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.

 

          Living things include both the visible world of animals and plants as well as the invisible world of bacteria and viruses. On a basic level, we can say that life is ordered. Organisms have an enormously complex organization. Life can also “work”. Living creatures can take in energy from the environment. This energy, in the form of food, is changed to maintain metabolic processes and for survival. Life grows and develops. This means more than just getting larger in size. Living organisms also have the ability to rebuild and repair themselves when injured. Life can reproduce. Life can only come from other living creatures. Life can respond. Think about the last time you accidentally stubbed your toe. Almost instantly, you moved back in pain. Finally, life can adapt and respond to the demands placed on it by the environment. There are three basic types of adaptations that can occur in higher organisms.
          Reversible changes occur as a response to changes in the environment. Let's say you live near sea level and you travel to a mountainous area. You may begin to experience difficulty breathing and an increase in heart rate as a result of the change in height. These signs of sickness go away when you go back down to sea level.
          Body- related changes happen as a result of prolonged changes in the environment. Using the previous example, if you were to stay in the mountainous area for a long time, you would notice that your heart rate would begin to slow down and you would begin to breath normally. These changes are also reversible. Genotypic changes (caused by genetic change) take place within the genetic make up of the organism and are not reversible. An example would be the development of resistance to bug-killing chemicals by insects and spiders

Which type of adaptation is permanent?

______, I decided to stop trading with them

______ her inexperience, her failure to secure the contract was not surprising.

-“Jenny’s always wanted to get to the top of her career, ______?”

-“Yes, she’s an ambitious girl.”

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each on the following questions

While working as a travel agency, my elder brother specialized in arranging tours of the Mekong Delta for foreign tourists

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each on the following questions

In a restaurant, if we want to call the waiter, we can raise our hand and wave it slight to signal that we need assistance

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.

School uniform is compulsory in most of Vietnamese schools

In most ______ developed countries, up to 50% of ______ population enters higher education at some time in their life

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

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

County legislators called for an update of the safety______for the Darcy Power Plant

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.

Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”.

She has two brothers, ______ are engineer.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

I didn’t know that you were at home. I didn’t drop in

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.

Yes, we went away on holiday last week, but it rained day in day out