We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping. We know relatively little about sleep.

After the car crash last night, all the injured _______ to the hospital in an ambulance.

If this animal had escaped from its cage, it could ______ have killed or maimed several people.

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 30 to 34 

     In general, the influence of Anglo patrons has been much less pronounced on Hispanic arts than on American Indian arts. The Hispanic crafts revival was confined to a much shorter period of time, beginning in the early 1920's, reaching its peak in the late 1930's, and dying down by the Second World War, less than 20 years. During this period, in spite of the enthusiasm of the wealthy Anglo patrons in northern New Mexico, Hispanic crafts never "caught on" nationally in the way American Indian crafts did. Interest was fairly well limited to the Southwest and Southern California, the areas in which the adobe hacienda revival was taking place. The major interest in Hispanic crafts was as furnishings for these comfortable Southwestern-style adobe homes. These crafts were not, as were American Indian crafts viewed as valuable art objects in themselves purchased with an eye for speculation. Hispanic arts to, a great degree have been ignored by the speculative Anglo art market. A beneficial consequence of this oversight is that the artisans have been freer to work according to their own standards and within their own traditions. Their work has not been "emptied of previous vital meanings" and become a meaningless revival. as has so much ethnic art of this day. Rather it has remained as an object of cultural pride and identity and not simply the product of the tastes and demands of the art market. 

 What does this passage mainly discuss?

As a(n) _______ girl, she found it difficult to socialize with other students in the class.

Many people think that the advantages of living in a city ______ the disadvantages.

I hope you won’t take _____ if I say that your project needs more improvement to be accepted.

Perhaps more than anything else, it was onerous taxes that led to the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 

In a formal interview, it is essential that the interviewee _______ good eye contact with the interviewers.

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. 

A mediocre student who gets low grades will have trouble getting into an Ivy League College.

If my feet ______ so big, I wouldn’t have a problem of buying shoes.

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TATTOOING: AN ANCIENT TRADITION

     Tattooing is an old art. In ancient Greece, people who had tattoos were regarded as members of the upper classes. On the other hand, tattooing was (25) __________ in Europe by the early Christians, who thought that it was a sinful thing to do. It was not until the late 18thcentury, when Captain Cook saw South Sea Islander decorating their bodies with tattoos that attitude began to change. Sailors came back from these islands with pictures of Christ on their backs and from then on, tattooing (26) _________ in popularity. A survey by the French army in 1881 showed that among the 387 men (27) __________there were 1,333 designs.

     Nowadays, not everybody finds tattoos acceptable. Some people thing that getting one is silly because tattoos are more or less permanent. There is also some (28) __________ about catching a blood disease from unsterilized needles. Even for those who do want a tattoo, the process of getting one is not painless, but the final result, in their eyes, is (29) __________the pain.