Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.  
You will make the interview process easier for the employer if you prepare relevant information about yourself. Think about how you want to present your (25) ____, experiences, education, work style, skills, and goals. Be prepared to supplement all your answers with examples that support the statements you make.      
            It is also a good idea to review your resume with a critical eye and identify areas that an employer might see as limitations or want further information. Think about how you can answer difficult questions (26) ____ and positively, while keeping each answer brief. An interview gives the employer a (27) _____ to get to know you. While you do want to market yourself to the employer, answer each question with an honest response.
Never say anything negative about past experiences, employers, or courses and professors. Always think of something positive about an experience and talk about that. You should also be (28) ____. If you are genuinely interested in the job, let the interviewer know that.
One of the best ways to show you are keen on a job is to demonstrate that you have researched the organization prior to the interview. You can also (29) ____ interest by asking questions about the job, the organization, and its services and products. 
(26) 
A.accurately   
B.hardly         
C.rightly         
D.sharply

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.  
You will make the interview process easier for the employer if you prepare relevant information about yourself. Think about how you want to present your (25) ____, experiences, education, work style, skills, and goals. Be prepared to supplement all your answers with examples that support the statements you make.      
            It is also a good idea to review your resume with a critical eye and identify areas that an employer might see as limitations or want further information. Think about how you can answer difficult questions (26) ____ and positively, while keeping each answer brief. An interview gives the employer a (27) _____ to get to know you. While you do want to market yourself to the employer, answer each question with an honest response.
Never say anything negative about past experiences, employers, or courses and professors. Always think of something positive about an experience and talk about that. You should also be (28) ____. If you are genuinely interested in the job, let the interviewer know that.
One of the best ways to show you are keen on a job is to demonstrate that you have researched the organization prior to the interview. You can also (29) ____ interest by asking questions about the job, the organization, and its services and products. 
(29) 
A.show           
B.appear         
C.conceal       
D.cover

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Her eyes are red and puffy ______ she has been crying a lot.
A.although                        
B.since                         
C.because of     
D.despite

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Nobody agreed with the decision to cancel the match yesterday, ..................?
A.did he             
B.didn't they 
C.did they     
D. didn't he

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSET underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
The student service centre will try their best to assist students in finding a suitable part-time job.
A.allow
B.make
C.help
D.employ

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.
The old man is working in this factory. I borrowed his bicycle yesterday.
A.The old man is working in this factory which I borrowed his bicycle yesterday.
B.The old man who is working in this factory I borrowed his bicycle yesterday.
C.The old man whose bicycle I borrowed yesterday is working in this factory.
D.The old man whom I borrowed his bicycle yesterday is working in this factory.

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.
On the fourth Thursday in November, in houses around the United States, families get together for a feast, or a large meal. Almost all families eat turkey and cranberry sauce for this meal, and have pumpkin pie for dessert. This feast is part of a very special day, the holiday of Thanksgiving. In 1620 the Pilgrims made a difficult trip across the ocean from England. They landed in what is now Massachusetts. In England the Pilgrims had not been allowed to freely practice their religion. So they went to the New World in search of religious freedom. The Pilgrims' first winter was very hard. Almost half the group died of cold, hunger and disease. But the Indians of Massachusetts taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, to hunt and to fish. When the next fall came, the Pilgrims had plenty of food. They were thankful to God and the Indians and had a feast to give thanks. They invited the Indians to join them. This was the first Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving became a national holiday many years later because of the effort of a woman named Sarah Hale. For forty years Sarah Hale wrote to each president and asked for a holiday of Thanksgiving. At last she was successful. In 1863 President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday. How much is Thanksgiving today like the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving? In many ways they are different. For example, historians think that the Pilgrims ate deer, not turkey. The idea of Thanksgiving, though, is very much the same: Thanksgiving is a day on which we celebrate and give thanks.
                                  (Adapted from http:www.Amrican heritage.co.us)
The Pilgrims immigrated to the New World because ............
A.they wanted to have more land to cultivate    
B.they wanted to make a difficult trip
C.they wanted to search for religious freedom   
D.they wanted to be taught how to plant corn

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 following questions.
Women still cover their heads in some countries. They did so in the past.
A. Women still cover their heads in some countries as they did in the past.
B.Women still cover their heads in some countries as they did so in the past.
C.Women cover their heads in some countries similar to what they did so in the past.
D.In the past, women covered their heads but they do so today in some countries.

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.
The (A) hotel where we stayed in it (B) for (C) a week was (D) very comfortable.
A.The 
B.in it
C.for
D.was

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 35 to 42.
The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today's Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst's rival New York paper, the Morning Journal.
Both were immensely popular, and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the "Yellow Kid," the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The "Yellow Kid" was in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech ballon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters' heads.
The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks's "Katzenjammer Kids," based on Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The "Kids" strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of earlier comics.
Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. The first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-white comic strip had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country.
Why does the author mention Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Heart?
A.They established New York's first newspaper.
B.They published comic strips about the newspaper war.
C.Their comic strips are still published today.
D.They owned major competitive newspapers.