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
The development of genetically modified (GM) plants and animals had led to a huge global controversy. Opponents say that GM “Franken foods” are a threat to our well-being, and proponents say that the risks are minimal. There is one aspect of the war over GM that is often overlooked. Anyone who wears a cotton shirt these days is using a GM crop. Cotton is the only major non-food GM crop at present, but others are coming.
GM cotton plants that is not food has not stopped the most passionate GM opponents from objecting. If GM cotton is grown in a field next to fields of non-GM cotton, they argue, then how to keep genes from being transferred from field to field. This danger, however, is not as compelling to the public as possible health hazards in food, so there is no great fury over GM cotton.
GM cotton seeds produce higher yields, and they do without the need for pesticides. Planting of GM cotton has increased five fold since 1997; three-quarter of cotton in America, and over half in China, is now GM. Farmers like it because it increases their profits.
Other options for non-food GM include new variety of flowers with different colors or scents, tougher grasses for lawns, and plants designed to soak up pollutants from the soil. The paper industry provides another example of potential for GM to help produce better and cheaper products. Paper is made from pulp, and pulp is generally made from trees. Researchers in New Zealand and Chile have been working on insect-resistant pines, and a Japanese firm has combined carrot genes with tree genes to make them grow better in poor soil.
Another interesting case is that of tobacco. It is not food crop, but it is consumed, and GM tobacco plants with both more and less nicotine have been created. The tobacco plant, however, is an ideal target for GM, since its genetics are very well understood and it produces a lot of leaves. The value of the drugs that could be produced by GM tobacco is so high, many farmers could switch from growing tobacco for cigarettes to growing it for medicine. Since medical cost is rising, consumers would also be happy to use drugs produced in bulk by GM tobacco.
It can be inferred from the passage that GM tobacco




A.can have lower or higher levels of nicotine.
B.produces drugs that are very expensive.
C.makes cigarettes harmless to smokers.
D.is already in the market.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions




A.emergency
B.corruption
C.fashionable
D.detergent

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
After several injuries and failures, things have eventually ______ for Todd when he reached the final round of the tournament.




A.looked up
B.gone on
C.taken up
D.turned on

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
If only I_______play the guitar as well as you!




A.would
B.should
C.could
D.might

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Could you lend me some money to me over to the end of the month?




A.hand
B.tide
C.get
D.make

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The bombardment from the sea and air ______ large parts of the city.




A.liquidated
B.drowned
C.abolished
D.demolished

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Only three of the students in my class are girls;________ are all boys.




A.the others
B.others
C.other students
D.the other

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
- “Do you want to join us for a cup of coffee after work?”
- “_____ _____________.”





A.Sounds good, but I can do it myself.
B.Sorry, but I have to finish my presentation for tomorrow.
C.No problem. What’s wrong with the coffee?
D.Thanks. You can make it.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
______ you feel thirsty, please help yourself to the drinks over there.




A.Should
B.Because
C.Would
D.Do

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.
My sisters used to get on with each other. Now they hardly speak.




A.My sisters rarely speak because they have never liked each other.
B.Because they have never got on, my sisters do not speak to each other.
C.My sisters were once close, but they rarely speak to each other now.
D.My sisters do not speak to each other much, but they are good friends.