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Rather than disturb the meeting, I left without saying goodbye.

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Can you imagine what life would be like if there were no telephone? You could not call (51)________your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire (52)________out in your house you could not call the fire department. If somebody was sick, you could not call a doctor.

In our daily life we need to (53)________with one another. We need do this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to (54)________they have to say to us, and when you are close (55)________them you can do this very easily. However, our voices will not travel very far even when we shout.

The man who (56)________this possible was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, born in Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a teacher of visible speech who later moved to Canada, (57)________all his spare time experimenting. (58)________enthusiastic was he in his research for a means of sending speech (59)________electricity that he left much time for his day-to-day work and at one time was (60)________ penniless.

Question 58

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.

In Britain, greetings cards are sold in chain stores and supermarkets, in newsagents’ shops, corner shops and, increasingly, in shops that specialize in the sale of cards and paper for wrapping presents in.

The most common cards are birthday and Christmas cards. Many Christmas cards are sold in aid of charity and special ‘charity card shops’ are often set up in temporary premises in the weeks before Christmas. A wide variety of birthday cards is available to cater for different ages and tastes. Some, especially ones for young children or for people celebrating a particular birthday, have the person’s age on the front. Many have comic, often risqué, messages printed on them, and cartoon-style illustrations. Others are more sober, with reproductions of famous paintings or attractive original designs. The usual greeting on a birthday card is ‘Happy Birthday’, ‘Many Happy Returns’ or ‘Best Wishes for a Happy Birthday’.

Some people also send special cards for Easter and New Year. Easter cards either portray images of spring, such as chicks, eggs, lambs, spring flowers, etc, or have a religious theme.

Cards are produced for every ‘milestone’ in a person’s life. There are special cards for an engagement, a marriage, a new home, a birth, success in an examination, retirement, a death in the family, etc. Some are ‘good luck’ or ‘congratulations’ cards. Others, for example ‘get well’ cards for people who are ill, express sympathy.

Question: What is the passage mainly about?

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Can you imagine what life would be like if there were no telephone? You could not call (51)________your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire (52)________out in your house you could not call the fire department. If somebody was sick, you could not call a doctor.

In our daily life we need to (53)________with one another. We need do this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to (54)________they have to say to us, and when you are close (55)________them you can do this very easily. However, our voices will not travel very far even when we shout.

The man who (56)________this possible was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, born in Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a teacher of visible speech who later moved to Canada, (57)________all his spare time experimenting. (58)________enthusiastic was he in his research for a means of sending speech (59)________electricity that he left much time for his day-to-day work and at one time was (60)________ penniless.

Question 60

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Nobody seemed to be interested in the news. It was greeted with a lack of________.

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"I will let you know the answer by the end of this week," Tom said to Janet.

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They expect that the government will lose the election.

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_______your advice, I was able to avoid lots of trouble on my trip abroad.

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The role of women in society has been greatly________in the last few years.

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The president refuses to accept either of the four new proposals made by the contractors.

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Very few people in the modern world obtain their food supply by hunting and gathering in the natural environment surrounding their homes. This method of harvesting from nature’s provision is the oldest known subsistence strategy and has been practiced for at least the last two million years. It was, indeed, the only way to obtain food until rudimentary farming and the domestication of wild animals were introduced about 10,000 years ago.

Because hunter-gatherers have fared poorly in comparison with their agricultural cousins, their numbers have dwindled, and they have been forced to live in marginal environments, such as deserts and arctic wastelands. In higher latitudes, the shorter growing seasons have restricted the availability of plant life. Such conditions have caused a greater dependence on hunting, and on fishing along the coasts and waterways. The abundance of vegetation in the lower latitudes of the tropics, on the other hand, has provided a greater opportunity for gathering a variety of plants. In short, the environmental differences have restricted the diet and have limited possibilities for the development of subsistence societies.

Contemporary hunter-gatherers may help us understand our prehistoric ancestors. We know from the observation of modern hunter- gatherers in both Africa and Alaska that a society based on hunting and gathering must be very mobile. While the entire community camps in a central location, a smaller party harvests the food within a reasonable distance from the camp. When the food in the area has become exhausted, the community moves on to exploit another site. We also notice seasonal migration patterns evolving for most hunter-gatherers, along with a strict division of labor between the sexes. These patterns of behavior may be similar to those practiced by mankind during the Paleolithic Period.

Question 65:According to the passage, studies of contemporary subsistence societies can provide a________.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that has its underlined part pronounced differently from the other three words in each question.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The villagers strongly recommend that a new school________immediately.

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.

Can you imagine what life would be like if there were no telephone? You could not call (51)________your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire (52)________out in your house you could not call the fire department. If somebody was sick, you could not call a doctor.

In our daily life we need to (53)________with one another. We need do this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to (54)________they have to say to us, and when you are close (55)________them you can do this very easily. However, our voices will not travel very far even when we shout.

The man who (56)________this possible was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, born in Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a teacher of visible speech who later moved to Canada, (57)________all his spare time experimenting. (58)________enthusiastic was he in his research for a means of sending speech (59)________electricity that he left much time for his day-to-day work and at one time was (60)________ penniless.

Question 59

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the one in bold.
If you don’t wake up early, you can’t catch the first bus to the city center.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.