1. Read the passage.
Two 12-year-old girls are standing outside a mini-mart. They are wearing matching
tube tops and short skirts like Britney Spears clones. One holds a cigarette, like an
adult, where everyone can see her. She looks around to make sure other girls are
noticing her. When asked why she dresses the way she does, she says that she likes it. _____ it seems that the reason for her behavior is more complex. More
specifically, it has more to do with her ambiguous role as a pre-teen in society. A
young girl's wanna-be look is caused by personal insecurity and peer pressure.
The connector that best completes the blank space in the passage above is....
A. Therefore
B. However,
C. Because
D. Meanwhile,
E. For example,
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B. However,
2. Read the text.
Jacob hated finishing things almost as much as he loved starting them. As a
result, he had gotten into a million hobbies and activities, but he never stuck with
any of them long enough to get any good. He begged his mother for months for a
guitar so that he could play Black Eyed Peas songs to Angie, a girl he liked, but
after he finally got one for Christmas, he found out that guitars do not play
themselves. He took a few lessons, but strumming the strings hurt his fingers and
he did not like holding the pick, so now the five-hundred dollar guitar lives under
his bed.
After reading an ad in the back of one of his comic books, Jacob decided
that he wanted a Wonder-Sweeper 5000 metal detector, so that he could find
buried pirate treasure. So he mowed lawns all summer and did not spend his
money on ice-cream like his younger brother, Alex. He saved it all in a shoe box in
his closet. Then he shoveled driveways all winter, and he did not spend his money
on candy and chips like his classmates. By the time spring came, he had saved
$200, and he purchased the Wonder-Sweeper 5000 metal detector. He beeped it
around the park for a while, be he soon found out that no pirates had ever set sail
in his neighborhood, and if they had they did not leave any treasure. Even though
he found a key ring, forty-seven cents, and all the bottle caps he could throw, he
buried the metal detector in his closest. It is concluded from the passage that Jacob ….
A. collected many expensive items
B. liked to do useless activities
C. was a lazy and impatient person
D. made his mother disappointed
E. could easily afford what he wanted
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C. was a lazy and impatient person
3. Read the text. Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers
first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow in the nineteenth century. By the
1930s, more than 282 million acres of farmland were damaged by erosion. After 40
years of conservation efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands
placed on the land by heavy crop production. In the years ahead, soil erosion and
the pollution problems it causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the
nation's most critical natural resource problem. From the passage we understand that soil erosion in America….
A. is worse in areas which have a lot of petroleum production
B. happens so slowly that it is hardly noticed
C. is worse than it was in the nineteenth century
D. causes humans to place new demands on the land
E. is the most critical problem that the nation faces
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D. causes humans to place new demands on the land
4. Which of the following is the most appropriate sentence containing a passive
construction?
A. Mistakes were made said by most politicians.
B. The rat was supposed to be placed into a T-shaped maze.
C. I have a feeling that a secret may be it is kept.
D. The president was to be sworn in on a cold January morning.
E. Your bicycle would have kept here if you had left it with me.
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B. The rat was supposed to be placed into a T-shaped maze.
5. A teacher should know how extrovert students learn in the classroom. The
following activities can make them more comfortable in learning EXCEPT.…
A. working on worksheet independently
B. presenting materials in front of the class
C. answering questions verbally
D. xxxx solving problems with others xxxxx
E. discussing a topic in groups
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A. working on worksheet independently
6. Read the text.
It was _____ in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a
backing wind brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it
was now only a little after two o'clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter
evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist. It would be
dark by four. The air was clammy cold, and for all the tightly closed windows it
penetrated the interior of the coach.
Which option best completes the blank space in the passage?
A. a cold grey day
B. a small parade day
C. one warmer night
D. a snowy night
E. an interesting one
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A. a cold grey day
7. Read the passage below.
The first colonists did not, as many people imagine, find an entire continent
covered by a climax forest. Even along the Atlantic seaboard, the forest was
broken at many points. Nevertheless, all sorts of fine trees abounded, and
through the early colonial period, those who pushed westward encountered newforests. By the end of the colonial era, the price of wood had risen slightly in
eastern cities, but wood was still extremely abundant.
The availability of wood brought advantages that have seldom been
appreciated. Wood was a foundation of the economy. Houses and all manner of
buildings were made of wood to a degree unknown in Britain. Secondly, wood was
used as fuel for heating and cooking. Thirdly, it was used as the source of
important industrial compounds, such as potash, an industrial alkali; charcoal, a
component of gunpowder; and tannic acid, used for tanning leather. What can be said about the use of wood for the colonies?
A. The colonies used wood for important industrial components.
B. The colonies used wood for cooking and heating.
C. The colonies sold wood for source of income.
D. The colonies used wood for creating gun powder.
E. The colonies used wood for the foundation of economy.
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B. The colonies used wood for cooking and heating.
8. Read the text.
Red, White, and Green Grilled Cheese
What you need:
1 tsp garlic, minced (about ½ clove) 1 small onion, minced (about ½ cup), 2 C
frozen cut spinach, thawed and drained (or substitute 2 bags (10 oz each) fresh leaf
spinach, rinsed), ¼ tsp ground black pepper, 8 slices whole-wheat bread, 1 medium
tomato, rinsed, cut into 4 slices, 1 C shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese, and
Nonstick cooking spray.
How to do:
1. Preheat oven to 400 ºF. Place a large baking sheet in the oven to preheat for
about 10 minutes.
2. Heat garlic with cooking spray in a medium sauté pan over medium heat. Cook
until soft, but not browned. Add onions, and continue to cook until the onions are
soft, but not browned. 3. Add spinach, and toss gently. Cook until the spinach is heated throughout. Season
with pepper, and set aside to cool. 4. When the spinach and onions are cool, assemble each sandwich with one slice of
bread on the bottom, one tomato slice, ½ cup of spinach mixture, ¼ cup of cheese,
and a second slice of bread on the top. 5. Spray the preheated nonstick baking sheet with cooking spray. Place the
sandwiches on the baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes, or until the bottom of each
sandwich is browned.
6. Carefully flip sandwiches, and bake for an additional 5 minutes, or until both sides
are browned. Serve immediately. The word “browned” mentioned in the passage refers to the following cooking
verb.…
A. (pre) heat, cook, and bake
B. assemble, heat, and mix
C. bake, flip, and slice
D. cook, bake and spray
E. (pre) heat, add, and place
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B. assemble, heat, and mix
9. Which of the following sentences contain the correct use of a relative pronoun?
A. The car whose I was driving needs wheel alignment
B. Jack, that is my friend, is a good boy.
C. He lent me a mattress on that I slept soundly
D. The house whom I purchased from was haunted.
E. Spaghetti, which many of us enjoy, can be messy
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E. Spaghetti, which many of us enjoy, can be messy
10. The graph shows that the number of boys attending the convention equals to …. A. 356
B. 358
C. 51%
D. 716
E. 49%
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E. 49%
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