Read the following passage and choose the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the blanks.
The warming of the Earth is caused by exhaust gas from automobile engines, factories and power (A) _____ . Carbon dioxide goes up into the atmosphere, and it forms a kind of screen that keeps or allows the sunshine in but stops the Earth heat (B) _____ getting out. It works like a greenhouse, that's why we call (C) _____ the Green House effect.
Because of this effect, the Earth is getting warmer all the time. This (D) _____ in temperature will cause big changes to the world's climate. The sea level will increase as the ice (E) _____ the poles will melt.
(A)_____
(B)_____
(C)_____
(D)_____
(E)______
Choose the word(s) which is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
It was relatively easy for him to learn baseball because he had been a cricket player.
Choose the word(s) that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part.
You have to be on your toes if you want to beat her.
Choose the word(s) which is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
I'm sorry to say that it seems you've been shirking your responsibilities.
Choose the word(s) which is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
She gave an impeccable reading of the sonata and had the audience on their feet.
Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.
accurate
account
accept
accuse
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
talks
takes
decides
completes
Choose the word which differs from the other three in the position of primary stress.
Choose the word which differs from the other three in the position of primary stress.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
It is a good idea to be careful in buying or purchasing magazines from salespersons who may come to your door.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
In that age of computers, it is difficult to imagine how tedious work of accountants and clerks must have been in the past.
Choose the correct answer.
Since he failed his exam, he had to ____ for it again.
Is there _____ at all I can help?
Don't worry. He'll do the job as _____ as possible.
Only when you grow up, _______ the truth.
My brother left his job last week because he did not have any _____ to travel.
John paid $2 for his meal, _____ he had thought it would cost.
It is very important for a firm or a company to keep _____ the changes in the market.
I'm sure you'll have no ______ the exam.
I _____ this letter around for days without looking at it.
Vietnam's rice export this year will decrease ______ about 10%, compared with that of last year.
I won't change my mind _____ what you say.
My car isn't _____. It's always letting me down.
- "Has an announcement been made about the eight o'clock flight to Paris?"
- "_________."
- "I can speak English well enough to apply for that post."
- "________."
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to this sentence.
I got the impression that the boys were not enjoying themselves.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to this sentence.
The children ran to the field to see the dragon, but it was no longer there.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to this sentence.
The boy became so confused and worried that he left home.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
Sue lives in a house. The house is opposite my house.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
She turned the radio on at 7.30. She was still listening to it when her mother came home at 9.00.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
Scientists do not yet thoroughly understand just how the body of an individual becomes sensitive to a substance that is harmless or even wholesome for the average person. Milk, wheat, and egg, for example, rank among the most healthful and widely used foods. Yet these foods can cause persons sensitive to them to suffer greatly. At first, the body of the individual is not harmed by coming into contact with the substance. After a varying interval of time, usually longer than a few weeks, the body becomes sensitive to it, and an allergy has begun to develop. Sometimes it's hard to figure out if you have a food allergy, since it can show up so many different ways.
Your symptoms could be caused by many other problems. You may have rashes, hives, joint pains mimicking arthritis, headaches, irritability, or depression. The most common food allergies are to milk, eggs, seafood, wheat, nuts, seeds, chocolate, oranges, and tomatoes. Many of these allergies will not develop if these foods are not fed to an infant until her or his intestines mature at around seven months. Breast milk also tends to be protective. Migraines can be set off by foods containing tyramine, phenathylamine, monosodium glutamate, or sodium nitrate. Common foods which contain these are chocolate, aged cheeses, sour cream, red wine, pickled herring, chicken livers, avocados, ripe bananas, cured meats, many Oriental and prepared foods (read the labels!).
Some people have been successful in treating their migraines with supplements of B-vitamins, particularly B6 and niacin. Children who are hyperactive may benefit from eliminating food additives, especially colorings, and foods high in salicylates from their diets.
What is the topic of the passage?
According to the passage, the difficulty in diagnosing allergies to foods is due to _____.
The word "symptoms" is closest in meaning to _____.
The phrase "set off" is closest in meaning to _____.
What can be inferred about babies from this passage?
The word "hyperactive" is closest in meaning to _____.
The author states that the reason that infants need to avoid certain foods related to allergies has to do with the infant's _____.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
This rapid transcontinental settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19th century were accompanied by the development of a national literature of great abundance and variety. New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half-century.
As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York in the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. No longer was it produced, at least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South; no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives; no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times; no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression; no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle-class women.
In sum, American literature in these years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for in 1867 in describing Leaves of Grass: it treats, he said of his own major work, each state and region as peers "and expands from them, and includes the world ...connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations."
The main idea of this passage is _____.
It can be inferred from the passage that the previous passage probably discussed _____.
The word "evolved" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _____.
The word "it" in the second paragraph refers to _____.
The word "exotic" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.
The author uses the word "indeed" in the second paragraph for what purpose?
The phrase "these years" in the third paragraph refers to _____.
It can be inferred from the passage that Walt Whitman _____.