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 following questions.
Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies' responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies' emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of  cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
The word "noted" is closest in meaning to______________.
A.requested                   
B.observed                    
C.theorized                     
D.disagreed

In about 140 words, write a paragraph about the importance of family in your life.

The following prompt might be helpful to you.

            - supporting us

- sharing feelings, secrets, problems …

- helping us improve our personality
A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the words whose pronunciation is different from the others in each of the following questions.

A.works
B.stops
C.washes
D.speaks

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer that best completes each unfinished sentence
This is the __________spot on which the first pilgrims landed in America.
A.historic                   
B.historical                       
C.history                  
D.historicity

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer that best completes each unfinished sentence
I saw him hiding something in a_______ bag.
A.. small plastic black
B.black small plastic
C.small black plastic
D.plastic small black

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer that best completes each unfinished sentence
Is it necessary that I _____ here tomorrow?
A.am being
B.were
C.be
D.would be

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer that best completes each unfinished sentence
When his alarm went off, he shut it off and slept for ________15 minutes
A.other  
B.other  
C.another  
D.the others

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer that best completes each unfinished sentence
The girls and flowers ______ he painted were vivid
A.whose
B.that
C.which
D.who

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer that best completes each unfinished sentence
Last year she earned _______ her brother
A.twice as much as
B.twice more than
C.. twice as many as
D.twice as more as

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer that best completes each unfinished sentence
Look! The yard is wet. It______ last night.
A.must have rained
B.couldn't have rained              
C.must rain         
D.should have rained