VII. Read the following passage carefully, and then select the best option A, B, C or D to complete it.
Music, artful arrangement of sounds across time. This definition is obviously very broad, but a narrower one would exclude too much. Music is part of virtually every culture on Earth, (26)                it varies widely among cultures in style and structure. Definitions of music can change dramatically over a short time, as they have across the world during the 20th century.
Can music exist without sound? Some philosophers argue that music should be defined as a kind of “mental image” and that the (27)                aspects of sound are simply by-products of this image. If you think you can have a musical experience by imagining the sound of a piece of music, then you think music can exist without sound. But most musical experiences (28)                producing or listening to physical characteristics of sound such as pitch and timbre (quality comparable to texture or color in sight).
Is the tape recorded sound of a large metal-stamping machine music? Are 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence music? Is the activity of reading a list of hundreds of (29)                unrelated objects, activities, and states of mind music? Each of these “works”, as well as many (30)                sounds (or nonsounds), has been copyrighted as a musical composition, performed, and recorded in the 20th century. One of the legacies of 20th-century music is to have blurred the definition of music as never before.
(29) 
A.seem
B.seeming
C.seemingly
D.seems

Question 31 – 35: Which of the following best restates each of the given sentences?
“Why don’t you ask the Council for help?” my neighbor said.
A.My neighbor advised me to ask the Council for help.
B.My neighbor told me not to ask the Council for help.
C.My neighbor recommends asking the Council for help.
D.My neighbor wants to know why I don’t ask the Council for help.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Each of the chemical elements have its own standard symbol.
A.of the
B.chemical
C.have
D.its own

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the questions.
After a long strike, the plant workers have some of their requirements satisfied by the manager.
A.The manager had a strike for the workers' requirements.
B.The workers stopped the manager by a strike.
C.The manager satisfied the workers' requests without a strike.
D.A long strike made the manager satisfy the workers' requests.

________ at the airport more early, he would have met his friend.
A.Then he arrived
B.Had he arrived  
C.When he arrived
D.He has arrived

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Just as you arrived, I ______ ready to go out.
A.have got 
B.was getting          
C.would get               
D.have been getting

Chinese cartoons have been useful as an important means of______.
A.educating ordinary people
B.spreading Western ideas
C.amusing people all the time
D.political propaganda in wartime

I ________ there once a long time ago and ________ back since.
A.went/have not been
B.go/am not
C.have gone/was
D.was going/had not been

The examination will be held ________ June, 2007.
A.in
B.on
C. at
D.to

What had occurred shortly after the Civil War?
A.The Wyoming Territory was admitted to the Union.
B.A women’s suffrage bill was introduced in Congress.
C.The eastern states resisted the end of the war.
D.Black people were granted the right to vote.