He died _________pneumonia.

A.for                             
B.by                                  
C.in                                 
D.of

______(43)
A.danger
B.harm
C.risk
D.threat

 Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question.
 What geologists call the Basin and Range Province in the United States roughly coincides in its northern portions with the geographic province known as the Great Basin. (51)The Great Basin is hemmed in on the west by the Sierra Nevada and on the east Line by the Rocky Mountains; it has no outlet to  the sea.(52) The prevailing winds in the Great Basin are from the west. Warm, moist air from the Pacific Ocean is forced upward as it crosses the Sierra Nevada. At the higher altitudes it cools and the moisture it carries is precipitated as rain or snow on the western slopes of the mountains. That which reaches the Basin is air wrung dry of moisture(54). What little water falls there as rain or snow, mostly in the winter months, evaporates on the broad, flat desert floors. It is, therefore, an environment in which  organisms battle for survival. Along the rare watercourses, cottonwoods and willows  eke out a sparse  existence. In the upland ranges, pinion pines and junipers struggle to hold their own. (56)
But the Great Basin has not always been so arid. Many of its dry, closed depressions were once filled with water. Owens Valley, Panamint Valley, and Death Valley were once a string of interconnected lakes.(57) The two largest of the ancient lakes of the Great Basin were Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville. The Great Salt Lake is all that remains of the latter, and Pyramid Lake is one of the  last briny remnants of the former. There seem to have been several periods within the last tens of thousands of years when water accumulated in these basins. The rise and fall of the lakes were undoubtedly linked to the advances and retreats of the great ice sheets that covered much of the northern part of the North American continent during those times. Climatic changes during the Ice Ages sometimes brought cooler, wetter weather to mid latitude deserts worldwide, including those of the Great Basin(60). The broken valleys of the Great Basin provided ready receptacles for this moisture. 
According to the passage, what does the Great Basin lack? 
A.Snow 
B.Dry air
C.Winds from the west 
D.Access to the ocean

Task 2. Mark the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

A.essential                  
B.furniture                  
C.opposite                  
D.fortunate

______(42)
A.a               
B.an
C.the
D.Ø

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.
Most people can remember a phone number for up to thirty seconds. When this short amount of time elapses, however, the numbers are erased from the memory. How did the information get there in the first place? Information that makes its way to the short term memory (STM) does so via the sensory storage area. The brain has a filter which only allows stimuli that is of immediate interest to pass on to the STM, also known as the working memory.
There is much debate about the capacity and duration of the short term memory. The most accepted theory comes from George A. Miller, a cognitive psychologist who suggested that humans can remember approximately seven chunks of information. A chunk is defined as a meaningful unit of information, such as a word or name rather than just a letter or number. Modern theorists suggest that one can increase the capacity of the short term memory by chunking, or classifying similar information together. By organizing information, one can optimize the STM, and improve the chances of a memory being passed on to long term storage.
When making a conscious effort to memorize something, such as information for an exam, many people engage in "rote rehearsal". By repeating something over and over again, one is able to keep a memory alive. Unfortunately, this type of memory maintenance only succeeds if there are no interruptions. As soon as a person stops rehearsing the information, it has the tendency to disappear. When a pen and paper are not handy, people often attempt to remember a phone number by repeating it aloud. If the doorbell rings or the dog barks to come in before a person has the opportunity to make a phone call, he will likely forget the number instantly. Therefore, rote rehearsal is not an efficient way to pass information from the short term to long term memory. A better way is to practice "elaborate rehearsal". This involves assigning semantic meaning to a piece of information so that it can be filed along with other pre-existing long term memories.
Encoding information semantically also makes it more retrievable. Retrieving information can be done by recognition or recall. Humans can easily recall memories that are stored in the long term memory and used often; however, if a memory seems to be forgotten, it may eventually be retrieved by prompting. The more cues a person is given (such as pictures), the more likely a memory can be retrieved. This is why multiple choice tests are often used for subjects that require a lot of memorization.
The word “elapses” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A.appears      
B.passes    
C.continues     
D.wastes

______(3)
A.somebody
B.everybody
C.nobody           
D.anybody

A. discriminate           
B.survive                        
C.advocate                    
D.digest

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
______ electricity you use, _______ your bill will be.
A. More/higher   
B.The more / the high
C.The more/ the higher    
D.The most/ the higher

A.object
B.reject
C.insect
D.recent