Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option for each of the blanks. 

     Many of us enjoy art, and a beautiful painting often evokes a positive response, such as admiration and wonder. (39) ________ for some people, viewing a work of art can set in motion a series of disturbing physical effects, such as rapid heart rate, dizziness and even fainting. 

     In 1817, the author Stendhal had such an experience while visiting Florence, an Italian city (40) ________ by churches and museums famous for their art treasures. When Stendhal looked up at church ceiling, he was so astonished by the beauty of the frescoes that his heart began to beat rapidly. His symptoms (41) ________ and he almost fainted. Since then, some people visiting Florence – foreign tourists, by and (42) ________ have experienced a reaction. The effects are usually mild and quickly disappear, but sometimes they are substantial (43) ________ to require medical attention.

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

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

I wish my daughter __________ while she was doing her homework.

After it had been ___________ the air for only two months, the series was cancelled.

It is not possible for me to sleep in a filthy place like this.

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. 

     There are two main hypotheses when it comes to explaining the emergence of modern humans. The "Out of Africa" theory holds that homo sapiens burst onto the scene as a new species around 150,000 to 200,000 years ago in Africa and subsequently replaced archaic humans such as the Neanderthals. The other model, known as multi-regional evolution or regional continuity, posits far more ancient and diverse roots for our kind. Proponents of this view believe that homo sapiens arose in Africa some 2 million years ago and evolved as a single species spreading across the Old World, with populations in different regions linked through genetic and cultural exchange. 

     Of these two models, Out of Africa, which was originally developed based on fossil evidence, and supported by much genetic research, has been favored by the majority of evolution scholars. The vast majority of these genetic studies have focused on DNA from living populations, and although some small progress has been made in recovering DNA from Neanderthal that appears to support multi-regionalism, the chance of recovering nuclear DNA from early human fossils is quite slim at present. Fossils thus remain very much a part of the human origins debate. 

     Another means of gathering theoretical evidence is through bones. Examinations of early modern human skulls from Central Europe and Australia dated to between 20,000 and 30,000 years old have suggested that both groups apparently exhibit traits seen in their Middle Eastern and African predecessors. But the early modern specimens from Central Europe also display Neanderthal traits, and the early modern Australians showed affinities to archaic Homo from Indonesia. Meanwhile, the debate among paleoanthropologists continues, as supporters of the two hypotheses challenge the evidence and conclusions of each other.