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 31 to 35.
EARLY WRITING AND ALPHABETS
When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (31) ________ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for every word.
The Ancient Egyptians had a system of picture writing that was called hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists (32) ________ a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for (33) ________ a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand what the hieroglyphics meant.
An alphabet is quite different from picture writing. It (34) ________ of letters or symbols that represent a sound and each sound is just part of one word. The Phoenicians, who lived about 3,000 years ago, developed the modern alphabets. It was later improved by the Roman’s and this alphabet is now used (35) ________ throughout the world.
Question 31: A. notice B. convey C. appear D. mark
Question 32: A. discovered B. realized
C. delivered D. invented
Question 33: A. quite B. more C. over D. already
Question 34: A. consists B. includes C. contains D. involves
Question 35: A. broadly B. widely C. deeply D. hugely
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 31 to 35.
The current global extinction rate is (31) ________ at about 20,000 species per year, exponentially greater than the background extinction rate. Many biologists believe that we are in the middle of the greatest mass extinction episode since the (32) ________ of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
From what is known about present-day populations and from evolutionary theory, the change in either the physical (33) _________ the biological environment is the key to extinction. However, the vulnerability of a species depends on a wide variety of factors, such as its total population size, geographical (34) ________, reproductive ability, ecological relations with other species, and genetic characteristics. For example, more emphasis is put on the greater vulnerability of species that reproduce slowly as contrasted with those that reproduce (35) ________. Other factors, such as food-plant specialization, may make many fast reproducers more vulnerable than species that reproduce more slowly. No matter how fast an insect species that depends on a certain plan can reproduce; it will still go extinct if that plant's habitat is destroyed.
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Question 31: A. increased B. distributed C. estimated D. added
Question 32: A. disappearance B. remain
C. disposal D. limitation
Question 33: A. so B. and C. nor D. or
Question 34: A. opportunity B. follow
C. spread D. distribution
Question 35: A. rapidly B. cheaply C. cheerfully D. lastly
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 31 to 35.
TEENAGERS AND SPORT
It’s quite rare to meet teenagers who don’t like sports. When you are young, you know how important (31) ________ to do physical exercise if you want to be healthy and strong, and for that reason you often concentrate on just one sport with so (32) ________ enthusiasm that in the end you can’t live without it. The problem is, though, that as you grow up you have less and less spare time. At your age you have to study harder if you want to get good marks to go to university, with perhaps only one afternoon a week to do any sport. This happens just when you are at the best (33) _______ for many sports, such as gymnastics and swimming. By the time you finish all your studies you will probably be too old to be really good at sports like those, but if you spend enough time on (34) ________ while you are young, then one day you will find that you are very good at your sport but too old to study, and you will find it (35) ________ to get a good job. Somehow, it doesn’t seem fair.
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Question 31: A. this is B. you are C. it is D. things are
Question 32: A. keen B. many C. great D. much
Question 33: A. stage B. age C. period D. time
Question 34: A. training B. practice C. exercise D. sporting
Question 35: A. impractical B. unlikely
C. improbable D. impossible
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