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For questions 31 to 36, change each word given below into its correct form to complete the numbered blanks in the passage. Make sure each word is correct in grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Example 0. southern   

31. be      32. origin      33.  fight        34.  independence        35. tours        36. majesty

Naples, Italy is situated at the foot of a range of hills on the west coast of 0. southern Italy. It is      considered a microcosm of European history as a result of __31_   governed by so many different cultures, including the Goths, Normans, Spanish and Germans. The city of Naples was established by the Greek colonists in the 17th century B.C. It was ____32____ known as Palaepolis and was later named Neopolis, meaning: “new city.” By 236 B.C, it was under Roman leadership and became a favourite resort for affluent Romans. After the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D, diverse populations ____33____ for control of Naples; the Byzantines, Lombards and others controlled the city for short periods of time during the Middle Ages. In 1942, Naples came under the control of Spain, making the Spanish language dominant for the next 250 years. For a brief period of time, Naples became the capital of an ____34___country. Later, during the Napoleonic Wars of 1799-1814, Napoleon appointed his brother Joseph as King of Naples. The Bay of Naples is Italy’s second most important seaport, delivering hundreds of cruise ships and _____35___ to each shore every day. Naples is a conundrum of how well modern high-rise offices and apartments can seamlessly blend with ancient monuments. Fountains, thousands of years old, stand ______36___ in front of        modern glass and steel edifices.  

QUESTION 37
What is the hull? 

QUESTION 38
Where on the boat is the stern located? 

QUESTION 39
Which part keeps the sailboat steady on water? 

QUESTION 40
Apart from the mast, what else supports the main sail? 

For questions 41 to 50, write the correct word in your Answer Sheet. Each word must be correct in grammar, spelling and punctuation. 
 
LETTERS 
Readers can often best enter into the inner spirit of a writer through close contact with his or her  letters. Through the writer’s more casual handling of relationships, incidents, cameos and          atmospheric flavours in letter-form they occasionally allow more of their true beliefs, values and attitudes to come through, unchecked, to the reader. Of course, there ______41______exceptions to this. Some writers’ letters can be self-conscious and studied, like the letters of Henry James, but, in the main, there are often more chance of a     relaxed, intimate style of presentation in this particular mode. 
A sense of audience plays a crucial part in letter _____42___. The style, tone and mood of the           different letters vary considerably according to the writer’s awareness of how his message might be received. D. H. Lawrence’s two letters are revealing in this context; they are ____43___ about the same incident but whereas his letter to Frieda is passionately engaged, not stopping to weigh the exact effect of his words, his letter to Ernest Weekley, Frieda’s husband, is much more     measured because of the uncertainty about how it will be received.  
 The writer’s comparative position and place is also an _____44___ aspect of letter writing.  George Jackson, in a position of increasingly alienated loneliness, devoted all his time in prison to  an attempt to ‘understand his surroundings’ through reading, studying and thinking. And his            letters, emotionally committed though they are, sometimes read like political or historical                essays____45 __ than communications with his parents. His attempt to make sense of his position  in his own way through the act of putting his thoughts down on _____46____ is at least as                important as sharing his experiences with his parents.  
 A deliberately wide range of letter writing has ____47______ attempted in this selection. Starting  with the more nakedly personal letters of Lawrence, through the rather awkward confession of  Robert Frost, isolated in Scotland with an embarrassing situation on his hands; there is a           progression ____48_____ personal to public. Of course it isn’t as simple as that. There are         subtleties within the entire spectrum, ______49____ as the E.E. Cummings piece that appears, on first reading, to be spontaneously racy until you look again and recognize the element of conscious         artifice that underlies it.  
 Van Gogh’s letters show the preoccupations of a working painter aroused by new sights and new feeling from his excursion to the Drenthe area. The detailed observation of the painter’s eyes is found in the accuracy of remarks _____50______ ‘dashes of more or less glaring lilac, grey,  white, a single rent through which the blue gleamed’ in describing the sky.  
 
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QUESTION 8
Kema really __________ his grandfather. He loves music and is passionate about it.
A. takes after
B. takes up
C. takes in 
D. takes on 
 
QUESTION 9
Some people think that discussing the dangers of cigarette smoking obscures the real issue.            They believe that the real issue is that smokers are discriminated against. The word obscures means;
A. highlights
B. challenges
C. exposes
D. conceals 
 
For questions 10 and 11, identify the segment of each sentence that has an error.

QUESTION 10 
 
                A                 B               C                             D
The rising sea level/ is forcing/ alot of coastal/ communities to relocate. 
 
QUESTION 11 
A                                       B                                 C                            D
All the furnitures /in the assembly hall /was cleared to make room /for the school dance. 

 QUESTION 12
The detective dedicated his life to hunting down the truth. What does “hunting down the truth” mean in this sentence?
A. The detective preferred to conceal the truth.
B. The detective was determined to tell the truth.
C. The detective wanted to eradicate the truth.
D. The detective was determined to learn the truth. 

QUESTION 13
Which of the sentences below contains the passive voice?
i. Trains are used by many developed countries.
ii.  Joan threw the documents into the rubbish bin.
iii. The report was given to Moses in class. iv. The holocaust made many Jews homeless.
v. The rabbits were captured by the zoo hunters.

A. i , ii, v            B. ii, iii, iv              C. i, iii, v                D. ii, iii, v 

QUESTION 15
The first verse of the poem indicates that the old woman
A. is fulfilled in her world.
B. is vain and self-important.
C. leads an isolated and lonely life.
D. burdens others with her troubles. 
 
QUESTION 16
How does the old woman carry her age?
A. humbly
B. passively
C. resentfully
D. confidently 
 
QUESTION 17
The poem suggests that the old woman
A. fears for her future.
B. has forgotten the past.
C. is nourished by her past.
D. has ambitious plans for the future. 
 
QUESTION 18
The third verse of the poem indicates that the old woman
A. is tormented by doubts. 
B. has kept to herself any fears she might have.
C. frets and worries about her advancing years.
D. is looking forward to the future. 
 
QUESTION 19
The fourth verse of the poem suggests that 
A. old people are eccentric and unpredictable.
B. old people tend to be scornful of the young.
C. the author used to regard old people with scorn.
D. it is time for the old woman to pass on her knowledge. 
 
 
QUESTION 20
The poem as a whole suggests that the old woman 
A. has an inner strength.
B. is kindly but pompous.
C. is high spirited and playful.
D. appears bowed and miserable. 

For questions 21 to 25, refer to the passage below. 
 
SNOW LEOPARDS 
 
Few animals match the rare beauty and quiet mystery of the snow leopard.  Seldom do people see these animals in the wild: elusive and solitary, they live in remote pockets of central Asia.  There are perhaps 6,000 snow leopards left in the wild. The number is difficult to estimate since snow leopard terrain is rugged and researchers must rely on indications of animals    rather than direct sightings.  Central Asia contains the largest concentration of mountains in the world. These mountains, with their rocky slopes, are the home of the snow leopard.  To some scientists, the animal is known as an indicator species, one that indicates the general health of a particular environment. Since the snow leopard lives at the top of the food chain, if there are abundant and healthy snow leopards in an area, there is probably also a healthy local  ecosystem.  Conservation of the snow leopard therefore contributes to conserving the chain of life that must survive to support the snow leopard.  The primary threat to snow leopards is intense human population growth. This phenomenon is   occurring not only in the lowlands of Asia but also in high mountain areas that once were sparsely populated. In Mongolia, for example, snow leopards must compete with humans and their        livestock for living space and for their food supply. Marmots, a staple of snow leopards’ diet    during the summer, are now being hunted heavily by humans for pelts, meat and oil. (Marmots are known as ‘buffer prey’; if marmots are plentiful, snow leopards are less likely to attack herders’ livestock.)  Economic problems in recent years have forced people in several snow leopard countries to    scavenge intensively for resources, including mineral resources, which in turn has caused severe damage to local environments. Increase in domestic livestock has squeezed the habitat of the snow leopard. The situation has deteriorated rapidly.  A successful breeding program of snow leopards has been going on in zoos for years. The        program carefully monitors genetic lineage in order to prevent inbreeding. The program cannot, however, create animals that are the same as snow leopards living in the wild. A photograph of a zoo animal shows an animal that has lost its spark. A rare photograph of a snow leopard in the wild shows an animal that is tense with vitality. 

QUESTION 21
The passage suggests that the environment in which the snow leopard lives is 
A. lush and fertile.     
B. gently undulating.     
C. largely inaccessible. 
 D. low-lying and swampy.  
 
QUESTION 22
The passage suggests that conservation of the snow leopard is important for the local  ecosystem because it ensures 
A. the survival of other species.   
B. an ongoing supply of meat for human population. 
C. sufficient snow leopards for the breeding program. 
D. that domestic livestock are kept down to a manageable number.  
 
QUESTION 23
The passage implies that in the last few years the living conditions of humans in snow  leopard countries have 
A. improved.     
 B. worsened.
C. remained much the same.   
D. fluctuated from year to year.  
 
QUESTION 24 
The passage suggests that the survival of the snow leopard is most threatened by 
A. inbreeding.       
 B. low numbers of domestic livestock. 
C. human impact on food source areas. 
 D. the threat of capture and placement in zoos.  
 
QUESTION 25
The passage suggests that the main drawback of the snow leopard breeding program is 
A. its expense.       
B. its poor breeding rate. 
C. the number of animals produced.   
D. the nature of the animal produced.    


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