Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35. Fill in the appropriate word in question 35

How men first learnt to (33) ........ words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, (34) ............ invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed (35) ........... certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. These sounds, (36) .......... spoken or written in letters, are called words. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words that apeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary (37) ........... Above all, the real poet is a master of words.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate sentence that is similar in meaning to

the given one

"It's too stuffy in this room, isn't it?" said the guest.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Why did Berth ask you _________ a bicycle?

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

I cannot bear the noise of my brother’s radio; it _________ me from my work.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Are there any household chores for _________ men are better _________ than women?

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.

“Don’t fail to look after yourself, Mary!” – “___________________________”

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

I am going to the dentist’s tomorrow. I hope I don’t need to _________

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

1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln. 

What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?