Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

Education is more important today than ever before. It helps people acquire the skills they need for such everyday (31) ______ as reading a newspaper or managing their money. It also gives them the specialized training they may need to prepare for a job or career. For example, a person must meet certain educational requirements and obtain a license or certificate before he can practice law or medicine. Many fields, like computer operation or police work, (32) ______ satisfactory completion of special training courses.

Education is also important (33) ______ it helps people get more out of life. It increases their knowledge and understanding of the world. It helps them acquire the skills that make life more interesting and enjoyable, such as the skills needed to participate in a sport, paint a picture, or play a musical instrument. Such education becomes (34) ______ important as people gain more and more leisure time.

Education also helps people adjust to change. This habit has become necessary because social
changes today take place with increasing speed and affect the lives of more and more people. Education can help a person understand these changes and provide him (35) ______ the skills for adjusting to them

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Question 17: The International Committee of the Red Cross is a private _________ institution founded in 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Question 30: It was an interesting novel. I stayed up all night to finish it.

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Question 18: ________ is a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 25: "I'm at a loss to how you are going to pass your subjects without studying. All you do is play video game all day."

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Question 13: "Don't forget to take ______ your shoes when you are in Japanese house."

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Question 19: Helen has gone out and she will not be _______ till midnight.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

In most of the earliest books for children, illustrations were an afterthought. But in the Caldecott "toy books", which first appeared in 1878, they were almost as important as the lines of text, and occupied far more space in the book. One can almost read the story from the dramatic action in the pictures.

Since then, thousands of successful picture books have been published in the United States and around the world. In the best the words and illustrations seem to complement each other perfectly. Often a single person is responsible for both writing and illustrating the book. One of the greatest, and certainly one of the most successful, illustrator-authors was Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Geisel. His first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, hit the market in 1937, and the world of children's literature was changed forever. Seuss's playful drawings were a perfect complement to his engaging stories and unforgettable characters. In 1957, Seuss's The Cat in the Hat became the first book in Random House's best -selling series, Beginner Books, written by Seuss and several other authors. These combine outrageous illustrations of people, creatures, and plants, and playful stories written in very simple language.

Dr. Seuss is not the only well-known author-illustrator, of course. There is Max Sendak, who wrote and illustrated Where the Wild Things Are, the story of a little boy named Max, who becomes king of the fierce ( but funny) creatures that live in the Land of the Wilds Things. Robert McCloskey produced both the richly textured illustrations and delightful story of a family of ducks living in downtown Boston, Make Ways for Ducklings. Some books are produced by a collaborative author artist team. Author Margaret Wise Brown combined with illustrator Clement Hurd to produce two delightful books loved by very young children, Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Another example is the husband-and-wife team of writer Audrey Wood and illustrator Don Wood, who were responsible for King Bidgood's in the Bathtub and The Napping House.

Wordless and nearly wordless picture books have become popular. With a little help, three and four-year-olds can follow the sequence of events, and they can understand the stories suggested in them. The marvel of books with few or no words is that they allow children and their parents the opportunity to tell and retell the same stories over and over in their own words. One of the most charming examples of a wordless book is Jan Omerod's Sunshine. Barbara Berger's Grandfather Twilight and David Weisner's Tuesday are examples of books containing only a few words.

U.S. publishers have also drawn on illustrators from other countries whose original., imaginative works have brought their different visions to American children's books. Among them are Leo Lionni from Italy, Feodor Rojankovsky from Russia, and Taro Yashimi from Japan.

hen did illustrations become important in books for children?

Question 43: When did illustrations become important in books for children?