Read the following passage and mark letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
Until recently, hunting for treasure from shipwrecks was mostly fantasy; with recent technological advances, however, the search for sunken treasure has become more popular as a legitimate endeavor. This has caused a debate between those wanting to salvage the wrecks and those wanting to preserve them.
Treasure hunters are spurred on by the thought of finding caches of gold coins or other valuable objects on a sunken ship. One team of salvagers, for instance, searched the wreck of the RMS Republic, which sank outside the Boston harbor in 1900. The search party, using side-scan sonar, a device that projects sound waves across the ocean bottom and produces a profile of the sea floor, located the wreck in just two and a half days. Before the use of this new technology, such searches could take months or years. The team of divers searched the wreck for two months, finding silver tea services, crystal dinnerware, and thousands of bottles of wine, but they did not find the five and a half tons of American Gold Eagle coins they were searching for.
Preservationists focus on the historic value of a ship. They say that even if a shipwreck's treasure does not have a high monetary value, it can be an invaluable source of historic artifacts that are preserved in nearly mint condition. But once a salvage team has scoured a site, much of the archaeological value is lost. Maritime archaeologists who are preservationists worry that the success of salvagers will attract more treasure-hunting expeditions and thus threaten remaining undiscovered wrecks. Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict underwater searches and unregulated salvages. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold and million-dollar treasures, the wrecks and their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all.
From the passage, you can infer that a preservationist would be most likely to       
A.shun treasure-seeking salvagers   
B.be a diver
C.put treasures in a museum     
D.do archaeological research

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
__________ with the size of the whole Earth, the highest mountains do not seem high at all.
A.Compare them
B.If you compare   
C.When compared 
D.A comparison

"If only I’d learnt to drive," said Roger.
A.Roger thinks there are too many drivers on the roads.
B.Roger is glad he learnt to drive.
C.Roger wishes he could drive.
D.Roger is sorry he hadn’t learnt to drive.

What is the main topic of the passage?
A.Charles Darwin, the father of biology  
B.Ecuador and its wonderland
C.Wildlife in the Galapagos Islands 
D.The Galapagos, a place to protect

Alex failed his English exam, but his teacher is going to give him ________chance to pass it.        
A.another    
B.the other   
C.the others     
D. other

Choose A, B, C, or D that best completes the sentence.
____ is a mystery. I wish that I could ask him.
A.How did it         
B.What he did it  
C.How he did it    
D.When did it

Question 31 – 35: Which of the following best restates each of the given sentences?
The mistake in the accounts was not noticed until the figures were re-checked.
A.It was not until the mistake in the accounts was noticed that the figures were re-checked.
B.Once re-checking the figures, the mistake in the accounts noticed.
C.The mistake in the accounts only came to light when the figures were re-checked.
D.When the figures were re-checked they came to light the mistake in the accounts.

Spain has won the championship, ______ is not surprising.
A.which
B.that
C.what
D.how

The phrase “a burst”  is closest in meaning in which of the following?
A.an attachment   
B.a discharge  
C. a stream 
D.a ray

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks.
More than two hundred years ago, the term “environmental pollution” was quite strange to people. They lived healthily, drank (39)_____ water and breathed fresh air. In those days, industry was not well-developed. Nowadays, the situation is quite different. The world today is faced with many (40)_____ threats. People all over the world are (41)______ about things that are happening to the environment. Actually, it is man (42)______ is destroying the surroundings with many kinds of wastes from the devices that makes human live more comfortable and convenient. Everybody knows that motorbikes and cars emit dangerous gases that cause poisonous air and cancer, but no one wants to travel on foot or by bicycle. Manufactures know that wastes from factories make water and soil polluted, but they do not want to spend a lot of their money on (43)_____ the wastes safely. Scattering rubbish is bad for our health, but no one wants to spend time burying it. Is it worth talking a lot about pollution?
(40)
A.chief
B.significant
C.major
D.main