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

It’s__________a box for me to lift by myself so I think I need some help with this.

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.

            I’m 18 years old and have never played on a sports team before, so I never received lessons or training of any kind. I wish my parents had signed me up for soccer when I was younger because I discovered that I wanted to play sports. I just have no skills. There is a soccer team at my high school, but I definitely won’t make it. Most people on the team have probably been playing for years. I feel like I missed my chance and that I’ll never be as good as them. Is it too late for  me to learn to play from scratch? I just  figure that by the time I become “good”, I’ll be too old anyway. I tried teaching myself in the past, but it seemed too unorganized and I didn’t know what I was doing. Is there some places that teaches people of any age how to play soccer?

Why does the writer write this passage?

Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer to questions.

           Most birds build nests in which they lay their eggs, but the emperor penguin has no need of them. This bird lives in Antarctica and must endure (21)__________weather than anywhere else in the world. In order to(22)__________that its eggs are not harmed and that its chicks may hatch from them, the emperor penguin takes care of its eggs on a unique manner. An emperor penguin female lays a single egg. Once she lays the egg, the male penguin takes it and puts it (23)__________. There, the egg (24)__________by a layer of stomach fat that the penguin rests above the egg. Since emperor penguins lay their eggs right as winter begins in Antarctica, it is vital that the eggs remain protected from the elements. Therefore, for the next two months, the males incubate the eggs until the chicks finally hatch. During this entire (25)__________, the males look after the eggs while hardly even moving.

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 the following questions.

“I’m working in London now,” Nam said.

She hasn’t visited her hometown for two years.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

Youngsters nowadays often pay much attention to physical attractive.

                     A           B                        C                            D

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

The boss doesn’t criticize other people like that. Why does he have to run her_______all the time?

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 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.

His doctor__________him to eat less and do more exercise.

What can be inferred from the passage about the writer?

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the original sentence in each of the following questions.

She is writing a letter to her pen-pal.