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Read the following advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6.

FINDING THE PERFECT STUDY PARTNER

    "Who will I study with? Will they be (1) ______ or will they be distracting?" Are these the questions that you often ask yourself before a (2) ______? But that's all going to change! A new app has introduced a system (3) ______ "Study Buddy". Now you can choose your study partner. When you sign up, you can show your academic profile to everyone in your study group. You will also see everyone else's profile. Then you can choose who you want to study (4) ______. If you want to focus on science and math, look at people's academic strengths. And if you prefer (5) ______ literature and history, check their interests and subjects! With this app, you can (6) ______ a difference in your academic journey by choosing the right study partners! 

Read the following leaflet and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.

City Living: The Cost of Development

    Modern urban development presents significant challenges. Statistics show there isn't (7) ______ space for parking in downtown areas as new residential towers continue to rise. The urban landscape is changing dramatically.

Ø As major retail chains dominate the market, traditional family businesses have (8) ______ at an alarming rate. This trend threatens the neighborhood's unique character.

Ø The city council promises new (9) ______ to serve the growing population. However, residents question whether these improvements will benefit everyone equally. 

Ø (10) ______ recent demographic changes, authorities have prioritized transportation infrastructure. This represents a major shift in urban planning policy.

Ø Luxury apartments have (11) ______ across our historic neighborhoods, permanently altering the community's social fabric and changing the appearance of our urban areas in a very short period.

Ø Local authorities have to (12) ______ countless development proposals, struggling to balance progress with preservation.

(Adapted from ResearchGate)

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the best arrangement of utterances or sentences to make a meaningful exchange or text in each of the following questions from 13 to 17.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

    Wearable technology has rapidly evolved over the last decade, (18) ______. Devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers have become increasingly popular, providing users with easy access to information about their health and daily activities. One of the earliest and most iconic wearable devices, the Fitbit, launched in 2009, (19) ______ and introduced a new way of tracking physical activity.

    Today, wearables are not limited to fitness alone, they have expanded to include smart clothing, augmented reality glasses, and even medical devices that monitor vital signs. Recognizing the potential to reshape healthcare, communication, and personal data access, (20) ______. Moreover, wearable devices collect vast amounts of data, which can help individuals make healthier lifestyle choices and alert them to potential health issues. (21) ______.

    In the future, wearable technology is expected to become even more integrated into our lives. (22) ______.

(Adapted from CNN)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 23 to 30.

Two-thirds of couples start out as friends, research finds.

    1. When Harry first met Sally, he asserted that men and women could not be friends because the "sex part always gets in the way". However, new research suggests that roughly two-thirds of couples begin as friends and maintain a platonic relationship for long periods before sparking a romance.

    2. Stinson and her co-authors investigated the experiences of nearly 1,900 university students and crowdsourced adults (including 677 who were married or in common-law partnerships). All participants were asked whether they were friends with their current romantic partner before becoming romantically involved. Most participants (68%) reported that their current or most recent romantic relationship began as a friendship, regardless of gender, age, education level, or ethnic group. The rate of friends-first initiation was even higher among those in their 20s and within LGBTQ+ communities, with 85% of such couples stating that their romance began as a friendship. How a platonic relationship turns romantic and what really distinguishes friends from lovers remains a question still being explored, Stinson said.

    3. The written accounts from study participants varied widely. Some described holding hands, family introductions, going on trips together, cuddling by the fire, and even having sex as friendship. Others categorized those same behaviors as romantic. "So there is a huge, messy, blurry line between friendship and romance ... it emphasizes how you really cannot define for somebody else what a friendship is versus what a romance is", she said. "They define it for themselves".

    4. In the study, roughly 300 university students were also asked how long their "friends phase" lasted and whether they preferred to be friends before taking things in a romantic direction. On average, friends-turned-romantic partners were friends for nearly 22 months before starting a relationship. Nearly half of participants believed this was the best way to begin a romance, according to research in Social Psychological and Personality Science.

(Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 31 to 40.

    The old belief that tobacco soothes the throat, cures colds, and quenches thirst has long been replaced with evidence that cigarettes can instead cause lung cancer, heart disease, and early death. But one claimed benefit of tobacco still stands: that tobacco—or more precisely, nicotine—improves memory. Nicotine, at the levels in a smoker's bloodstream after only one cigarette, has long been known to increase recall in simple psychology tests. But no one knew exactly what nicotine did in the brain. Now researchers claim to have solved the mystery. Nicotine, they have found, strengthens communication between neurons in the hippocampus, a structure in the brain involved in learning and memory.

    [I]. Nicotine seems to work by increasing the strength of messages zipping around the brain. These messages take the form of electrical impulses. [II]. As an impulse travels along a neuron, it eventually reaches the end. The next neuron lies across a gap called a synapse. In order for the message to leap the synapse, molecules known as neurotransmitters must be released into the gap. If enough of these molecules reach the neuron on the other side, they spark an electrical impulse in it and the message continues on through the brain circuit. What researchers have found is that nicotine increases the amount of neurotransmitters that are released. That greatly increases the odds that the message will reach the neuron on the other side. [III]. In fact, a 1991 study found that the risk of Alzheimer's disease is lower in smokers. [IV]. Another recent study found that nicotine seems to inhibit the formation, at least in the test tube, of the plaques that gum up the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

    The problem with using nicotine as a memory aid, of course, is that the delivery system contains 400 known carcinogens. But people at risk for Alzheimer's, or just plain forgetfulness, may not have to choose between cancer and senility. In 1995 a study found that nicotine delivered by a transdermal patch improves the performance of Alzheimer patients on learning tests.