Your HomeworkMark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.
- Selena: “Would you mind if I stayed a few more minutes?”
- Katy: “______”
- Mother: “I think you should work as a teacher of English in the future.”
- Peter: “______ . I want to go to medical school and become a surgeon.”
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
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.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
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.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 34 to 38.
Initially seen purely as centres of entertainment, zoos were often heavily criticised in society for keeping animals captive. Nowadays, however, zoos have a lot more to offer than perhaps some people realise. Good zoos have changed their focus and are now ___(34)___ to environmental problems, such as the decline in wildlife and loss of habitat. Indeed, scientists believe that a third of ___(35)___ animal and plant species on Earth risk extinction within this century.
The modern zoo, ___(36)___, has developed dramatically as a major force in conserving biodiversity worldwide. Zoos linked with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums participate in Species Survival Plan Programmes, ___(37)___ involve captive breeding, reintroduction programmes and public education to ensure the survival of many of the planet's threatened and endangered species.
Captive breeding is the process of breeding animals outside their natural environment in ___(38)___ conditions such as farms, zoos or other closed areas. It is a method used to increase the populations of endangered species, in order to prevent extinction. One of the main challenges facing captive breeding programmes, however, is maintaining genetic diversity.
Read the following and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 39 to 43.
When you flush the toilet or take a shower, the water goes down the drain. But then what happens? Does it go directly into the rivers or the sea? No. The wastewater needs special treatment to make it clean and usable again. Let’s follow the journey of wastewater.
Once wastewater goes down the drain, it enters a sewer pipe underground. The pipe takes the wastewater to a sewage treatment plant. The first step of the sewage treatment process is to remove large objects from the water. After that, the wastewater is sent to large tanks, where the solid waste sinks to the bottom. Then, the solid waste is separated from the water until only tiny bits remain.
The water is then moved to the next treatment area. Here, air is pumped into the water. The air helps bacteria eat the tiny bits of solid waste. Finally, some chemicals are added to kill the harmful bugs you can’t see.
The water is clean now and ready to be released and sent back into the water supply. It can be used for everything from watering gardens to filling swimming pools. It’s even used to make drinking water! At last, the water has returned to us once again.
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 44 to 50.
While the written word has done much to preserve history, pictures are necessary to supplement the printed page. No other section of the American frontier has been so richly endowed with a pictorial record of its past as has the area encompassed by the headwaters of the Missouri River and its tributary, the Yellowstone. For almost a century, beginning in the 1830s, artists with pencil and brush added to this record. Although paintings and drawings often provide a very valuable record, when pictures are considered from the standpoint of exactness, the work of the photographer must come first.
In the spring of 1886, a 30-year-old sodbuster who had worked briefly as a photographer back East hit upon the idea of producing an album of his fellow settlers. For the next 15 years, as the pioneer era drew to a close, Solomon Butcher crisscrossed Custer County, Nebraska, in a wagon that served as his studio. He announced his forays with notices in the local newspaper: "Farmers, have your farm photos taken for Butchery Pioneer History." The fact that Butcher was himself a farmer provided rapport with his subjects. But his genius as a photographer lay in allowing them to pose as they wished, against scenes of their own choosing. The portraits that resulted convey the dignity of pioneers in challenging circumstances, and they remain a classic record of a resolute breed.
Another pictorial account of the American frontier was left by L. Huffman, a young man of pioneer stock who arrived in the Montana Territory in 1878 to work as a post photographer. When he died in 1931, Huffman left a priceless collection of pictures of Indians in the last days of buffalo-skin tepees, the buffalo hunters in the days of the open range, the lonely life of the sheepherder, the growth of the range towns, the coming of the railroads, and the final infiltration of the "plow man."