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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?

Text 2:

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.

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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 11 to 15.

Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes ____(11)___ ecosystems. If there is too little rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals____(12)___feed on it may also die or move away. Some changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for the pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds ____(13)___. Polluting the air, soil, and water can harm ecosystems. Building dams on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems ____(14)___ the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with companies and governments to find better ways of___(15)____ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.

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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 16 to 20.

We can communicate not only through words (16) _______through body language. Body language includes our posture, facial expressions, and gestures. Because body language is so important, you’ll want (17)_______what yours is saying and how to interpret other people’s, too. Here are some examples of body language and its meaning. If your posture is slumped and your head is down, this could mean that you are sad or youlack (18) _______. If your posture is straight but relaxed, you are expressing confidence and friendliness. A smile is a sign of friendliness and interest. But people sometimes smile just to bepolite. Friendliness and interest are expressed when a person’s eyes meet yours and then look away and meet yours again. A person (19) _______ doesn’t look away is expressing a challenge. Hand gestures can mean a person is (20) _______ in theconversation.

Text 5:

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.

(From:https://www.ets.org/toefl_junior/prepare/standard_sample_questions/language_form_and_meaning)

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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 26 to 30.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The Prime Minister's comments yesterday on education spending miss the point, as the secondary education system also needs a major overhaul. Firstly, the system only views the weakest learners as having special needs. The brightest and most conscientious students are not encouraged to develop to their full (26)_____. Secondly, there's too much testing and not enough learning. My fifteen-year-old daughter, for example, has just spent the last month or so (27)_____ for exams. These aren't even real, important exams, as her GCSEs will be next year. They're just mock exams. Is the work she's been doing really going to make her more knowledgeable about her subjects, or will she forget it all tomorrow? I suspect the (28)_____.

Thirdly, the standard (29)_____ doesn't give students any tuition in developing practical work-related, living and social skills, or in skills necessary for higher education. How many students entering university have the first idea what the difference is between plagiarising someone else's work and (30)_____ good use of someone else's ideas? Shouldn't they have been taught this at school? How many of them are really able to go about self-study skill that's essential at university because there are no teachers to tell you what to do - in an efficient way? Indeed, hoe many students graduate from university totally unable to spell even simple English words correctly? The system is letting our children down.

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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.

Manufacturing constituted 26 (33)____ of Singapore’s GDP in 2005. The manufacturing industry is well-diversified into electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, (34)___     engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing. In 2006, Singapore produced about 10 percent of the world’s foundry water output. Singapore is the busiest port in the world in terms of tonnage shipped. Singapore is the world’s fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre after London, New York City (35)_____ Tokyo.

Text 8:

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.

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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!

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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 46 to 50.

Most people will come across money problems at some time in their lives. It often happens when they are students and they have to do a part-time job in order to make (46) ___ meet. This can be (47) _____, but sometimes it is the only way to survive. However, living on a (48) _____ budget is good training for the future. Everyone should learn to live within their (49)_____. Unfortunately, some people have totally unrealistic goals and think that one day they will have lots of money to pay off their debts. Then they can become very depressed when they fail to achieve those goals.

So, if you want to (50) ____ it in this world, you need to work hard and to have some good luck, too.

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