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 23 to 27. Fill in the appropriate word in question 26

  Without transportation, our modem society could not (23) _____________. We would have no metal, no coal and no oil nor would we have any (24 _____________ made from these materials. (25) _____________, we would have to spend most of our time raising food and food would be limited to the kinds that could grow in the climate and soil of our neighborhood.

  Transportation also affects our lives in other ways. Transportation can speed a doctor to the side of a sick person, even if the patients’ lives on an isolated farm. It can take police to the scene of a crime within a moment of being noticed. Transportation (26)____________teams of athletes to compete in national and international sports contests. In time of (27) _____________transportation can rush aid to persons in areas stricken by floods, families and earthquakes.

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

A large number of inventions and discoveries have been _____________ accident.

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After the new technique had been introduced, this factory produced    _____________ cars in 2015 as the year before.

Mark the letter A, B, c, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

Sugars (A) like glucose (B) is (C) made (D) up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.

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 from 28 to 34.

  Although speech is the most advanced form of communication, there are many ways of communicating without using speech. Signals, signs, symbols, and gestures may be found in every known culture. The basic function of signal is to impinge upon the environment in such a way that it attracts attention, for example, the dots and dashes of a telegraph circuit. Coded to refer to speech, the potential for communication is really great. Less adaptable to the codification of words, signs also contain meaning in and of themselves. A stop sign or barber pole conveys meaning quickly and conveniently. Symbols are more difficult to describe than either signals or signs because of their intricate relationship with the receiver’s cultural perceptions. In some culture, applauding in a theater provides performers with an auditory’ symbol of approval. Gestures such as waving and handshaking also convey certain cultural messages.

  Although signals, signs, symbols, and gestures are very useful, they do have a major disadvantage. They usually do not allow ideas to be shared without the sender being directly adjacent to the receiver. As a result, means of communication intended to be used for long distances and extended periods are based upon speech. Radio, television, and the telephone are only a few.

All of the following are true EXCEPT _____________ .

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

She never lets her daughter participate in an activity unless it is under the supervision of an adult.

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(A) Most of the Earth’s ice is (B) found either in the two great ice (C) caps of Antarctica and Greenland (D) and on the tall mountains of the world.