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 42 to 48.
Today, there are 600 million cars in the world. They may seem like a lot. However, there are over 7 million people on our planet. Most of the world’s population uses public transportation to get around. The number of people using public transportation continues to rise. Subway systems worldwide carry 155 million passengers each day. That’s more than 30 times the number carried by all the world’s airplanes. Every day in Tokyo passengers take more than 40 million rides on public transportation.
Yet many people see public transportation as ‘a depressing experience’, says author Taras Gresco. They say it is slow, crowded, or too expensive. In fact, Gresco says, it is actually ‘faster, more comfortable and cheaper’ than driving a car.Like millions of people, Taras Gresco is a ‘straphanger’ – a person who rides public transportation. In his book straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, Gresco describe the benefits of public transportation. Firstly, it is better for the environment. When people use public transportation, they use less fuel. Twenty people on one bus use much less fuel than 20 people in 20 cars. Fewer cars mean less pollution and cleaner air.
Using public transportation can be good for your health in other ways. It can even help you lose weight. In one study, a group of people took public transportation every day for six months. Each day they walked to a bus stop or train station. In six months, each person lost an average of six pounds – almost three kilograms.Taking public transportation has another benefit, says Gresco. It helps people become part of their community. When you are alone in your car, you don’t talk to anyone. One Tokyo straphanger told Gresco, “To use public transport is to know how to cooperate with other people,’ It teaches you ‘how to behave in a public space’.So, public transportation is more than a way to get to work or school. It can help lead to cleaner cities. It may also lead to a healthier and more cooperative world population.
Which of the following can be the best title of the reading passage?





A.Public Transportation _ We all Benefit
B.Public transportation – to Save the Environment
C.Public Transportation – a Way to Loose Weight
D.Public transportation – Cleaner Cities

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.
He felt very tired. He was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.




A.He felt so tired that he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.
B.Feeling very tired, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.
C.Tired as he might, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.
D.As result of his tiredness, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.

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.
We found the bad weather very inconvenient. We chose to find a place for the night.




A.The bad weather prevented us from driving any further.
B.Bad weather was approaching, so we started to look for a place to stay.
C.Seeing that the bad weather had set in, we decided to find somewhere to spend the night.
D.Because the climate was so severe, we were worried about what we’d do at night.

_____(5. raise)




A.raised
B.has raised
C.is raised
D.has been raising

_________(8)




A.has come
B.comes
C.will be come
D.will come

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.
“If you don’t pay the ransom, we’ll kill your boy,” the kidnappers told us.




A.The kidnappers ordered to kill our boy if we did not pay the ransom.
B.The kidnappers pledged to kill our boy if we did not pay the ransom.
C.The kidnappers threatened to kill our boy if we did not pay the ransom.
D.The kidnappers promised to kill our boy if we did not pay the ransom.

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.
As soon as he arrived home, it started to rain.




A.Arriving home, he said that it would start to rain.
B.Hardly had it started to rain when he arrived home.
C.It started to rain and then he arrived home.
D.No sooner had he arrived home than it started to rain.

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.
If it hadn’t been for his carelessness, we would have finished the work.




A.He was careless because he hadn’t finished the work.
B.If he were careful, we would finish the work.
C.If he had been more careful, the work would have been completed.
D.Because he wasn’t careless, we didn’t finish the work.

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.
I can’t stand his talking foolishly when everybody talks about something in a serious way.




A.Everybody talks seriously when he talks foolishly.
B.I don’t mind his talking foolishly when everybody talks seriously.
C.I can’t understand what he talks when people talk foolishly.
D.I hate him talking foolishly when people talk seriously.

A.high
B.plough
C.though
D.rough





E. weigh





F. cough