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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 for each of the blanks.

Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms

and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes (1) _________ ecosystems. If there is too (2)

_________ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals

that 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 (3) _________. Polluting the air, soil, and water can harm

ecosysterms. Building (4)_________ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems

around the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are

working with companies and governments to find better ways of (5) _________ 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.

Question 1. A. harms B. harmful C. harmless D. harm

Question 2. A. little B. a little C. few D. a few

Question 3. A. out B. ỉn C. go D. fly

Question 4. A. moats B. ditches C. bridges D. dams

Question 5. A. catching B. holding C. carrying D. taking

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part that

differs from the other three in thepronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 6: A. state B. status C. station D. statue

Question 7: A. bury B. carry C. heavy D. many

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in

the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

Question 8: A. popularity B. conscientious C. apprenticeship D. personality

Question 9: A. consonant B. divisible C. significant D. mosquito

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or Don your answer sheet to indicate the

correct answer

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In

1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth

Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard

Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each

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man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economics and social potential of this Parisian

housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting facade, the

living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in

the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and

bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that

quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York

building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for

a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the

square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even

with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met

the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could

not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment

houses and hotels began to sprout in …