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ing one 
thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department. 
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you’re older, you get less frustrated. 
Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again, 
eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas – from being able to drive 
a car, perhaps – means that if you can’t, say, build a chair instantly, you don’t, like a child, want to 
destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get 
there. 
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher 
who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten, 
I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d 
played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d 
had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my 
fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect. 
Question 31: It is implied in paragraph 1 that ______. 
A. young learners are usually lazy in their class 
B. parents should encourage young learners to study more 
C. teachers should give young learners less homework 
D. young learners often lack a good motivation for learning 
Question 32: The writer’s main point in paragraph 2 is to show that as people grow up, ______. 
A. they cannot learn as well as younger learners 
B. they have a more positive attitude towards learning 
C. they get more impatient with their teachers 
D. they tend to learn less as they are discouraged 
Question 33: The phrase “For starters” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by “______”. 
A. At the starting point B. First and foremost 
C. At the beginning D. For beginners 
Question 34: While doing some adult learning courses at a college, the writer was surprised ______. 
A. to have more time to learn B. to feel learning more enjoyable 
C. to be able to learn more quickly D. to get on better with the tutor 
Question 35: In paragraph 3, the word “rusty” means ______. 
A. not as good as it used to be through lack of practice 
B. impatient because of having nothing to do 
C. staying alive and becoming more active 
D. covered with rust and not as good as it used to be 
Question 36: The phrase “get there” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “______”. 
A. arrive at an intended place with difficulty B. receive a school or college degree 
C. achieve your aim with hard work D. have the things you have long desired 
Question 37: All of the following are true about adult learning EXCEPT ______. 
A. experience in doing other things can help one’s learning 
B. young people usually feel less patient than adults 
C. adult learners have fewer advantages than young learners 
D. adults think more independently and flexibly than young people 
Question 38: It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that maturity is a positive plus in the learning 
process because adult learners ______. 
A. are able to organize themselves better than younger learners 
B. are less worried about learning than younger learners 
C. pay more attention to detail than younger learners 
D. have become more patient than younger learners 
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Question 39: It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you ______. 
A. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger 
B. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger 
C. find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger 
D. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger 
Question 40: What is the writer’s main purpose in the passage? 
A. To describe adult learning methods. B. To encourage adult learning. 
C. To show how fast adult learning is. D. To explain reasons for learning. 
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 from 41 to 50. 
Wind, water, air, ice and heat all work to cause erosion. As the wind blows over the land, it often 
(41)______ small grains of sand. When these grains of sand strike against solid rocks, the rocks are 
slowly worn away. In this way, (42)______ very hard rocks are worn away by the wind. 
When particles of rocks or soil became loosened in any way, running water carries them down the 
(43)______. Some rocks and soil particles are carried into streams and then into the sea. 
Land that is covered with trees, grass and other plants wears away very slowly, and so loses very 
(44)______ of its soil. The roots of plants help to (45)______ the rocks and soil in place. Water that 
falls on grasslands runs away more slowly than water that falls on bare ground. Thus, forests and 
grasslands (46)______ to slow down erosion. 
Even where the land is (47)______ covered with plants, some erosion goes on. In the spring, the 
(48)______ snow turns into a large quantity of water that then runs downhill in streams. (49)______ a 
stream carries away some of the soil, the stream bed gets deeper and deeper. (50)______ thousands of 
years of such erosion, wide valleys are often formed. 
Question 41: A. picks up B. cleans out C. carries out D. holds up 
Question 42: A. though B. still C. such D. even 
Question 43: A. borders B. hillsides C. backside D. topside 
Question 44: A. large B. much C. few D. little 
Question 45: A. stay B. back C. store D. hold 
Question 46: A. facilitate B. assist C. help D. aid 
Question 47: A. scarcely B. strongly C. thickly D. thinly 
Question 48: A. melted B. formed C. melting D. building 
Question 49: A. As B. Till C. Although D. Until 
Question 50: A. Among B. After C. In D. During 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs 
correction. 
Question 51: After analyzing the steep rise in profits according to your report, it was convinced 
 A B C 
 that your analyses were correct. 
 D 
Question 52: In my judgment, I think Hem is the best physicist among the scientists of 
 A B C 
the SEA region. 
 D 
Question 53: In order no money would be wasted, we had to account for every penny we spent. 
 A B C D 
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Question 54: Many people have found the monotonous buzzing of the vuvuzela in the 
 A B 
2010-World-Cup matches so annoyed. 
 C D 
Question 55: The team leader demanded from his team members a serious 
 A B 
attitude towards work, good team spirit, and that they work hard. 
 C D 
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. 
Question 56: "Would you like some more beer?" he asked. 
A. He offered me some more beer. B. He asked me would I like some more beer. 
C. He asked me if I wanted some beer. D. He wanted to invite me for a glass of beer. 
Question 57: It is English pronunciation that puzzles me most. 
A. English pronunciation is difficult for me. 
B. Puzzling me most is how to pronounce English. 
C. I was not quick at English pronunciation at school. 
D. Pronouncing English words is not complicated. 
Question 58: When I arrived, they were having dinner. 
A. When they started having their dinner, I arrived. 
B. I came in the middle of their dinner. 
C. They ate their dinner as soon as I arrived. 
D. I came to their invitation to dinner. 
Question 59: Because they erected a barn, the cattle couldn’t get out into the wheat field. 
A. They erected a barn so that the cattle would get into the wheat field. 
B. They erected a barn, and as a result, the cattle couldn’t get out into the wheat field. 
C. In order not to keep the cattle away from the wheat field, they erected a barn. 
D. They erected a barn in case the cattle couldn’t get out into the wheat field. 
Question 60: “We’re having a reunion this weekend. Why don’t you come?” John said to us. 
A. John didn’t understand why we came to a reunion. 
B. John asked us why we didn’t come to a reunion this weekend. 
C. John simply asked us why we wouldn’t come to a reunion. 
D. John cordially invited us to a reunion this weekend. 
Question 61: They couldn’t climb up the mountain because of the storm. 
A. Their climbing up the mountain was unable due to the storm. 
B. The storm made it not capable of climbing up the mountain. 
C. The storm discouraged them from climbing up the mountain. 
D. The storm made them impossible to climb up the mountain. 
Question 62: “Stop smoking or you’ll be ill,” the doctor told me. 
A. The doctor advised me to give up smoking to avoid illness. 
B. I was warned against smoking a lot of cigarettes. 
C. The doctor suggested smoking to treat illness. 
D. I was ordered not to smoke to recover from illness. 
Question 63: Wealthy as they were, they were far from happy. 
A. Although they were wealthy, they were not happy. 
B. Even if they were wealthy, they were not unhappy. 
C. They were as wealthy as they were happy. 
D. They were not happy as they were wealthy. 
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Question 64: Slightly more than twenty-five percent of the students in the class come from Spanish-
speaking countries. 
A. Seventy-five percent of the students in the class speak Spanish. 
B. The percentage of the students speaking Spanish fell by twenty-five percent. 
C. A small minority of the students in the class are Hispanic. 
D. A considerable proportion of the students in the class are Spanish. 
Question 65: The woman was too weak to lift the suitcase. 
A. The woman wasn’t able to lift the suitcase, so she was very weak. 
B. The woman shouldn't have lifted the suitcase as she was weak. 
C. The woman, though weak, could lift the suitcase. 
D. So weak was the woman tha