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.

Rachel Carson was born in 1907 inSpringsdale,Pennsylvania. She studied biology at college and zoology atJohnsHopkinsUniversity, where she received her master’s degree in 1933. In 1936, she was hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where she worked most of her life.

Carson’s first book, Under the Sea Wind, was published in 1941. It received excellent reviews, but sales were poor until it was reissued in 1952. In that year she published The Sea Around Us, which provided a fascinating look beneath the ocean’s surface, emphasizing human history as well as geology and marine biology. Her imagery and language had a poetic quality.Carson consulted no less than 1,000 printed sources. She had voluminous correspondence and frequent discussions with experts in the field. However, she always realized the limitations of her nontechnical readers.

In 1962, Carsonpublished Silent Spring, a book that sparked considerable controversy. It proved how much harm was done by the uncontrolled, reckless use of insecticides. She detailed how they poison the food supply of animals, kill birds and fish, and contaminate human food. At the time, spokesmen for the chemical industry mounted personal attacks against Carson and issued propaganda to indicate that her findings were flawed. However, her work was proved by a 1963 report of the President’s Science Advisory Committee.

Why does the author of the passage mention the report of the President’s Science Advisory Committee ( lines 14-15)?

A. To provide an example of government propaganda

B. To supportCarson’s ideas

C. To indicate a growing government concern with the environment

D. To validate the chemical industry’s claims

Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction

Many people have complain about the dirty smoke from the factory.

A. Many

B. complain

C. dirty

D. from

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

Peter said “I wish I hadn’t lent him some money.”

A. Peter regretted lending him some money.

B. Peter thanked him for lending him some money.

C. Peter wished not to lend him some money.

D. Peter suggested not lending him some money.

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

No sooner had she put the telephone down than her boss rang back.

A. Hardly she had hung up, she rang her boss immediately.

B. Scarcely had she put the telephone down when her boss rang back.

C. She had hardly put the telephone down without her boss rang back.

D. As soon as her boss rang back, she put down the telephone.

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.

This rapid transcontinental settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19th century were accompanied by the development of a national literature of great abundance and variety. New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century.

As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York in the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. No longer was it produced, at least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South; no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives; no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times; no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression; no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle class women.

In sum, American literature in these years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for in 1867 in describing Leaves of Grass: it treats, he said of his own major work, each state and region as peers "and expands from them, and includes the world ... connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations." At the same time, these years saw the emergence of what has been designated "the literature of argument," powerful works in sociology, philosophy, psychology, many of them impelled by the spirit of exposure and reform. Just as America learned to play a role in this half century as an autonomous international political, economic, and military power, so did its literature establish itself as a producer of major works.

The author uses the word “indeed” in the second paragraph for what purpose?

A. To show a favorable attitude to these forms of literature

B. To emphasize the contrast he is making

C. For variety in a lengthy paragraph

D. To wind down his argument

Mark  the  letter  A,  B,  C,  D  on  your  answer  sheet  to  indicate  the  word  whose  underline  is  pronounced differently from the rest.

A. escape

B. slave

C. hat

D. gave