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.
“What I’ve got to say to you now is strictly off the record and most certainly not for publication,” said the government staff to the reporter.  
A.beside the point
B.not popular
C.not recorded
D.not yet official

Read the passage and mark A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
In the early 1800’s, over 80 percent of the United States labor force was engaged in agriculture. Sophisticated technology and machinery were virtually nonexistent. People who lived in the cities and were not directly involved in trade often participated in small cottage industries making handcrafted goods. Others cured meats, silversmiths, candle or otherwise produced needed goods and commodities. Blacksmiths, silversmiths, candle makers, and other artisans worked in their homes or barns, relying on help of family.
Perhaps no single phenomenon brought more widespread and lasting change to the United States society than the rise of industrialization. Industrial growth hinged on several economic factors. First, industry requires an abundance of natural resources, especially coal, iron ore, water, petroleum, and timber-all readily available on the North American continent. Second, factories demand a large labor supply. Between the 1870’s and the First World War (1914-1918), approximately 23 million immigrants streamed to the United States, settled in cities, and went to work in factories and mines. They also helped build the vast network of canals and railroads that crisscrossed the continent and linked important trade centers essential to industrial growth.
Factories also offered a reprieve from the backbreaking work and financial unpredictability associated with farming. Many adults, poor and disillusioned with farm life, were lured to the cities by promises of steady employment, regular paychecks, increased access to goods and services, and expanded social opportunities. Others were pushed there when new technologies made their labor cheap or expendable; inventions such as steel plows and mechanized harvesters allowed one farmhand to perform work that previously had required several, thus making farming capital-intensive rather than labor-intensive.
The United States economy underwent a massive transition and the nature of work was permanently altered. Whereas cottage industries relied on a few highly skilled craft workers who slowly and carefully converted raw materials into finished products from start to finish, factories relied on specialization. While factory work was less creative and more monotonous, it was also more efficient and allowed mass production of goods at less expense.
What is the main idea of paragraph 3?

A.What American factories offered their farmer
B.What led American farmers to leaving their farms
C.How much capital was needed in American factories
D. How the American work force benefited from new techologies

Choose the sentences that isclosest in meaning to each of the following questions.
I really believe my letter came as a great surprise to John.
A.John might be very surprised to receive my letter.
B.John might have been very surprised to receive my letter.
C.John must be very surprised to receive my letter.
D.John must have been very surprised to receive my letter.

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.expand  
B.migrate                    
C.effect                      
D.double

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.
My mother always get up early to prepare breakfast for everyone in the family.
        
A.get 
B.to prepare 
C.everyone 
D.family

________(07)
A.followed   
B.taken
C.put   
D.made

They’ve just taken on 200 people, _________the number that was taken on last year. 
A.twice bigger as 
B.twice as many as 
C.as twice as
D.bigger two times than

The computer's memory is the place where a great number of information is stored.
A.computer's
B.where
C.a great number
D.is stored

If you .........forty cigarettes a day, you would cough a lot.
A.smoke
B.smoked
C.would smoke
D.smoking

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.
The twin girls are so identical that I can't distinguish one from the other.
A.different                  
B.similar                     
C.alike                        
D.changeable