When I told my family I wanted to be a professional musician, I faced a______

of criticism from my parents, who strongly disapproved of the idea.

The boy was let off lightly this morning due to not having done his homework.

Accumulations of sand can be formed by the action of waves on coastal beaches.

Don‘t get angry with such a thing. It’s only a storm in a teacup.

I ­­_____the book about artificial intelligence by tomorrow, then you can borrow it.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.

If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and cellular fluids. In addition to the reptiles, birds, mammals and insects which we see all around us, other groups that have succeeded out of water include scorpions, snails, crustaceans such as woodlice and land crabs, millipedes and centipedes, spiders and various worms. And we mustn't forget the plants, without whose prior invasion of the land, none of the other migrations could have happened.

Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing and reproduction. Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again. Seals have only gone part way back. They show us what the intermediates might have been like, on the way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs. Whales [including the small whales we call dolphins] and dugongs, with their close cousins, the manatees, ceased to be land creatures altogether and reverted to the full marine habits of their remote ancestors. They don't even come ashore to breed. They do, however, still breathe air, having never developed anything equivalent to the gills of their earlier marine incarnation. Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air. However, they are, in one respect, less fully given back to the water than whales or dugongs, for turtles still lay their eggs on beaches.

There is evidence that all modern turtles are descended from a terrestrial ancestor which lived before most of the dinosaurs. There are two key fossils called Proganochelys quenstedti and Palaeochersis talampayensis dating from early dinosaur times, which appear to be close to the ancestry of all modern turtles and tortoise. You might wonder how we can tell whether fossil animals lived in land or in water, especially if only fragments are found. Sometimes it's obvious. lchthyosaurs were reptilian contemporaries of the dinosaurs, with fins and streamlined bodies. The fossils look like dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water. With turtles it is a little less obvious. One way to tell is by

measuring the bones of their forelimbs.

 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

I hate it when people ______assumptions about me based on my skin color.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct

answer to each of the question.

If "suburb" means an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1830's and 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time, the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County. Similar municipal maneuvers took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status only by incorporating the communities along their borders.

With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social stress conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful electric traction line was developed. Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis. This first phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle class 64whose desires for homeownership in neighborhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developers of single-family housing tracts.                                                                                                 

It can be inferred from the passage that after 1890 most people traveled around cities by___________

My mother couldn't bare waste - she always made us eat everuthing on our plates

The government ordered the military ______ robots to access remote areas that are dangerous to the lives of militants.

When my daughter was a baby, I noticed that she developed a______

liking for classical music, and when she was six I signed her up for violin classes.

If his family had not been so poor that he did several part-time jobs when he was at university, ______now.

It is recommended that proper actions_______ to protect wildlife and wild places.

Randy Fisher, president of the software company NewTech, is facing_______ of fraud by its chief financial officer, Brian King, who has openly accused Fisher of hiding millions of dollars of profit in off-shore bank accounts in order to avoid paying taxes.

I _____ an instant dislike to Sam from the moment we were introduced.

Within five minutes, he was talking about his ____dislike of foreigners - without knowing that my own parents were immigrants from Argentina.

It is important to keep ourselves clean______ germs can cause infections in parts of our body.