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 from 36 to 45.
             Until recently, most American entrepreneurs were men. Discrimination against women in business, the demands of caring for families, and lack of business training had kept the number of women entrepreneurs small. Now, however, businesses owned by women account for more than $40 billion in annual revenues, and this figure is likely to continue rising throughout the 1990s. As Carolyn Doppelt Gray, an official of the Small Business Administration has noted. “The 1970s was the decade of women entering management, and the 1980s turned out to be the decade of the woman entrepreneur.”
            What are some of the factors behind this trend? For one thing, as more women earn advanced degrees in business and enter the corporate world, they are finding obstacles. Women are still excluded from most executive suites. Charlotte Taylor, a management consultant, had noted. “In the 1970s women believed if they got an MBA and worked hard they could become chairman of the board. Now they have found out that isn’t going to happen, so they go out on their own.”
            In the past, most women entrepreneurs worked in “women’s” fields – cosmetics and clothing, for example. But this is changing. Consider ASK Computer System, a $22 million a year computer software business. It was founded in 1973 by Sandra Kurtzig who was then a housewife with degrees in math and engineering. When Kurtzig founded the business, her first product was software that let weekly newspapers keep tabs on their newspaper carriers – and her office was a bedroom at home, with a shoebox under the bed to hold the company’s cash. After she succeeded with the newspaper software system, she hired several bright computer-science graduates to develop additional programs. When these were marketed and sold, ASK began to grow. It now has 200 employees, and Sandra Kurtzig owns $66.9 million of stock. Of course, many women who start their own businesses fail, just as men often do. They still face hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money; the banking and finance world is still dominated by men, an old attitudes die hard. Most businesses owned by women are still quite small.
            But the situation is changing; there are likely to be many more Sandra Kurtzig in the years ahead.
It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that businesses operated by women are small because______________
A.women can’t deal with money
B.many women fail at large businesses
C.women prefer a small intimate setting
D.women are not able to borrow money easily

When he woke up, he realized that the things he had dreamt about could not _________  have happened.  
A.possibly       
B.likely         
C.certainly 
D.potentially

Choose the best answer.
How ………….. since we ………….. college?
A.are you – left   
B.were you - left
C.have you been – have left
D.have you been – left

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 41 to 55.
It was _________ disease that very few people survived.
     
A.so terrible
B.a such terrible 
C.such terrible  
D.so terrible a

__________ (6)
A.have been knowed
B.have been known
C.has been known
D.has been knowed

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.injure          
B.building      
C.letter           
D.hotel

_____(11)
A.important
B.importantly                        
C.importance               
D.more important

Use the given words to make meaningful sentences.
It / be / such / cold day / we / decide / not / go out.
A.It was such a cold day that we decided not to go out.
B.It was such a cold day we decided not to go out.
C.It was such a cold day that we decided not going out.
D.It was such a cold day that we have decided not to go out.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Despite having a bigger and cheaper choice of healthy foods, many Americans have lost a lot of weight.
A.acquire          
B.win               
C.gained           
D.obtain

______hot day it is today!
A.How
B.What
C.What a
D.Such