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 30 to 34.
        Successful students often do the followings while studying. First, they have an overview before reading. Next, they look for important information and pay greater attention to it (which often needs jumping forward or backward to process information). They also relate important points to one another. Also, they activate and use their prior knowledge. When they realize that their understanding is not good, they do not wait to change strategies. Last, they can monitor understanding and take action to correct or “fix up” mistakes in comprehension.
        Conversely, students with low academic achievement often demonstrate ineffective study skills. They tend to assume a passive role, in learning and rely on others (e.g., teachers, parents) to monitor their studying, for example, low-achieving students often do not monitor their understanding of content; they may not be aware of the purpose of studying; and they show little evidence of looking back, or employing “fix-up” strategies to fix understanding problems. Students who struggle with learning new information seem to be unaware that they must extent effort beyond simply reading the content to understand and remember it. Children with learning disabilities do not plan and judge the quality of their studying. Their studying may be disorganized. Students with learning problems face challenges with personal organization as well. They often have difficulty keeping track of materials and assignments, following directions, and completing work on time. Unlike good studiers who employ a variety of study skills in a flexible yet purposeful manner, low-achieving students use a restricted range of study skills. They cannot explain why good study strategies are important for learning; and they tend to use the same, often ineffective study approach for all learning tasks, ignoring task content, structure or difficulty.
(Source: Adapted from Study Skills: Managing Your Learning — NUI Galway
The word “prior” in the first paragraph is closest meaning to ______?
A.important 
B.earlier
C.forward
D.good

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.
In such a costly and (25)______society and world, no one of us can live without money. We need money to fulfil our basic needs of the life such as buying food, and other many basic necessities of life which are almost impossible to buy without money. People in the society (26)______are rich and have property are looked as honourable and respectful person of the society however a poor person is seen as hatred without any good impression.
     Money increases the position of the person in the society and (27)______a good impression to him. All of us want to be rich by earning more money through good job or business in order to fulfil all the increasing demands of the modern age. (28)______, only few people get this chance of completing their dreams of being a millionaire.
      So, money is the thing of great importance all through the life. Money is required by everyone whether he/she is rich or poor and living in urban areas or rural areas. People in the urban areas are earning more money than the people living in backward or rural areas as the people of the urban areas have more (29)______to the technologies and get more opportunity because of the easy sources.
(Adapted from https://www.indiacelebrating.com)
(27)
A.gives
B.does
C.takes 
D.draws

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.
In such a costly and (25)______society and world, no one of us can live without money. We need money to fulfil our basic needs of the life such as buying food, and other many basic necessities of life which are almost impossible to buy without money. People in the society (26)______are rich and have property are looked as honourable and respectful person of the society however a poor person is seen as hatred without any good impression.
     Money increases the position of the person in the society and (27)______a good impression to him. All of us want to be rich by earning more money through good job or business in order to fulfil all the increasing demands of the modern age. (28)______, only few people get this chance of completing their dreams of being a millionaire.
      So, money is the thing of great importance all through the life. Money is required by everyone whether he/she is rich or poor and living in urban areas or rural areas. People in the urban areas are earning more money than the people living in backward or rural areas as the people of the urban areas have more (29)______to the technologies and get more opportunity because of the easy sources.
(Adapted from https://www.indiacelebrating.com)
(25)
A.competitive
B.competed
C.competition 
D.competitively

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.
A frightening number of illiterate students are graduating from college.
A.able to read and write
B.able to join intramural sport
C.inflexible 
D.unable to pass an examination in reading and writing

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
My parents are busy workers and I often _________ my younger brother after school.
A.take after 
B.take care of 
C.try out 
D.look up

You / help / find / one?
A.Should you help me to find one?
B.Do you help me to find one?
C.Can you help me to find one?
D.Have you helped me to find one?

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.
His friends supported and encouraged him. He did really well in the competition.
A.If his friends had given him support and encouragement, he could have done really well in the competition.
B.No matter how much his friends supported and encouraged him, he couldn't do well in the competition.
C.Such were his friends' support and encouragement that he couldn't do really well in the competition.
D.Had it not been for his friends' support and encouragement, he couldn't have done so well in the competition.

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

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.
Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments – the Treasury, the Patent Office and so on – which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.
The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly referred to as Foggy Bottom; that section bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago.
Two ports cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation – Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem and Portsmouth – and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
Which of the following sentences is NOT TRUE?
A.Washington was founded for the purpose of administration.
B.Congressmen did not find it necessary to have a home for themselves.
C.George Washington’s choice was a disappointment to many people.
D.District of Columbia is commonly referred to as Washington.

What does the author mean by saying that electricity is flexible?
A.It is cheap and easy to use.    
B.It is used to drive motor engines.
C.It can be adapted to various uses.    
D.It can be made with ease.