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.

In our connected globalized world, the languages which dominate communications and business, Mandarin, Hindi, English, Spanish and Russian amongst others, are placing small languages spoken in remote places under increasing pressure. Fewer and fewer people speak languages such as Liki, Taushiro and Dumi as their children shift away from the language of their ancestors towards languages which promise education, success and the chance of a better life. While to many parents, this may appear a reasonable choice, giving their offspring the opportunity to achieve the sort of prosperity they see on television, the children themselves often lose touch with their roots. However, in many places the more reasonable option of bilingualism, where children learn to speak both a local and a national language, is being promoted. This gives hope that many endangered languages will survive, allowing people to combine their links to local tradition with access to wider world culture.

While individuals are free to choose if they wish to speak a minority language, national governments should be under no obligation to provide education in an economically unproductive language, especially in times of budget constraints. It is generally accepted that national languages unite and help to create wealth while minority regional languages divide. Furthermore, governments have a duty to ensure that young people can fulfil their full potential, meaning that state education must provide them with the ability to speak and work in their national language and so equip them to participate responsibly in national affairs. People whose language competence does not extend beyond the use of a regional tongue have limited prospects. This means that while many people may feel a sentimental attachment to their local language, their government’s position should be one of benign neglect, allowing people to speak the language, but not acting to prevent its eventual disappearance.

Many PhD students studying minority languages lack the resources to develop their language skills, with the result that they have to rely on interpreters and translators to communicate with speakers of the language they are studying. This has a detrimental effect on the quality of their research. At the same time, they have to struggle against the frequently expressed opinion that minority languages serve no useful purpose and should be allowed to die a natural death. Such a view fails to take into account the fact that a unique body of knowledge and culture, built up over thousands of years, is contained in a language and that language extinction and species extinction are different facets of the same process. They are part of an impending global catastrophe which is beginning to look unavoidable.

According to the first paragraph, why do many parents consider the change towards national languages a reasonable choice?

There are other problems of city life which I don't propose to____at the moment.

Your store needs a bold sign that will catch the _______of anyone walking down the street. That may help to sell more products.

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

Aren't you putting the cart before the horse by deciding what to wear for the wedding before you've even been invited to it?

Though she lost her job last month, she still wanted to save______so she said that she had left it willingly.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Human beings are extremely diverse in very many  ways.  People  differ  (23)___opinions,  race,  nationality, gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity, class, religion, lifestyle and so much more, yet at the very basic we are all human species. Ideally, all people feel (24)______and joy despite the differences. Today,   the changes in time and technology have made is extremely impossible for any group of people to live without interacting with others outside their group. Often people of different cultural and geographical (25)________meet in international conferences, education exchange programs, sports, etc.

Sadly, the history of mankind discriminating against each other based on cultural differences has been with us for ages. So many people have died or have been denied their rights (26) _____individual greed. Properties and economies have also been destroyed due to lack of understanding. Unfortunately, some of these occurrences are visible even today, perpetuated by people who little understand the importance of the (27)_______of our diversity.

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Simon Lake drew the inspiration____La submarine of undersea travel and exploration from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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

 For many couples, money is the source of arguments, frustration. When it comes to finances and relationships, sharing the financial burden is important

The final winner will be the one who breaks through_____and survives till the last minutes.

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

We came in the room. Our boss was sitting in the front desk.

I used to be nervous when my father asked me to give him my school_______.

Parents  should  start  teaching  them  how  to  manage  more complicated duties __________children graduate from toddlerhood and move toward preschool.

Ecotourism  is  any type  of  tourism  to relatively _______natural areas for the enjoyment of natural, cultural and historical features.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

The weather has been terrible recently. I am very depressed now.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

"Please don't leave until I come back", Sarah said.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

How many people know that the Brooklyn Bridge, built in 1883, were the world's first suspension bridge?