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5. Myrna will not talk to him ________ he apologizes for what he did.
7. The principal spoke ________ she knew what she was talking about, but she didn't.
11. The teacher together with the students ______ time to relax.
14. Between you and me, I think Pamela danced __________ than Joanna.
18. Anthony has an incredible voice; _________, he will go far in her music career. A. A. otherwise
B. UNDOUBTEDLY C. similarly D. however
19. As the famous saying goes, there’s no use ______ over spilt milk.
For item 21 – 23: Read the selection and answer the question.
The habitat for the American alligator has steadily declined every year in the past decade.
It is important for pet owners in the Florida swamps to keep their animals inside in the evening in order
to keep them protected.
A. It gives an example.
B. It states an effect.
C. It makes a contrast.
The amount of time a person sits during the day is associated with a higher risk of heart disease,
diabetes, cancer, and death, regardless of regular exercise, according to a recent study. More than one
half of an average person's day is spent being sedentary—sitting, watching television, or working at a
computer. Avoiding sedentary time and getting regular exercise are both important for improving your
health and survival.
22. Which of the following is implied by the passage?
A. Regular exercise will help counteract the negative effects of being sedentary.
B. Physical activity alone may not be enough to reduce the risk for disease.
Sea turtles migrate across thousands of miles of ocean before returning to nest on the same stretch of
coastline where they hatched, but how they do this has mystified scientists for more than fifty years. Sea
turtles likely go to great lengths to find the places where they began life because successful nesting
requires a combination of environmental features that are rare: soft sand, the right temperature, few
predators, and an easily accessible beach.
B. cannot lay their eggs on any beach other than the one on which they hatched.
For Item 24 – 26: Read the paragraph below and answer the questions.
The long reign of Elizabeth, who became known as the "Virgin Queen" for her reluctance to endanger
her authority through marriage, coincided with the flowering of the English Renaissance, associated with
such renowned authors as William Shakespeare. By her death in 1603, England had become a major
world power in every respect, and Queen Elizabeth I passed into history as one of England's greatest
monarchs.
24. The writer believes Queen Elizabeth I did not marry because
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth. Its
outermost planet orbits in the 'Goldilocks' zone—a region where surface temperatures could be
moderate enough for liquid water, and perhaps life, to exist. The star ranks among the top 10 nearest
stars known to have transiting planets.
For item 29 – 31: Read the poem below and answer the questions.
Flying at Night
Ted Kooser, 1939
his.
D. a group of lights
34. Which cost is greater than legal fees but less than licenses?
35. If arranged from highest to lowest, what percentage is the third highest?
B. The production cost has the highest percentage because the salaries of employees are high.
C. Combined, the cost of insurance and legal is more than the cost of license.
37. More than 50 persons answered M&M as their favorite candy. What age group do they belong?
D. More than 25 persons in the 6-10 age answered M&M as their favorite candy.
For item 40 - 44 : Read the announcement below and answer the questions.
On Saturday, December 12th, from 10 A.M. until 4 P.M., Carverton Middle School will be holding a music
festival in the school gymnasium. The special event will feature a variety of professional musicians and
singers.
Task
Time
Date
Make posters
1 P.M.–4 P.M.
December 5th
Set up gym
11 A.M.–4 P.M.
December 11th
Help performers
9 A.M.–4 P.M.
December 12th
Welcome guests
10 A.M.–2 P.M.
December 12th
Clean up gym
4 P.M.–7 P.M.
December 12th
Interested students should speak with Ms. Braxton, the music teacher. Students who would like to help
at the festival must have written permission from a parent or guardian.
42. What job will be done the day before the festival begins?
For item 45: Read the selection below and answer the question.
At the time Paine wrote "Common Sense," most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved
Britons. Paine fundamentally changed the tenor of colonists' argument with the crown when he wrote
the following: "Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the
asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither they have
fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far
true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their
descendants still."
For item 46 - 48: Read the selection below and answer the questions.
Victor Hugo, the son of one of Napoleon's officers, decided while still a teenager to become a writer.
Although he studied law, he also founded a literary review to which he and other emerging writers
published their work. In 1822, Hugo married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher, and published his
first volume of poetry, which won him a pension from Louis XVIII. In 1823, Hugo published his first novel,
Han d'Islande. His 1827 play, Cromwell, embraced the tenets of Romanticism, which he laid out in the
play's preface. The following year, despite a contract to begin work on a novel called Notre Dame de
Paris, he set to work on two plays. The first, Marion de Lorme (1829), was censored for its candid
portrayal of a courtesan. The second, Hernani, became the subject for a bitter and protracted debate
between French Classicists and Romantics.
In 1831, he finally finished Notre Dame de Paris. In addition to promoting a Romantic aesthetic that
would tolerate the imperfect and the grotesque, the book also had a simpler agenda: to increase
appreciation of old Gothic structures, which had become the object of vandalism and neglect. Hugo's
writing spanned more than six decades, and he was given a national funeral and buried in the Pantheon
after his death in 1885.
For item 49 - 50: Read the selection below and answer the questions.
A new study suggests that thick crustal plugs and weakened mineral grains may explain a range of
relatively speedy moves among tectonic plates around the world, from Hawaii to East Timor.
Traditionally, scientists believed that all tectonic plates were pulled by subducting slabs—which resulted
from the colder, top boundary layer of the Earth's rocky surface becoming heavy and sinking slowly into
the deeper mantle. Yet that process does not account for sudden plate shifts. Such abrupt movement
requires that slabs detach from their plates, but doing this quickly is difficult since the slabs should be
too cold and stiff to detach.
According to the study, there are additional factors at work. Thick crust from continents or oceanic
plateau is swept into the subduction zone, plugging it up and prompting the slab to break off. The
detachment process is then accelerated when mineral grains in the necking slab start to shrink, causing
the slab to weaken rapidly. The result is tectonic plates that abruptly shift horizontally, or continents
suddenly bobbing up.