Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

A.please              
B.decrease     
C.speech   
D. realistic

A.student
B.statue     
C.situation
D.actually

Electric magnets are used in steel works to ___. 
A.lift heavy weights up to ten tons
B.test the steel for strength 
C.heat the molten steel 
D.boil a jug of water

With their compound eyes (A), dragonflies can see move insects (B) approximately (C) 18 feet (D) away.
A.compound eyes
B.move insects
C.approximately
D.feet

- Peter: “ How lovely your cats are!”        - Linda: “ ____________.”
A.Really? They are  
B.Can you say it again
C.I love them, too   
D.Thank you, it is nice of you to say so

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete sentences.
There’s a pack of............... vegetables in the freezer, I think.
A.freezing
B.frozen
C.iced
D.icy

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
It will be fine tomorrow. But if it should rain tomorrow, the match will be postponed.
A.turned off
B.put off
C.sold off
D.taken off

III. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ , follow the signs for ‘Arrivals' unless you are transferring to another plane at the same airport.
A.On arrival at the airport  
B.When arrive at the airport    
C.That you arrive at the airport   
D.To arrive at the airport

 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. 
Why does the author mention Owens Valley, Panamint Valley, and Death Valley in the second paragraph? 
A.To explain their geographical formation 
B.To give examples of depressions that once contained water 
C.To compare the characteristics of the valleys with the characteristics of the lakes 
D.To explain what the Great Basin is like today

Task 1. Mark the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.

A.walks                      
B.begins                     
C.helps                       
D.cuts