Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 41 to 45.

It can be shown in facts and figures that cycling is the cheapest, most convenient, and most environmentally desirable form of transport (41)______ towns, but such cold calculations do not mean much on a frosty winter morning. The real appeal of cycling is that it is so (42)______. It has none of the difficulties and tensions of other ways of travelling so you are more cheerful after a ride, even through the rush hour.

The first thing a non-cyclist says to you is: "But isn't it (43)______ dangerous?" It would be foolish to deny the danger of sharing the road with motor vehicles and it must be admitted that there are an alarming (44)______ of accidents involving cyclists. However, although police records (45)______ that the car driver is often to blame, the answer lies with the cyclist. It is possible to ride in such a way as to reduce risks to a minimum.

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks from 46 to 50.

There are several things to remember if you are applying for a new job. Most companies (46)______ their vacancies in the newspapers, and there are normally a lot of applicants for each post. (47)______, a good letter of application is very important. You should enclose with it your curriculum vitae so that the employer knows about your (48)______ and experience. If you are applying (49)______ a large company, address your letter to the personnel manager, who deals with appointing new staff. If you are invited to an interview, make (50)______ you are suitably dressed and on time. You may ask about promotion prospects as well as further training, the salary and holiday arrangements.

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Read the following passage taken from Microsoft Encarta and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks from 43 to 47.

WHY DO ANIMALS GO EXTINCT?

Different kinds of animals have appeared and disappeared throughout Earth’s history. Some animals go extinct because the climate (43)______ they live changes. The climate may become wetter or drier. It may become warmer or cooler. If the animals cannot change, or adapt, to the new climate, they die.

Some animals go extinct because they cannot (44)______ with other animals for food. Some animals go extinct because they are killed by enemies. New kinds of animals are always evolving. Evolving means that the animals are changing (45)______ from generation to generation. Small differences between parents, children, and grandchildren slowly add up over many, many generations. Eventually, a different kind of animal evolves.

Sometimes many of the animals on Earth go extinct at the (46)______ time. Scientists call this a mass extinction. Scientists think there (47)______ at least five mass extinctions in Earth’s history. The last mass extinction happened about 65 million years ago. This mass extinction killed off the dinosaurs.

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.

A large family of mice lived in Farmer Jack's barn. (51)________was plenty to eat (grain and corn) and room to play in the fields. The mice could have lived very happily and comfortably (52)_________for one thing. Farmer Jack had a cat. Many cats are (53)___________to sleep all day and not bother with such trivial things as a family of mice. But not this cat. He was keenly (54)__________in mice and would love to make one or two his meal. The mice lived in fear. Each knew that at any (55)_______the cat might pounce on one of them. The eldest mouse called a council meeting. Each mouse was to offer ideas on (56)________the cat problem. The mice were silent (57)________they pondered how they could outwit their enemy. At (58)________, one spoke up. He explained that the problem was that the cat could sneak up on them. (59)__________they put a bell on his neck, they would hear him coming and be able to escape. Everyone cheered at the idea, excepit the eldest mouse. He wrinIcled his nose and sighed. The others looked at him puzzled. "Yes," he said slowly, "belling the cat is a good idea. But there's just one problem. (60)_______of you is going to do it?" All the mice. lowered their heads, realizing that many things are easier said than done.

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Read the following passage adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks from 31 to 35.

The Red Cross is an international humanitarian agency with national affiliates in almost every country in the world. The Red Cross movement began with the founding of the International Committee for the Relief of (31)______ Wounded in 1863 (now the International Committee of the Red Cross); it was (32)______ to care for victims of battle (33)______ wartime, but later national Red Cross societies were created to aid in the prevention and relief of human suffering generally.

Its peacetime activities include first aid, accident prevention, water (34)______, training of nurses' aids, maintenance of maternal and child welfare centers and medical clinics, blood banks, and numerous (35)______ services. The Red Cross is the name used in countries under nominally Christian sponsorship; the Red Crescent (adopted on the insistence of the Ottoman Empire in 1906) is the name used in Muslim countries.

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.

A thousand years ago (51)________ lived two Chinese brothers. One was very wealthy but miserly. The other was poor but generous. The wealthy brother, whose name was Kim, (52)_________all of his time figuring out how Ito increase his wealth. The poor brother, (53)___________name was Cho, shared with his neighbors what little he had.

By and by came a time when it rained for many days. The rice in Cho's little paddy would not grow, for it was at the bottom of the hill. Kim, who raised silkworms, was not (54)_______. Cho climbed the hill to ask his brother for help. Kim had many silkworms, whose thread he sold at a large profit. Kim did not want to give his brother (55)________valuable, but only to appear to be helping him. Kim gave Cho a box of worms (56)________he thought were near dead. Cho thanked him and took them home.

Cho fed the worms (57)_________with mulberry leaves and they grew fat and healthy. Soon Cho had silk to sell. When Kim heard of this, he became enraged at his brother's good fortune. One night he sneaked down the hill and cut all Cho's worms in half. Instead of dying, each of Cho's worms regenerated, so he had twice as (58)________as before. Upon hearing this. Kim became more enraged. He went out into his own collection and cut all his (59)_________ worms in half. But, Kim's worms died and he lost his fortune. Cho never knew what his brother had done or why. He just took him into his modest home and cared for Kim for the (60)_________of his life. 

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Read the following passage adapted from the Encyclopedia Britannica 2010 and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 46 to 50.

A person who tosses a can or a napkin on the ground is contributing to land pollution. This (46)______ of pollution mainly involves the depositing on land of solid wastes that cannot be broken down quickly or, in some cases, at all. Heaps of trash are not only unpleasant to look at - they can (47)______ interfere with the lives of plants and animals.

Land pollution also includes the build-up of (48)______ chemicals on land. The use of pesticides in farming is a major source of this type of pollution. These chemicals are spread over fields to kill insects, weeds, fungi, or rodents that are a threat to crops. But pesticides harm or (49)______ other living things too. When they drift with the wind or become absorbed (50)______ fruits and vegetables, they can become a source of health problems such as cancer and birth defects.

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.

On a cold winter day in 1938, a concerned social worker walked anxiously to the door of a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. (51)_______a case of possible child abuse, 3 the social worker soon discovered a five-year-old girl hidden in a second-floor storage room. The child, (52)______name was Anna, was wedged into an old chair with her arms tied above her head (53)_______she could not move. She was wearing filthy garments, and her arms and legs were as thin (54)__________matchsticks.

Anna's situation can only be described as tragic. She was born in 1932 (55)________an unmarried mentally impaired woman of twenty-six who lived with her father. Enraged by his daughter's "illegitimate" motherhood, the grandfather did not even want the child in his home. Anna, therefore, (56)_________the early months of her life in the custody of various welfare agencies. But her mother was unable to pay for this care, so Anna returned to the home (57)________she was not wanted. Because of her grandfather's hostility and her mother's indifference, Anna lived alone in a room where she received little attention and just enough milk to keep her (58)_______. There she stayed—day after day, month after month, with virtually no human contact—for five years.

 Upon learning of the discovery of Anna, sociologist Kingsley Davis traveled immediately to see the child. He found her in a county home, (59)_________   local authorities had taken her. Davis was appalled by the sight or the emace child, who could not laugh, speak, or even smile. Anna was completely (60)_______, as if alone in an empty world. 

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I’m afraid that we don’t have any _____ sizes in stock, madam.

The manager did not offer her the job because of her untidy_______ . 

____________ amount of money can buy true friendship.

He was unable to______ his niece’s wedding as he was ill.

You will have to_____ your holiday if you are too ill to travel.

Leave it in the oven until it ________ brown.

I can’t possibly lend you any more money; it is quite out of the _____ .