Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
She was the first woman in the Philippines. She was elected as the president of the country.
A.She was the first woman being elected as the president of the Philippines.
B.She was the first woman who is elected as the president of the Philippines.
C.She was the first woman to be elected as the president of the Philippines.
D.She was the first woman elected as the president of the Philippines.

IV. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting.
The raise in prices has caused many customers to reconsider unnecessary purchases.
A.raise
B.prices
C.many
D.consider

WRITING : Choose the best answer for the following sentences from questions 35 to 40:
I first started to play the guitar when I was sixteen.
A.I have played the guitar when I was sixteen.     
B.I have started the guitar when I was sixteen.
C.I have started the guitar since I was sixteen.   
D.I have been playing the guitar since I was sixteen.

Education can often to be considered to be the most important element to develop a country.
A.can
B.most important
C.to be considered 
D.to develop

Find out the word that has different stress pattern from the others.

A.embarrass       
B.personality
C.volunteer  
D.anniversary

VII. 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 from 25 to 29.
To better understand the effects of crying in humans, it is also important to consider the animal counterparts to human crying (in the domain of communication), as well as other animal behaviors that might serve stress-reducing functions. In all mammals and most birds, offspring react with (25)_______ calls or distress calls to being removed from the parents. There can be little doubt that this is the phylogenetic basis of the acoustical crying of human infants. This very basic form of crying is meant to undo the separation from the parents and it is not likely to have any direct soothing function. Rather, this behavior seems to be associated with a state of increased arousal and result in soothing because of the comfort and support it elicited, that is, because it has (26)_______ its inter-individual function. In animals, distress calls are mainly (27)_____ by young offspring, and they are never accompanied by the production of tears. (28)______ , candidates for the mechanisms that might contribute to reduction of distress in non-human animals (and in humans as well) can be found in displacement behaviors and stereotypes, (29)______ are proposed to serve communicative functions as well.
(28) 
A.In addition 
B.On the other hand  
C.As a consequence 
D.What is more

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.
If I had been home, everything would not have been that dramatic.
A.When I am home, everything goes right.
B.Things would not be dramatized with my presence.
C.Things were worse because I was not home.
D.Everything goes wrong when I am not at home.

A.sometimes     
B.gestures                            
C.examples                
D.glances

British/American/culture/time/see/valuable commodity.
A.British and American culture, time is seen as a valuable commodity.
B.In British and American culture, time sees as a valuable commodity.
C.In British and American culture, time is seen as a valuable commodity.
D.British and American cultures see time   as a valuable commodity.

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

A.stable                                  
B.average                   
C.population              
D.rate