Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Since the time of Nostradamus, meteorologists have been trying to decipher the mystery of climatic changes. Their objective has been to be able to precisely (15)______ the weather for the days to come. In the past, meteorologists looked skywards to find hints in the clouds. At present, their eyes are directed at the spots (16)______the most intriguing climatic transformations (17)______about, namely, the ultimate depths of the oceans where swirls, whirlpools and waves generate the patterns for the future weather.
The most efficient way of (18)_____ hold of the ever changing map of the swirling currents circulating their heat around the planet is from space. Weather satellites equipped (19)_____ complicated instruments examine the surface and the bottom of the oceans and determine the exact height of water. The impressive advantage offered by satellite scanning is that measurements can be (20)_____ even in the most inaccessible parts of the oceans and can provide daily pictures of the water surface together with the calculated wave height and wind speed.
(15)______
A.unravel         
B.perceive
C.forecast  
D.explore

(37)
A.whom                     
B.which                      
C.who                                    
D.where

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.valentine
B.discipline
C.determine
D.imagine

Choose the sentence that has the same meaning with the original sentence.
It’s time we left for the disco.
A.We may leave for the disco now.                
B.We needn’t leave for the disco now.
C.We should leave for the disco now.     
D.We must have left for the disco now.

Choose the best answer.
It is only ____ far from here.
A. a mile walk
B.a mile’s walk 
C.a walk’s mile      
D.a walk mile

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
A golden handshake may have a _______ effect when one is dealt with the blow of redundancy.
A.pillowing                        
B.carpeting                     
C.cushioning                   
D.curtaining

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Jack has a collection of ________ .
A.old valuable Japanese postage stamps      
B.old Japanese valuable postage stamps
C.valuable Japanese old postage stamps    
D.valuable old Japanese postage stamps

The 2014 world cup will be held ________________ Brazil.
A.at
B.of
C.on
D.in

Read the text about oil spill and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 56 to 65.
On an ecologist’s list of nightmares, this (56)_______ looked like an easy member of the top five. An Ecuadorian fuel tanker, the Jessica, ran aground in the Galapagos Archipelago and slowly spilled its (57)_______ of 240.000 gal of fuel oil into the surrounding ocean. The disaster threatened to choke a unique and delicate (58)_______, the islands whose giant tortoises and 15 related species of finch inspired Charles Darwin’s “the origin of Species” in 1859.
he emergency began when the captain of the Jessica, a 30 year old boat, (59)_______ a buoy for a lighthouse and ran aground off the shore of San Cristobal Island. The ship’s cargo was 65% diesel oil (60)_______ for Baltra Island and 35% bunker fuel, a heavier form of oil used by tour boats. Rescue teams from Ecuadorian navy and the state-owned fuel company began (61)_______ fuel from the damaged vessel, but after three days of battering by waves up to 2 meters in (62)_______, the Jessica began leaking oil into the sea and would (63)_______ pour out over 180,000 gallons.
One week later, the government declared a state of (64)_______ in the Galapagos archipelago, setting (65)_______ an initial $2 million for cleanup operation.
(62)_______
A.length       
B.range       
C.height  
D.strength

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The latest medical report (A) indicated that the patient’s temperature was near normal (B) and their (C) lungs were partially (D) cleared.
A.partially  
B.near normal 
C.their  
D.latest medical report