.This is the first time I have never seen beautiful pictures.
D.These picture are the most beautiful I have never seen.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
 
At the beginning of the ceremony, there was a respectable one-minute silence in remembrance of the victims of the earthquake.
A.the ceremony
B.respectable 
C.in remembrance of 
D.earthquake

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Littering doesn’t only make a place look ugly, it also puts public health at risk and can _______ wildlife.
A.endangered                         
B.dangerous
C.danger                                
D.endanger

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
When he went to Egypt, he knew ______________ no Arabic, but within 6 months he had become extremely fluent.
A.entirely                   
B.barely                      
C.scarcely                  
D.virtually

Do as directed
My friend had excellent ideas. He did a good job, too.
(join into one sentence, using not only.....but...as well )
A.My friend not only had excellent ideas but did a good job as well.
B.My friend not only excellent ideas had but did a good job as well.
C.My friend not only had excellent ideas but had a good job as well.
D.My friend not only did excellent ideas but did a good job as well.

Choose the word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
FUN AND GAMES
Do you think computer games is just for kids? Then you should think again. You might be surprised to learn that the game industry now makes more money than Hollywood. (36) ______ a family buys a new PC, all they really want to do is to play games.
It is hardly surprising that video gaming has become one of the most popular forms of entertainment today. A good game is like a good film; it will hold your (37) ______, capture your imagination and play with your emotions.
The big difference, however, is that watching a movie is a passive pastime. You have no say in how the plot (38) ______ or which characters dominate the story. With computer games, you direct the action and that is what makes them so exciting. Finding the right  game is likely to signal the beginning of a lasting love (39) ______ with the interactive world  of make-believe.
It is (40) ______ to think of gaming as something simply for children and teenagers. In fact, the biggest growth area of the market is the 25-35 age group.
(40) ______
A.immoral
B.wrong    
C.false    
D.dishonest

Choose the correct word or phrase that best completes the passage.
The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to, read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level (31) _____ for communication, or at a level that lets one understand and communicate ideas in a literate society,' so as to take (32) _______ in that society. The United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has drafted the following definition: “Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written 'materials (33) _______ with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an Individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his, or her (34) _______ and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society."
Many policy analysts consider literacy rates a crucial measure of a region's human capital. This claim is made on the (35) _______ that literate people can be trained less expensively than illiterate people, generally have a higher socio-economic (36) _______ and enjoy better health and employment prospects. Policy makers also argue that literacy increases job opportunities and access to higher education. In Kerala, India, for example, female and child mortality rates declined (37) _______ in the 1960s, when girls who were educated in the education reforms after 1948 began to raise families. Recent researchers, (38) _______, argue that correlations such as, the one listed above may have more to do with the effects of schooling rather than literacy in general. Regardless, the (39)_______ of educational systems worldwide includes a basic (40) _______ around communication through test and print, which is the foundation of most definitions of literacy.
(34) 
A.ability
B.knowledge
C.behavior
D.performance

___________(6)
A.children
B.people
C.tribe
D.generation

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 35 to 42.
        No sooner had the first intrepid male aviators safely returned to Earth than it seemed that women. too, had been smitten by an urge to fly. From mere spectators, they became willing passengers and finally pilots in their own right, plotting their skills and daring line against the hazards of the air and the skepticism of their male counterparts. In doing so they enlarged the traditional bounds of a women's world, won for their sex a new sense of competence and achievement, and contributed handsomely to the progress of aviation.
        But recognition of their abilities did not come easily. "Men do not believe us capable." the famed aviator Amelia Earhart once remarked to a friend. "Because we are women, seldom are we trusted to do an efficient job." Indeed old attitudes died hard: when Charles Lindbergh visited the Soviet Union in i938 with his wife, Anne-herself a pilot and gifted proponent of aviation - he was astonished to discover both men and women flying in the Soviet Air Force.
       Such conventional wisdom made it difficult for women to raise money for the up-to-date equipment they needed to compete on an equal basis with men. Yet they did compete, and often they triumphed finally despite the odds.
            Ruth Law, whose 590 - mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, New York, set a new nonstop distance record in 1916, exemplified the resourcefulness and grit demanded of any woman who wanted to fly. And when she addressed the Aero Club of America after completing her historic journey, her plainspoken words testified to a universal human motivation that was unaffected by gender: "My flight was done with no expectation of reward," she declared, "just purely for the love of accomplishment."
The word “addressed” can be best replaced by ________.
A.mailed                     
B.came back to      
C.spoke to       
D.consulted