Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 41 to 45.

The Internet has truly transformed how students do theirhomework. (41) ____homework today still means spending time in the library, it’s for a different reason. Rather than using books for research, students today are (42) ____ to the Internet to download enormous amounts of data available online. In the past, students were limited to their school’s (43) ____ of books. In many cases, they got to theschool library and found out that someone had already taken the books they needed. Nowadays, such inconvenience can be avoided since the Internet never runs out of information. Students, however, do have to (44) ____ sure that the information they find online is true. Teachers have also benefited from the homework which is done on the Internet. They do not need to carry students’ papers around with them any more. This is because online (45) ____ allow students to electronically upload their homework for their teachers to read and mark. Of course, this also means that students can no longer use the excuse that the dog ate their homework!

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 6 to 10.

Children (6) _______appear intelligent and have normal sight and hearing may nevertheless have learning disability such as dyslexia, difficulty in reading; dysgraphia, difficulty in writing; dyscalculia, difficulty with numbers; and auditory-memory problem that (7) _______the child from remembering what has just been said. Considered an "invisible" (8) ) _______ , such learning disabilities can be detected by alert parents before the children go to school. (9) _______  the child at about thirty months is not developing normal language skills, something is amiss. A child who cannot do puzzles or put pegs in holes lacks perceptual-motor skills. Kindergarteners should (10)______the ABCs. First-graders may commonly reverse their letters, writing ad or ab, but if they are still doing this at the start of second grade, they should be tested for learning disabilities. Proper and early treatment is essential.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 1 to 5. More than two hundred years ago, the term “environmental pollution” was quite strange to people. They lived healthily, drank (1)_____ water and breathed fresh air. In those days, industry was not well-developed. Nowadays, the situation is quite different. The world today is faced with many (2)_____ threats. People all over the world are worried (3)______ things that are happening to the environment. Actually, it is man (4)______ is destroying the surroundings with many kinds of wastes from the devices that makes human live more comfortable and convenient. Everybody knows that motorbikes and cars emit dangerous gases that cause poisonous air and cancer, but no one wants to travel on foot or by bicycle. Manufactures know that wastes from factories make water and soil polluted, but they do not want to spend a lot of their money on (5)_____ the wastes safely. Scattering rubbish is bad for our health, but no one wants to spend time burying it. Is it worth talking a lot about pollution?

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 36 to 40.

My first home

When my parents married, they rented a small house and they didn’t have a lot of money for

furniture. The kitchen had a sink for washing up and a cooker, but that was all. They (36) ____ a old table and a chair from the market. They borrowed a sofa (37) ____ was also old but they covered it with modern materials so it was bright and cheerful.

Outside, there was a small garden behind the house, but in front of it there was only the road. (38)____, the road wasn’t busy, so I could cross it to reach the park on the opposite side. We lived there (39) ____I was ten and we were very happy. We had to move house because it was too small when my twin sisters were born. We all (40) ____sad when we left.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

Singapore has a highly developed market-based economy, (31) ___ historically revolves around extended trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, Singapore is one (32) ___ The Four Asian Tigers. The economy depends heavily on exports , refining, imported goods, especially in manufacturing.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 21 to 25.

Located in central Africa, Lake Victoria is a very unusual lake. __(21)__ of the largest lakes in the world; it is also one of the youngest. Estimated to be about 15,000 years old, it is a relative baby compared with Earth’s other very large lakes, __(22)__ more than two million years old. Yet judging by the variety of life in it, Lake Victoria __(23)__ a much older body of water. Usually, lakes need a much longer time __(24)__ by a diverse array of life-forms. It is common for new lakes to contain only a small number of species. Lake Victoria, however, is packed with colorful fish, most notably, cichlids. There are __(25)__ 500 different species of just this one type of fish.