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 from 18 to 24

Online social media have gained amazing worldwide growth and popularity. Although with time a generations have come to accept the changes social networking including Twitter, Facebook or Instagram has brought about, teenagers and young adults are the most frequent users of these sites. It has been reported that these sites are affecting the lives of the youth greatly. Social media sites have provided a platform whereby the youth can create groups and pages based on their common discipline and end up building connections and opportunities for their respective careers by updating various topics to discuss. Youth who have been interviewed they say that social media has become their lifestyle and it makes their lives easier and efficient.

Social network sites seem to bring people together and connected, but may create social isolation. As the youth tend to spend many hours on these sites, they rarely have face-to-face interaction. According to various studies, scientists' evaluation determined that social isolation can lead to a host of emotional, psychological, physical and mental problems which include anxiety, depression and somatic complaints among many others. Other negative effects of social networking various people suggested included encouraging poor spelling and grammar, allowing spread of misinformation that is perceived as fact. decreasing productivity. The sites also provide a perfect platform for cyber bullying and increase risks of identity theft, whose personal information are asked to add. Social networking clearly portrays both positive and negative effects on the youth. It is decision of an individual to make whether to continue using the sites or not

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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 answer to each of the questions from 40 to 44.

Today, many governments are promoting organic or natural farming methods (40) _______ avoid the use of pesticides and other artificial products. The aim is to show that they (41) _______ about the environment and about people's health. But is this the right approach?

Europe is now the biggest (42) _______ for organic food in the world, expanding by 25 percent a year over the past 10 years, Eating organic is (43) _______ way of defining oneself as natural, good, caring different from the junk-food-scoffmg masses. As a journalist puts it: "It feels closer to the source, the beginning, the start of things".

The organic approach means farming with natural, rather than man-made. Techniques such as crop rotation improve soil quality and help organic farmers compensate for the absence of man-made chemicals (44) _______ , for its ineffective use of land and labour, there are severe limits to how much food can be produced.

(Adapted from IELTS by Cambridge)

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word those underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Human activities that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have _______ the rate of global warming.

The soil has become more and more polluted because of poisonous chemicals from industrial zones.

Until recently, mass media forms were classified _______ six categories, each of which has its own characteristic content types, creative artists and business models.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

_______ early for his appointment, Peter spent some time looking at the magazines.

Hello! Is that 22103575? Please put me _______ to the manager.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word which is in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

I went to hospital yesterday because I had _______ terrible headache.